Current/Most Recent Archives NYFF 2006 Programs Films The Queen Mafioso The Go Master Woman on the Beach Little Children August Days Bamako Gardens in Autumn Reds 49 Up Belle Toujours Private Fears... Offside Paprika Syndromes..Century Volver The Host Knud Rasmussen Inland Empire Falling Triad Election Our Daily Bread These Girls Climates Poison Friends Marie Antoinette Insiang Pan's Labyrinth Special Events Directors Dialogues Avant-Garde 50 Years Janus Films Ticket Information Location Information Online Dailies Snapshots Holland Exhibit Posters Press Information Accreditation Submissions About Archive

THE HOST Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 15 2006] Director: Bong Joon-ho, Country: South Korea, Release: 2006, Runtime: 119 A smash hit in South Korea, the exhilarating third picture from Bong Joon-ho is the decade’s best monster movie. Its premise has a 1950’s purity: Toxins from a U.S. military base flow into the Han River causing the birth of a mutant creature (imagine the world’s hugest, most malevolent guppy) which proceeds to terrorize Seoul. When it grabs a little girl, her dysfunctional family must band together to save her. As in his great 2003 cop film Memories of Murder, Bong uses a highly commercial genre to offer a pointed commentary on Korean society, with its conformity and greed as well its increasing alienation from America. The Host is everything our homegrown horror movies are not – funny, suspenseful, rich with ideas and intelligent about family values. Screening at Alice Tully Hall, north side of 65th Street west of Broadway.

Buy Tickets Sat Oct 7: 12 midnight Mon Oct 9: 3:30