'복수는 나의 것' '부산행' 등 영화와 '마스크걸' '정년이' 등 드라마의 작곡가로 활동해온 장영규(Jang Young Gyu)의 영화제가 10월 2일부터 11일까지 로어이스트사이드의 메트로그라프(Metrograph, 7 Ludlow St.)에서 열린다.

 

이번 영화제에선 박찬욱 감독의 '복수는 나의 것', 연상호 감독의 '부산행', 나홍진 감독의 '황해'와 '곡성', 김지운 감독의 '반칙왕'과 '달콤한 인생'을 상영한다. 10월 3일 '복수는 나의 것'과 '곡성' 상영 후엔 장영규씨와의 질의응답 시간이 마련된다. 

 

장영규씨는 1997년 뉴웨이브-모던 록밴드 이어부 프로젝트를 결성했으며, 경기민요-글램록을 융합한 사이키델릭 팝밴드 '이날치(LEENALCHI)'와 판소리를 알터너티브 팝으로 해석한 그룹 '씽씽(SsingSsing)'의 창립자이기도 하다. 이외에도 현대 무용가 안은미와 협업해왔다. '곡성'으로 청룡영화제 음악상(2016), '정년이'로 백상예술대상 예술상(2025)을 수상했다. 

 

두대의 베이스와 드럼, 4명의 소리꾼으로 구성된 그의 밴드 이날치(LEENALCHI)는10월 2일 퀸즈 포레스트힐스 스타디움(Forest Hills Stadium)에서 뉴욕 기반 록밴드 '기스(Geese)'의 오프닝 밴드로 공연한다. 10월 29일엔 브루클린 레드훅의 파이오니어 웍스(Pioneer Works)에서 뉴욕 데뷔 콘서트를 열며, 11월 1일엔 업스테이트 뉴욕 킹스턴의 어쎔블리(Assembly)로 이어진다. 

 

 

COMPOSED BY JANG YOUNG GYU

​Metrograph In Theater

 

With Jang Young Gyu In Person and a Special Introduction for SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE by the Psych-Pop Band LEENALCHI

 

 

As a founding member of the psych-pop band LEENALCHI and the groundbreaking Korean act SsingSsing, as well as working as a composer in his own right, Jang Young Gyu has long been sought out as collaborator by artists placed at the vanguards of South Korean dance, theater, the visual arts, and—most relevant to our purposes—cinema, finding himself in constant demand after his breakthrough work on Park Chan-wook’s 2002 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. Join us in welcoming Jang, in a rare North American appearance—he will be on tour with LEENALCHI, performing with Geese at Forest Hills on October 2 and Pioneer Works on October 29—with a dynamic and diverse program of films that boast his striking soundscapes, including features by Park, Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan), Na Hong-jin (The Yellow Sea, The Wailing), and Kim Jee-woon (The Foul King, A Bittersweet Life).

 

 

#부산행 Train to Busan

Yeon Sang-ho / 2016 / 118min / DCP

 

Divorced, depressed, and brutally overworked, hedge fund manager Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) has hardly any time to devote to his young daughter, Su-an (Kim Su-an), so the birthday trip they’re taking together—a 280-mile train ride from Seoul to Busan, where they’re going to meet with her mother—is a very, very big deal. Life or death, in fact, because while en route a zombie apocalypse breaks out across Korea and on the speeding train itself, leaving Seok-woo, Su-an, and a dwindling handful of uninfected passengers to fight for their lives all the way to their final destination… if it’s still there. Jang’s score, mixing electronic and orchestral elements, moving freely from mournful to menacing, and contributing immeasurably to the film’s mounting momentum, is among his very finest.

Distributor: Well Go USA

 

#복수는 나의 것 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Park Chan-wook / 2002 / 116min / 35mm

Introduction by LEENALCHI and a post-screening Q&A with composer Jang Young Gyu moderated by Goran Topalovic, October 3rd

 

Fired from his factory job, Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun), a gentle deaf-mute man desperately trying to scrape together funds for his sister’s kidney transplant, falls in with a plan, hatched by his anarchist activist girlfriend (Bae Doona), to kidnap the daughter of the wealthy industrialist who fired him and ransom her for the necessary cash—and in so doing sets off on a path that terminates in an explosion of shockingly visceral violence. A brutal, claustrophobic film of escalating desperation, illustrating with grim logic how an ordinary man can be pushed into acts of extraordinary retaliation, with Bae’s performance bringing some welcome levity to the affair, even as her character acts as the catalyst for catastrophe to come.

Distributor: Kino Lorber

 

#곡성 The Wailing

Na Hong-jin / 2016 / 156min / DCP

Introduction by composer Jang Young Gyu on Saturday, October 3rd

 

As country bumpkin police sergeant Kwak Do-won investigates a series of murders that appear to be connected to a strange, sense-deranging sickness that’s going around, local villagers fix the blame on a Japanese drifter suspected of being an evil spirit in Na’s atmospheric tale of demons, shamans, exorcisms, and animated corpses, steeped in ancient east Asian folklore and Christian symbolism. A sporadically hilarious, brilliantly plotted work of insinuating, creeping terror that turns shopworn horror tropes inside out to create something entirely unpredictable and genuinely disturbing. “Korean cinema has a new genre maestro… A supremely unsettling evocation.” —The Guardian

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios/20th Century

 

#황해 The Yellow Sea

Na Hong-jin / 2010 / 157min / DCP

 

Jang and Lee Byung-hoon’s propulsive score sets a fire under Na’s unrelenting man-on-the-run thriller that burns hotter with each passing minute. Debt-strapped down-on-his-luck cabbie Gu-nam (Ha Jung-woo), an ethnic Korean living and working in China, agrees to take a contract killing gig from a local gangster (Kim Yoon-seok) that will take him across the Yellow Sea and into South Korea—and in short order finds himself scrambling to keep ahead of cops, crooks, and a bevy of other characters who’d like nothing more than to see his head on a skewer. “Contains two of the most mindbogglingly choreographed, thrillingly extended pursuit scenes—one on foot and one in cars—that I’ve ever seen.” —Amy Taubin, Film Comment

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios/20th Century

 

#달콤한 인생 A Bittersweet Life

Kim Jee-woon / 2005 / 119min / 4K DCP

 

A mob enforcer (Lee Byung-hun, No Other Choice) with a sterling record of loyal service finds himself fighting for his life after sparing the life of his boss’s straying mistress (Shin Min-a) in Kim’s drum-tight neo-noir thriller, unusually grounded by both emotional stakes and a sense of real physical danger in the action set pieces, choreographed for the widescreen with much panache. Jang’s second collaboration with Kim, after The Foul King, earned him and collaborator (and Peach Present collective bandmate) Dalparan Best Music honors from the Busan Film Critics Association, responding to the composers’ sophisticated melange of samba, flamenco, solo cello, and electronic elements.

Distributor: NEON

 

#반칙왕 The Foul King

Kim Jee-woon / 2000 / 112min / 4K DCP

 

Already a well-established presence in South Korean music, with an ability to work with equal facility in a variety of idioms (experimental, rock, folk, et. al.), Jang got his start in film composing the distinctive score for Kim’s eccentric, unpredictable, and entirely endearing underdog sports comedy, a barbed commentary on suffocating white-collar culture starring Song Kang-ho (Parasite) as mild-mannered bank clerk Dae-ho, mercilessly pushed around in the office and generally ground down by life… until he gains a new measure of self-worth by beginning to moonlight as a masked “heel” wrestler, his signature move: finding ingenious new ways to cheat in the ring.

Distributor: NEON

https://metrograph.com/jang-young-gyu   

 

 

*시네마 천국으로 떠난 엔니오 모리코네(91)

https://www.nyculturebeat.com/index.php?mid=Film2&document_srl=3924209

 

*'마지막 황제' 영화음악가 류이치 사카모토(71) 

https://www.nyculturebeat.com/?mid=Film2&document_srl=4094066

 

*다큐 '코다(CODA)' 주인공, 영화음악가 류이치 사카모토와의 대화

https://www.nyculturebeat.com/?mid=Film2&document_srl=3724313

 

*팝/영화음악/뮤지컬 작곡가 버트 바카락(94) 

https://www.nyculturebeat.com/?mid=Film2&document_srl=4090167

 

*영화음악가 안젤로 바달라멘티(Angelo Badalamenti, 85) 

https://www.nyculturebeat.com/?mid=Film2&document_srl=4086299