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Commercials Director Nic Mathieu Attached To Live Action ROBOTECH

Commercials Director Nic Mathieu Attached To Live Action ROBOTECH

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 07:00 PM PST

The long gestating Warner Bros. Robotech project has its first director attached to the project. I only say it that way because the screenplay has changed hands so many times,  why not simply accept that commercials director Nic Mathieu could be one of many names attached to it by the time cameras start rolling? There is, of course, no safe bet, as the transition from short films and commercials to full fledged features has proven difficult for some (Carl Rinsch anyone?) . Mathieu, like others before him, has proven adept at fusing terrific CG effects with live action elements, as you can see below in one of his commercials. And with giant robot movies Pacific Rim and Transformers 4 being the action cinema du jour this year, it should...

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Sundance 2013 Review: C.O.G. Paints a Riveting Portrait of Self-Discovery

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 06:20 PM PST

Have you ever wanted to unplug from the world? I mean, really, really unplug. Not for a day, or a week, but for as long as you can possibly can. Or even better, what about giving life a change and doing something completely out of your comfort zone? I have this fantasy that one day I'll disappear from the online world and years later you'll find me working on a boat, gutting fish in a long beard and looking tough. But let's be honest, that'll never happen. I'm not brave enough to step outside of what I know best. But you know who was? David Sedaris. If you're reading this, chances are you're aware of who the highly celebrated Sedaris is from his acclaimed essays...

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Sundance 2013 Review: BREATHE IN is Another Heartbreaking Romance from Doremus

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Drake Doremus does one thing very, very well. Doremus is a master at making the audience feel the emotions of his characters -- without relying on the typical protagonist story structure. His 2011 Sundance US Dramatic Competition-winning Like Crazy took us inside both ends of a long distance relationship, creating a palpable sense of desire, frustration, and ultimately, love. It was also a true two-hander with neither Anton Yelchin's Jacob or Felicty Jones's Anna being protagonists in the traditional sense. This same attitude towards story telling is on display in Doremus's latest effort, Breathe In. While love is just as much the subject in this film as in Like Crazy, it's a very different kind of love on trial than the long-distance romantic love...

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NYC Happenings: Film Comment Selects Announces Their 2013 Slate

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 03:30 PM PST

Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Michel Gondry and Antonio Campos, Oh My!From February 18 - 28 The Film Society of Lincoln Center will be presenting their 13th edition of Film Comment Selects, a veritable what's what of films from the last year on the festival circuit as well as a few older, lesser-seen gems. This year's selection includes the U.S. premiere of Japanese Master Kurosawa Kiyoshi 's 4 hr. epic Penance, the latest from Portuguese centenarian Manoel de Oliveira's Gebo And The Shadow, as well as Ben Wheatley's much-talked about Sightseers (pictured above). Get the full slate below: New York, NY (January 25, 2013) --- The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the lineup for the upcoming 13th edition of FILM COMMENT SELECTS (February 18-28), Film Comment...

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Fabulous First Trailer For Rotterdam Opener THE RESURRECTION OF A BASTARD

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 01:00 PM PST

I have no idea what's gotten into the water supply in the Netherlands, but I want some. Though Dutch cinema has long been dominated by pure arthouse offerings there is a new generation of Dutch talent rising who seemingly suckled at the teat of the Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch and others so inclined to fuse commercial storylines with indie quirk and personality. And the latest example of such is Guido Van Driel, a graphic novelist turned director whose The Resurrection of a Bastard - an adaptation of his own graphic novel - is the opening film of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.An old Frisian farmer bent on revenge. A criminal from Amsterdam barely surviving a liquidation. An illegal immigrant with uncertain prospects. Eventually, they meet...

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Slamdance 2013 Exclusive Video: Feast On The Anarchy That Is Slamdance!

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 12:30 PM PST

The awards have been given, the screening rooms and offices are being disassembled as we speak, but Slamdance 2013 lives on and today we have a little video treat from the Slamdance TV gang of Ben Hethcoat and Michal Felker. Ben and Mike (along with Eric Ekman) do interviews with the fest's filmmakers and do cool little shorts like the one you can watch below. So what is it? It's a trailer for their Anarchy shorts program which is now available for anyone to watch on the VOD service Cineqliq. The DIY zaniness of such a video will give you a hint of just how fun it is to be here in Park City.  ...

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Watch Out Tony Jaa & Johnny Tri Nguyen, Here's Vidyut Jamwal In The Trailer For COMMANDO - A ONE MAN ARMY

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST

"No stunt doubles, no computer images, no strings attached"This was the tagline that accompanied Tony Jaa's Ong Bak when it appeared on the world's radar back in 2003-2004. Since then Jaa has gone a wee bit crazy and has succumbed to wire-fu. In his stead we have fast rising Vietnamese star, Johnny Tri Nguyen, who has devastated screens with rip roaring performances in films like The Rebel and Clash. It looks like it may be time to add another name to the list of home-grown, all-natural martial arts stars, and it is India's Vidyut Jamwal.Jamwal is a relatively new face on the scene, making his first appearance on-screen in 2011's coming of age story, Stanley Ka Dabba. However, it was in John Abraham's Force, a...

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Sundance 2013 Review: BLACKFISH is an Important Look at Animal Captivity

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 11:30 AM PST

Blackfish is the latest documentary from Gabriela Cowperthwaite. It chronicles a series of injuries and deaths at SeaWorld theme parks by their captive orca whales. The main through-line is the case of Dawn Brancheau, a senior animal trainer and safety guru at the Orlando park, who was unexpectedly killed in 2010 by Tilikum, an orca that is both the most dangerous and treasured asset of SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment. The story begins with Tilikum's capture the coast of Iceland and journey to SeaLand of the Pacific, a now defunct marine theme park in British Columbia. From the first interviews of the documentary on, one immediately starts to question the morality of removing these magnificent creatures from the wild and displaying them for our entertainment....

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Spanish Films THE ORPHANAGE, JULIA'S EYES and More Slated for Remakes

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 11:00 AM PST

Spanish fantastic film has been having an incredible renaissance over the past 15 years. From Álex de la Iglesia to Alejandro Amenábar to Nacho Vigalondo, all range of horror, science fiction and fantasy has been pouring out of the country, to be embraced by cinephiles and cult film enthusiasts. And Spanish production company Rodar y Rodar is taking advantage of this new wave, not only by producing new films, but remaking some for those filmgoers who don't like to read subtitles.According to Screen Daily, English-language remakes are in the works for Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage (a film that already did well in the US market for a non-English film), Guillem Morales' Julia's Eyes and The Uninvited Guest (the latter of which, according to rumor, will be directed by...

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Siren Visual Releases The Complete Collection of Detective-Twist Anime UN-GO On Australian DVD

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 10:30 AM PST

Un-Go is the latest from the team behind anime smash Full Metal Alchemist and operates on a completely different level, although retaining the signature clean and cool BONES animation. Twitch colleague Charles Webb covered the US BluRay release extensively in his excellent review, the following is a modified excerpt from his article which can be found in full here.Detective anime Un-Go is more interesting for its literary roots than anything actually onscreen. The 11-episode series follows troubled detective Shinjuurou Yuuki as he investigates a series of high-profile mysteries years after a string of terrorist attacks in near future Japan. Each case deals in some way with the nexus of corruption and collusion among the ruling elite and media, with a jarring supernatural twist that keeps Un-Go from ever really working.Un-Go is based on the works...

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Slamdance 2013 News: And The Awards Go To...

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 09:37 AM PST

And so it was on January 24th 2013, just after 10pm Utah time, amongst a few hundred warm bodies in the main screening room at the Treasure Mountain Inn that The 19th Slamdance Film Festival came to close with a bevy of awards handed out to some daring, charming and truly out-there films. What's so fantastic (and doable because of its sensible size) about a festival like Slamdance is that most of their awards reception was taken up thanking one by one the incredible office staff, interns, volunteers, video producers, projectionists and programmers. They're a tight nit family, a well-oiled machine, and welcome everyone (press included) into their wonderful little world. I would not have been able to provide such ample coverage without their steadfast...

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Black Movie 2013 Review: SOFIA'S LAST AMBULANCE Offers a Riveting, Humanistic Look at a Systemic Nightmare

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 09:00 AM PST

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It's hard to imagine a more stressful, sanity-testing job than that of an ambulance medic. Not only do they spend all of their working hours in a constant state of emergency, surrounded by illness, death and sometimes extremely ornery patients, but they also have to deal with traffic and directions! After seeing the excellent Sofia's Last Ambulance though, I've discovered a job that's even more trying - doing all of that in Bulgaria's capital city. This city of around two million people only has 13 ambulances in service. Yes, that means the film's title is a bit of a misnomer, but still, point taken. Filmed over two years, the documentary -- which at times feels...

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FEAR & LOATHING @ SUNDANCE PART 3: Boozie Movies Nurses A Hangover With Bullets And Coffee

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 08:00 AM PST

CHAPTER 5: V IS FOR DILDOI wake up in the back of a van. I immediately recognize that waking up covered in your own blood in the back of a van is not a good thing. Why am I not in an ambulance? I think I'm going to die tonight, or is it now today, or is still this morning? Whatever, I don't know what fucking time it is. I should be in pain, I should have a splitting migraine, some type of hangover. But I feel numb, slightly euphoric actually. And this worries me. I don't think I'm in shock. The gash on my leg is deep but not deep enough for any radical trauma. No. The only reason why I'm not convulsing in...

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Exclusive: ANGELS IN EXILE Poster Debut

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 07:30 AM PST

Set to debut today at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Billy Raftery's documentary Angels in Exile follows Zuleika and Ariel, two children living on the streets in Durban, South Africa. They face a bleak future, one marked by drugs, violence, and prostitution, until two former street children offer them a way out -- but only if Zuleika and Ariel want it. Narrated by Charlize Theron, a native of South Africa, Angels in Exile was filmed over a period of eight years by Raftery. The director has an interesting story himself; he moved to South Africa after college and began working with non-profit organizations to help homeless children. Then he picked up a camera to record what he saw. From the description, Angels in Exile...

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Sundance 2013 Review: PRINCE AVALANCHE Delivers a Hint of the Old David Gordon Green

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 07:00 AM PST

Many reviews of Your Highness and The Sitter, two of the more pitiful comedies of 2011, featured concerned inquiries as to what (and in some cases what THE HELL) had happened to those films' director, David Gordon Green. His first four features -- George Washington (2000), All the Real Girls (2003), Undertow (2004), and Snow Angels (2007) -- had been darlings of the indie world, methodical and sensitive stories of ordinary small-town folk. No one begrudged Green his Pineapple Express (2008) because it was funny, and because they assumed he'd eventually get back to the deeper stuff. But that one-two punch in 2011 had people examining Green's head for lobotomy scars. His seventh film, Prince Avalanche isn't quite a "return to form" (to use an...

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French Cesar Awards Show Love for CAMILLE REWINDS, HOLY MOTORS, and of course AMOUR

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 06:30 AM PST

France may no longer be the pinnacle of world cinema, but their official awards show, The Cesars, have at least succeeded in one way where the academy blew it: Denis Lavant got a best actor nomination for Holy Motors! The film that will likely be remembered longer than most of this year's Oscar nominees also garnered several other much-deserved nominations, including best screenplay, best director, and best film. But the real success story is Camille Rewinds, a time-travel comedy/drama which led the nominations with thirteen nods,beating out even Amour. Of course, Michael Haneke's study of dying still came in second with ten nominations. In the foreign film category, Ben Affleck was slightly vindicated for being passed over by the academy for a directing nomination, as...

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Sundance 2013 Review: WRONG COPS is Wonderfully Weird and Wacky

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 06:00 AM PST

It's difficult to review Wrong Cops in a traditional sense, because it is so nontraditional in every way, including how it was presented at Sundance this year. What was shown was in a sense a work in progress. Wrong Cops started as a spin off from director Quentin Dupieux's previous film, Wrong. However, unlike Wrong, Wrong Cops was made in chapters. These both stand alone and work together to create a singular feature film. The first chapter was shot over a year ago. After a warm reception from the fans, Dupieux brought the cast and crew together again over the summer to shoot the remaining chapters. The Sundance screening was made up of just the first three segments, with several more on their way this...

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Interview: John Hyams on UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING and Diplomacy in Action Cinema

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 05:18 AM PST

The fourth official entry in the franchise, and the second to be directed by John Hyams, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning comes to Blu-ray, DVD and Home Cinema options in the US this week. Scott Adkins stars opposite series stalwarts Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren and it is a pulse-pounding action spectacular that blew the roof of the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas last September when it debuted at Fantastic Fest 2012. [You can read my review here]. This week I was lucky enough to chat to writer-director John Hyams about his experiences making the film and working in the action genre at a time when the beefcake heroes of old are hanging up their gloves, guns and grenades.Twitch - Day of Reckoning is your...

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First Whimsical Trailer for Michel Gondry's MOOD INDIGO

Posted: 25 Jan 2013 04:30 AM PST

Michel Gondry has quite a varied filmography (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Green Hornet, The We and the I), but arguably his best works are the odd and whimsical films about love, how the human mind processes it and in turn, acts upon it. On that note, the first trailer for his new film, Moon Indigo (L'écume des jours in its original French title) has just been released.Based on the 1947 novel of the same name by Boris Vian, the films stars Romain Duris, Omar Sy, and the poster girl for young French romance Audrey Tautou. Colin (Duris) and Chloe (Tautou) are happy, in love, and marry quickly, but an illness puts a damper on young wedded bliss. Chloe contracts an sickness that...

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