Scott Foundas

In Bong Joon Ho’s films, from The Host to Parasite, “something inevitable and immutable rises out of the boggy muck,” writes Scott Foundas. “It is something that has come to shake polite, conformist society from its comfortable stasis, to reap and to reckon.” In advance of his February 12 Walker Dialogue with Bong, Foundas looks at the Korean director’s apocalyptic visions, which he describes as “postcards from the brink, rendered with a grace that says we are all in this together, and that humanity stripped bare may be humanity at its most essential.”

“Each gesture and touch, each wisp of summer breeze, made to feel momentous, indelible, life-changing; the beauty of it all rendered more intense by the fact that we know it will not last.” Scott Foundas surveys the verdant cinema of Luca Guadagnino in advance of his on-stage dialogue with the filmmaker on February 1.

Lucy Walker, writes critic Scott Foundas, uses her documentary camera to map a majestic and sometimes treacherous landscape: the human frontier. Over two decades, she has traveled to the literal ends of the earth—from the peaks of Everest to the depths of a Brazilian landfill, Tsunami-ravaged Japan to post-Fidel Cuba—to chronicle stories of resilience and rehabilitation, and of individuals and families, even entire populations, navigating extraordinary seasons of change. And no matter how seemingly “foreign” the milieu, Walker achieves the same bracing intimacy with her subjects.