One night, writer-director Celine Song found herself in an East Village bar in New York. On one side of her sat her husband, on the other her childhood sweetheart from Korea. As she translated the ...

One night in 2018, at a bar in the East Village, Celine Song fell through a career-altering hole in the space-time continuum. Song, the director and Oscar-nominated screenwriter of the bittersweet ...

Another week, another cycle of film fans bemoaning the state of cinema. It often seems like the halcyon days of movie-going is long past. There’s nothing to whet the adult filmgoer’s appetite for art ...

The Korean-born playwright demonstrates a way with words, but also with the deep wells of emotion that can flow between them, in this exceptional feature debut. Song, who was born in South Korea, ...

It’s not every night you go out to the bar and come home with a movie. But that’s roughly what happened to Korean-Canadian filmmaker Celine Song, whose stunning directorial debut, “Past Lives,” is ...

The word “romantic” doesn’t have much place in cinema these days, serving mostly as a modifier for “comedy.” The term “women’s picture” has also passed out of favor since its ’40s heyday, regardless ...

Two men, who are neither friends nor strangers, and a woman sit together at a bar on one "extraordinary" night in New York City. So goes the real-life story of Celine Song that inspired Past Lives, ...

Editor’s Note: This feature is part of CNN Style’s series Hyphenated, which explores the complex issue of identity among minorities in the United States. The actor was sitting with John Magaro and Teo ...

“Past Lives” writer and director Celine Song handles the delicate themes of love and destiny surrounding the Korean Buddhist concept of In-Yun — the connection, fate and destiny of two people. However ...

“Past Lives,” Celine Song’s gorgeously heady and heartfelt love story, opens with its own wry version of a “three characters walk into a bar” joke. At a warmly lit counter somewhere in New York City, ...