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BIFF 2012: Awards Announced, JISEUL Picks Up 3

BIFF 2012: Awards Announced, JISEUL Picks Up 3

Posted: 13 Oct 2012 02:00 AM PDT

The 17th Busan International Film Festival just held its Closing press conference at which the award winners of the event were announced. Festival director Lee Yong-Kwan was in attendance along with the following Jury members: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio; David Gilmour (New Currents Jury); Arturo Ripstein (Flash Forward Head Jury), Mun Jeong-hyun (BIFF Mecenat Jury); Min Yong Keun (Sonje Jury); Melis Behlil (FIPRECI Jury); and Beck Una (NETPAC Jury).Though not really a competition festival, there are nevertheless many sponsored, audience and press association awards handed out at the festival in addition to BIFF's own short and documentary prizes. However, the most significant prizes are the New Currents and Flashforward awards which are given to the best first or second feature from Asian and non-Asian filmmakers...

Review: AIYYAA Is A Cute Romance For Hindi Film Fans, Others May Not Be So Amused

Posted: 13 Oct 2012 01:07 AM PDT

Sachin Kandulkar's Aiyyaa is the kind of film that really challenges me as a writer for an international film site. I feel the need to balance my feelings about certain films with a certain amount of consideration for who my audience is. When I look at the metrics for Twitch, it becomes apparent very quickly that the Indian readership is normally very small, except after I post reviews and news. Most of the people who read the site on a regular basis aren't familiar with the ins and outs and cultural specificities of Indian cinema. So, when a film comes along with a story and character that so pointedly appropriates Indian cinema culture in the name of making its intended audience laugh, I have a...

More Badass Per Square Inch Than Legally Allowed In New ALEX PANDIAN Trailer

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 06:30 PM PDT

I don't have the words to describe how excited I am for this film.Alex Pandian stars Karthi as the titular bad-ass.Honestly, I don't have much new to say since the first post about this film last week, but the new trailer is twice as long and features twice the insanity of the initial 30 second teaser. This is almost guaranteed to be the best 60 seconds of your day, trust me.Alex Pandian opens December 14th....

SAIFF 2012: Marathi Noir PUNE 52 Gets A New Trailer Ahead Of Its US Premiere

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 06:00 PM PDT

As the eleventh annual South Asian International Film Festival gets closer, we're starting to get more and more promo materials for some of the most highly anticipated Indian independents out there. One that we've been watching for a long time is Nilhil Mahajan's debut narrative film, Pune 52. The film is the latest in a long line of Marathi indies to have made a big impression on the Indian critical community.This is one I'm going to be taking a close look at for SAIFF very soon. The film has its world premiere at the Mumbai Film Festival right before SAIFF, then makes its international debut in New York. I've had my eye on this film every since word about it appeared on Moi Fight Club...

NYC Happenings: Get Yer Spook On This Halloween At Lincoln Center

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 05:30 PM PDT

Watching scary movies at Halloween is a tradition amongst many of you I am sure. If you're in New York, the Film Society of Lincoln Center would like to help that tradition move into the darkest, deepest recesses of cinema this year with their sixth edition of Scary Movies. Running from Friday, October 26th to Halloween itself, FSLC has rustled up an eclectic program of new genre flicks, recent offerings that were under seen stateside, and, of course a couple of classics. Titles to take note of include the New York premieres of the Elijah Wood starring remake of Maniac and the Soska sisters' American Mary, a pre-stardom Michael Fassbender in Eden Lake, plus Vincent Price in The Last Man On Earth (the first adaptation...

NYFF 2012 Review: CASTING BY Is A Heartfelt Plea To Bring Casting Directors The Recognition They Deserve

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 03:00 PM PDT

Casting By is a heartfelt plea to bring casting directors the recognition they so rightfully deserve. It is also a slice of Hollywood Pie full of big name interviews, amusing anecdotes, and little-seen footage that will leave film lovers' mouths watering. But all of that is just the flaky crust encasing Tom Donahue's well researched doc. The warm, gooey filling is Marion Dougherty, the main focus of the film, and the woman who almost single-handedly made the role of the casting director what it is today. In the old days a casting director would typically work for one of the studios, choosing from a database of contract players to fit a certain type: the loving father, the tough guy, the copper, the crook, the dame,...

New SKYFALL Promo Reminds The License Is To Kill

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 03:00 PM PDT

Lest you forget - and it is easy to do so sometimes - James Bond does not have a license to spy. Or to play with fancy gadgets. Or bed hot ladies. Or drive fancy cars. He has a license to kill. He is a weapon, meant to be turned on the enemies of the British state. And the new UK TV spot for Skyfall promises exactly that. There's a split focus to this new spot, with attention paid both to Javier Bardem's villain and Bond's very simple response to the threat: "We're going to kill them first." Check it out below....

By Jove, Ewan McGregor Will Be Julius Avery's SON OF A GUN

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Australia this summer is looking like a good place to be. Joel Edgerton will be in front of the camera filming Felony, Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson will be shooting The Rover, and now comes news that Ewan McGregor will be riding his winged-motorbike over here to shoot Son Of A Gun, the long-awaited first feature from Julius Avery. I can hear the fangirls booking tickets now. Billed as a crime thriller, all that is known about Son Of A Gun is that the story follows Australia's public enemy number one (McGregor) and his young padawan. So either the country's biggest crim is an ex-pat, or McGregor is going to pull a Meryl Streep and try the Strine on for size. Avery will direct the film from...

New Poster For Pegg And Wright's THE WORLD'S END Promises Total Annihilation

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT

The end is coming. So grab a drink.With Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's third collaboration, The World's End, now in production the pub crawl to the end of the world - possibly literally - now has itself a brand spanking new poster, courtesy of Empire. Pegg - who also co-wrote - and Frost co-star as two of five old friends - the others being Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan and Martin Freeman - out to recreate a legendary pub crawl ending at an establishment known as The World's End. The hitch being that the world may actually be ending while they do so.With the film currently in production expect to see the first stills soon. The World's End hits US screens October 25th, 2013....

Live Action GATCHAMAN (aka BATTLE OF THE PLANETS, G-FORCE) Hits Japanese Screens Summer 2013

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 01:30 PM PDT

Whatever title you knew Japanese anime series Gatchaman by - it's known around the world as both Battle Of The Planets and G-Force - there's no denying the classic series inspired a loyal worldwide cult. The proposed Hong Kong back animated feature adaptation of Gatchaman was hugely anticipated and while that may have fallen apart it looks as though it may be replaced by something even better: A big budget live action version.Nikkatsu Studios are producing a live action version of Gatchaman for Japanese release in summer of 2013. Sato Toya - who previously directed the live action version of Grave Of The Fireflies - will direct with Returner and Always director Yamazaki Takashi - also one of Japan's premiere VFX men - handling special...

"Because It Vomited Out of You." Paul Thomas Anderson on Writing and Directing THE MASTER

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 01:01 PM PDT

Several weeks after The Master opened in the U.S. and Canada, Paul Thomas Anderson has hit the publicity trail. (Behind the scenes, I can imagine Harvey Weinstein twisting his arm: 'Paul - it's for the Oscars! I know you don't care about awards - but I do! And I'm the distributor! And it's in your contract! Will you get out there?') Last night Anderson appeared on The Daily Show, where Jon Stewart talked to him about the writing process, a refreshing angle coming from Stewart, who is also a writer. Anderson noted that endless rewrites don't always benefit a script, since often 'you got it right with the first draft, because it vomited out of you.' Today he talked with Charlie Rose (and co-hosts) on...

Sitges 2012 Review: RUROUNI KENSHIN Is A Pleasant Surprise

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

When I learned that the live-action film based on Rurouni Kenshin was selected for screening on Sitges I was pleasantly surprised. The timing couldn't be better, as I had finished reading the original manga just a couple of weeks ago and I really enjoyed it. On the other hand, making the translation from manga to a live-action film is always tricky. There's always the risk of becoming something too bizarre if they go for an accurate visual style, or straying too much from the source material and becoming something else. Rurouni Kenshin is one the most successful and acclaimed series of all time, both in its original manga and anime forms, so the challenge of translating the skilled swordsman's adventures to the silver screen was...

Sitges 2012 Review: Im Sang-soo's THE TASTE OF MONEY is Surprisingly Bland

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Im Sang-soo proved with his remake of The Housemaid that he knew his way around erotic, upper-class chamber dramas, at least stylistically. His new film, The Taste of Money, takes place in the same milieu, and while it is great to look at, especially during a couple of classy sex scenes, it's also tonally-muddled, stuffy and dramatically inert, all of which are especially disappointing given the talent of the cast. The film starts out strong, with the head of one of the richest families in Korea, Yoon (Baek Yoon-sik), taking his right hand man, Joo Young-jak (Kim Kang-woo), into a huge vault of cash to retrieve bribe money for his legally troubled son. Soon, we meet the rest of the family, including the controlling wife,...

BREAKING: Mark Lester is Remaking CLASS OF 1984, Plus Bill Lustig Comments On MANIAC COP

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 09:55 AM PDT

When Mark Lester got up in front of the the audience at this year's Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival to introduce a late-night screening of Class of 1984, his blood-soaked riff on Blackboard Jungle, he declared that it was his favorite film he had ever made. So much so, that he's working on a remake of it right now, which will apparently be finished in May of next year. He went on to say that he was especially proud of the film because it was prophetic. I raised my eyebrows a bit at this claim, since I haven't read any articles in the past ten years about bloodthirsty students kidnapping their teacher's wife and gang-raping her before he slaughters all of them with a table...

Review: SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Is Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 09:01 AM PDT

Marty (Colin Farrell) has a problem. He has several, actually, but the only one he seems to notice is that he has completely and utterly failed to write the screenplay promised long ago to his frustrated agent. Titled Seven Psychopaths, Marty wants to create the film to end all psychopath films. Literally. He aims for nothing less than subversion of the entire genre - a film that starts with guns and violence but ends with love and peace. The problem is that he's only thought of one psychopath so far and it's a pretty shit one at that. Enter Billy (Sam Rockwell), Marty's best friend, determined to supply a bit of source material. Should this end with a co-writing credit that would be fine, too....

VIFF 2012 Interview: Director Andy Keen on New Tragically Hip Documentary BOBCAYGEON

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 08:00 AM PDT

The Tragically Hip are the biggest Canadian band that - for those who live beyond the great white north's borders - you have probably never heard of. Currently riding their third decade of domestic domination, The Hip (as they are commonly known) are bigger than Rush, Nickleback, and the Bachmann Turner Overdrive combined. If Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Alanis Morissette and Avril Lavigne formed a supergroup, they'd have nothing on The Hip. (They might open for them, maybe.) In Canada, these guys are bigger than Bieber, Named after a tiny town in Ontario, The Hip's song "Bobcaygeon" (off their sixth album, 1999's Phantom Power)  exists as one of the band's most beloved of tracks. So, naturally, The Tragically Hip staged a concert there. In a...

Review: ARGO Storms Into Iran, Via Hollywood

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 07:01 AM PDT

Ben Affleck may not be the easiest guy to root for. Between his meteoric rise from indie actor to A-lister, his high profile relationships with some of the most beautiful women in the world, and his Oscar win for his first produced screenplay, it's not like he needs the help. So when Affleck did a pretty bang up job on his first directing try Gone Baby Gone and then just missed out on an Oscar nom for his second feature The Town, his status as golden boy looked pretty secure. With his latest picture Argo, the golden boy makes a real case for a golden statue. This is a nearly flawless movie that will absolutely be in the Oscar picture. Suddenly Affleck finds himself as...
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