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Australian Film Series To Screen In Santiago, Chile

Australian Film Series To Screen In Santiago, Chile

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:30 PM PST

There are fans of antipodean cinema everywhere it seems, and the latest outpost flying the flag for Australian cinema is the M100 Cultural Center in Santiago, Chile. From January 15 to 31, the M100 is hosting a program of 11 films called Foco en Australia, with every film screening for free.The series opened with The Proposition, the brutal Western written by Nick Cave and directed by John Hillcoat and closes with Red Dog, the feelgood family film which grossed over $20 million in its home country. Also among the highlights are Animal Kingdom, The Hunter and Kenny.See here to visit the M100 website for screening times and other details. ...

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Contest: Win A Blu-ray Copy of TITANIC (1953)

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:45 PM PST

Would you like a copy of the classic Barbara Stanwyck/Clifton Webb Titanic on Blu-ray? The disc is out now from Fox, and we've got two copies to give away to our lucky readers. Here's the official synopsis: Determined to leave the superficial, high-society world in which her husband Richard (Clifton Webb) is engrossed, Julia Sturges (Barbara Stanwyck) boards the R.M.S. Titanic in England to travel to America, along with her two children. Hoping to reconcile with his family, Richard purchases a steerage ticket aboard the ship, unaware of the fateful events that loom ahead. To win, follow @TwitchFilm on Twitter, and then retweet the link to this contest using the hashtag #TitanicTwitch. The contest is open to readers in the U.S. and Canada through Thursday,...

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SXSW Announces THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE as Opener + 6 Other Titles

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 12:39 PM PST

Just as Sundance is about to kickoff, SXSW has borrowed a bit of the spotlight to announce a few choice titles from its upcoming festival lineup. WB/New Line comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone will kick off the fest on Friday, March 8 (ahead of its theatrical release the following Friday). The film stars Steve Carrell, Jim Carrey, and Steve Buscemi as Las Vegas magicians. TV Vet Don Scardino (30 Rock) directed the script by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley. Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin, and James Gandolfini also star. Other titles announced include some world premieres of highly anticipated films like Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead remake and Alex Winter's Napster doc Downloaded. The fest will also see the U.S. Premiere of everyone's favorite TIFF...

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Fellini's CITY OF WOMEN Comes to Blu-ray! Watch the Deranged Original Trailer

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST

Eureka Entertainment's Masters of Cinema brings Federico Fellini's "victory of cinema" City of Women to Blu-ray for the very first time, when it releases the film in the UK on 25 February. After scoring a series of international successes with revered masterpieces such as La Dolce Vita, Amarcord and 8 1/2, Fellini teamed-up once again with favourite leading man and onscreen surrogate, Marcelo Mastroianni for this singular cinematic spectacle.Federico Fellini's epic 1980 fantasia introduced the start of the Maestro's delirious late period. A surrealist tour-de-force filmed on soundstages and locations alike, and overflowing with the same sensory (and sensual) invention heretofore found only in the classic movie-musicals (and Fellini's own oeuvre), La città delle donne [City of Women] taps into the era's restless youth-culture, coalescing...

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Sundance 2013: Full Trailer for UPSTREAM COLOR Keeps the Mysteries Alive

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:38 AM PST

One of the most anticipated and most enigmatic movies at Sundance this year is Shane Carruth's long awaited follow-up to his Sundance 2004 hit Primer. Upstream Color stars Amy Seimetz alongside Carruth. We've got the full theatrical trailer for you now and what we can tell is that it might have something to do with the water system. What's perhaps even more interesting about the film for those who watch these sort of things, is that Carruth and company at ERBP have already decided to self-distribute the film. The film will open in New York on April 5 with plans to expand to 20 markets and VOD from there. It seems like a rather bold decision based on the film's inclusion in the Sundance...

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Hey, Twitch! Win END OF WATCH On Blu-ray!

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:00 AM PST

Gritty cop drama End Of Watch won a great deal of love here in the pages of Twitch with a glowingly positive review by Scott Weinberg and if you missed it in the theater - or saw it and loved it - here's your chance to have a copy of your own.End of Watch hits home video January 22nd and we've got three prize packs to give away, each including the new Blu-ray release and an End Of Watch car dash grip. Because nobody likes stuff sliding around on their dash.Want your chance to win? Simple! Just like Twitch on Facebook and post on our wall the name of what other critically acclaimed cop film End of Watch director David Ayer is known for?...

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GHOST IN THE SHELL Returns With ARISE

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:30 AM PST

Ask your average person on the street to name one all time classic, landmark anime and - should you get any answer at all - I would wager that you would get one of four responses better than ninety percent of the time. There is Akira. There is Astroboy. There is Neon Genesis Evangelion. And there is Ghost In The Shell. And Ghost in the Shell is on its way back to screens.Announced today with minimal details is the coming of new anime series Ghost In The Shell: Arise. Due to launch sometime in 2013 - which means work has been progressing on the sly for some time now - Kise Kazuchika (a veteran who has worked on the Blood: The Last Vampire, Dennou Coil...

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Full Berlinale Panorama Fiction Program Includes Double the James Franco

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:00 AM PST

The Berlin Film Festival has now announced its entire fiction slate for the always fascinating Panorama program. Yes, the first thing that sticks out is that James Franco has two films playing, including his riff on the cut footage from William Friedkin's Cruising, Interior. Leather Bar. But hey! There are 31 features from 23 different countries in this lineup. And while I'm certainly excited to catch up with Franco and some Sundance Highlights (particularly Upstream Color), I'm even more pumped to discover new work from exciting international filmmakers.The entire lineup is below with the recently added titles first, and the previously announced titles at the bottom. Panorama fictional films   Boven is het stil (It's all so Quiet) - Netherlands/Germany By Nanouk Leopold With Jeroen...

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The Stack: LOOPER, COSMOPOLIS, BRAVE, FINDING NEMO and FRANKENWEENIE

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:00 AM PST

Welcome back to The Stack, where host Dave Canfield opines and informs on what's new on DVD and Blu-ray, offers up conversation with informed fans, industry figures and talent and seeks out the geek epicenter of his own meandering fandom. This installment has him checking out some recent releases on Blu-ray. What's the best special feature on Looper? Can even David Cronenberg fashion compelling cinema entirely out of the back of a limo in Cosmopolis? How brave is Brave? Did Tim Burton successfully expand his original live action short into a stop motion masterpiece? Or is Frankenweenie just more artsy noodling about? Lastly, do any of us remember just how great Finding Nemo looks on Blu-ray? You can watch the entire episode below....

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The Pit Wants What It Wants And It Wants A Trailer For JUG FACE

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:30 AM PST

Chad Crawford Kinkle takes us into a backwoods cult with his upcoming Slamdance selection Jug Face. The story of a small community that worships a pit that brings them health in exchange for blood sacrifice, genre faves Larry Fessenden, Sean Young, Sean Bridgers and Daniel Manche round out a cast anchored by The Woman's Lauren Ashley Carter. Now, you may be asking yourself how it is possible to transform a hole in the ground into a viable horror movie villain. Well, The Playlist have gotten a first look at the trailer, which provides the answer. Take a look below....

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Sundance 2013 Preview: Dramatic and Documentary Premieres

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:00 AM PST

We launched part one of our Sundance Preview series yesterday with a look at all four competition slates. Today we take you through a handful of our picks from the out of competition Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections. Stay tuned all week for plenty more pre-fest coverage from the Sundance Film Festal. Dramatic Premieres THE NECESSARY DEATH OF CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN This highly coveted script by Matt Drake (Project X) marks the directorial debut of Frederick Bond. Shia LeBeouf stars as the titular traveler with Evan Rachel Wood as the Hungarian heartthrob and Mads Mikkelsen as the violent foil in this little plot. Moby cranked out some tunes (along with Dead Mono and Christophe Beck) for what could end up being one of the most...

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Hey London! Don't Miss THE ECHO OF ASTRO BOY'S FOOTSTEPS This Saturday!

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:30 AM PST

One of the real highlights of Summer 2012 for me was the opportunity to attend Zipangu Fest - a 3-day orgy of some of the most eclectic and avant garde Japanese Cinema, curated by the singular talents of Jasper Sharp and hosted by The Cinema Museum in London. The highlight of the weekend was undoubtedly the documentary The Echo of Astro Boy's Footsteps - Tominaga Masanori's portrait of the pioneering sound designer Ohno Matsuo, most famous for creating the signature noise of the film's title. I recently named the film in my Top 10 Asian films of 2012 Part 2, and anybody interested in checking out the film for themselves is in luck - provided they will be in London this coming Saturday, 19 January.Zipangu...

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Gorber's Epic Guillermo del Toro Interview, Part 2: On Producing and Building a Canon of Work

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:00 AM PST

Scheduled to last a mere 15 minutes, the famously loquacious and erudite filmmaker spent 90 minutes at our roundtable discussion. In this, the second part of our five part series, he talked about his role as a producer, and just what it meant to have a film with his name attached.Click Here for Part OneThere's the whole notion of what constitutes a "Guillermo Del Toro film", serving as short form for describing a particular type of film... A little bit.  Look, not all of the them are good, but not all of them are bad. I tell you what, if you get an Orphanage and a Mama... I take great pride in most of them. Take Splice as an example: I love the notion of...

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Japanese Provocateur Ôshima Nagisa Passes Away at 80

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:45 AM PST

Ôshima Nagisa, the brilliant, transgressive director behind films like In the Realm of the Senses, Cruel Story of Youth and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, has passed away at the age of 80. He was most well-known for the explicit, controversial Senses, and while that film is indeed one of the finest and most affecting erotic dramas ever made, it's really just one part of his diverse, audacious and sometimes puzzling career. In the late 50's and early 60's he made several films which walked an interesting line between neo-realism and sensationalist melodrama, chronicling the tribulations of the rebels and loners living in the margins of post-war Japan. My favorite of these is Cruel Story of Youth, which plays like a sort of tougher, culturally conscious...

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Hollywood Beat: THE ODYSSEY and BEN-HUR Threaten Anew From Public Domain

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:17 AM PST

First Moby Dick, now The Odyssey. What other classics will be heading to space? We first heard several months ago that Lynn Ramsay was developing a science-fiction version of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, intended to be "a psychological action thriller set in deep space, [where] a captain consumed by revenge takes his crew on a death mission fueled by his own ego and will to control an enigmatic alien." And now Warner Bros. has announced (via Deadline) that it's developing a science-fiction version of Homer's The Odyssey. It's being eyed as a franchise -- of course -- and young James DiLapo has been hired to write the script, based on his pitch, which was, in turn, based on an idea by producer Terry Douglas. (Evidently...

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Action-Packed Trailer For Korean Spy Thriller THE BERLIN FILE

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 05:00 AM PST

[UPDATE:  Added second trailer containing character spotlight and two making-of video.]CJ Entertainment has released the trailer for Ryoo Seung-wan's spy thriller The Berlin File, promoting it as Korea's most anticipated action blockbuster of 2013.  From the director of Arahan and City of Violence, Ryoo intends to deliver a realistic and fast-paced espionage film reminiscent of The Bourne Identity. It's interesting to note that 40% of the dialogue is in English, and the film was shot almost entirely in Europe.The cast include Ha Jung-woo, Han Suk-kyu, Ryoo Seung-bum, and Gianna Jun. Stationed in Berlin, North Korean secret agent and weapons trader Pyo and his embassy staffer wife Ryon lead risky lives. When an arms deal with an Arab organization is exposed, Pyo's intuition tells him that...

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