::A Geek in Korea::

You live in a place for years, only to find out something new and surprising about it from time to time. Looking at movies at CineCine, we found a movie we wanted to see playing at “Daejeon Art Cinema”. What the hell? Daejeon has an indie movie cinema? Where would this be?

Looking up the web page for the info on the Daejeon Art Cinema, 대전 아트시네마 PHONE (042-472-1138) it was in a neighborhood I used to work in! It turns out that place closed a few years ago, and they had moved downtown. They are next to Daehoun Book Store (but on the third floor) in Unhaengdon. As you walk from the main downtown strip (Jungangro Station), towards the Daejeon Train Station, it’s on your right. If you didn’t know it was there, you’d never find it. The place is small, with just a single screen. The neighborhood had a few porno theaters. I wonder if this used to be such a place before it got converted to something better.

This is a true sort of indie movie house. They have film festivals! Actual indie movies showing all day! Non-crap movies that are actually interesting to watch! We saw a charming little movie called “Once” that was never going to be shown on a big screen anywhere in Korea. The soundtrack is incredible. It’s by The Frames.

I was really happy to discovery a place to see movies not available anywhere else. The place might be small, and the the screen might be tiny, but I’ll probably be catching a few more movies there in the future.

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