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Learning From The Masters Of Cinema: Shindo Kaneto's THE NAKED ISLAND

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Learning From The Masters Of Cinema: Shindo Kaneto's THE NAKED ISLAND

Learning From The Masters Of Cinema: Shindo Kaneto's THE NAKED ISLAND

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 03:00 AM PDT

In a career that spanned more than 60 years, Japanese auteur Shindo Kaneto directed more than 40 feature films and is credited with writing over 100 more. While he is probably best remembered for his visually arresting horror films Onibaba and Kuroneko, he was already an acknowledged cinematic voice on the world stage. After cutting his teeth as an apprentice to master filmmaker Mizoguchi Kenji, most notably on The 47 Ronin, Shindo directed his first film, the autobiographical Story of a Beloved Wife in 1951. It was here that he met and fell in love with actress Otowa Nobuko, whom Shindo proclaimed his muse. They would go on to work together many times, and Otowa played the lead in both Onibaba and Kuroneko. Before both...

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Review: BADGES OF FURY Is Barely A Jet Li Movie At All

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 11:53 PM PDT

Martial arts fans relishing the chance of seeing Jet Li square off against an assortment of villainous screen legends under Corey Yuen's action direction may well be left disappointed, as Badges of Fury really wants to be a goofy comedy vehicle for Wen Zhang and Michelle Chen. On paper, Badges of Fury seems to have all the ingredients of an old school Hong Kong action classic, with Jet Li playing the grizzled partner to Wen Zhang's rookie as they tear around Hong Kong on the trail of a prolific serial killer. The cast boasts a number of proven martial arts stars, including Wu Jing, Collin Chou and Bruce Leung, sharing the screen with a host of cameo appearances from hot young talent like Huang...

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Korean Box Office: WORLD WAR Z Scares Up Huge Opening

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 10:00 PM PDT

A blockbuster came in stronger than expected this weekend, lifting the box office to a powerful 2.35 million admissions over the frame, a 50% jump over last year. Meanwhile, the news was not so great on the domestic front, as the market share shot down from 64% to 23%, as new titles continue to flounder in the marketplace. Title Release Date Market Share Weekend Total Screens 1 World War Z (US) 13/06/20 55.60% 1,303,675 1,546,717 962 2 Secretly Greatly 13/06/05 20.30% 504,997 6,176,193 641 3 Man of Steel (US) 13/06/13 15.30% 347,276 1,899,613 610 4 The Call (US) 13/06/20 1.60% 37,775 51,246 240 5 The Great Bear (Dn) 13/06/20 1.20% 32,611 34,130 191 6 Doctor 13/06/20 1.40% 32,389 45,135 156 7 Star Trek: Into Darkness...

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Blu-ray Review: SKULL WORLD! Skullman Rocks Large on Blu-ray

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 07:30 PM PDT

Justin McConnell's documentary Skull World just came out on DVD and Blu-ray! I got my grubby hands on the Blu-ray and would like to share my thoughts with you about Justin's film. But first, a story... Back in high school I worked at a plant nursery. One day, a customer asked us what we were going to do with a plastic barrel we had set off to the side. He wanted to buy it off us because he said he would cut it up and make armour out of it. He belonged to a live action roleplaying club that staged mock medieval battles. That sounded cool as shit. But holy heck, these industrial strength plastic drums are not cheap. There had to be a cost effective...

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Dante Lam's UNBEATABLE Among Shanghai Fest Winners

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 07:30 PM PDT

Last night saw the close and awards ceremony of the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival, with three films sharing the eight major awards. Russian crime drama The Major was named Best Film, with its director Yury Bykov awarded the Best Director prize, as well as the Outstanding Artistic Achievement award for composing the film's score.Dante Lam's Unbeatable (previously known as MMA) bagged the Best Actor prize for Hong Kong actor Nick Cheung, whose incredible physical transformation has been widely reported in the local press, while 10-year-old Malaysian actress Crystal Lee was named Best Actress for her performance as Cheung's daughter.The other big winner of the night was Swedish drama Reliance, which picked up three awards: Special Jury Prize, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography....

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LA Film Fest 2013: CODE BLACK and MOTHER, I LOVE YOU Take Top Jury Prizes, All Awards Announced

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 04:30 PM PDT

LA Film Festival has just about wrapped up its 2013 edition with the festival closing screening of The Way, Way Back coming tonight. The awards were announced today and it was Janis Nords's Latvian drama Mother, I Love You that took home the festival's top narrative honor, winning the Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature. LA County ER doc Code Black, directed by Ryan McGarry took top jury prize in the documentary competition and the jury also gave a Best Performance in a Narrative Feature award to Geetanjali Thapa for her role in Kamar K.M's Mumbai-set drama I.D. You can see Alex Koehne's review of I.D. here. The audience prizes were also awarded today with the Best Narrative Feature award going to consummate crowd...

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LA Film Fest 2013 Review: WINTER IN THE BLOOD Captures The True Western Spirit

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 03:52 PM PDT

Winter in the Blood focuses on a young, alcoholic Blackfoot Indian somewhere in central Montana as he struggles to maintain his sanity while constantly reliving traumatic events from his past. While Chaske Spencer plays the part with an intense and distant inexpressive stare that seems appropriate for his character's implied PTSD, the real star of the show here is the vast, sun-kissed landscape of Montana. The background stretches out to fill the edges of every scene and shifts in the weather are big plot events. As characters ride horses through scrub brush fields and wrangle cattle in the rain, you get the feeling that the filmmakers (twin brothers Andrew and Alex Smith, directors of The Slaughter Rule) set out to celebrate this landscape, but the...

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TTTT: WORLD WAR Z As A Taut Thriller; THE BLING RING As The Right Movie At The Right Time

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 10:01 AM PDT

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Brad Pitt does not feel fine. He's separated from his idyllic family, mindless automatons are quickly devouring the known world, and he's sporting his worst haircut yet. But worse than any of that, his movie about all of that has gone wildly over budget and out of control, leading to a now-ingrained legacy of bad press. Indeed, it does seem like we've been hearing the horror stories of the trouble-filled making of World War Z since George Romero last made a zombie picture of his own. News of massive plot revisions, entire filmed sequences being excised, and all manner of inflated production woes have lent bloody credence to speculation that Pitt (who just previously...

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Scott Adkins Lays A Beating In New Shot From NINJA 2

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Scott Adkins reunites with director Isaac Florentine for the upcoming Ninja 2 and a new image released on Adkins' official Facebook page promises good things to come. Florentine ranks among the very best action directors working in the USA today and he's assembled quite a cast here with Adkins joined by Only God Forgives star Vithaya Pansringarm, Kosugi Kane, Tim Man and Patrick Kazu Tang. Check the image below and remember you can click to enlarge....

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Review: KUICHISAN Defies Categorization With Its Haunting, Hypnotic Images and Soundtrack

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Maiko Endo's remarkable debut feature Kuichisan is less a film in the conventional sense than a collection of very striking images with musical rhythms, befitting the director's background as a musician. This gives the film quite a hypnotic effect, and the rushing succession of images, and its very intuitive free form jazz-like approach to structure and filmmaking technique allows this piece to elide any sort of easy categorization. Kuichisan has elements of fiction, documentary, and experimental films, but it resists any sort of labels, and is its own very fascinating object.Kuichisan is set in the town of Koza in Okinawa, Japan, and its thin sliver of a narrative centers on two figures. The first is a ten year-old boy (Raizo Ishihara) who we first see...

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Check The First Stills And New Poster Art For Fabrice du Welz's COLT 45

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 08:20 AM PDT

[Post updated with an additional still and new poster art.]Vinyan and Calvaire director Fabrice du Welz is now in post production on his latest effort, Colt 45, and the first images has arrived online. Police armourer and firearms instructor Vincent Milès is a shooting ace. Only 25 years old, his prowess is the envy of the world's finest but, to the incomprehension of his colleagues, Vincent refuses to join the police action units. Trapped in a situation primed to blow sky high, Vincent is left with no choice but to embrace the darkness within him if he is to survive.HIS LIFE IS THROWN INTO CHAOS when he meets Milo Cardena, a corrupt cop who will drag him into a downward spiral of violence, placing Vincent...

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