The Host
- Saturday, March 17 10:15 pm
- Tuesday, March 20 8:30 pm
- Thursday, March 22 4:15 pm
Savoy Theater
TUESDAY 20 SOLD OUT!
In Bong Joon-Ho’s gleeful subversion of the monster movie genre, several jars of formaldehyde dumped into a sink at a U.S. Army base create a mutant tadpole that emerges from Korea’s Han River. An ordinary family that runs a riverside snack caravan is threatened and must rise to the occasion. Film Threat: “THE HOST is not just a monster movie, it’s a movie about family, and it’s a movie about the lengths we’ll go to to save our loved ones. Joon-Ho’s epic is a masterpiece of monster cinema that’s intelligent, innovative, and reaches down to the basic core of family unity to propel its story beyond mere conventions of science fiction.” LATEST - see also Anthony Lane’s review in The New Yorker dated March 12, 2007: “All I can say … is that I have seen THE HOST twice and have every intention of watching it again.” Sponsored by Nutty Steph’s Granola. Rated R, 118 minutes, in Korean with subtitles.
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