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Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - April (Part 1)

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Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - April (Part 1)

Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - April (Part 1)

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 10:00 PM PDT

We carry on apace with this epic undertaking - finally each tackling a classic from our individual Lists of Shame, and sharing our thoughts with you the readers. This month sees the work of such cinematic luminaries as Ozu, Bergman and Cimino go under the spotlight, scrutinised by our writers for the very first time. So without further ado, let's go:Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (dir. George Roy Hill, 1969 USA)Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score and Best Original Song, winner of 8 BAFTA Awards, including Best FilmTodd Brown, Founder & Editor:Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is, to put it mildly, a very odd movie. A very odd movie with a litany of elements that...

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'We Search For Our Own Paradise But We All Fail': Ulrich Seidl Interview

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 07:00 PM PDT

The Film Society of Lincoln Center hosts Ulrich Seidl, controverisial Austrian director of Dog Days, Import/Export and now the Paradise Trilogy, in a special Film Commend Selects series. It's a rare occasion to watch Love, Faith and Hope, back to back to back, the way they were intended. The screenings are on April 26-27 (with Paradise: Love getting a separate week run). Our interview took place at the posh Austrian Cultural Forum building in mid-town in the sunny afternoon. Mild mannered and personable, Seidl doesn't really give you any impression that he is the director of those depravity filled, human misery films. I had to share my time slot with the esteemed film writer Oleg Sulkin in prodding the other Austrian provocateur (Oleg and I...

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Review: DOCTOR WHO S7E11, JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE TARDIS (Or, Mysteries And Secrets Fuel An Exploration Of The Doctor's Time Machine)

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 06:00 PM PDT

The notion of discovering more about the Tardis will always be enticing. It's essentially a big box full of secrets and there's so much about it that I'd love to discover or at least have explained in more depth. To really uncover its inner workings runs the risk of demystifying something at the very centre of Doctor Who, though, so it's no surprise to see that "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" reveals only small details while keeping as much as possible close to its chest. It develops and then resolves itself in a largely nonsensical fashion, but it manages to be reliably entertaining too.We follow the Doctor and Clara separately as they both react to a surprising and dangerous situation that involves scavengers...

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Melbourne Cinematheque Review: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM Lingers

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT

Welcome back to my ongoing coverage of the Melbourne Cinematheque's fantastic program for 2013. Here I will be reviewing the first film per season (month). This month I took a look at The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), from the inescapable societal visionary Otto Preminger. For the month of April I introduced one of Godard's films in the program, which can be found here. I hope you saw something from this season! Running from April 24 to May 8, Preminger's retrospective of films shine through particularly troubled times, but do so with a unique style of objectivity and ambiguity that only Preminger can deliver. Preminger's lucid style is hypnotic in his distinct gaze of the issues he presents of the human condition. The program...

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Tribeca 2013 Review: Who's Afraid Of The BIG BAD WOLVES?

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 02:00 PM PDT

There were audible groans as the credits rolled on the pre-festival screening of Big Bad Wolves. Without giving anything away, I imagine it had something to do with the tonal balance of the film, and to which side the scales tipped during the final shot. The response was almost condescending, but it had an undercurrent born of unease. As if that last shift caught the audience off guard, and left them feeling ashamed as their emotional response caught up to action on screen. I feel the audience thought it was a fault in the filmmaking, but maybe it was a brilliant manipulation on the part of the directors. That would be Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshale, helmers of previous TFF favorite, Rabies. Rabies caused quite...

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IFFR 2013: A Talk With Richard Raaphorst About FRANKENSTEIN'S ARMY. Part 2 of 2: Shooting Zombots!

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 12:04 PM PDT

Back in January, Frankenstein's Army had its World Premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. A few hours before the official world premiere, I was allowed to interview director Richard Raaphorst. The first part of that interview can be found here and covered the long road from the lamented Worst Case Scenario project to the current film. Here is the second part, which will focus more on filming Frankenstein's Army itself. Mild spoilers ahead, but nothing too bad. No deaths at least... Twitch: You had an amazing location, an abandoned mine, to shoot most of the film in. Last year I visited the set near Prague, in the Czech Republic, in... what was the name of that place again? Richard Raaphorst: That was in the...

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Watch The Meditative Short Film BRIDGES

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Bridges is a quiet, minimalist short film from critic-turned-filmmaker Christopher Bell. It's worth noting in these here pages because at its core it features a finely tuned, nuanced performance from the brilliant Joslyn Jensen. Those with their finger on the pulse of the current American Indie scene may recall Jensen's name from a few year's back when she turned heads in Mark Jackson's provocative and challenging psychological thriller Without. Despite gaining considerable indie buzz and winning numerous awards at festivals across the globe (it also remains to this day my favorite film of 2011) Jackson's film never saw a proper release stateside, and thus, Jensen has yet to have that breakthrough moment she so readily deserves. So while Bridges is by no means the film...

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