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Tribeca 2013 Review: MCCONKEY Does Full Justice to the Legendary Skier

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Tribeca 2013 Review: MCCONKEY Does Full Justice to the Legendary Skier

Tribeca 2013 Review: MCCONKEY Does Full Justice to the Legendary Skier

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 02:30 AM PDT

While Shane McConkey may not quite be a household name, for fans of action sports, the name McConkey will forever be synonymous with extreme. From helping to launch the freeskiing movement to pioneering ski BASE jumping (that's skiing off a cliff and parachuting down), McConkey pushed the limits of human athleticism to his very last breath. While the tragedy that unfolded on an Italian mountain in 2009 may have been the inevitable conclusion for a man who lived to cheat death, it's the story of his life that keeps the viewer enthralled throughout the film that bears his name. McConkey is a fascinating look at a way of life that so many only dream of -- and a beautiful portrait of one totally radical...

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Tribeca 2013 Review: FLEX IS KINGS Liberates And Enchants

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 08:30 PM PDT

Those addicted to documentaries will immediately recall David LaChappelle's 2005 film Rize once they've read the plot summary of Deidre Schoo and Michael Beach Nichols' fascinating Flex is Kings. The two films are certainly not dissimilar, but in the end, Flex is Kings, much like the art form it inspects and celebrates, is a story about unique individuals and the lives they lead. This riveting non-fiction feature is as much a meditation on beauty, art, and the courage it takes to be unique as it is a showcasing of a (relatively) new and relentlessly entertaining form of street dance. Flex, in contrast to Rize's Clowning and Krumping, is a less high-octane blast of aggressive energy and eye-popping physicality than it is a fluid and lyrical...

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Tribeca 2013: Short Film Round-Up Part 1

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 06:00 PM PDT

There are plenty of features to catch during this year's Tribeca Film Festival. There are also just as many shorts. For those of you in town who can't quite decide which short film blocks to catch, and for those of you that want to know what's up in the world of the short film right now, Twitch is here to help. Today John Jarzemsky and I will be taking a look at how two of this year's shorts programs fared. In the coming days I'll be going in all by my lonesome and covering a dozen or so more shorts, but first, John vs. the Apocalypse! (or something like it)(Still from Epilogue)It seems like a cop-out to begin this review with something akin to the...

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Sly Stallone Approves Aussie Director Patrick Hughes For EXPENDABLES 3

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 05:30 PM PDT

Sylvester Stallone has chosen Australian director Patrick Hughes to direct Expendables 3. Hughes burst onto the action-directing scene with his debut feature, neo-western Red Hill, which stormed around film festivals, landed with Sony Pictures in Australia and proved a powerful calling card in Hollywood. Now he has the chance to flex his real powers, honed working as a very busy commercials director, with the third installment in Stallone's steroid-powered franchise. Expendables 3 is expected to welcome back the majority of its action stars, including Jason Statham and Dolph Lundgren, as well as adding Wesley Snipes.Hughes doesn't have the gig officially as yet, with the Millennium suits needing to approve Stallone's choice. However the way this story has been reported in the trades suggests it's pretty much...

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Steve Coogan Shows Off The Bachelor Pad In New THE LOOK OF LOVE Clip

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Steve Coogan reteams with director Michael Winterbottom - director of 24 Hour Party People, The Trip, A Cock And Bull Story, etc - for the upcoming The Look Of Love, a biopic of British pornographer Paul Raymond.After starting his show business career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain's richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial eye and a realisation that sex sells, he began building his empire of gentleman's clubs, porn magazines and nude theatre - provoking outrage and titillation in equal measure. Raymond's personal life was as colourful as his revue shows. His marriage to Jean, a nude dancer and choreographer, ended in a difficult divorce when he met Fiona - a glamour...

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Udine 2013 Review: Drug Smuggling Begets Strange Relationships in LETHAL HOSTAGE

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 01:00 PM PDT

The stylish Chinese crime drama Lethal Hostage raises a number of intriguing questions about loyalty, escaping the past, and the human capacity for cruelty and love. Unfortunately, its plot points raise just as many questions about plausibility and motivation, resulting in a film that works well as a character study, but not so much within the violent criminal genre.The film unfolds in non-linear structure, but it's more in the vein of a novel (complete with chapter titles) than a hyper-kinetic Pulp Fiction rip-off. It involves a number of characters, but the most thematically relevant is a drug smuggler who operates between Myanmar and China. During a drug deal gone bad, he panics and kidnaps a ten-year-old girl whose father is in turn wrongly accused and...

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Japanese Trailer For THE WOLVERINE Comes With Added Ninja Action

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 12:20 PM PDT

The James Mangold directed The Wolverine hits US screens in July with international rollouts to follow with observers curious to see if Mangold can shake the faint odor of failure attached to the generally hated X-Men: The Last Stand and generally shrugged off X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Despite being one of the most popular characters in the Marvel canon it seems likely that if this effort fails to light up the box office we could see everyone's favorite mutant either mothballed or re-booted. So there's a little bit riding on the film.Which may, perhaps, be one of the motivating factors in tackling one of the character's popular Japanese storylines with this latest outing. It engages the hardcore fanbase, for one thing, while providing some distance from...

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Udine 2013 Review: THE LAST SUPPER Filters Bloody Power Struggles of Ancient China Through A Fragmented Mind

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Lu Chuan's retelling of Liu Bang's rise to power in ancient China is filled with so much backstabbing, manipulation and fatal ambition, Shakespeare himself probably would have written it had he read up more on Chinese history. However, he certainly wouldn't have told it the Chuan does. Rather than presenting the story directly like a classical tragedy, The Last Supper unfolds through the scattered memories and ramblings of Liu on his death bed, as reflects back on the events that led him from the peasant ranks to the position of a powerful Lord. In theory at least, this style has the potential to give the epic story a more intimate dimension, emphasize the emotional consequences of major historical events and even explore the nature of...

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Interview: MOLLY MAXWELL Director Sara St. Onge

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Here at Twitch I've had the opportunity to do a number of long form interviews with the likes of Guillermo Del Toro and Bill Paxton, well established filmmakers that when given the opportunity to properly express themselves outside of simple soundbytes have fascinating things to say about cinema. I thought I'd try something of similar scope with a filmmaker unfamiliar to most. I sat down with director Sara St. Onge over hot drinks to chat at length about her first feature, Molly Maxwell. The film is charming, provocative, and quite well done, a far cry from the glossiness of High School films that traditional Hollywood spits out. At its core is the story of a young girl who falls for one of her teachers,...

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US Trailer For THE GRANDMASTER Confirms That The Weinsteins Think All Americans Are Stupid Meatheads

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 07:40 AM PDT

Hands up everyone out there who has ever seen a film by Wong Kar Wai. Yep, that's a pretty decent number. Okay, now. Hands up everybody who's ever even read anything about any film by Wong Kar Wai. That's even more of you. Anyone who's read anything about his Tony Leung starring Ip Man biopic The Grandmaster? Yep, yep. I see you. Okay, now hands up everyone expecting that The Grandmaster is going to be a testosterone fueled beat down. Anyone? Anyone at all? Because that's what The Weinstein Company is trying to sell with its new US trailer for the film. Uh huh. Doesn't matter at all that it's a total lie, apparently, because once anybody who walked in without prior knowledge of WKW and...

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Hammer Time! Watch The Trailer For THOR: THE DARK WORLD

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 07:30 AM PDT

Well, it's got a hammer, a spinning disc of doom, Anthony Hopkins monologuing and an unlikely team up. That's what we now know about Thor: The Dark World, courtesy of the freshly released first trailer. There's very little about the villain - only that he's from 'the dark' - with the focus here clearly on reintroducing the familiar characters rather than bringing in much of anything fresh from the larger cosmology.Check the trailer below!...

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Cannes 2013 Director's Fortnight Includes Films By Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jim Mickle, Anurag Kashyap

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 06:30 AM PDT

Time will tell, but as of now, The Cannes Director's Fortnight program this year looks like a more well-rounded, eccentric group of films than the competition. It's a lineup where, for example, Jim Mickle's Sundance selected cannibalism tale We Are What We Are plays alongside the latest from The Sorrow and the Pity director Marcel Ophuls. It also ranges from old masters like Alejandro Jordorowsky, presenting his new autobiographical film, The Dance of Reality to new genre filmmakers like Jeremy Saulnier (Murder Party) who is showing Blue Ruin. It also includes a number of Fortnight alumni, notably Gangs of Wasseypur director Anurag Kashyap, who will premiere his new film Ugly, a thriller set in Mumbai. Here is the full lineup:Features The Congress, dir: Ari Folman...

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