![]() ![]() Two 2009 commentaries featuring Bong and members of the cast and crew, plus a new commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns.New 4K digital restoration, supervised by cinematographer Kim Hyung Ku and approved by director Bong Joon Ho, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack.In his breakthrough second feature, Bong Joon Ho explodes the conventions of the policier with thrillingly subversive, genre-defying results.īased on the true story of a string of serial killings that rocked a rural community in the 1980s, Memories of Murder stars New Korean Cinema icon Song Kang Ho as the local officer who reluctantly joins forces with a seasoned Seoul detective (Kim Sang Kyung) to investigate the crimes-leading each man on a wrenching, yearslong odyssey of failure and frustration that will drive him to the existential edge.Ĭombining a gripping procedural with a vivid social portrait of the everyday absurdity of life under military rule, Bong fashions a haunting journey into ever-deepening darkness that begins as a black-comic satire and ends as a soul-shattering encounter with the abyss. Memories of Murder: The Criterion Collection (Criterion, Blu-ray/DVD) Other releases for April 20th include At Night Comes Wolves, Death Ranch, A Werewolf in England, and Interviewing Monsters and Bigfoot. Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder is getting the Criterion treatment this Tuesday, and if you haven’t had the chance to check it out yet, you’ll definitely want to give The Mortuary Collection a watch as well. We have a relatively quiet week of Blu-ray & DVD releases to look forward to, but there are still a few things for genre fans to get excited about. ![]()
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