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PiFan 2013 Reveals Treasure Trove of Fantastic Delights

PiFan 2013 Reveals Treasure Trove of Fantastic Delights

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 04:30 AM PDT

Here at Twitch, we're huge fans of the PiFan (Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival), the largest celebration of genre cinema in Asia. So we've been eager to discover the program of their 17th edition, taking place next month. The wait is over as PiFan revealed its packed lineup for 2013 earlier today during their launch press conference in Seoul. An eclectic mix of premieres, festival hits and retrospectives will be on offer this year from July 18-28. James Marsh and I, who will both be covering the fest on site, will preview the program in greater depth over the coming weeks, but let's quickly take a look at the broadstrokes: Next month, 230 films, including 135 features, 53 world premieres and 19 international premieres from...

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Kim Ki-duk Cuts 21 Scenes In Bid To Get MOEBIUS Past Censors

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 03:51 AM PDT

The latest work from South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk was effectively banned by the Korean Media Rating Board (KMRB) earlier this month, after it awarded Moebius a "restricted rating". Such a rating limits the film's release to "speciality theatres" rather than regular multiplexes, the problem being that no such venues currently exist in the country. Desperate to see the film secure a release, Kim has agonised over his final cut, desperate that the offending direct portrayals of incest remain, albeit in a manner that appeases the KMRB. In a letter from Kim that was released to the press today, he revealed that 21 separate scenes deemed "too problematic" have been removed or altered in order to get the film approved. Kim hopes that by doing this,...

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Interview: V/H/S/2 Cinematographer Abdul Dermawan Habir Talks SAFE HAVEN

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 09:30 PM PDT

With the release of  V/H/S/2 on VOD, I believe the film has gained the broader audience it deserves, and most who have already watched it will agree that Safe Haven, directed by Gareth Evans and Timo Tjahjanto, is the best segment, if not the only reason to watch V/H/S/2. I'm here in Indonesia and got the chance to sit down and talk a little bit about Safe Haven with its Director of Photography, Abdul Dermawan Habir, who goes by the nickname Gerry.TWITCH: So tell us how it feels working with directors Gareth Evans and Timo Tjahjanto? It's kinda hard to believe, cause the opportunity just came. Originally it was supposed to be Gunnar Nimpuno (DP of the Mo Brothers' upcoming Killers), but I don't know, it's...

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V/H/S/2 To Go Direct To DVD In Australia

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 09:03 PM PDT

Oh, the irony. Roadshow Films has confirmed that the much-anticipated sequel to last year's horror anthology V/H/S won't have an Australian theatrical release, and will instead go straight to DVD.While this is a great shame for genre fans who were anticipating seeing the film on the big screen, it's hardly a surprise - last year Roadshow famously slated Cabin in the Woods for a direct-to-DVD release until lobbying from fans ensured the film had a limited theatrical run.Maybe the same thing will happen in this case, although personally I'm hoping a savvy festival like MIFF or Monster Fest programs V/H/S/2 so we'll have a guaranteed way of seeing it on the big screen with a packed appreciative audience (yes I'm being selfish, choosing Melbourne festivals;...

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Korea's CJ Entertainment Teams With China for Epic Sci-Fi Fantasy THE FIST

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 08:30 PM PDT

In what is being described as the largest ever co-production between Korea and China, CJ Entertainment have announced plans to move ahead with their long-gestating sci-fi fantasy project The Fist, with Welcome to Dongmakgol's Park Kwang-hyun at the helm.Originally called Kwon Bob and set to go before cameras in 2011 with Jo In-sung (A Dirty Carnival) in the lead, a skittish CJ pulled the plug on the project following the disastrous performance of Sector 7 that summer. Park's project has been revived in the midst of the industry's current mini-boom and particularly following CJ's first major international success with their China-set romcom A Wedding Invitation, which scored over $30 million this Spring on the mainland alone.China Film Group and Pegasus & Taihe will kick in $20 million, which will...

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PROMETHEUS Sequel Set to Fly

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 08:15 PM PDT

I came out of World War Z, penned in part by Damon Lindeloff, to hear some interesting news - his name, it seems, isn't the one coming up as the obvious person to continue prebooting Ridley Scott's newest franchise.If Variety is to be believed, Prom2: The Prommening (Note: not the actual title) may be scripted by Jack Paglen, one of the credited writers on the 2014 Wally Pfister/Johnny Depp sci-fi-ish film Transcendence. It should be noted that the Variety article speaks of a Jack Palgen [sic], so for all we know this news is as accurate as their name fact-checking. It's not hard to see that Ridley wanted to run around in this new playground, given how he ended Prometheus, but it's not yet clear...

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Review: BREAKUP AT A WEDDING Succeeds On Its Modest Comic Charms

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 05:00 PM PDT

High concept comedies are often a tough nut to crack; by avoiding full-on broad laughs, the shifts in tone have to be deftly carried out in order to sustain interest. I was pleased enough with Breakup At A Wedding, pleased with its ambition, its execution, even its stylistic conceit. Not exactly high praise, perhaps, but I think the film achieves what it sets out to do, and does so admirably.I grant this kind of is like complimenting a bride on her wedding day for her frugality, but it's a funny little film to try and pin down. Ostensibly a movie-within-a-movie, we see the wedding video from hell, brought about when the bride gets cold feet but decides to carry out the wedding anyway, simply without...

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He's Like Dirty Harry, Only Hairier. Here Comes The WOLFCOP.

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Some things are just meant to be. And Lowell Dean's Wolfcop appears to be one of those things. Wolfcop has emerged victorious from Canadian 'film accelerator' project Cinecoup, which means the furry lawman takes home production financing and a guaranteed Canadian release once it's actually made.It's not unusual for alcoholic cop Lou Garou to black out and wake up in unfamiliar surroundings, but lately things have taken a strange turn. Crime scenes seem oddly familiar. Lou's senses are heightened, and when the full moon is out, he's a rage-fueled werewolf. WOLFCOP is one cop's quest to become a better man... One transformation at a time. The trailer for this one is an awful lot of fun and it's not hard to see why it generated...

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Fellini's Forgotten Pupil Augusto Tretti Has Passed Away

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT

"He disappeared in silence." Sadly this is how everyone is recalling Augusto Tretti's recent death. He died on the 7th of June, and while 10 days have gone by since he passed away, it still seems that in Italy nobody has noticed it.Maybe the failure to notice comes because he closed himself off in his house on Lake Garda for a long time. Tretti's life in movies ended prematurely in 1985, when he directed Mediatori e Carrozze thanks to his friend Ermanno Olmi, a short movie released on TV five years after his third and final feature, Alcool. Apparently no one cared for his body of work, an impressive trio produced over 20 years, acclaimed by a lot of filmmakers and a few critics."I give this...

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Two Gorgeous New Posters For LAFF Selected Doc TAPIA

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 11:00 AM PDT

A selection of the now-running Los Angeles Film Festival, Eddie Alcazar's Tapia has just released a pair of stellar new posters for the sports documentary.Albuquerque-born boxer Johnny Tapia's life was a maelstrom of turmoil. The glory of his punishing ring prowess and handful of world titles across three weight classes forever jockeyed with personal demons: his mother's kidnapping and murder when he was 8, drug addiction, mental illness and suicide attempts. Before the fighter's tragic death last year at the age of 45, director Eddie Alcazar spent time with Tapia researching a biopic. What would become his last interviews are now the beating heart of Alcazar's gripping, elegiac documentary. In it, the bedeviled, soft-spoken champion opens up about the severe ups and downs of a...

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Rocking Star Manchu Manoj Returns In POTUGADU Teaser!

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 10:30 AM PDT

I fucking love this guy!"Rocking Star" Manchu Manoj returns to the big screen after over a year off with Potugadu and I could not be more excited. You may not have any idea who Manchu Manoj is, and I wouldn't blame you for that. He's the son of a major film star in India, Mohan Babu, and only started getting really noticed last year with the releases of Mr. Nokia and Uu Kodathara? Ulikki Padathara? Unfortunately, if you want to know more about him it's difficult as neither of those films have home video releases yet, with or without subtitles (I know, I've been hunting for a year). However, I was able to catch UKUP in theaters last summer and while the film itself was...

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Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: On MAN OF STEEL, SuperJesus, and THIS IS THE END's Jewpocalypse

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 09:58 AM PDT

Back in 1933, while Hitler was ascending into power in Germany and diasporic Jews throughout the world looked on with concern, two high school students created one of the most indelible mythical heroes of the last century. Borrowing from the Nietzschean concept of the Übermensch, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel drew from their immigrant lives to tell the tale of a man from another land who had powers hidden from those who dismissed him as a nebishy, glasses-wearing dork. Many have focused on the character of Superman as a metaphor for the Jews of America (given Joe Shuster's birth in Toronto, I'm forced to point out the Canadian connection due to the Heritage Minutes act of 1973). According to one website: "Despite his superhuman...

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Exclusive: ABSENCE Debuts A Wonderfully Creepy Teaser

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Dropping on audiences from Cinedigm on July 5 is Jimmy Loweree's intriguing pregnancy thriller Absence. We've got an exclusive first look at the wonderfully creepy teaser for you to check out. Expectant mother Liz wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy has disappeared overnight. When doctors can find no medical explanation for the loss, police treat Liz and her husband Rick as prime suspects in what has now become a missing child case. Only Rick and Liz's brother Evan trust her version of events. To relieve some of Liz's grief, Rick and Evan take her on a vacation to the mountains. But as Evan documents their vacation, unusual patterns arise. Liz still has no real answers for the disappearance of her baby despite his interviews and...

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Twitchvision: Talking MAN OF STEEL and THIS IS THE END

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT

This is the big week of Superman's return, with Zack Snyder's take on the caped saviour hitting our screens. While my opinion's kind of mixed on the film, there's still plenty to admire about it. I also discuss the overt Jesus imagery throughout, as expanded in a full cineruminations column here on Twitchfilm.com.Also I managed to sneak in talk of one of my favourite comedies in some time, the wonderfully insane This is the End. It's Apocalypdelicious!Video embedded below...

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Now On Blu-ray From Third Window: VULGARIA & FOR LOVE'S SAKE

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Third Window Films continues to impress with their latest pair of Blu-ray releases, Pang Ho-Cheung's Vulgaria and Miike Takashi's For Love's Sake. The films could not be more different from one another, but both are amazing in their own ways. Pang's Vulgaria is the latest left-field entry into a filmography that is as varied as any working filmmaker today. Very few filmmakers cam move so easily from black comedy (Men Suddenly in Black) to straight horror (Dream Home) to romantic comedy (Love in a Puff) as easily and Pang, and perhaps his main rival in this department is the director of the other half of this double feature. Miike Takashi is something of a modern legend; supernaturally prolific and working in every genre with equal...

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The Kids Talk Film: Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 06:00 AM PDT

Twitch has been on the Internet so long that many of its writing staff have children old enough to understand and consume media in a way that is both raw and fresh. It might even come with an inkling of consideration afterwards and it's true that many of us fall in love with the movies when we are very young. Thus, we are offering you the perspective of smaller children as they react to seeing classic filmmaking on the big screen.  In the past, Willem (Age 10) and Miranda (Age 8) have talked the films of Studio Ghibli as well as Satoshi Kon's Paprika and Pixar's Brave. The recently got a chance to see Jackie Chan in person as a part of the A Century of Chinese Cinema...

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Review: Shinkai Makoto's GARDEN OF WORDS Is Cheesy, But Has Heart

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 05:00 AM PDT

Promoted as a feature-length film, Shinkai Makoto's Garden of Words surprisingly only lasts 46 minutes. However, it was enough for the director to portray human emotions as well as understand the purpose of relationships.The word "love" in modern Japanese is "ai", but in the ancient language, it was actually written as "koi", which is a compound of two other Kanji means "solitude" and "sad". Though Garden of Words is set in modern times, "love" in this film will be portrayed in its original meaning, which leads to a story about longing and loneliness, as well as suggesting an unhappy ending for love.At the center, there is Takao, a 15-year-old student who wants to become a shoe-maker. On rainy days, he often plays truant in a Japanese-style garden and learns to make...

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