Cannes 2013 Review: Asghar Farhadi's THE PAST Is An Intense, Mesmerizing Excavation Of Secrets And Lies |
- Cannes 2013 Review: Asghar Farhadi's THE PAST Is An Intense, Mesmerizing Excavation Of Secrets And Lies
- Indie Beat: Richard Linklater - Idolizing A Slacker
- DVD Review: THE CAPTURED BIRD Special Edition
- Korean Box Office: FURIOUS 6 First with Franchise Best Opening
- Interview: Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley
- Twitchvision: Talking FAST & FURIOUS 6 And Car Chase Movies
- The WASTELANDER PANDA Emerges With A Trio Of New Episodes
- Cannes 2013 Review: Jean-Luc Godard Does 3-D In THE THREE DISASTERS, And No, James Cameron Will Not Be Spared
| Posted: 28 May 2013 04:30 AM PDT  Those who saw Asghar Farhadi's previous film A Separation already know that though the Iranian filmmaker specializes in two-plus hour family dramas, his movies are as intense and absorbing as any thriller out there. Like the aforementioned film, The Past (Le Passé) is a gripping drama structured like a mystery, where a seemingly banal situation cracks and gives way to shattering revelations and emotions. Working in France instead of his native country for the first time, Farhadi not only uses his sure hand to show that envy, guilt and the consequences of our mistakes know no borders, but also that he is beginning to grow as a visual filmmaker. It's apparent from the first scene, when Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) flies into Charles de Gaule airport... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Indie Beat: Richard Linklater - Idolizing A Slacker Posted: 27 May 2013 05:00 PM PDT  A director like Richard Linklater and a film like Before Midnight will be about as high-profile as we're likely to get at Indie Beat. Over the twenty plus years of Linklater's career (another decade or so if you count his first steps in the 80s) this football player from Texas has traversed the line of the curious chameleon like few other American directors of his generation. You may know his work from the mainstream carpe diem-lite School Of Rock, the now seminal high school flick Dazed and Confused, the experimental animation Waking Life (a philosophical journey through dreams on into the unfathomable realms of reality itself and back again, which may, arguably be his most all-encompassing work, a bookmark for everything in his filmography that... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| DVD Review: THE CAPTURED BIRD Special Edition Posted: 27 May 2013 12:00 PM PDT  It's rare for a short film to get a commercial DVD release. Playing to accolades on the film circuit, and a certain amusement in the length of it's credit block (by my calculation nearly a 3rd of the films short run time), former Rue Morgue editor Jovanka Vuckovic's debut short film gets a fully loaded special edition DVD that acts as more as a film school than simply delivering the film itself. The Film: A tranquil, domesticated park, shows a couple caught up in their new infant, while their six year-old daughter (round-faced Skyler Wexler, clad in white satin and bows) draws pictures with chalk on the playground. The establishing shots are held just a fraction of a second longer than perhaps necessary, which is unsettling in... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Korean Box Office: FURIOUS 6 First with Franchise Best Opening Posted: 27 May 2013 11:00 AM PDT  Summer's heating with yet another Hollywood tentpole platforming. However, business dipped significantly to 1.83 million admissions, down from last year's 2.24 million. The local market share was also down to 30%. Title Release Date Market Share Weekend Total Screens 1 Furious 6 (us) 13/05/22 34.10% 625,056 817,741 656 2 Montage 13/05/16 23.60% 452,488 1,387,867 544 3 The Great Gatsby (us) 13/05/16 12.50% 232,693 1,047,453 427 4 Iron Man 3 (us) 13/04/25 11.20% 217,244 8,819,028 431 5 The Croods (us) 13/05/16 6.90% 140,022 556,854 492 6 Boomerang Family 13/05/09 2.70% 51,529 1,100,429 273 7 Star Trek: Into Darkness (us) 13/05/30 2.70% 48,527 64,304 283 8 Happiness for Sale 13/05/16 2.10% 44,722 302,282 235 9 Before Midnight (us) 13/05/22 2.40% 44,184 68,561 275 10 Born to Sing... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Interview: Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley Posted: 27 May 2013 09:00 AM PDT  The 60th Sydney Film Festival is opening next week, and I have had the opportunity to talk to the Festival Director, Mr Nashen Moodley. Twitch: Mr Moodley, congratulations on your second year acting as the Festival Director of the Sydney Film Festival, and thank you very much for chatting with Twitch. NM: Thanks a lot. It's a great pleasure to chat with you. Looking at the Sydney Film Festival's incredible line-up this year, I can see films that are crowd-pleasers and others that seem challenging or even perhaps confronting. As the Festival Director, how interested are you in the audience response, and what means do you have to help you gauge that?I'm extremely interested in the audience response! I don't expect or want everyone to love every film... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Twitchvision: Talking FAST & FURIOUS 6 And Car Chase Movies Posted: 27 May 2013 08:30 AM PDT  With this week's Twitchvision, host Scott Laurie and I talk about my marathon of the latest iteration of the Fast Furii franchise (review), a brief preview of Ron Howard's F1 film Rush, and some metal-crunching car chase films.Video embedded below.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| The WASTELANDER PANDA Emerges With A Trio Of New Episodes Posted: 27 May 2013 08:10 AM PDT  The post-apocalyptic panda returns with a trio of new episodes arriving online from Victoria Cocks' Wastelander Panda. A project that began as a joke during a university lecture, Wastelander Panda first emerged into the public eye with the release of a prologue video that garnered a huge response online. Word of mouth spread initially due to the bizarre concept - the wandering adventures of a panda bear warrior in a post apocalyptic landscape - but then grew exponentially once people realized this was actually really, really good.The project has expanded since, with the current goal being a full television series in an expansive world where, no, pandas with not be the only anthropomorphized animals roaming about. And that goal came a lot closer to fruition... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 27 May 2013 05:30 AM PDT  "The digital medium is a dictatorship," intones Jean-Luc Godard as images flash over text, which flashes over more images, ultimately demonstrating how, ironically, 3-D is actually the perfectly-suited to Godard's recent information-overload collage-style filmmaking. But just because the enfant-terrible-turned-bitter-recluse is going to use the technology doesn't mean he supports it. Perhaps I should back up. Godard made Three Disasters as part of a 3-D triptych called 3X3D, but as the other two shorts by Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra are more or less failed experiments at best, I'm going to focus solely on Godard's mind-blowing, twenty-minute contribution. The short is warm-up of sorts for his in-progress 3-D feature, Farewell to Language, a title which I'm honestly surprised he hasn't used for a film already. Several... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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