The Seoul Theater, which closes after 42 years, will hold a farewell screening for two weeks ahead of its closure. [사진 서울극장]
The Seoul Theater, which will close on the 31st, will hold a farewell screening from the 11th.
The Seoul Theater on the 2nd said, “As a final thank you, we will hold a ‘Thank you screening’. included,” he said.
The Seoul Theater, which opened in Jongno, Seoul in 1979, announced its closure last month after failing to overcome the financial difficulties caused by Corona 19.
The ‘Thank You Screening’ will be held for three weeks from the 11th to the 31st, and free tickets will be provided at the ticket office on a first-come, first-served basis to 100 people a day on weekdays and 200 people a day on weekends. Spectators who do not receive free tickets or want to pre-book tickets can purchase tickets for 6,000 to 10,000 won each.
The screenings include blockbuster films such as ‘Mogadishu’ and ‘Host’, ‘Human Voice’ starring Tilda Swinton, and 4 films scheduled for release in the second half of last year, including ‘Love Affair: What We Say, What We Do’, which was officially selected at the Cannes Film Festival last year. .
‘Lady of the Rat’, directed by the late Chairman Kwak Jeong-hwan, the founder of Seoul Theater and starring the current chairman, Ko Eun-ah, will also be presented at the farewell screening. ‘Madame of the Year of the Rat’, produced in 1972, won the Daejong Award for Sound Film, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Do Geumbong), and Best Lighting Award.
Also, the black-and-white youth film ‘Francis Ha’ and the healing family movie ‘Walk or Walk’ directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. The lineup includes the beautiful brutal fairy tale ‘The Florida Project’, the documentary ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ that finds out the identity of the singer Rodriguez, who lived a more cinematic life than a movie, and ‘Like a Flowing River’, which contains reflections on beautiful nature and life. climbed on In addition, ‘The Disgusting Life of Matsuko’, ‘Franz’, ‘The Lovers of Pont Neuf’, ‘The Dreamers’, ‘Mr.
The screening schedule will be released on the Seoul Theater’s Internet website before 6 pm on the 2nd.
By Na Won-jeong, staff reporter na.wonjeong@joongang.co.kr
