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Japanese Film Festival 2012 Review: A TERMINAL TRUST Is So Close To Being Another Suo Masayuki Classic

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Japanese Film Festival 2012 Review: A TERMINAL TRUST Is So Close To Being Another Suo Masayuki Classic

Japanese Film Festival 2012 Review: A TERMINAL TRUST Is So Close To Being Another Suo Masayuki Classic

Posted: 24 Nov 2012 03:00 AM PST

Even though the name Suo Masayuki may not be immediately recognizable, you have probably seen or at least heard of the director's two best films: Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992) and the original Japanese version of Shall We Dance? (1996). Both films won the Best Film and Best Director Awards at the Japanese Academy Awards and are considered modern Japanese classics. Suo's latest film, A Terminal Trust, is a really good film that sadly just falls short of being his new classic. A Terminal Trust tells the story of Mr Egi, a man with severe asthma who is suffering from frequent episodes of life-threatening exacerbations, and his relationship with the treating doctor, Dr Orii. The great Yakusho Kôji and Kusakari Tamiyo, both previously seen in Shall...

Review: DAMARUKAM Takes Hindu Mythology Into The 21st Century

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 08:40 PM PST

It's finally here. After months and months of teasing and a release date postponed by, of all things, financial woes between producers and money men, Nagarjuna's hardcore socio-fantasy CG spectacle Damarukam has arrived in theaters around the world. The trailers were enough to lure me into the cinema for this piece of insanity, and coming out of the film I suppose I can say that I got what I paid for. Damarukam is a massive pile of mediocre to above average FX shots mashed together with a love story and some goofball comedy just to keep you on your toes, which makes it about average in the grand scheme of things with a few bonus points for some sharp looking CG that is pretty damned...

NYC Happenings: Swede It! Max von Sydow Retro. At BAM

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:30 PM PST

Well, if you're like me, that headline is enough to get yer butt in the seat for multiple shows, but if you need to know more here's the lowdown: From November 27 - December 14 our buddies at BAMcinématek will screen 22 films that feature the noble knight himself (and yes, that's included). That's one film per weekday, and two on the weekends, so by all means make this a part of your daily routine. But if you have a life and say just want to catch a couple flicks... let's see... Say you want to see Mr von Sydow in an Ingmar Bergman flick? Well of course they'll be screening some of those... There's Bergman's look at the mighty engine of war  and the...

Out Now on Australian DVD: THE BRIDGE Is A Suspenseful And Intelligent Eurocrime Saga

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 03:00 PM PST

Madman Entertainment have been on an amazing roll with Eurocrime television series these last few years, polished and adult shows that never take the trope procedural route. Ensuring Australia does not miss out on gems like The Killing (the original Danish series, of course), French crime thriller Spiral and a slew of others, their most recent release into this arena has coveted the most praise, and it is not hard to understand why as The Bridge is an absolute triumph of crime genre greatness that is well-paced and breathtaking it its twists and turns. The first season of The Bridge consists of ten episodes and concerns itself around a truly grotesque murder. The body of a female politician is found in the middle of the...

Watch The First 7 Minutes Of Ram Gopal Varma's THE ATTACKS OF 26/11 Here!

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 10:36 AM PST

Ram Gopal Varma is at it again, and this time it looks like he may finally have come to his senses. RGV has been talking about a film dramatizing the horrible terrorist attack on Mumbai on November 11, 2008. As was to be expected, the film was, and still is, a very controversial project, which is something that RGV is very used to. I expect plenty of protest and possibly a few legal injunctions to be placed before it actually hits screens, but we have the first few bits of footage here, and they look surprisingly good.The last few years of RGV's career have been very rocky for the once-great auteur. He's been grasping for the kind of critical and box office success of his...

Showdown For The Dingly Dell In Latest Clip From Wheatley's SIGHTSEERS

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 10:00 AM PST

It's wagons ho in the latest clip released in advance of the UK theatrical release of Ben Wheatley's festival fave Sightseers. Caravans, actually, but you get the picture. Things get just a wee bit competitive here when Chris and Tina encounter a bit of competition for their favored parking spot ...Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way - on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina's led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see - the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that accompanies these wonders in his life. But it doesn't take...

MIDNIGHT SON Trailer Gives Us a Taste of the Modern Vampire

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 09:00 AM PST

The directorial debut from Scott Leberecht, who made a name for himself as a visual effects art director on films like Spawn and Sleepy Hollow, is the story of a young man with a rare skin condition, forced to stay out of the sun. His solitary, isolated existence opens up when he meets a beautfiul bartender, but his behaviour becomes increasingly bizarre and more, oh let's say...vampiric!With echoes of everything from George Romero's Martin to Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One In, Midnight Son shows some serious potential from this new trailer. After premiering in the UK at FrightFest last year, Midnight Son is now slated for a theatrical release on 11 January 2013, courtesy of Monster Pictures. Check it out below and let us...

Lenny Kravitz To Play Marvin Gaye In Julien Temple's MIDNIGHT LOVE

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 08:00 AM PST

British director Julien Temple has carved an admirable niche for himself, 1988 effort Earth Girls Are Easy standing as an anomaly in a career littered with some of the greatest rock docs ever made. The Great Rock N Roll Swindle. Glastonbury. Oil City Confidential. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten. They're all Temple films and the prolific director is now tackling a bio-pic on the life of classic soul singer Marvin Gaye.Titled Midnight Love the film will presumably shoot once Temple has wrapped up on his current documentary project - Children Of The Revolution - and he's got himself a very high profile star, the London Evening Standard breaking word that Lenny Kravitz has signed on to portray the singer.Named for Gaye's final album, the...

Ryan Gosling's MONSTER Adds Ben Mendelsohn

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 07:32 AM PST

One of Australia's greatest actors, Ben Mendelsohn, is finally getting his due, and the stream of news about each of his new roles is coming so thick and fast that I've finally learnt how to spell his name without checking IMDb. Now comes news that Mendo has been cast in Ryan Gosling's directorial debut How to Catch a Monster, which begins shooting in May.How to Catch a Monster is the story of a mother (Christina Hendricks) of two sons, one of whom discovers a secret underwater town. With mother in tow, young Bones enters the dark, macabre place he's stumbled upon. Mendelsohn has had a stellar 2012, with key roles in The Dark Knight Rises and Killing Them Softly. Here's hoping Mendo plays a Boss Nass style character in...

First Look At ONG BAK Video Game

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST

It goes without saying that Twitch is a film website and gaming doesn't exactly fall under our realm of news coverage but once in a while, there is something in the gaming world that piques our interest, especially when its somehow related to an existing film property.  And what film property would make for an interesting video game?  How about a game based on Ong Bak with Tony Jaa in a beat-em-up. And there is even a horde of zombies and giant killer plants as enemies.  Yes, please.Here's the official press release from Immanitas Entertainment with the full details: Immanitas Entertainment to publish official Ong Bak Game worldwide The official Ong Bak game, Ong Bak Tri, currently being developed by Thai developer Studio HIVE, based...

DTFF 2012: THE REPENTANT, HORSES OF GOD and THE LEBANESE ROCKET SOCIETY Win Top Awards

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 05:31 AM PST

Last night, the winners of the Arab Film Competition and the Audience Awards were announced at the 4th Doha Tribeca Film Festival, with a total of ten different awards up for grabs, in Feature, Short Film and Documentary categories.Merzak Allouache's The Repentant was named Best Narrative Film, while director Nabil Ayouch was awarded the Best Filmmaker prize for Horses of God. The Best Feature Documentary award went to The Lebanese Rocket Society, with Hanan Abdalla named Best Documentary Filmmaker for In The Shadow of a Man. The Best Short Film prize went to Ehab Tarabieh's The Forgotten, while the short documentary Bader won the Made in Qatar Award.Full list of winners:Arab Film Competition: NarrativeBest Narrative Film - The Repentant (dir. Merzak Allouache)Best Narrative Filmmaker -...

Masters of Cinema Unveils New Clip From Kubrick's FEAR AND DESIRE

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:55 AM PST

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray for the first time in the UK on 28 January 2013, Stanley Kubrick's 1953 debut feature, Fear And Desire, is a gut-wrenching tale of survival, as four stranded soldiers attempt to escape from behind enemy lines during an unspecified conflict. Master of Cinema are givng the film a full work over, including a new restoration, and Kubrick's three short films, Day of the Fight, Flying Padre & The Seafarers. The release will also include an exclusive new video introduction from Kubrick scholar, critic and Cahiers du Cinéma American correspondent Bill Krohn, shot in Los Angeles in November 2012. MoC has also released a clip from the film to whet our appetites ahead of this release. From the press release:Independently financed with contributions from Stanley...
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