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Interview: Austrian Filmmaker And Filmfest Rejected Co-Founder Daniel Dlouhy On The Local Film Industry

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Interview: Austrian Filmmaker And Filmfest Rejected Co-Founder Daniel Dlouhy On The Local Film Industry

Interview: Austrian Filmmaker And Filmfest Rejected Co-Founder Daniel Dlouhy On The Local Film Industry

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 04:00 AM PDT

Rejected is a small film festival in Innsbruck, a town in the center of the Austrian Alpine region of Tyrol. Rejected shows movies that got rejcted from other festivals "because getting rejected does not mean that a movie is bad". I had the chance to speak with Daniel Dlouhy, filmmaker and co-founder of the festival, about ways to establish film culture in the "sad region of Tyrol", financial issues and the long road into the future of Austrian film. Twitch: Let's talk about Rejected. It is more than just a film festival. There is an art exhibition, a concert and you hold workshops. With what intention did you found Rejected under? Daniel Dlouhy: We started five years ago. Before that, we worked for the IFFI...

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Transylvania 2013 Festival Report: The Romanian New Wave Continues

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 03:00 AM PDT

Films like Stuff & Dough and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, along with other successes, have put Romania back on the map of world cinema. All this through a movement that came into notoriety under the banner of the so-called Romanian New Wave. This long process of rehabilitation of the national cinema has been embraced by new and talented filmmakers as well as specific film aesthetics. When asked about this renaissance in Romanian cinema, Mihai Chirilov, artistic director of the Transylvania International Film Festival, had this to say: "There are slightly more films made every year, despite the terrible financial conditions, and it's incredibly rewarding to see that the Romanian cinema is still riding the Wave, grabbing awards everywhere, despite some critics bitching about it (sometimes for...

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Australia's Japanese Film Festival Is Expanding!

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 12:30 AM PDT

One of the favorite events amongst Australian film lovers, the annual Japanese Film Festival (JFF), will be having a major expansion this year. Now in its 17th year, the JFF has been consistently bringing the latest and best Japanese films to our shores year after year. Those of us living in Sydney and Melbourne have enjoyed the opportunities to see a great number of exciting, inspiring and challenging films on the big screen at the Festival, much to the jealousy of people living in other major cities like Brisbane, Perth and Canberra, where traditionally they only get limited screenings of a handful of films. But all this is going to change this year, because the 17th JFF is being taken to a national stage that will...

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Fantasia 2013: BIG BAD WOLVES, CHEAP THRILLS And REWIND THIS! Among Award Winners!

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 11:30 PM PDT

Three weeks after its opening film the dust has settled and the Fantasia Film Festival has drawn to a close. We were at ground zero for the entire duration taking in films, eating smoked meat sandwiches and poutine, and making mad dashes between screenings at The Imperial and J.A. de Seve. We became very intimate with the Metro subway and the fine selection of fermented beverages at the Irish Embassy Pub. We sat down with friends and filmmakers alike and debated the merits of just about anything that popped into our heads. We are currently gathering our own thoughts and reactions to this year's festival and will present those to you shortly. In the meantime, the festival has handed out some awards and you will...

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Melbourne 2013 Review: ILO ILO, A Genuine Gem

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 07:00 PM PDT

Ilo Ilo is the debut feature from Singaporean director Anthony Chen, who is now based in London. It is, however, handled with such a deft hand and filled with so much obsessive detail that one would be forgiven for thinking Chen has been directing for many years.The setting is Singapore in 1997, with the Asian financial crisis looming like the monsoon clouds over the city. A family caught up in this inevitable storm have just hired an inexpensive Filipino maid; a common staple of society then and even today.The mother, Hwee Leng (Yann Yann Yeo), treats the maid with disdain but recognises her important function in the household. She must carry on with her demanding day job as an administrative clerk for a company that...

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Melbourne 2013 Review: AIM HIGH IN CREATION Respects And Engages Gleefully With The DPRK

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 06:00 PM PDT

Director Anna Broinowski is no stranger to confrontation; kicking off her documentary career with Hell Bento, a film that exposed subsections of the Japanese underworld. More recently she directed a startling fib-filled terror tale about Muslim romance called Forbidden Lie$. It was probably less of a surprise, then, to see her giddily striding around North Korea, always smiling and happily accepting any problems coming her way. Thankfully, Aim High In Creation is not a searing indictment of the repressed state of the DPRK, it instead seeks to utilize one of its most cherished resources: the film industry.Anna is on a mission that toes the line in the film more than once. She seeks to stop Coal seam gas mining in her local suburb and park sides....

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Hey, NYC! Win Tix To See Harrison Ford In PARANOIA

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 05:00 PM PDT

It's been a good two decades since we saw this much Harrison Ford on the big screen, so whatever the quality of the overall film at hand, it is somewhat nice to see whom many of us would cite as a childhood hero still going. This August sees Ford co-star alongside Gary Oldman, Liam Hemsworth, Amber Heard and Richard Dryfeuss in the corporate thriller Paranoia. If you'd like the chance to snag a pair of passes to an advanced screening of the film in NYC on August 14th, then you're just one click away. By the godforsaken hand of some mighty numerical computing, 100 folks will be selected Monday, August 13th. Okay -- click here and you will be whisked to Gofobo. So go.The high...

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Fantasia 2013 Review: GATCHAMAN Can't Fly With Clipped Wings

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Gatchaman has an amazing opening. The team is quickly introduced, they get to show off their powers, and there's a city-wide fight that involves numerous costumed villains and a fast moving Ferris wheel sized bomb. The scope of the action is epic, events escalate with wild creative glee, and my low expectations blew away in the wind. If this is how they opened things up, what else did the filmmakers have up their sleeve?  Nothing. They had nothing. I'm not familiar with Gatchaman beyond its Battle of the Planets visual iconography, but the screenwriter does a good job of throwing the viewer in the deep end with enough life preservers to keep one afloat. You have a team of people powered by glowing rocks that...

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Review: JUG FACE, Atmospheric Horror, Not Fully Baked

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT

The Deep South can be a very strange place for outsiders. Mired in traditions and rituals that may now seem foolish or outdated, it is still a ripe place to cull old legends anew, projecting them up on the silver screen for a scare or two. The familiar, often sensationalized, role that cultish backwoods communities have played for decades in horror films is inverted in Chad Crawford Kinkle's feature debut Jug Face. Moving away from the usually gruesome antagonistic role they have been known to play against often bright-eyed and bushy-tailed northerners out 'a frolicking, Kinkle instead focuses his sympathies squarely on the tight-knit community itself, and how such a twisted, insular folk can be born. Grim and heavy in atmosphere right off the bat,...

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Review: BLOOD, A Little Thinner Than It Should Be

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT

With a title as simple and to the point as Blood, you'd think that director Nick Murphy was going for a back-to-basics chiller-thriller, and you'd be half right. Blood begins as the sort of dark-rimmed, sleepy town procedural showcased by the trailer, but as the film, and the plot's twists and turns, ramp up to the explosive finale, the filmmaking begins to resemble a dyed-in-the-wool cop drama less and less. In the end, Blood complicates a promisingly streamlined premise without doing the necessary legwork to justify such density.The story is rich with everything you'd want from a dark, English cop drama: brothers Joe and Chrissie Fairburn (Paul Bettany and Stephen Graham, respectively) are teamed up to investigate the horrific murder of a young girl, an occasion...

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Hey LA! Go See AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS Early, Courtesy of Twitch

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT

You read that right! IFC Films is hosting a special screening of Sundance hit Ain't Them Bodies Saints next week in Beverly Hills -- and Twitch has got a handful of tickets for our readers. You want a pair? Just shoot an email to contests@twitchfilm.net and let us know if you need one or two tickets. Don't wait, as we only have a few and once they're gone, well... The screening will take place on Tuesday, August 13 at 7:30pm in Beverly Hills, CA. Set against the backdrop of 1970's Texas Hill Country, AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS is a romantic American story that follows three characters on various sides of the law - outlaw Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck), his wife Ruth Guthrie (Rooney Mara),...

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Review: LAS COSAS COMO SON (Things The Way They Are), The Best Chilean Film Of The Year So Far

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT

The latest film by Chilean director Fernando Lavanderos, Las cosas como son (Things the way they are), is maybe one of the best fiction films that has come out of Chile in a long time, even better than the Italian co-produced film The Future directed by Alicia Scherson and all the Sebastián Silva-Michael Cera pictures that you can come up with. This is the real deal, and I wish that this movie makes it out there for all people to see, as it plays with universal values and, above all, it's just an entertaining and thrilling story.It has won the Best Latinamerican Film award at last year's Mar del Plata Film Festival, it took the Best Director prize at the Havana Film Festival in New...

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Spike Jonze's HER to World Premiere as NYFF Closer

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT

You saw the astounding trailer for Spike Jonze's latest Her just yesterday. Today brings the news that this hotly anticipated film will make its world premiere as the closing night gala at this year's New York Film Fest. Put on by The Film Society of Lincoln Center, NYFF runs from September 27 to October 13. Here's what NYFF's Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair, Kent Jones had to say about the film: Like many people I've come to expect great and surprising things from Spike Jonze, but HER is something altogether new in cinema. To discuss even a little bit of the plot - let's just say that it's about lonely people and artificial intelligence - is to deprive first-time viewers of the...

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Noir Lives: The Bogart Estate And Director Steve Anderson Unveil Santana Films

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT

In 1947, Humphrey Bogart, one of Old Hollywood's biggest talents, started an independent production company named after his yacht. The story behind Santana may sound quaint by today's standards, as just about every actor with some clout has their own company for creative endeavors. But true to his character, Bogart was a pioneer in that Santana was one of the very first independent production companies to step out of the shadow of Jack Warner at Warner Bros. In that, Bogie most certainly did it his way. While Bogart produced only seven features under the Santana banner -- In A Lonely Place and John Huston's Beat The Devil among them -- his legacy of creating crackling character-based noir is about to live on hard and strong...

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Twitch Looks In-Depth at Sundance's NEXT WEEKEND Mini-Fest

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT

We already told you about the awesome Opening Night festivities the organizers of Sundance's NEXT WEEKEND festival have in store with tonight's cemetery screening of Chris Smith's hilarious 1999 documentary American Movie, followed by Mark Borchardt's Coven, the film which the documentary explores. Now we're going to take you a bit further in depth into the NEXT WEEKEND program, taking a look at each of the films playing as part of the fest. For more information and tickets, check out Sundance's NEXT WEEKEND website....

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First Trailer For George Clooney's THE MONUMENTS MEN Blows The Dust Off History

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Looking like a cross between Ocean's Eleven and Kelly's Heroes, the first trailer for The Monuments Men is a breezy, jazzy history lesson, refashioned into a thriller.Reuniting George Clooney and Matt Damon, chemistry intact, along with Bill Murray (a silent presence here), John Goodman, Bob Balaban, and Cate Blanchett, the film returns to the final days of World War II in Europe, as a team of art historians and museum curators race against time to recover art treasures stolen by the Nazis before Hitler destroys them, according to a brief synopsis at IMDb. Clooney directed and co-wrote the script with producing partner Grant Heslov. It's due for release on December 18. And this trailer is a winner....

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Review: PRINCE AVALANCHE Delivers a Hint of the Old David Gordon Green

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Many reviews of Your Highness and The Sitter, two of the more pitiful comedies of 2011, featured concerned inquiries as to what (and in some cases what THE HELL) had happened to those films' director, David Gordon Green. His first four features -- George Washington (2000), All the Real Girls (2003), Undertow (2004), and Snow Angels (2007) -- had been darlings of the indie world, methodical and sensitive stories of ordinary small-town folk. No one begrudged Green his Pineapple Express (2008) because it was funny, and because they assumed he'd eventually get back to the deeper stuff. But that one-two punch in 2011 had people examining Green's head for lobotomy scars. His seventh film, Prince Avalanche, isn't quite a "return to form" (to use an...

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TIFF 2013: Dreamy, Intoxicating Clip From RHYMES FOR YOUNG GHOULS

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Native Canadian filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, who found his footing as a maker of short films, has completed his debut feature and it's heading to Toronto next month. The dreamy, intoxicating first clip from Rhymes From Young Ghouls highlights, in the words of its young narrator, "what brings my people together -- the art of forgetfulness." Red Crow Mi'gMaq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 18 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the crow, that means imprisonment at St. Dymphna's. That means being at the mercy of "Popper", the sadistic Indian agent who runs the school.At 15, Aila is the weed princess of Red Crow. Hustling with her uncle Burner, she sells enough dope to pay Popper her "truancy...

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Review: LOVELACE, When A Bio-Pic Is Hard To Swallow

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Hot on the heels of the sexual revolution, 1972's pornographic breakout hit Deep Throat brought conservative America to its proverbial knees, raking in millions and turning its lead actress, Linda Lovelace, into a bona-fide star. In Lovelace, actress Amanda Seyfried does an admirable job of portraying Linda Susan Boreman (her pre-Lovelace name), a clenched and repressed young woman, cowed by a religious mother and ineffective father (played by an unrecognizable Sharon Stone and Terminator 2: Judgment Day's Robert Patrick), who finds herself when she chooses to go-go dance for a roller rink band. As fate would have it, Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard in full-on Thomas Jane Boogie Nights mode) is there that night, and quickly insinuates himself to the innocent little lamb that is Linda....

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First Footage from the Set of [REC]4: Apocalypse Shows a Very Big Boat

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 07:30 AM PDT

The final installment of the brilliant and incredibly successful [REC] series, after some shooting in Barcelona, has now moved production to the Canary Islands under the direction of Jaume Balagueró. (Balagueró directed the first two in the series with Paco Plaza; the third installment was directed only by Plaza.) Little is known of the story, except that it takes place after the events of [REC]2, will feature the character of news reporter Angela Vidal, and is set mainly on a very large boat. Spanish television station RTVE has posted video footage from the set, featuring some of the shooting and a brief interview with Balagueró and Manuela Velasco, who plays Vidal. It is in Spanish without subtitles, but Balagueró discusses the complexities of filming on the...

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Review: Slick Epidemic Thriller FLU Strays Off Course

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT

It was only last summer that Korea released its first film featuring a deadly disease when Deranged became a big hit in June. Coming from the same studio (CJ Entertainment), the new epidemic thriller Flu, the first work from director Kim Sung-su (Beat, 1997) in 10 years, seeks to strike gold again with the same blend of star power, family dynamics and chaos. A ship container full of illegal immigrants is delivered to Korea and when it is opened in Bundang, one of Seoul's affluent new satellite cities, its passengers are found dead, save for one very sick man. Meanwhile, a fireman (Jang Hyeok) takes a shine to a single mother (Soo-ae) he saves from an accident. Just as he is getting to know the...

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