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REEL ANIME 2012 Interview: Makoto Shinkai Muses on Career And Latest CHILDREN WHO CHASE LOST VOICES

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REEL ANIME 2012 Interview: Makoto Shinkai Muses on Career And Latest CHILDREN WHO CHASE LOST VOICES

REEL ANIME 2012 Interview: Makoto Shinkai Muses on Career And Latest CHILDREN WHO CHASE LOST VOICES

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 08:00 PM PDT

As part of Madman Australia's Reel Anime 2012 film festival, Makoto Shinkai's newest feature film Children Who Chase Lost Voices is a wonderful addition to the cutting-edge lineup. I had the great fortune to fling some pretty direct questions at this very passionate man, and was very happy with his down to Earth responses!Twitch: You have a great auteur style about you, there are elements in your films that can be recognized as your distinct work but you have also been defined as prolific, but how would you yourself describe your body of work? I think my style has been developed gradually as I kept making animation works over the past ten years. My frequent use of monologues or the particular emphasis on details of background are...

Park Chan-wook Signs Onto Another New Project with Gangster Pic CORSICA '72

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 07:04 PM PDT

Only a few weeks after signing on to the western The Brigands of Rattleborge, Park Chan-wook has taken on an additional Hollywood gig. This new project is one that has been knocking around for a while after appearing on Hollywood's Black List (a yearly industry poll of tinseltown's best unproduced screenplays) in 2009. Previously Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall, 2006) and Luca Guadanigno (I Am Love, 2009) had been attached to the script by the scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade who have been involved in all the recent Bond films.Corsica '72, as the title would suggest, takes place on the small mediterranean island and follows two best friends who grow up to find themselves on opposite sides of the law and in love with the same...

Watch A Clip From Tobias Lindholm's A HIJACKING

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 03:30 PM PDT

Tobias Lindholm's A Hijacking wraps up festival appearances in Toronto and Venice on a wave of solid press - you can read my review of the film here - thanks to the ultra-realistic take on its ripped-from-the-headlines source material. Lindholm has quickly emerged as one of the brightest young talents in Europe today, a reputation more than cemented by his sophomore effort.A trailer released some weeks back promised good things but now that has been followed by an extended clip from one of the key moments of the film: The minutes on board ship just following the hijacking by Somali pirates. Take a look below....

Troubling New Trailer For Ted Kotcheff's WAKE IN FRIGHT

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT

It's a film that Nick Cave has called the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence and Ted Kotcheff's classic Wake In Fright will soon be terrifying audiences at Fantastic Fest before rolling out to a limited theatrical release starting on October 5th in New York and October 19th in LA before hitting other centers. All of which means, of course, a new trailer.Alongside Max Max and Walkabout, Wake In Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Combining the backwoods horror of Deliverance and the gritty nihilism of Straw Dogs, the film tells the story of a British schoolteacher's (Gary Bond) descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts (including...

Aliens And Robots Abound In Dutch Coming Of Age Comedy MY LIFE ON PLANET B

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Oh, look, someone's made a bio-pic about the teen years of our very own Ard Vijn.Neky and Eppo are best friends. They spent their time the best way they know - watching B-movies and commenting on them for their video blog: Eppo en Neky's Cultcorner.  But life as a teenager is far from easy. Especially for Neky, his mother spends most days lying on the couch, his sister is a pain in the ass and his father has just found himself a new Thai girlfriend. Not to mention the fact that Eppo is a magnet at attracting bullies at school. But that's only the beginning - Neky's life changes drastically once he starts receiving mysterious messages in a bottle, a bunch of Gothic-Punks arrives in the...

IFC Midnight Lands Eron Sheean's ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 02:00 PM PDT

Fresh from its world premiere at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal and just prior to its appearance at Fantastic Fest - where it will be part of the Next Wave competition - word has arrived that IFC Midnight have picked up distribution rights to Eron Sheean's scientific thriller Errors Of The Human Body. Seeking a new laboratory to pursue his controversial genetic research, Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at the world-renowned Institute for Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics in wintry Dresden, Germany. His contribution to their most top-secret project - a human regeneration gene - has the potential to make something extraordinary out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years. But when he uncovers a conspiracy amongst his colleagues, he...

Can You Unravel THE CONSPIRACY In New Trailer?

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 01:58 PM PDT

As a programmer for Fantastic Fest I often find myself in the position of having to keep quiet about films that I really, really don't want to keep quiet about. They're good, you see, and from exciting new talents, but there are plans and machinations behind the scenes and I'm just not able to talk about them until some nugget or morsel is fed out to the public. Chris MacBride's The Conspiracy is one such film.Due to have its world premiere as part of the Next Wave competition at Fantastic Fest, The Conspiracy is quite simply a whip smart, impeccably researched bit of work that also happens to evolve into an edgy thriller. Here's how I describe it in the festival program notes: When two...

Hey, Toronto! Vincenzo Natali Lectures On THE ARCHITECTURE OF FEAR!

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 01:30 PM PDT

Toronto genre film fans are in for a treat on September 27th, when lecture series start up The Black Museum kicks off with their debut event. A quasi-academic series devoted to horror cinema, it seems fair to consider The Black Museum a Toronto based equivalent to Montreal's Miskatonic Institute and they're getting things started off right by having Cube and Splice director Vincenzo Natali speak on The Architecture Of Fear.In The Black Museum's debut lecture, Canadian director Vincenzo Natali explores the relationship between horror and architecture in films. This lecture will look at films including James Whale's Frankenstein, The Shining, Suspiria, and Rosemary's Baby, as well as some of Natali's own films.Find all the details here....

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Directing Tony Leung In Big Budget, Chinese Language Feature 1905

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Following a lengthy gap between features it would appear that Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa's dance card is filling up. With his television project Penance fresh off of appearances at the Venice and Toronto film festivals Kurosawa is currently working away on a new feature titled The Day Of The Real, Perfect Pleiosaur and slipping through the cracks during his festival run was news that Kurosawa has also signed on for another project to roll directly after that one.According to Screen International Kurosawa will next direct action-drama 1905 starring Grandmasters and In The Mood For Love leading man Tony Leung Chiu-Wai alongside Shota Matsuda and Atsuko Maeda. Screen describes the story like this:Set during the titular period, Leung will play a loan shark who must venture...

Review: Olivia Lamasan's THE MISTRESS

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT

The Mistress has a plot that feels taken straight out of one of those cheap trashy novels, the ones with tacky covers promising sleazy escapism with impossible love stories set in unbelievable milieus that enunciate pulpy passions. It is grounded on that very basic story where hapless women are made to choose between two lovers, representing either true love or elusive security. Director Olivia Lamasan and writer Vanessa Valdez overhaul the overused tale, turning the central woman into a mistress of a wealthy businessman, and her other man as that wealthy businessman's rebellious heir. The film contributes a tad more sophistication to the tired genre, with characters struggling with love that is more the conflict rather than the resolution to the story. When JD...

L'Etrange 2012 Interview: CITADEL Director Ciaran Foy on Surviving the Violent Attack That Inspired His Film

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:30 AM PDT

Normally, introductions by directors at film festivals are, at best, short, polite and a little funny and at worst, over-long, awkward and dull. But Ciaran Foy's brief introduction to Citadel at L'Etrange festival was something different altogether. Here, Foy explained briefly and without dramatic inflection that the film was inspired by a violent attack by children he survived and his own battle with agoraphobia that ensued. And thus, a film which remains planted firmly in the realm of the fantastic becomes infused with an unsettling sense of realism.His story wouldn't be any more than an interesting, unfortunate aside if Citadel wasn't one of the most intense depictions of pure fear I've ever seen. In fact, the first hour is so nerve-racking and paranoia-inducing that I...

L'Etrange 2012 Video: Sayona's Live Score to Shazzula Nebula's BLACK MASS RISING

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Attention fans of stoner metal, the occult and Kenneth Anger-style experimental film: L'Etrange Festival has a present for you. This week, Belgian DJ/Filmmaker/Musician Shazzula Nebula (known for her work in White Hills and Aqua Nebula Oscillator) premiered her debut feature, Black Mass Rising. As the title suggests, the film is a creepy, experimental journey into the occult inspired both by avant garde cinema like Inauguration of the Pleasuredome, and pulpy euro-horror along the lines of Jean Rollin. And, for this special French premiere, Nebula joined forces with Sylvester Anfang II to create a live, feedback-laced ambient score under the alias Sayona. And now, you too can partake in the psychedelic madness! Camille Gerschel-Hautefeuille has directed and edited a video weaving together the performance and film...

L'Etrange 2012: HEADHUNTERS Sweeps Feature Film Awards

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 10:30 AM PDT

L'Etrange Festival in Paris wrapped up last night, and the big winners were Morten Tyldum's already much-lauded adaptation of Jo Nesbo's Headhunters and a short film about a lonely metal-head. Tyldum's dark, twisty-turny thriller walked away not only with the Prix Nouveau Genre awarded by Canal Plus, but also the audience award. So, if you haven't seen Headhunters yet, please get on top of that!In the short film category, the grand prize awarded by Canal Plus went to Bastagon, a hilarious ode to outsiders about a face-painted, spike-clad metal head looking for love. But for a real taste of the film's tone and plot, just look to it's complete title, "Bastagon and the Rainbow Princess: A Heavy Metal Fairly Tale." The Audience awards went to...

LOOPER Gets The Mondo Treatment

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Though Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers gave it a run for its money Rian Johnson's Looper emerged as my favorite of the forty or so Toronto International Film Festival selections I managed to catch before the end of the festival and with the film now headed to Fantastic Fest it has received a limited edition poster from Mondo and artist Martin Ansin. It'll be available for sale at Fantastic Fest September 21st but you can take a gander at it up above right now....

Fresh Poster Art For Jackie Chan's CHINESE ZODIAC

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:30 AM PDT

After a pair of posters built around concept images rather than the man himself what looks to be the proper theatrical release poster for Jackie Chan's Chinese Zodiac has arrived featuring the man himself front and center. The big budget action film is being hailed as Chan's last hurrah in the high risk, physical action style with which he made his name and career - though he's not retiring he'll be stepping away from this particular style so as to avoid killing himself - meaning fan expectations are through the roof. And the initial clip released from the film seemed to suggest those expectations would be met....

Exclusive: It's the Final Round in This BRAWLER Clip

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:03 AM PDT

Writer-director Chris Stiverton's underground fighting film Brawler hits DVD and Blu-ray in the U.S. tomorrow and we've got a bloody exclusive clip featuring from its climax. It's the big fight and our leads Charlie and Bobbie Fontaine (Nathan Grubbs, Marc Senter) are squaring off for all of the emotional marbles. Here's the official synopsis: Based on true events, BRAWLER is the gripping tale of two brothers caught in the web of a vicious, bone-breaking underground "fight club" set on mob-run New Orleans riverboats. After a devastating personal betrayal, the once-inseparable brothers go head-to-head in a fight to the death. Brawler is available now on VOD and will be hitting DVD and Blu-ray on September 18th....

We Now Have a FORUM Again, Ho Ho Hooo!

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 08:45 AM PDT

A few weeks back Twitch closed down its old forum, creating a new one in its place. And here it is: at the top right of the Twitch Facebook page. Just hit the "TTF" button. Why the move to Facebook? Well, the Twitch website is now more than 8 years old and a lot has changed ever since it started. The rise of social networks has altered the online community landscape in a big way, and one area where we noticed this was in the steady decline of traffic to our forum. Bar a few hardcore followers of the quiz or people looking at each others DVD collection, the forum was basically as dead as the proverbial dodo. Everyone who wanted to share anything with...

TV Review: BOARDWALK EMPIRE S3E01, RESOLUTION Turns A New Page On A New Year

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 07:39 AM PDT

The world has changed for Nucky Thompson, the one-time treasurer of Atlantic City. Forced to take up arms himself against his one time protege Jimmy Darmody at the end of season two and betrayed financially by his own wife, Nucky has finally acknowledged what was seemingly clear to everyone other than himself up until this point. His facade of respectability was never anything more than a facade. Nucky is a gangster through and through and as the world of bootleg liquor becomes more violent Nucky himself will need to respond in kind if he is to survive and thrive. And he is embracing his new role with vigor.It was apparent from the moment the end credits scrolled at the end of Boardwalk Empire season two...

A Community Under Fire In Tense TOWER BLOCK Trailer

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT

When played right the siege movie is a subgenre capable of cranking the tension up to unbearable levels. A strong environment and compelling characters add up to one cracking cinematic ride. And it would appear UK director Ronnie Thompson has got it right in the upcoming Tower Block.The last remaining tenants of a deteriorating, soon-to-be-demolished tower block must band together to survive when a killer with a high-powered sniper rifle starts picking them off through the windows of their flats.Soon to screen at Fantastic Fest - from whence I lifted that synopsis - check the Tower Block trailer below....
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