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Eight Minutes Of Subterranean Terror In Extended Clip From Russian Disaster Flick METRO

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Eight Minutes Of Subterranean Terror In Extended Clip From Russian Disaster Flick METRO

Eight Minutes Of Subterranean Terror In Extended Clip From Russian Disaster Flick METRO

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 02:00 PM PST

Freshly released in Russian cinemas, Anton Megerdichev's disaster picture Metro already boasts a pair of fantastic trailers. They're taut and tense bits of work that demonstrate the director's skill and the potent premise - the story revolves around a subway crash and flooding of the tunnels beneath Moscow - to great effect. But now there's something even more impressive to cast your eyes on.A lengthy eight minute clip from the film is freshly arrived online, one that picks up the action immediately following the crash. And while, yes, Megerdichev's technical abilities are on full display what is really impressive here to tell a compelling story with complex characters shining through in the middle of chaos with the use of absolutely bare minimum dialogue. There is...

THE DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END Feels Like Dutch Wes Anderson

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 01:00 PM PST

Quirky characters, meticulous framing, and a devotion to finely detailed art design all coupled to an underlying sincerity that (hopefully) keeps it all from becoming unbearably self referential. It's the formula that has served Wes Anderson well throughout his career and all of those characteristics look to be abundantly present in Michiel ten Horn's The Deflowering Of Eva van End.THE DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END is a tragicomedy about the Van End family who, after the arrival of an impossibly perfect German exchange student, can no longer imagine how they ever managed to live with their imperfect selves.Evert (48), Etty (46), Erwin (20), Manuel (16) and Eva (15) are a perfectly normal family, who over the years have developed a slightly dysfunctional way of relating...

Small Village. Big Hair. Mamat Khalid Will ROCK OO!

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 12:00 PM PST

Hair metal is funny. You know it. I know it. Even the people who love it secretly know it. And Malaysian director Mamat Khalid certainly knows it. He also knows that the big hair and impossibly high falsettos are even funnier when put on the residents of a tiny, rural Malaysian village.Yes, this is he entire premise of Khalid's upcoming musical comedy Rock Oo! Which may seem a bit thin but for the fact that he's right. It is funny. Very funny. Can the feature sustain the energy of the trailer? I have no idea - though with Khalid at the helm it just might - but I could watch this trailer all day. Check it below....

Bullets Fly In James Lee's LAST SUPPER

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 11:00 AM PST

Malaysian director James Lee has got the action bug. Having directed Sunny Pang in martial arts action-comedy The Collector, Lee is now messing around with firearms. He's gathered Pang and some of his other usual suspects together for Last Supper, a short film project that doubles as a camera test for an as yet unspecified future action project.Though shot fast and cheap - so, yes, the same muzzle flash effect is used for every gunshot - it captures a smart director learning on the fly. And it certainly doesn't hurt that Sunny Pang has as much action-man charisma as he does. Watch the short below....

Interview: Miguel Gomes Talks TABU And The State Of Portuguese Cinema

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 10:00 AM PST

Tabu, a film that playfully evokes the golden age of silent cinema, took home the FIPRESCI Jury Prize and Alfred Baeur Prize for Artistic Innovation at this year's Berlin Film Festival. Its director, Miguel Gomes, along with Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira and other notable filmmakers working today in Portugal, is the driving force behind Portuguese cinema's opposition to the economically strapped government's austerity measure that cut funding for its small but vibrant film industry. The subject dominated our brief conversation at this year's New York Film Festival. As a great admirer of Portuguese cinema, his insights on the matter were very informative and helpful to understand the state of their struggle.Twitch: Seeing your last film, OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST and now TABU, I...

Hey, Toronto! Break Out Your Hockey Masks And Machetes, FRIDAY THE 13TH Hits The Big Screen Saturday!

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 09:00 AM PST

Hey, Toronto! The end of the Twitch presented Birth Of A Villain series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox arrives this Saturday with a midnight screening of the original Friday The 13th, projected on the big screen in glorious 35mm!The one-two punch of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and John Carpenter's megahit Halloween in the 1970s put a new face to American horror movies. While previously the genre had its share of tortured, sympathetic anti-heroes (the Frankenstein Monster, the Wolf Man), this new breed of monster was a hero because of his villainy -- and the more gleefully he set about his gruesome work, the better. Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, Chucky, Pinhead -- the names have become legend. Birth of a...

Watch Chow Yun Fat In US Trailer For THE ASSASSINS

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 08:30 AM PST

The iconic Chow Yun Fat stars in Zhao Yiyang's The Assassins, a gorgeous period action epic hitting DVD and BluRay from WellGo USA January 8th. In the year 198 BC, Cao Cao (CHOW YUN FAT), Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, ventured to the east and defeated China's greatest warrior Lu Bu, terrifying every ambitious warlord across the country. Several years later, after taking the Han Emperor under his wing, Cao crowns himself King of Wei. He built a magnificent Bronze Sparrow Island to symbolize his power and rumors spread that he would replace the Emperor.  Meanwhile, young lovers Mu Shun (TAMAKI HIROSHI) and Ling Ju (CRYSTAL LIU YI FEI) are taken from a prison camp to a hidden tomb, where they spend five cruel years...

Review: TABU is a Glorious Celebration of Cinema and Crocodiles

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST

Tabu calls to mind the oft-repeated comparison between film directors and magicians. Indeed, how else but with magic could Portuguese director Miguel Gomes have created such a joyful, enthralling film from this wild mix of historical adventure, deadpan humor, romance, crocodiles, ghosts and silent films? But after watching a film that imparts such a strong feeling that anything is possible, it seems wrong to even ask the question of how it all works. Also, the aforementioned ingredient list is just a starting point. Gomes also serves up a meaningful meditation on the passage of time and our relationship to the past, using images instead of pointed rhetoric to examine Portugal's history of African colonialism. Ultimately, it's one of those rare films that makes you pause...

CinemaOne Review: Maribel Legarda's MELODRAMA NEGRA is as entertaining as it is artificial

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 07:30 AM PST

Like Loy Arcenas, Maribel Legarda has several years' worth of theater experience to guide her first foray into filmmaking. Unlike Arcenas, whose first film is from an original screenplay by Rody Vera, Legarda chose to adapt for the screen an award-winning stageplay by Allan Lopez. Interestingly, Nino, Arcenas' first film embraces theatricality, limiting most of its moments within the striking dialogues spewed by the characters with such exaggerated extravagance. Legarda's Melodrama Negra, on the other hand, abandons theatricality in favor of gloss, spectacle and other cinematic excesses. Remnants of the material and Legarda's stage roots linger, creating an uneasy mix of both theatrical and cinematic excesses. Melodrama Negra opens with three wandering ghosts (Gee Canlas, Gerald Napoles and Bong Cabrera), wondering what they need...
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