All directors get their start somewhere, right? And in the case of acclaimed, Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, that start was in the Yellow Door Film club. Now, decades later, the director is reminiscing about his time spent with friends talking about movies.
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As seen in the trailer for “Yellow Door: ‘90s Lo-fi Film Club,” the film is a documentary about the aforementioned Yellow Door Film Club, which was a group of passionate young Korean folks, including Bong Joon Ho, who would gather and discuss their love of cinema. They would gather to study classic movies like “The Godfather” and develop their own filmmaking techniques. In fact, the members of this club are the only people who watched Director Bong’s first short film, and they discuss how they were able to see that he was going to be special. Now, years later, they gather again to look back at those formative years.
“Yellow Door: ‘90s Lo-fi Film Club” is directed by Lee Hyuk-rae. The film hits Netflix on October 27. You can watch the trailer below.
Here’s the synopsis:
Yellow Door: ‘90s Lo-fi Film Club is a documentary film that revisits the era of avid film lovers who became the first generation of Korean cinephiles by tracking the memories of “Yellow Door Film Club” members, who also recall their impressions of Director Bong Joon Ho’s first short film. In 1993, a young Bong Joon Ho was part of the “Yellow Door Film Club,” where cinephiles’ sole passion was cinema, and managed the video library of global masterpieces.
