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UPDATE: DJANGO UNCHAINED Pulled off China Screens on Opening Day

UPDATE: DJANGO UNCHAINED Pulled off China Screens on Opening Day

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 01:25 AM PDT

UPDATED: FilmBiz Asia has just reported that screenings of Django Unchained were stopped today after just a minute or two, and the film has been pulled from release. Cinema chains have cited "technical reasons" for the halt to all screenings of the film. Previews had been held earlier this week, but today was the official release date. The Guardian, among others, is now suggesting that full frontal nudity from Jamie Foxx might be the reason for the halt. Surely, if Foxx was so "unchained", shouldn't the censors have noticed it ahead of Sony Pictures' lengthy advertising campaign?*****Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning homage to spaghetti westerns, Django Unchained, is to open wide across mainland China tomorrow (11 April), but will do so in a slightly different version to that which...

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Adventures in Classic Korean Cinema: THE BALL SHOT BY A MIDGET

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 01:00 AM PDT

Adventures in Classic Korean Cinema is a bi-weekly feature looking back at classic South Korean Cinema. Korean Cinema, especially when at its best, frequently explores pressing themes and social realities to thrilling effect. The deeper I delve into classic Korean Cinema, the clearer it becomes that this has always been the case. Throughout Korean film history, the only real difference is that the issues mined by filmmakers have changed over time. One such trait has been encroaching urbanization and among the best examples of its representation on screen is Lee Won-se's The Ball Shot by a Midget (1981). This trend can be seen in Korean films spanning a few decades starting in the 1960s, once the dust began to settle after the Korean War. In...

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Imagine 2013 Review: Anime Movie 009 RE: CYBORG 3D Dazzles And Baffles

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 09:00 PM PDT

(After seeing this film I am "Himmelhoch jauchzend, zum Tode betrübt"...) One of the great things about film festivals is that they allow people to see Japanese anime films in a cinema. Being able to do so is such a rarity in The Netherlands that I'm really grateful for festivals like Camera Japan (Rotterdam) and Imagine (Amsterdam) who make the effort to add several such titles to their catalogs. This year, Imagine managed to secure 009 Re: Cyborg 3D, a modern reworking of a famous manga from the 1960s, in which a group of nine cyborgs formed a team to protect the Earth from wars and (other) disasters. It is a title that has been on our radar for some time, ever since Ghost in...

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Dallas IFF 2013 Review: KON-TIKI Proves To Be Rewarding and Full of Lessons

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 04:00 PM PDT

If you take anything away from Kon-Tiki, it's how amazingly brave the pioneers of exploration were. The film revolves around a Norwegian man's obsession with proving that someone used a raft--not a sailboat or anything with the ability to steer--to drift from Peru to Polynesia across nearly 5,000 miles of open ocean. The idea that anyone would set out to sea on a raft made of balsa wood logs strung together with rope was a daunting task in 1947, let alone a thousand years before. Having his theory nearly laughed at by everyone he approached, Thor Heyerdahl (Pål Sverre Hagen) decided to show that he and five other crewmen could recreate the raft and their methodology to make the journey themselves. If that idea...

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The Director Of TAPED Returns With Another Taut Thriller In DAYLIGHT

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 03:00 PM PDT

While you may not recognize the name of Dutch director Diederik van Rooijen there's a very good chance that you're either familiar with his work already or will be very soon. You see, van Rooijen was the writer and director of Dutch television series Penoza, a series that has since been remade for US television as Red Widow. And last year he released taut thriller Taped, a feature film that also now has a US version in the works. So the man knows a thing or two about putting mass audiences onto the edges of their seats. And he's doing it again with Daylight.Young lawyer Iris discovers that she has an older, autistic half-brother Ray, who is in prison for the atrocious murder of his...

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70s Rewind: DEADHEAD MILES, A Trucker Comedy Written By Terrence Malick

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Lately, Terrence Malick has been dividing audiences with To the Wonder, another visual exercise on which he is said to have tossed the script, or most of it. (Our own Kurt Halfyward weighed in on the film when it screened at the Toronto fest last fall; it opens in limited release in the U.S. on April 12 and in Canada on April 19.) So what better way to consider how far he's come then by watching a movie made from one of his early scripts? After his film school days in the first class at AFI (his fellow students included David Lynch), Malick reportedly did a couple of days work on the script for Jack Nicholson's Drive, He Said and wrote an unused draft of...

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Now On Blu-ray: Violence! DRAGON, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, KILLING THEM SOFTLY

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Violence comes in many flavors, and over the last several weeks, some really solidly violent films have come to Blu-ray in the US. Here we take a quick look at these releases and whether or not they are worth your time.Dragon (Wu Xia)Peter Chan's Dragon, a wu xia detective story starring Kaneshiro Takeshi and Donnie Yen as hunter and hunted, comes to Blu-ray on April 16 from The Weinstein Company and AB/Starz. Normally any Asian film acquired by the Weinsteins is cause for concern when it comes to a domestic release, and unfortunately Dragon is no different. In its US version, Dragon is cut down to 98 minutes from its original length of 116, sadly, an expected move. It almost makes one appreciate the fact...

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NYC Happenings: The Middle Ages Come To Anthology Film Archives!

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Any New York reader will know that it's always a treat to visit the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village. Starting this Thursday, April 11th and running through June 9th, AFA has a good dozen plus films playing that'll you'll most certainly want to take note of. Peter Gutierrez chimes in on some of the selection for their Middle Ages On Film series, but before he gets going, let me flex my editorial powers a moment more and mention a film he did not see from the series: Marketa Lazarova. Deemed by many film critics and historians to be the best Czech film ever, Frantisek Vlácil's turbulent epic about a bloody feud between a Pagan family and a Christian one is, at the very...

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Hey, Canada! Win A Signed Copy Of The Enjoyably Ridiculous MANBORG!

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Hey, Canada! Steven Kostanski's cult hit Manborg hits DVD April 16th and Raven Banner and Anchor Bay want to give three signed copies away to lucky Twitch readers!Half-man, half-cyborg: Manborg. Killed while battling the forces of hell, a supersoldier is brought back from the dead in order to fight an army of Nazi vampires and demons led by the nefarious Count Draculon. Cue kung-fu killing, stop-motion monster battles, hoverbikes, robots, demons and a character named Doctor Scorpius.You want your chance to win? Simple enough. Just email me here and answer this simple question: Is there a heaven? Winners will be drawn at random....

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Review: IT'S A DISASTER Is A Hilarious Situational Comedy

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:30 AM PDT

I hesitate to write anything more than a vague review because this is the type of film that is best seen without knowing anything about it. It begins with Tracy (Julia Stiles), and Glenn (David Cross) arriving at Emma and Pete Mandrake's (Erinn Hayes and Blaise Miller, respectively) house for a couples' brunch. Tracy and Glenn have only recently started seeing each other, which is immediately apparent. However, the three other couples have been friends for a long time. This sets up a fantastic dynamic for both comedy and insightful character study. And, that's all I'm going to tell you about the story. This is a dramatic dark comedy. As mentioned in the interview I did with Todd Berger and David Cross (which you...

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Truly Haunting Trailer For Dutch Doc DEAD BODY WELCOME

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 09:00 AM PDT

When you deal with as much genre film as we do here at Twitch, you see a lot of death on screen. Or at least you pretend you do. Which is why, when you stumble across the real thing, it comes as a bit of an extra shock. You think you're familiar with it, after all, but you're not really. Which is what makes Kees Brienen's Dead Body Welcome so striking.A film about the real-life journey filmmaker Kees Brienen undertook to see the phenomenon of the total eclipse. Upon arrival in India he finds out his best friend Ritchy has passed away. The trip suddenly becomes a search for a dead body, and trying to understand and accept what had happened to him. Kees finds...

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Eureka Nabs UK Rights to Geoffrey Enthoven's COME AS YOU ARE

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 07:06 AM PDT

Eureka Entertainment announced today that they have picked up UK theatrical and DVD rights for Geofrrey Enthoven's award-winning Belgian tragi-comic road movie, Come As You Are (aka Hasta La Vista). The film tells the story of three handicapped Flemish lads (one blind, one wheelchair-bound, one completely paralysed) who take a road trip to Spain, on the pretence of a wine tour, in order to get laid. Recent years have seen numerous European films focusing on disabled protagonists overcoming their disabilities score big at the international box office, with Rust and Bone, The Intouchables and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly all proving notable crossover hits. Couple that with the perennially popular "horny guys on a road trip" scenario and we could be looking at the paralympic...

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