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Watch a Clip from Shindo Kaneto's THE NAKED ISLAND

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Watch a Clip from Shindo Kaneto's THE NAKED ISLAND

Watch a Clip from Shindo Kaneto's THE NAKED ISLAND

Posted: 27 May 2013 02:00 AM PDT

Japanese director Shindo Kaneto, who passed away last year aged 100, is probably best known for his fantastic horror films, Onibaba and Kuroneko, both of which are already in Eureka Entertainment's Masters of Cinema series. On 17 June they will be joined by Shindo's earlier film, The Naked Island, in a newly restored Blu-ray release, packed with special features, including a feature-length commentary from the director and composer Hayashi Hikaru and an introduction from director and cineaste Alex Cox.The Naked Island was a noted change of pace for Shindo, shot for a fraction of his normal budget with a skeleton crew on the remote Setonaikai archipelago. Eureka's release marks the first time that the film has been released on Blu-ray in the UK, and have released the following clip to...

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Second Trailer For Swedish Indie Thriller I AM MY OWN

Posted: 26 May 2013 09:00 PM PDT

We have been alerted of a second trailer for upcoming Swedish indie thriller I Am My Own from writer/director Johan Bergqvist. An unscrupulous drug dealer without conscience is drifting through the Swedish countryside. When he one day is cornered and forced to run from the law he comes across a baby and decides to use it as a cover to get away.However he soon realizes that a baby is harder to take care of than he thought, especially when you are on the run. The time he spends taking care of her teaches him for the first time what it means to be responsible for another human being. In the end, he must choose whether to go back to his old life, or live up to...

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Watch The US Trailer For Documentary THE ACT OF KILLING

Posted: 26 May 2013 08:30 PM PDT

As our friends at Drafthouse Films continue to diversify their slate of film acquisitions, Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary The Act of Killing will begin a limited theatrical run on July 19th in New York. It will then go on a later Summer tour across the rest of the States. In this chilling and inventive documentary, executive produced by Errol Morris (The Fog of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), the filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit....

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Cannes 2013 Review: BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR Does Coming-Of-Age With Phenomenal NSFW Aplomb

Posted: 26 May 2013 05:41 PM PDT

There is a stereotype that used to exist in America that European (and especially French) films were all full of gratuitous sex. Back before the internet, VHS tapes, and days of easy access pornography, young boys would sneak into art house cinemas to get a look at those lovely bare bodies from across the Atlantic. Whether any of this is accurate, the stereotype made its cultural impact and somehow extremely graphic sex scenes in French films are greeted with slightly less shock by the typically more puritanical American public. Well, dust off those old theater blueprints, boys and girls, Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is The Warmest Color (aka La Vie D'Adele) is one of the most shockingly explicit features to cross the pond in quite...

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Cannes 2013: BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR is This Year's Palme d'Or Winner; INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Snags Grand Prix; Plus All Winners Listed

Posted: 26 May 2013 03:26 PM PDT

It's a remarkable year at Cannes when one film doesn't run away as the favorite for top prize of the Palme d'Or. That's exactly what happened this year with four or five films all with good odds going into today's voting. When it was all said and done, late favorite Blue is the Warmest Color (aka La Vie D'Adele) was left to reap the golden spoils. Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and starring Adele Exarchopoulos in a moving and strikingly explicit role, the film earned plenty of buzz for its graphic sex scenes between Exarchopoulos and co-star Lea Seydoux and its longest-of-competition 3-hour runtime. Nevermind the fuss, this is a devastatingly emotional love story that is nothing if not worthy of the extra patronage the...

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Blu-ray Review: MAWARU PENGUINDRUM Will Make You Dance To Its Beat!

Posted: 26 May 2013 12:00 PM PDT

(Insert Linux joke here...) Recently I lamented the general lack of originality in anime. Next thing I know, this series was dropped in my lap, making me eat my words. For Mawaru Penguindrum is not just original, it's beyond batshit crazy. At the same time, it has a strong and gripping narrative, with characters you despise, yet root for. And the insanity turns out to have an intriguing structure to it. Think of a very quirky and weird version of Thai thriller 13 Beloved, and you are not a million miles off the mark. Last month Siren Visual released the first half of this series on Blu-ray for Australia and New Zealand. Time to review it! The Story: Shoma and Kanba are teenage twin brothers...

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Full Disclosure: Twitch's List of Shame - May (Part 2)

Posted: 26 May 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Continued from hereRudy (dir. David Anspaugh, 1993 USA)Charles Webb, Contributing Writer:About halfway through the sports drama Rudy, at about the point where Sean Astin's would-be Notre Dame player Rudy Ruetigger starts reciting Ronald Reagan's "gipper" speech in full beneath an empty stadium, I started to wonder when he was finally going to snap and start taking out the Fighting Irish from a perch in a belltower. I say this because Rudy's is a largely delusional and slightly creepy vision of the world where if you just insist that you want a thing enough - despite a lack of discernible talent - they have to give you a chance.This hagiography of the real-life Ruetigger promises us that he busted his hump, going without sleep and overcoming...

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