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SNOWTOWN's Justin Kurzel to Direct Michael Fassbender in MACBETH

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SNOWTOWN's Justin Kurzel to Direct Michael Fassbender in MACBETH

SNOWTOWN's Justin Kurzel to Direct Michael Fassbender in MACBETH

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 03:45 AM PDT

Back in 2006 the director of Romper Stomper, Geoffrey Wright, directed a rising Sam Worthington in a contemporary retelling of Macbeth set in the ganglands of Melbourne. It was an interesting if flawed adaptation, certainly made more compelling by a director who had already made his name with violent brush strokes on screen.Now it seems that the producers at See Saw, who were behind Oscar winner The King's Speech, Shame and Jane Campion's new miniseries Top of the Lake, have a similar idea. They have chosen Snowtown director Justin Kurzel to direct a new telling of the Shakespeare play, and attached old mate Michael Fassbender as the titular lead.According to Screen Daily, the script (penned by Todd Louiso and Jacob Koskoff) is understood to be...

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Korean Box Office: IRON MAN 3 Has Gargantuan Debut

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:00 PM PDT

There was only one game in town this weekend as the blockbuster Iron Man 3 almost set a new opening weekend record (currently held by Transformers 2). It was slim pickings for everything else. Total business powered to 2.63 million (up from 2.09 in 2012) and the local market was all but non-existent, failing to reach 10%, a lot lower than the 27% recorded last year when The Avengers opened. Title Release Date Market Share Weekend Total Screens 1 Iron Man 3 (us) 13/04/25 83.80% 2,202,252 2,625,465 1380 2 Fists of Legend 13/04/10 5.00% 143,754 1,543,066 426 3 Oblivion 13/04/11 2.60% 143,619 1,416,408 327 4 Crayon Shin-Chan (jp) 13/04/25 2.20% 80,337 78,692 290 5 Running Man 13/04/04 1.20% 79,218 1,377,261 230 6 Pinocchio (it/mx/sp/lx/bl) 13/04/25 1.00% 47,169...

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Jeonju 2013 Review: Mystery Abounds in the Divisive LEBANON EMOTION

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 09:00 PM PDT

In the world of cinema, things aren't always as they seem. A film presents itself to us in a certain way, its details on screen carefully selected by its director. The new Korean film Lebanon Emotion takes a risky approach with its narrative. It puts forward two main characters, immediately giving us a few details concerning their recent past. Beyond this, however, their backstories remain clouded and it becomes clear early on that the story may be largely allegorical. Mystery and surprise are among the most potent elements of any narrative, but too much (or too early) and they can have an adverse effect. Following the one-year anniversary of his mother's death, for which he blames himself, a man decides to spend some time at...

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Hey Australia! Win The Original Homeland With PRISONERS OF WAR Series One!

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 08:30 PM PDT

Thanks to Madman Entertainment, Twitch has 5 copies of series one of the Israeli drama that inspired Showtime's mega hit Homeland.Prisoners of War begins with the return of three soldiers who had been in captivity for 17 years. Two of them come back alive; one returns in a coffin. During their long years of absence there was no information as to their whereabouts and little is known about what they've been through. The series follows the two (and the people closest to them) as they attempt to go back to the lives they were yanked out of years ago. We follow them as they cope with their new reality on both a private and national level. A psychological thriller that will leave you wondering who the...

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Dallas IFF 2013 Review: A COMPANY MAN Is A Bittersweet Life In A Wanted World

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 08:00 PM PDT

You know what, I'm not even sure that I still get excited about the appearance of new Korean revenge thrillers anymore. It seems as though that's all that anyone is interested in now. Sure, very few national cinemas have managed to hone the revenge thriller to quite the same fine point as South Korea, but when do we reach the point of diminishing returns? Did we race past that threshold at light speed without even realizing it? It's hard to tell which way is up anymore in this game. At this point, the problem for me is that so many of these films are just really fucking good, thereby making me question my own exhaustion. A Company Man is just such a film. A tightly...

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Hot Docs 2013 Review: TALES FROM THE ORGAN TRADE Is Wonderfully Nuanced

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Far too often "issue" films play out as mere polemics, dogmatically reemphasizing a given point of view to a receptive audience. I often find these type of films dreary and intellectually barren, a lazy form of near propaganda that does little to engage with the subject matter at hand.There are those films, however, that manage with the constraints of a theatrical running time to genuinely shed some fractive light on a subject, illuminating not just the obvious, but the various shades of colour that a given subject represents. Ric Esther Bienstock has crafted such a rare gem of a film.Narrated by David Cronenberg in delightfully laconic drawl, this documentary tells of the the many sides of the Organ Trafficking debate. We travel to the slums...

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Hot Docs 2013 Interview: TALES FROM THE ORGAN TRADE Director Ric Esther Bienstock

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Ric Esther Bienstock's documentary about human organ trafficking is both beautifully made and refreshingly sophisticated. I spoke with the Emmy Award winning director as her film is set to make its local debut at Toronto's Hot Docs festival.What I adored about your film was the whole notion that it opened up questions for debate without ever coming across as polemical.  How important that was to you when you tackled a subject matter like this? Well, it was imperative.  I mean, you nailed it - I started out thinking it was going to be a very black and white issue and issue, the story of exploitation, a story that we kind of read in the media and that we've seen before in other films. As...

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Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - April (Part 2)

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Continued from hereOn the Waterfront (dir. Elia Kazan, 1954 USA)Winner of 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay, winner of 4 Golden Globes, including Best Picture - Drama and Best Actor - DramaJ Hurtado, Contributing Writer: All I knew about Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront going in was that it was the source of the "I coulda been a contender" speech that Jake La Motta performs in Raging Bull. I knew that Marlon Brando played a former boxer, and that he had fallen from grace for one reason or another. What I was not prepared for was the gut-punch I got from a story so typical of '50s cinematic rebels. The dismantling of the American Dream and disintegration of the...

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