Watch A Clip From Masters Of Cinema's New THE BIRTH OF A NATION Blu-ray |
- Watch A Clip From Masters Of Cinema's New THE BIRTH OF A NATION Blu-ray
- The 2013 New York Asian Film Festival Offers Up An Extreme Smattering Of Cinema From The Far East
- LA Film Fest 2013 Review: TAPIA Takes a Hard Look at One Hard Dude
- Adam Wingard Welcomes DOWNTON ABBEY's Dan Stevens As THE GUEST
- Exclusive First Look At Maury And Bustillo's AMONG THE LIVING
- Sitges 2013 to Open With GRAND PIANO
- David Hasselhoff Joins Joe Carnahan's STRETCH. Reveals Costume.
- Hey, Toronto! Win Tickets To See HERO, A CHINESE ODYSSEY And THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN!
- Baltasar Kormakur To Remake Erik Matti's ON THE JOB
- A Talk With THE COMPLEX Director Nakata Hideo. Part 2 of 2: The Celluloid Fetishist!
- Review: HOW TO MAKE MONEY SELLING DRUGS Reframes The Debate
- Adventures in Classic Korean Cinema: POLLEN
- Destroy All Monsters: Kneel Before VOD
- It's Christmas With Hitler In DANGER 5 Series 2
| Watch A Clip From Masters Of Cinema's New THE BIRTH OF A NATION Blu-ray Posted: 26 Jun 2013 11:33 PM PDT  In what is sure to be one of the year's most significant Blu-ray releases, Eureka Entertainment is bringing D.W. Griffith's controversial silent epic The Birth Of A Nation to Blu-ray and DVD, courtesy of its excellent Masters of Cinema series.Originally released in 1915, Griffith's 3-hour saga recounts the building tensions between the North and South of the United States that led to the American Civil War, the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. Nearly 100 years after it was originally released, the film continues to divide audiences, championed for its breakthroughs in filmmaking and advances of cinematic technique, yet reviled for its overtly racist subject matter and skewed retelling of history.Released on 22 July, this beautiful new 1080p... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| The 2013 New York Asian Film Festival Offers Up An Extreme Smattering Of Cinema From The Far East Posted: 26 Jun 2013 05:00 PM PDT Always a highlight of summer in New York, the 12th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival kicks off this Friday, June 28 and runs till July 15. In an effort to guide you through the cinematic chaos (albeit delightful chaos) that is NYAFF, Peter Gutierrez, Christopher Bourne and I now share with you eight films playing this year's fest that you may want to check out... or may want to avoid -- read on, and don't forget to keep your eyes peeled to Twitch over the coming weeks for even more coverage of NYAFF 2013. For the fest's full lineup and schedule click here. ... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| LA Film Fest 2013 Review: TAPIA Takes a Hard Look at One Hard Dude Posted: 26 Jun 2013 02:05 PM PDT  Johnny Tapia, the man, is a haunted character whose entire life and body is shaped by the violence that surrounds him. Tapia, the film that tells his story, is a similarly grim affair. Like James Toback's Tyson, boxing is here portrayed as a gruesome sport in which the champions achieve success by drawing from personal reservoirs of pain. The poverty, alienation and loss that the fighters experience in their childhoods is transformed into a redemptive violence that takes them to new heights of fame and a sense of self-worth. But, as Tapia shows, those born and bred in violence can never escape it. When Johnny Tapia was a child his mother was raped and stabbed 22 times with an icepick. Throughout the course of... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Adam Wingard Welcomes DOWNTON ABBEY's Dan Stevens As THE GUEST Posted: 26 Jun 2013 01:02 PM PDT  Seeing if they can't get just one more collaboration of some kind underway before the U.S. release of their long-delayed You're Next on August 23, director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett are prepping for their next film The Guest, and it looks like they've found their leading man and lady.The Wrap reports that Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens will star in the thriller which follows an ex-marine who is taken in by a fallen comrade's family upon his return home. Newcomer Maika Monroe has joined the film as the eldest daughter who is determined to keep her youngest brother safe when their family's guest becomes... you know... unwelcome in their home. The Guest is set to shoot later this summer with You're Next producers... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Exclusive First Look At Maury And Bustillo's AMONG THE LIVING Posted: 26 Jun 2013 01:00 PM PDT French filmmaking duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo have built a loyal international following thanks to their first two films Inside and Livid and the duo look to expand their cult with their third effort, Among The Living. Though there are some familiar faces to be found here in Beatrice Dalle and Chloe Coulloud the film centers on three youngsters with the directors aiming for something in the sweet spot between Stand By Me and It. Here's the official synopsis:Youngsters, Victor, Dan and Tom skip school to wander around an abandoned movie set. They stumble upon a horrific vision : a woman in chains is dragged through the field by a man wearing a clown mask. The masked man catches a glimpse of the boys,... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Sitges 2013 to Open With GRAND PIANO Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:45 PM PDT  My favourite fantastic film festival has come out of the gate swinging with the first announcement of titles for the 2013 edition, and so far it's a pretty exciting line-up. The festival will open with local favourite Eugenio Mira's Grand Piano, which stars Elijah Wood and John Cusack. With an American script and cast, in a film directed, produced, and made by a crew of Spaniards, it seems rather a fitting choice as an opener, almost a reflection of the current state of Spanish cinema, which more and more is blending the national with the international, both on the creative and the financial ends. On the international cinema front, Sitges will be bringing some pretty amazing titles, including Nicholas Winding Refn Only God Forgives, Alejandro... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| David Hasselhoff Joins Joe Carnahan's STRETCH. Reveals Costume. Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:15 PM PDT  David Hasselhoff, Shaun Toub and Ray Liotta have joined the cast of Joe Carnahan's upcoming action comedy Stretch with Hasselhoff and Liotta reportedly set to cameo as themselves. Is it too much to hope that the duo will engage in a serious thespian throwdown whilst wearing speedos? It is to dream ...Jeff Sneider brings word of the project over at The Wrap, which stars Patrick Wilson as a limo driver trying to work off a large debt to a bookie by pandering to the very deviant tastes of his even more deviant passenger, played by Chris Pine. Ed Helms also stars.(He's probably not actually going to wear the speedo. But he should.)... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Hey, Toronto! Win Tickets To See HERO, A CHINESE ODYSSEY And THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN! Posted: 26 Jun 2013 11:30 AM PDT  The Swordsmen, Gangsters And Ghosts program of classic Chinese genre film at the TIFF Bell Lightbox is having a big weekend with screenings of Zhang Yimou's Hero (Friday at 9:15pm), the Stephen Chow starring A Chinese Odyssey (both parts, Saturday at 9pm), and - fitting, given the recent passing of fight choreographer Lau Kar Leung - Chang Cheh's The One Armed Swordsmen (Sunday at 9pm). We've got two pairs of tickets to give away for all three films so six lucky Twitch readers are going to be seeing these for free this weekend.We're keeping it simple. To win all you have to do is email me here, state which screening you hope to attend, and name Lau Kar Leung's famous god-brother / screen star. Good... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Baltasar Kormakur To Remake Erik Matti's ON THE JOB Posted: 26 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT  Premiering as part of this year's Director's Fortnight selection in Cannes, Erik Matti's On The Job is based on the sort of story that is too strange to be fiction - a true life tale of prisoners released on day passes to work as hitmen, with prison officials working in collaboration with gangsters and high ranking politicians to make it all happen. It's the sort of story that has obvious dramatic appeal and so it comes as no surprise that it quickly caught the eye of several high ranking players in Hollywood.And now word is out that Baltasar Kormakur (Contraband, 2 Guns) is attached to direct a US version of the story. How close this will hold to the Matti version is yet to be... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| A Talk With THE COMPLEX Director Nakata Hideo. Part 2 of 2: The Celluloid Fetishist! Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:30 AM PDT  A few months back, the International Film Festival Rotterdam welcomed the Japanese director Nakata Hideo as a guest, famous for horror films like Ringu, Dark Water, and The Complex. Twitch was allowed an interview with him, the first part of which can be found by clicking this sentence. With The Complex about to receive its North American premiere as part of the New York Asian Film Festival, we're happy to share the second part of that conversation now. ------Twitch: You are one of the people who made J-horror famous in the west. "Ringu" became famous in the whole world, and so did "Dark Water" later on. You helped shape the genre into what it is now. What is your impression of J-horror in the last... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Review: HOW TO MAKE MONEY SELLING DRUGS Reframes The Debate Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Give writer-director Matthew Cooke full credit. Not only is he clearly smart enough to grasp and present the complicated, interconnected issues surrounding American drug laws, but he also has the good sense to know that if you are going to tackle an issue as controversial and polarizing as this, then you damn well better find a way to present your argument in a way that people will actually listen to. And while the cheeky mock-educational approach of How To Make Money Selling Drugs may upset and offend some, it most certainly will spur many more to listen. And he's got plenty to say. Presented as a 'how to' guide for those who are unemployed, homeless or living in an economically depressed area of America, How... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Adventures in Classic Korean Cinema: POLLEN Posted: 26 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT  Adventures in Classic Korean Cinema is a bi-weekly feature looking back at classic South Korean Cinema. My very first Korean film from the 1970s, which I saw during last year's Udine Far East Film Festival in the "Darkest Decade of Korean Cinema" retrospective curated by Darcy Paquet, was the debut of Ha Kil-jong, who would only produce a small body of work before his untimely death in 1979 at the tender age of 37. Ha pursued graduate studies in film directing from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). During his time in the States he made the short The Ritual of a Soldier, which won an award from MGM. He returned to Korea with a burden of expectation laid on his shoulders and was... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Destroy All Monsters: Kneel Before VOD Posted: 26 Jun 2013 08:01 AM PDT  About two weeks have passed since George Lucas and Steven Spielberg announced their considered opinion that the Hollywood film industry as we know it is about to implode. We've been arguing the same thing on my podcast for years, so it was nice to see the whiz kids catch up. No one lost their job or melted down as a result of anything Lucas and Spielberg said, because George and Stevie are, after all, a couple of old dudes waxing philosophical about a film industry they are no longer in charge of. But it was fun to consider their dystopic (?) vision, regardless. (A brief outline of the argument, the longer version of which can be found here: Hollywood is narrowing the content focus of... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| It's Christmas With Hitler In DANGER 5 Series 2 Posted: 26 Jun 2013 07:30 AM PDT  Colonel Chestbridge and the Danger 5 team are back! And it's the 1980s! After Hitler escaped from their clutches at the end of series 1, Jackson, Ilsa, Pierre, Tucker and Claire have tracked him to the era of big shoulder pads and bouffant hair to bring him to justice.It's Christmas in the 1980s. Adolf Hitler is alive and has two Yuletide wishes: Danger 5 dead... and the world under his Christmas tree.Fingers crossed for a helluva Die Hard homage. Created and written by Dario Russo and David Ashby and produced by Kate Croser, Danger 5 will shoot later in the year with an air date yet to be announced. Due to the massive overseas cult success of the show, we expect something better than the... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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