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Love, Cinema, Crocodiles - Watch the Trailer for Miguel Gomes' Spectacular TABU

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Love, Cinema, Crocodiles - Watch the Trailer for Miguel Gomes' Spectacular TABU

Love, Cinema, Crocodiles - Watch the Trailer for Miguel Gomes' Spectacular TABU

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:00 AM PST

Select U.S. Audiences will finally get to experience Miguel Gomes' sweeping, magical romance/adventure Tabu at the end of this month when Adopt films brings it to theaters. For now, we've got an amazing trailer, which does an excellent job capturing the spirit of the film, and as a bonus, offers a taste of what The Ronettes classic Be My Baby sounds like in Portuguese. Part deadpan tragi-comedy, and part epic, magic-realist adventure, Tabu is a difficult film to describe, and even more difficult to summarize. I already gave it my best shot in a rave-review from last year's Berlin film festival, but now, thankfully, there's a trailer. So enough words! Check it out below and don't miss the film in the theater if it comes...

Review: KRISHNAM VANDE JAGADGURUM is a Decent Idea Destroyed By Comically Bad CG, Terrible Lead Performance

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 01:00 AM PST

Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum is one of the most frustrating films I've seen in a long time. Lack of focus, uneven tone, and pacing are issues for most mainstream Indian films, but often these sins are forgiven by sheer entertainment value. Unfortunately, KVJ wears out its welcome before the intermission and spends its second half beating us over the head with twist after twist and forcing the audience to endure the painfully bad performance of lead actor, Rana Daggubati. I'll admit, once again, that I saw the film without subtitles, so my understanding of the line readings is extremely limited. But I know charisma when I see it. Of all of the films I've seen thus far this year without subs, I've come away really enjoying...

From the Archives: Sarandon and Portman on STAR WARS, ROCKY HORROR and Lunchboxes

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:49 PM PST

With all this talk of new Star Wars episodes and the like, it reminded me of those heady days surrounding the release of the first of the prequels, and I decided to dig up something from the past.At a 1999-era Toronto International Film Festival press conference for Wayne Wang's (forgettable) Anywhere But Here, which starred Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon, I slightly hijacked the proceedings for a few minutes, and had a nice back and forth with the leading two actors. I asked specifically about their interactions with rabid fans, and whether the star of the Rocky Horror Picture Show had any advice for the young star of the second Star Wars trilogy.A young, adorable Portman seemed slightly shy but quick with a laugh, while...

"Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema" Brings Some of the Best of Contemporary and Classic Romanian Films to NYC

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:42 PM PST

"Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema," screening from November 29 through December 5, continues the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual survey of contemporary Romanian cinema. Films from this country have retained interest among followers of world cinema since the 1990's Romanian New Wave, which introduced audiences to such directors as Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu, and Cristian Mungiu, whose latest film Beyond the Hills (pictured above) closes the festival. As usual, the festival features not only new and recent films, but also retrospectives: this year, the films of influential 70s and 80s filmmaker Alexandru Tatos will be featured with a mini-retro of three of his films: Red Apples (1976), Anastasia Gently Passes (1979), and Sequences (1982). This year, the Film Society has admirably made this series more accessible...

Sundance 2013: Horror Sequel S-VHS Included in Midnight, Spotlight, & New Frontiers Announcement

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 01:10 PM PST

The Sundance Film Festival is on the horizon with its January 17 start date in sight. Yesterday we brought you the Competition and Next announcements and today we're right back at it with all the films in the Park City at Midnight, Spotlight, and New Frontiers programs. The highlight of the list is the inclusion of the sequel to this year's V/H/S (see our review and our interview from last January's fest), now awesomely titled S-VHS. Along with the announcement it will be playing comes the full lineup of directors involved. Adam Wingard is the only director back in the chair and long-time collaborator Simon Barrett will finally get a chance to play the boss with a director's credit as well. If that wasn't...

Review: KING KELLY Will Do Anything For Your Attention

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 11:00 AM PST

Kelly (Louisa Krause) is a terrible human being. Completely obsessed with herself and with how she is perceived by everyone else, she truly believes she is destined for celebrity and stardom...the minute her new boyfriend gets her website up and running! Despite living with her parents and doting on her diminutive pooch, Kelly spends her entire life living vicariously through her live video blog. She engages with her (supposed) online audience far more than with the real people around her. Except maybe Jordan (Libby Woodbridge), her best friend, who will do whatever Kelly wants because she loves her oh so much. Kelly believes she is generous, warm-hearted and giving to a fault, but in truth she is vile, manipulative and superficial to her very core.While there...

Interview: Director Peter Chan Talks DRAGON (WU XIA), Hong Kong Identity, and the Shaw Brothers

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 10:31 AM PST

Peter Chan's martial arts epic Dragon, starring Donnie Yen, will open in the U.S. in select theaters on Friday, November 30. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Bangkok, Peter Chan Ho-sun studied cinema in the United States at the UCLA film school before coming back to his native country in the early 80s. He started work in the film industry as an assistant to John Woo (Heroes Shed No Tears) and Jackie Chan (Project A II, Armour of God) before moving to the production field in 1989 (Samson Chiu's News Attacks). Two years later he made his directorial debut with the drama Alan & Eric: Between Hello and Goodbye. He later co-founded U.F.O. (United Filmmakers Organisation) and produced around 20 movies within five years,...

Chinese Action Flick WU DANG On Blu-ray December 4th, New Trailer Premiere Here!

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 10:01 AM PST

Our pals at Well Go USA are releasing the Vincent Zhao/Fan Siu Wong martial arts adventure, Wu Dang, on Blu-ray and DVD in the US next week, and they've graced us with an exclusive early look at the trailer. The film is a neat little adventure with some impressive martial arts action, I liked it far more than I expected to. Here's the synopsis and trailer from Well Go USA!There is a rumor:  secret treasures hide in Wu Dang mountain. In the early days of Republican China, an American man - greedy for gold and hungry for riches - brings his daughter, a prodigy in martial arts, to compete for a championship title in kung fu combat, while planning to find and steal the riches for himself. It won't be easy. ...

Review: KILLING THEM SOFTLY Murders With Style

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 09:02 AM PST

With its premiere at Cannes one year on, it's hard to imagine that Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly won't be compared frequently to Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 hit Drive. The comparison would be apt. Both films portray a stylized, raw, and violent vision of reality. They both represent the cutting edge of storytelling from two of the brightest up and coming directors. Oh, and both films might just be the best of their respective years. Based on the novel Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins and adapted by Dominik, Killing Them Softly is a gritty crime tale of Mafia hitmen and petty thugs. Brad Pitt gets top billing as hitman Jackie Cogan, but he is far less the protagonist than Ryan Gosling's Driver in Refn's...

Watch A Trailer For Sundance Selected Climbing Doc THE SUMMIT

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 08:00 AM PST

Nick Ryan's climbing documentary The Summit - the story of a tragically failed ascent of K2 - has been selected in competition at Sundance which makes now a pretty good time to check the latest trailer for the film.In August 2008, twenty-four climbers from several international expeditions converged on High Camp of K2, the last stop before the summit of the most dangerous mountain on earth. Forty-eight hours later, eleven had been killed or had vanished, making it the worst K2 climbing disaster in history.In a century of assaults on K2, only about 300 people have ever seen the view from the planet's second highest peak. More than a quarter of those who made it didn't live long enough to share the glory, or to...

Kickstart This: Samuel Jorgensen's SciFi Action SINGULARITY

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST

Director Samuel Jorgensen has won a lot of fans around these parts over the years with his short films, works that typically blend solid character work with a polish and high quality VFX that are well beyond what should be possible with the budgets in hand. And now Jorgensen is at it again, raising funds on Kickstarter for Singularity, a film that looks to be his most impressive yet.Singularity is a sci-fi action short film set in the near future about a civil war between humans and sentient androids. The film tells the story of a group of Delta force soldiers who are ambushed by androids as they attempt to rescue the US president.The ultimate goal is to produce a kick-ass sci-fi action film in...

Trailer Hits For Korean Rock Doc TURN IT UP TO ELEVEN 2

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST

With the surprise success of the first Turn It Up To Eleven and the growing profile of that film's subject, Galaxy Express, it comes as little surprise that director Baek Seung-hwa is doing it again. This time out Turn It Up To Eleven 2 follows the band to America for a string of nineteen shows over a three week span. It's raw and energetic stuff, as a rock doc should be. Check the trailer below....

Watch a New Episode of The Stack: Holiday Gift Guide Part Two: Box Sets For Kids!

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:00 AM PST

Welcome back to....The Stack!  In part two of the Holiday Gift Guide your Uncle Dave  wrangles dead snakes, tells his kids to shut up and likewise invokes the holiday spirit by looking at some off the beaten path box sets for yer kids. And if you stay to the very, very end you get to watch my family and I sing Christmas carols to the toilet!!! Old TV, new 3D, R vs. B, and In....uh...Indi? No way to make that rhyme really. Oh well. MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS:THE COMPLETE SERIES DVD BOX SETSHOUT FACTORY!Originally running from 1993 to 1996 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers requires some serious dedication on the part of completist fans. Forget that you could fill a house with the collectibles, costumes and toys, you...
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