Watch: 55-Minute Talk With Bong Joon-Ho About Snowy Sci-fi 'Snowpiercer'

Bong Joon-ho might not be the most prolific writer-director working in cinema (he only has a dozen credits over two decades, and almost half are shorts), but whenever he gets behind the camera, the results are undeniably awesome. And by awesome, we mean “holy crap, did you see what just happened?!” awesome. This sentiment basically encapsulates his most recent film, “Snowpiercer,” which blew audiences away this year and was our choice for eighth best film of 2014.

The South Korean director sat down for a Q&A at the Film Society of Lincoln Center earlier this year to discuss the runaway action pic (about a train that never stops barreling across the frozen, post-apocalyptic Earth). You can tell he’s not really comfortable speaking at length in English (which makes the hit English-language flick all the more impressive), and his translator’s often-monotone delivery of Bong’s answers infuse the talkback with an extra touch of magic.

Take, for example, the answer to the...