Lee Isaac Chung

Minari movie review: Intimate, poignant portrayal of a Korean immigrant family's strife with its American dream

Stitched together in an effortlessly organic manner, Minari unfolds as a series of beautifully observed vignettes of a Korean immigrant family trying to stake their claim for a piece of the American dream.

Minari's Alan Kim, 8, breaks down after winning Critics Choice best young actor award

“Is this a dream, I hope it’s not a dream,” Kim said between sobs while accepting the Best Young Actor award.

Golden Globes 2021: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler host virtual ceremony from different venues; nominees Zoom in from around the world

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, both dressed in black to open the show, joked about the unusual set up and the distance between them, with Fey pretending to stroke Poehler’s hair through their screens.

Grey's Anatomy actor Ellen Pompeo writes open letter to HFPA amid Golden Globes diversity controversy

I would kindly ask, all my white colleagues in this industry, an industry that we love and has granted us enormous privilege…. to pull up, show up and get this issue resolved," Ellen Pompeo said in her open letter calling out HFPA for its lack of diversity.

In Lee Isaac Chung's Minari, a deeply personal story of harvesting an American dream

Wanting to find a balance between a memory piece and melodrama, Chung imaged something that combined the neo-realism of Roberto Rossellini’s Stromboli with the earthy, wide-screen American epics like East of Eden and Giant that his father raised him on.

Mira Nair, Lee Issac Chung, Lulu Wang on whether their identity as Asian American filmmakers ends up pigeonholing them

Filmmakers Mira Nair, Lee Issac Chung and Lulu Wang discuss their film aesthetics and how it shapes up to form a "collective sensibility"

Golden Globes faces backlash for relegating 'American film' Minari to foreign language category

Minari, starring Steven Yeun in the lead, revolves around a family of South Korean immigrants who try to make it in rural America during the 1980s.

Sundance 2020: Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari wins Grand Jury Prize; Barack Obama-backed Crip Camp receives special honour

At Sundance fim festival 2020, Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s Boys State won top documentary prize, while Radha Blank won best director in the dramatic competition