Long before becoming a Hollywood mainstay with a market cap of over $315 billion, Netflix was struggling to stay afloat. After the dotcom bust, the then DVD rental company was forced to make its first major round of layoffs in 2001, cutting roughly one-third of its workforce. For Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings, the experience drove
The death-and-taxes certainty of Hong Sangsoo‘s filmography — comparable to Woody Allen’s prime career run in its regularity, consistency and recurrence of ideas and actors across a gently varying tonal spectrum — has lately been infused with some mild unpredictability. Earlier this year, his Berlinale premiere “The Day She Returns” continued an occasional experimental jag
Cinema Guild has acquired the North American distribution rights to Hong Sangsoo’s “Nowhere to Lay My Eyes.” The film will have its world premiere at the 79th Locarno Film Festival in August. “Nowhere to Lay My Eyes” follows Sanghee (Kim Minhee), who visits her mother on Jeju Island with her brother after 10 years of