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Cannes 2013 Review: BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Plays A Familiar Tune

Cannes 2013 Review: BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Plays A Familiar Tune

Posted: 21 May 2013 03:24 AM PDT

It's become somewhat common for HBO to premiere their bigger movies at notable festivals and Cannes makes perfect sense for Steven Soderbergh's so-called final film, Behind the Candelabra. It also makes sense that the Matt Damon and Michael Douglas starrer will be making its stateside premier on HBO. The film is well-produced and well-acted, but at its heart, this is a TV movie. Adapted for the screen by Richard LaGravenese from the tell-all of the same name, Behind the Candelabra is the story of that book's author Scott Thorson (Damon). An animal trainer in 1970s Hollywood, Scott leaves his aspirations for veterinary school behind when he is seduced by the ridiculously famous and much older Liberace (Douglas) -- or as he prefers to be...

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Sydney Film Festival 2013 Preview: Documentaries

Posted: 20 May 2013 07:00 PM PDT

"In this age of digital video - in which there are cheap cameras, editing software, and funding to be had (if rarely big money to be earned) - the cool kids are making docs. The form is not just good for you these days. It's incredibly sexy." - David Edelstein, New York Magazine. I just love this quote. For me, the joy of watching documentaries comes not only from experiencing something interesting, challenging or thrilling, but also the knowledge that it will teach me something about the world that I live in. The Sydney Film Festival, which is due to start in just over a couple of weeks, has a strong tradition of featuring incredibly good documentaries, and the following are a few of my picks from...

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Melbourne Cinematheque May Round-up: Petri And Italia Scorned

Posted: 20 May 2013 06:00 PM PDT

Welcome back to my ongoing coverage of the Melbourne Cinematheque's fantastic program for 2013. I have made an executive decision that my singular reviews are much too insular and often miss the point of promoting the holistic concept of this seasonal schedule, so will instead be breaking down what you shouldn't miss out on and a brief tiding as to why. For the rest of May 22-29 is the excellence of the bizarre and thrilling Italian auteur Elio Petri: A filmmaker above suspicion.About the Auteur:Elio Petri (1929-1982) was one the most uncompromising and eclectic of political filmmakers. His often underrated, incendiary, satiric work exposed the moral complacency and corruption of postwar Italian politics and religion. He was awarded with a (non-collected) 1970 Best Foreign Language Film...

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Park's SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE Remake Moving Ahead

Posted: 20 May 2013 04:30 PM PDT

It was really only a matter of time before the first chapter in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, was optioned. Again. With the Oldboy remake by Spike Lee on the way this Fall and plans for Sympathy For Lady Vengeance somewhere out there in the production ether it is no small wonder that it took this long for someone to pick up where Warner Bros left off. A partnership between Silver Reel and Lotus Entertainment has picked up the remake. They will be working with CJ Entertainment and Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura.There was a script written by Broken City screenwriter Brian Tucker back in 2010. No word yet on a director or casting. If the producers are moving ahead with Tucker's script we...

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WE ARE WHAT WE ARE Director Jim Mickle Adapting Joe R. Lansdale's COLD IN JULY

Posted: 20 May 2013 04:15 PM PDT

Financing has come through and Jim Mickle, writer and director of Mulberry Street, Stakeland and We Are What We Are, and frequent collaborator Nick Damici can continue adapting Joe R. Lansdale's Cold In July for the big screen. This is their fourth  silver screen collaboration together and will be produced by Belladonna Productions who produced their previous three films. I for one, am an enormous fan of Lansdale's Hap and Leonard novels and will have to extend my reading into the rest of his canon now. Read the plot details below to get an idea of how crazy good this is going to be...Richard Dane shoots and kills an armed burglar in his living room. It's a clear-cut case of self defense to everyone but the burglar's...

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Clive Owen, Mila Kunis And Billy Crudup In First Trailer For Guillaume Canet's BLOOD TIES

Posted: 20 May 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Fresh from its premiere in Cannes, the first trailer has arrived for Blood Ties. The first English language offering from acclaimed French director Guillaume Canet, Blood Ties stars Clive Owen, Mila Kunis, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana, James Caan and Matthias Schoenaerts in a crime drama very much calling back the style of the 1970s. Our own Ryland Aldrich reviewed the Cannes selected film earlier today and the first trailer has arrived on the scene as well. Check it out below....

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First Poster Released For IRON SKY: THE COMING RACE

Posted: 20 May 2013 01:00 PM PDT

The Moon Nazis aren't done yet, apparently, as a sequel has been announced for Finnish scifi comedy Iron Sky. Titled Iron Sky: The Coming Race, and director Timo Vuorensola promises that the tone of this one will be "dark, crazier and more epic."Crowd funding will once again be a key element of the financing of the film with the first campaign already up and running here and the first poster has been freshly released. Click on the image in the gallery below for a larger version....

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CINEMA HOLOCAUST ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA, PART 2: WHO NEEDS A GUN OR A BOMB WHEN YOU HAVE BURUNDANGA?

Posted: 20 May 2013 12:00 PM PDT

MIKE"S JOURNAL MAY 15th:  AFTERNOONI wake up in my hotel room in a daze. I'm still jet lagged from the flight yesterday. The bottle of wine I downed on my own last night isn't helping either. But I'm pleasantly surprised to find that I've pitched a tent pole under my bed sheets. I haven't had morning wood in months. I must have been dreaming about something good. If only I could remember what it was. There's not much that gets me off anymore. Everything has become so dull that it's hard to get excited.God that was an awful pun. I get myself to the bathroom and decide to enjoy the erection while I still have a chance. I think about my wife, Cheryl at the...

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Cannes 2013 Review: Takashi Miike's SHIELD OF STRAW Gets Middling Results From High Concept

Posted: 20 May 2013 11:30 AM PDT

There are so many ways in which Takashi Miike's Shield of Straw falls short of being the knockout that it could have been, it's hard to know where to start. The script alone could easily inspire a novella detailing all of the plot holes, gaps in logic and insanely repetitive exposition. Miike seems, as usual, indifferent to these types of elements, but the real shame is that the man responsible for some of the smartest, most insane, exuberant, boundary-pushing Japanese movies of the past decade has brought the story to life with such flat, joyless direction. And yet, it really could have been a knockout. Not only does the concept have potential to yield a truly awesome action/thriller, but a number of ideas that the...

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Review: GAME OF THRONES S3E08, SECOND SONS (Or, Sam Gets To Be A Hero But Mostly By Accident And Only For A Couple Seconds)

Posted: 20 May 2013 10:30 AM PDT

A question for those who - like me - have been watching Game Of Thrones very closely. Who does Season Three belong to? Whose story is driving the narrative? Because, frankly, I don't know and not being able to answer such a fundamental question is becoming an issue as we draw nearer to the end of the season. Series one clearly belonged to Ned Stark. Series two? That belonged to Tyrion Lannister. But series three? Well, the Stark children have all become completely passive. Tyrion's back on his heels. I honestly have no idea why we've given as much time to Theon as we have. The sweeping, epic final shot of Season Two has not been addressed AT ALL - That army of undead just...

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Review: KIDS ON THE SLOPE is a Jazzy Coming-of-age Tale from COWBOY BEBOP'S Director

Posted: 20 May 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Watching Watanabe Shinichiro's Kids on the Slope having already seen his previous works Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo feels very much like watching Hosoda Mamoru's Wolf Children after seeing The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars. It feels less exhilarating, but is equally as enjoyable and more emotionally powerful.Watanabe is well known in both Japan and the rest of the world as the man who created the space bounty hunter anime series Cowboy Bebop. He has built the reputation of having the skills to work outside some well-established boundaries and conventions of anime and the ability to bend genres in ways that most directors would find hard to pull off. Kids on the Slope, however, is different. Neither revolutionary nor groundbreaking, it is...

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More Is Not Always Better. Extended EMPIRES OF THE DEEP Trailer Every Bit As Laughable As The First.

Posted: 20 May 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Oh, golly. After keeping an eye on Chinese financed vanity project Empires Of The Deep for years - it first crossed our desks in 2009 - Twitch ran the first trailer for the film back in October of 2012. And it was horrible. Horrible in a special way that very few things in this world will ever be. And now there's a second, longer trailer which is every bit as bad except now there's more of it. As a precursor, here's what we wrote about it the first time:There are in this world certain films that seemed destined to achieve not fame but notoriety through failure on a spectacular scale. Chinese-American co-production Empires Of The Deep has long appeared likely to be one of those...

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Cannes 2013 Review: BLOOD TIES Knots Up 1970s New York

Posted: 20 May 2013 09:00 AM PDT

To call Guillaume Canet's Blood Ties a love letter to the 1970s is a bit of an understatement. The Clive Owen, Billy Crudup brothers-on-opposite-sides-of-the-law drama absolutely oozes with 1970s nostalgia from its impeccable costume and production design to its almost fetishistic use of 1970s music. Even the story is a throwback to the some of the great crime films of the era (not to mention the choice to cast James Caan). While it doesn't quite get every beat right, strong performances and a satisfying plot make it a memory trip worth taking. Frank (Crudup) has always had a contentious relationship with his older brother Chris (Owen), though as much as he hates to admit it, his decision to become a cop wasn't enough to stop...

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Twitchvision: Talking STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, MUD and THE ICEMAN

Posted: 20 May 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Another Twitchvision chat with Scott Laurie, this time me gushing about J.J.'s latest Star Trek film, which I unabashedly loved.Also talked about he fabbo Mud, and the less fabbo The Iceman, both with Michael Shannon doing his thing.Video embedded below.Update: Was asked to come in today and pick a few of my most anticipated Summer films, as well as a general chat about the Cannes film festival. Second video embedded below!...

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