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Jeonju 2013 Review: CHEER UP MR. LEE Could Use a Pick-Me-Up

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Jeonju 2013 Review: CHEER UP MR. LEE Could Use a Pick-Me-Up

Jeonju 2013 Review: CHEER UP MR. LEE Could Use a Pick-Me-Up

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 10:00 PM PDT

If you watch a lot of films, it's hard not to get at least a little excited when a new film about filmmaking comes along. While not a golden recipe for surefire success, the subgenre yields a surprisingly strong crop of works, in part due to their self-deprecating nature. The Woodman and the Rain, This Is Not a Film and The Woman in the Septic Tank are among the many recent films to successfully go down this route. Not to mention that the old adage holds, you should write about what you know. Korean competition film Cheer Up Mr. Lee follows other entries in this rich tradition. A mockumentary about a fledgling director's attempts to make his feature debut, the film takes place in a...

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DJANGO UNCHAINED Finally Cleared for China Release

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 09:00 PM PDT

Quentin Tarantino's epic western Django Unchained will finally be released in mainland China on 12 May, according to a statement issued yesterday by the film's distributors, Sony."There is tremendous excitement, anticipation and awareness for the film and we thank the local authorities for quickly resolving this issue," the statement reads.Django Unchained has to-date taken US$420 million at the global box office, making it the most commercially successful film of Tarantino's career, and was originally set for release on 11 April. Around a minute of footage was trimmed and blood splatters and colouring were dialled down by Sony in order to get a green light from SARFT, China's stringent censorship body.  That all changed, however, when the film was unceremoniously pulled from screens around the country just...

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Rooftop Films Series Unveils Impressive Summer Lineup

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Somewhere between a festival and an art house movie theater, Rooftop Films today unveiled its impressive summer lineup bringing some of the very best of indie cinema to a variety of outdoor locations around New York City. The program reads like a best of the best from Sundance and SXSW, including a sneak preview screening of Destin Cretton's SXSW winning Short Term 12 which Cinedigm nabbed at the Austin fest. Other notable titles include Joe Swanberg's upcoming Magnolia release Drinking Buddies (our review), CBS's Jordan Vogt-Roberts hit Kings of Summer (our review) and Oscilloscope's Baltimore bike gang docu 12 O'Clock Boys, directed by Lotfy Nathan. IFC Films has a predictably strong presence at the film series with David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints (that...

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Fresh Poster For Unforgettable Festival Favorite A BAND CALLED DEATH Tells The Truth

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 01:00 PM PDT

This year's SXSW had an amazing wealth of fantastic documentaries, three of which (Unhung Hero, I Am Divine, and Rewind This!) I reviewed back in March. One that I didn't review but managed to catch on my last day in Austin was A Band Called Death, an amazing documentary charting the history and rise from obscurity of early '70s proto punk band Death. The film is an emotionally involving and heart-breaking/swelling piece of forgotten history that nearly had me in tears, and if it doesn't affect you the same way, you're probably dead on the inside.On May 24th Drafthouse Films will release A Band Called Death on VOD in the US followed closely on June 28th by limited theatrical engagements starting in the band's hometown...

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Hugo Weaving Stars In Leigh Whannel's THE MULE

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Yeah, let Luc Besson have his drug mule movie. No problem. But the one I really want to see is The Mule, an upcoming Australian effort from the producer of Chopper with first timer Tony Mahony directing from a script by Leigh Whannel and Angus Sampson. Whannel you know from his collaborations with James Wan on Saw and Insidious, while Sampson is best known as an actor (Insidious, 100 Bloody Acres) and is also wearing a few other hats in this one.But while Sampson may very well end up with an acting part in this one it most certainly will not be as the lead, a part which Deadline reports has just gone to Hugo Weaving, who is typically excellent in these sorts of murky...

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Oh, No! AVALANCHE SHARKS!

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Yes, this is real.Spring break in the mountains: snowboarding, beer, drunken co-eds in bikinis.  As the yearly Bikini Ski Day party descends on a small mountain town, something lurks beneath the snow.  When an unwitting rider causes an avalanche, it awakens a huge, menacing, pre-historic Snow Shark! With a newfound taste for human flesh, the Snow Shark picks off the snow bunnies mercilessly.  Cut off from help by mountainous terrain and blidning snow, the local sheriff must make an unlikely alliance with a motley crew of snowboarders to take down the Snow Shark before the white hills run red with blood!Scott Wheeler directs....

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Scarlett Johansson Leads Besson's LUCY

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 09:45 AM PDT

Having now apparently wrapped up his 'serious' phase in which he pretended to be interested in things other than girls with guns, Luc Besson is getting back to his roots. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that having now wrapped Malavita Besson's next project will be action-thriller Lucy, which he both wrote and will direct. Scarlett Johansson has signed on for the lead role in which she will play a drug mule essentially turned into a superhero when the drug she is transporting leeches into her bloodstream giving her the power to absorb information instantly, block pain, move objects with her mind and, golly, this sounds kind of stupid. Anybody else pine for the days when Besson made movies like Leon, which had kick ass action...

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Jarmusch's ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE Added To Cannes Competition

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Only Lovers Left Alive - the Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston starring vampire picture from inconoclastic indie director Jim Jarmusch - has been announced as a late addition to the competition lineup at the Cannes Film Festival. Jarmusch was last in the Cannes competition lineup with Broken Flowers in 2005.Also added are Claude Lanzmann's Le Dernier des Injustes in a non-competition slot while Hiner Saleem's My Sweet Pepperland, Katrin Gebbe's Tore Tanzt and Lucia Puenzo's Wakolda join Un Certain Regard....

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Hot Docs 2013 Review: WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL Subverts the Expected TEDtalk Narrative

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 09:00 AM PDT

What exactly is William and The Windmill about?  Is it the story of a resourceful and ingenious young Malawi boy who builds a windmill from available detritus using diagrams in a book so his parents have a way to power their water pump during a particularly nasty African drought?  Or is it the story of affluent white philanthropists (Including Amazon founder, Jeff Bezo's parents Jacklyn and Mike) who are caught up in their own benevolent idealism?  If you go and watch the second of  William Kamkwamba's Technology Entertainment Design (TED) talks - the first one is featured in the film, but at age 17 he is more deer in headlights than anything else - he comments on that experience in retrospect something to the...

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Hot Docs 2013 Review: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF DORIS PAYNE is Glamorous and Mundane

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 08:00 AM PDT

It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to walk into a jewelry store and pull a pure short-con swindle. Doris Payne, now in her early eighties, remains as wiry and razor sharp as she ever was, pulling one jewel heist or another around the world as she has been for the past 60 years.  Delightfully no-tech, she uses sleight of hand, the expectations of the clerk and a chameleon ability to role-play - meaning she's a wonderful liar!  And there is something rather magnetic (on screen anyway about a magnificent liar.)  Payne has her own level of fame and notoriety in the criminal world, and even at her advanced age, is far from feeling too old to retire from her unusual lifestyle.  But the...

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NYIFF 2013 Preview: Bringing South Asia To NYC For The 13th Year

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Just as the door closes on the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, the 13th annual New York Indian Film Festival is nearly upon us (both closely followed by the London Indian Film Festival in a few weeks time). This year's festival, which begins on Tuesday, April 30, brings the traveling circus of highly acclaimed feature films and documentaries to the Big Apple from their pit stops elsewhere. I'm very excited to cover this festival because, frankly, it's the first Indian film festival in nearly a year where everything on the list is new to me. No archived reviews for this one, I'm going all in!That being said, there are certainly some films that are more interesting looking than others, so I'm going to give...

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