{"id":20617,"date":"2012-08-09T10:54:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T14:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=20617"},"modified":"2012-08-06T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T22:00:03","slug":"film-night-the-host-at-the-korea-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=20617","title":{"rendered":"Film Night: The Host at the Korea Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, August 9, 2012 6:30 PM<br \/>\nThe Korea Society<br \/>\n950 Third Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2012_08_09__membership_film_banner.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[20617]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20618\" title=\"membership_film_banner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2012_08_09__membership_film_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yuni Cho, The Korea Society\u2019s director of film, has chosen The Host (2006) to screen at summer Members\u2019 Free Film Night. This family comedy\/monster flick from acclaimed director Bong Joon-Ho is Korea\u2019s highest grossing movie of all time and has won numerous awards, including Best Film at the Asian Film Awards. The Host has been described as a \u201cmutant hybrid spawned from the improbable union of Little Miss Sunshine and Godzilla, for the film is a family comedy and political satire in which an unnaturally evolved tadpole just happens to loom (very) large.\u201d Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote \u201cThe Host is a loopy, feverishly imaginative genre hybrid about the demons that haunt us from without and within.\u201d Quentin Tarantino included it in his list of top 20 films released since 1992 (the year he became a director).<\/p>\n<p>For more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreasociety.org\/arts\/film\/members_free_film_night_the_host.html\">http:\/\/www.koreasociety.org\/arts\/film\/members_free_film_night_the_host.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, August 9, 2012 6:30 PM The Korea Society 950 Third Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20619,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617\/revisions\/20619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}