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Melbourne 2013 Wrap: Audience Choice Films

Melbourne 2013 Wrap: Audience Choice Films

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 11:01 PM PDT

The 62nd Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) ended on August 11 after 17 days, screening 320 films over 453 sessions from 63 countries in 45 different languages, including 23 world premieres and 52 Australian films."2013 has been a very successful festival boasting more than 170 sold out sessions," said MIFF Artistic Director Michelle Carey. "It's very heartening to see audiences embracing the program and engaging with our guests both through Q&As and the Talking Pictures program."The Age newspaper critics, comprising Philippa Hawker, Jake Wilson and Craig Matheison, presented the MIFF Premiere Fund-supported These Final Hours with a $5000 cash prize and the title of best Australian feature at MIFF 2013, while fellow MIFF Premiere Fund title In Bob We Trust was hailed by Jake Wilson...

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Reel Anime 2013: Everything You Need To Know

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 10:01 PM PDT

Madman Entertainment have just revealed all the details and dates for the upcoming semi-inaugural anime-centric film festival Reel Anime. They have a cracker of a line-up sure to entice any anime fan, and judging by last year's attendance records, this is no surprise. Without further adieu...Opening September 26 in Adelaide, then followed closely on October 3 in all other states, Reel Anime 2013 will showcase a stellar line-up of the finest animated features, direct from Japan, including Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, 009 RE: Cyborg, A Letter To Momo and a double-bill of The Garden Of Words and Ghost In The Shell: Arise.Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, is the third feature-length film in creator Hideaki Anno's rebuild of the ground-breaking 1995-1996 anime series,...

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Melbourne 2013 Review: THESE FINAL HOURS, The Genre Film Australia Needs

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 09:00 PM PDT

In 2005, actor Nathan Phillips starred in backpacker shocker Wolf Creek. The film was a revitalization of sorts to pure genre cinema without pretension in Australia. Flash forward to today and that same actor has front and centered another firecracker of a production, set in the Australian city of Perth, on the final day before the world as we know it concludes.These Final Hours is an intense genre exercise, respecting the best of its kind whilst imbuing the film with truly original and meaningful characters and implications. It has just been awarded The Age newspapers critics choice award over strong contenders like The Turning, Mystery Road and Patrick, and it's not hard to see why.Phillips plays James, a strung-out, conflicted mess who aches to travel to his...

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China Box Office: PACIFIC RIM Fends Off TINY TIMES 2 Assault

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 08:00 PM PDT

Guillermo del Toro's giant monster-mecha mash survives a spirited assault from locally produced girly drama Tiny Times 2 to stay top of the Chinese box office for the second week running. Rank Title Origin 5/8-11/8 (US$M) Total (US$M) Screening days 1 Pacific Rim USA $33.63 $79.52 12 2 Tiny Times 2 China $26.91 $26.91 4 3 Fast & Furious 6 USA $8.04 $63.09 17 4 One Night Surprise China/Hong Kong $7.34 $7.34 3 5 I Love Wolffy 2 China  $3.47 $10.43 11 6 Crimes of Passion China  $2.23 $2.23 4 7 Young Style China $2.11 $4.72 10 8 White House Down USA $1.61 $27.96 21 9 Kunta China $0.84 $1.95 10 10 Bunshinsaba 2 China $0.18 $13.14 27 Novelist-turned-filmmaker Guo Jingming scores a second consecutive...

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Cinemalaya 2013 Review: Eduardo Roy, Jr.'s QUICK CHANGE, A Visually Fascinating Exploration Of Transsexuals And Their Moral And Identity Crises

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 07:00 PM PDT

Dorina (Mimi Juareza) is a retired entertainer who now plies the streets offering her cheap, quick cosmetic fixes to other transgendered men. Lacking any medical experience, she is nonetheless "doc" to her grateful patients, whose faces are sculpted to look like the glittering faces of popular local celebrities. Her patients then don extravagant and colorful costumes, sashaying on makeshift stages, pretending to be beauty queens with their plastered smiles and generic retorts. At night, Dorina satisfies her boyfriend (Junjun Quintana), a performer in a pageant show that caters to foreign tourists. She then starts to satisfy herself discretely lest she incur the wrath of a boyfriend who prefers not to be reminded of her persisting masculinity. Eduardo Roy, Jr.'s Quick Change is all about facades. It obsessively...

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Hey Australia, Experience The Thrill And Win THE TOWER On DVD

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 05:00 PM PDT

The Tower is a blockbuster South Korean film about a thrilling man-made disaster that threatens the lives of thousands on a tragic Xmas eve.On Christmas Eve, at the luxurious Tower Sky twin tower building in central Seoul, residents and staff members busy themselves with Christmas preparation. A small fire in the restaurant kitchen attracts the attention of Tower Sky staff member Lee Dae-Ho, who notices a faulty water sprinkler system. Building owner Jo disregards the warning and goes ahead with the evening's Christmas party.Helicopters are hired to circle the building and spray the building with man made snow during the Christmas party. Residents gathered for the event are amazed by the spectacle. Their amazement soon turns into terror when a helicopter loses control and crashes...

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Fantasia 2013 Gets All Wrapped Up With Our Top Picks and Reviews

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 03:00 PM PDT

The Fantasia Film Festival is all wrapped up and we've got links to all our coverage and some fun answers to what we loved and didn't below! REVIEWS Boozie Movies Has An Existential Crisis With 24 EXPOSURES. But The Boobs Were Nice! by Greg Christie Boozie Movies Falls Asleep Before Reviewing ACROSS THE RIVER. But The Nightmares Were Worth It by Greg Christie THE BATTERY Bravely Sidesteps The Usual Zombie Routine by Kurt Halfyard BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN, A Gloriously Devastating by Kurt Halfyard BUSHIDO MAN Will Make You Hungry For More by Andrew Mack CURSE OF CHUCKY Is A Satisfying Old School Horror Ride by Justin Decloux DOOMSDAYS, A Charming 21st Century Slacker Manifesto by Kurt Halfyard FATEFUL FINDINGS, Beyond All Working Definitions Of Cinema...

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Mondo Presents New Art For THE GRANDMASTER (Plus Some Hitchcock)

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT

Yahoo! Movies has the scoop on the two new Mondo posters for Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster and they sure look good. The art is by Vania Zouravliov, who collaborated with Mondo several times with prints for Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and, most recently, Pacific Rim.There is no official announcement on the drop yet, but Yahoo! has that these will go on sale on August 23rd on Mondotees.com, the same day The Grandmaster hits US theaters via The Weinstein Company. You will have to follow Mondo on twitter to figure out the exact time of the drop.You can take a look at the prints in the gallery bellow, which also displays the three amazing Mondo posters released today in celebration of Alfred...

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Red Bull Media House Going Hybrid with MCCONKEY

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT

Production studio/indie distributor/energy drink maker Red Bull Media House announced today their hybrid distribution plan for the Tribeca-premiering extreme-athlete-biodocu McConkey. Co-produced by Matchstick Productions, the film will hit the road starting October 5 with a host of one-night screenings in over 20 locations so far. Things kick off with a gala premiere in Squaw Valley, CA (Shane McConkey's hometown), before heading up the coast to Portland and Seattle and hitting such ski hotspots as Park City, Jackson Hole, and Whistler. Full week runs in LA and New York are also in store for the week of October 11. Read our review of McConkey here. As is the norm, VOD options will be fully available across the usual slew of platforms beginning October 8. That day...

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The Director Of DAYTIME DRINKING Returns With Pitch Dark Comedy INTRUDERS

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Director Noh Young-seok turned a lot of heads around the world with his 2008 debut, Daytime Drinking. A tiny budget indie that saw Noh doing virtually everything himself - he's credited as writer, director, producer, actor, cinematographer, editor, composer, production designer and sound man - the film became an unlikely hit on the festival circuit thanks largely to his clever writing and strong characters.So, as is often the case when a young director manages a success despite tiny resources the question becomes what's next? Can they make the transition to so called 'proper' filmmaking? And Noh's answer comes with his super dark comedy Intruders, freshly announced as a selection of the Toronto International Film Festival.It's a simple set up that appears to play straight to...

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Is LIFE'S A BREEZE The Next FULL MONTY Or WAKING NED DEVINE? The Trailer Says Yes ...

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT

When did we become too cynical for a feel good comedy? It doesn't seem like that long ago, really, that quirky indies - largely hailing from the UK - celebrated blue collar roots with simple, funny stories of regular people in odd situations and went on to become significant hits. I'm thinking movies like The Full Monty, Billy Elliott and Waking Ned Devine here.That sort of filmmaking appears to have been largely abandoned in more recent years but Lance Daly's Irish effort Life's A Breeze - just announced as a selection of the Toronto International Film Festival - feels very much lake a blast from that particular past.The story here revolves around a family who try to do grandma a favor by clearing up her...

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The Stack: THE ART OF ELYSIUM, THE DAMNED, ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY, THE HOUSE OF SEVEN CORPSES, ISHTAR, And More

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT

The August 13 edition features The Art of Elysium from Titan Books, the classic French post-war thriller The Damned from Cohen Media Group, winner of the 1933 Best Picture Academy Award, Calvacade, the Blu-ray debut of Ishtar from Sony, and the classic 70s schlocker The House of Seven Corpses from Severin.  Also available are the surreal sci-fi drama Errors of the Human Body from IFC, the wildly visual fantasy The Adventures of Adelle Blanc Sec from Shout Factory, a new Blu-ray of The Muppet Movie, courtesy of Disney, Terrence Malick's To The Wonder from Magnolia, and Synapse Films' 1979 Australian war classic The Odd Angry Shot.In other news the last volume in the three volume Ray Harryhausen Master of The Majicks series will be shipping soon...

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Here Comes The Fantastic Fest Second Wave! THE CONGRESS! GRAND PIANO! WITCHING AND BITCHING! PATRICK! SEPTIC MAN!

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Elijah Wood is going to be looking all dapper when Eugenio Mira's Grand Piano has its world premiere as part of Fantastic Fest 2013! What other wonders lie within the just announced second wave? Ari Folman's The Congress! A panty-masked super hero! French masked wrestlers! A boy trying to lick his own penis! and, of course, the proverbial so much more! Check out the full announcement below!Austin, TX-Tuesday, August 13, 2013- Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of programming for the ninth edition of Fantastic Fest, taking place September 19 - 26 at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline in Austin, Texas. See below for descriptions of nineteen new World, North American & US premiere films at this year's festival and stay tuned for more...

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Euro Beat: New Films From Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders and... Orson Welles!?

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT

In the latest installment of Euro Beat, I'll be taking a look at several brand new (at least,new to the public), very significant projects  originating from unlikely places. As always, click through the gallery below for additional European news briefs as well as the latest box office report. First up is German fiction and documentary giant Werner Herzog who has followed up his harrowing death row documentary Into the Abyss with a public service announcement about texting and driving that is, no kidding, also harrowing. The spot has been getting generous coverage around the internet partly because our culture is only just now becoming vocal about this issue, and partly because legendary filmmakers don't tackle PSA's very often. However, in case you just cracked a...

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Pick Up Your Guns And Prepare For A BRAZILIAN WESTERN

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Just announced as part of the Contemporary World Cinema program at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rene Sampaio's Brazilian Western (Faroeste Caboclo) looks to be a stylish bit of cultural appropriation with American western elements fused to a very local story inspired by a popular song. TIFF describes it like this:Loosely based on legendary Brasilia rock band Legiao Urbana's seminal folk song, René Sampaio's lyrical, fable-like debut feature follows a young man from the provinces who decides to try his luck in the capital, where he falls in with a rough crowd -- and falls for a senator's daughter. The trailer for this one is super promising ... take a look below....

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ANTBOY Will Save Toronto As Part Of TIFF Kids Lineup

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 10:15 AM PDT

The Toronto International Film Festival continues to shine a spotlight on international children's films with a selection of five kid friendly titles from around the world among the festival lineup. And among them is Danish superhero flick Antboy, which has received a good bit of attention in these pages in the past. Check the rest of the selection below. TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival® presents an international selection of remarkable family-friendly cinema in the TIFF Kids® programme. This lineup represents a diverse range of cultural perspectives for both young and young-at-heart Festivalgoers with fantastical tales of courage, camaraderie, love and acceptance. With wonderfully vibrant visuals and skilfully woven fantasy, this year's selection of extraordinary storytelling will inspire and entertain cinephiles from ages eight...

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TIFF Announces Sprawling Contemporary World Cinema Program

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT

While it doesn't have the flash and splash of the Gala lineup or the specialty sidebars like Midnight Madness, if you're going to find a hidden gem at the Toronto International Film Festival - something truly special flying under the radar - the enormous Contemporary World Cinema program is likely where you'll do it. The lineup for 2013 is - as always - incredibly diverse both in terms of genre and country of origin and you'll find the complete list below. Dive in and let us know what looks the most interesting to you! TORONTO - The Toronto International Film Festival® today announced the Contemporary World Cinema lineup featuring the best in cinema from around the globe. Contemporary World Cinema features premieres from countries including...

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Miyazaki, To, Turturro And More In The Complete TIFF Gala And Special Presentations Lineup!

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 09:45 AM PDT

Here come the big guns! The complete list of Gala and Special Presentation selections for the Toronto International Film Festival have been released and among the big names present are Johnnie To, Miyazaki Hayao, John Turturro, and Guillaume Canet along with hotly anticipated titles such as the Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. Read on for the full list! TORONTO - The Toronto International Film Festival® has announced the addition of 3 Galas and 19 Special Presentations to the 2013 Festival programme, including a further 12 World Premieres. Representing countries from around the world, the Gala and Special Presentations programmes offer a lineup of diverse titles and genres. Toronto audiences will be among the first to screen films by directors Fred Schepisi, Alberto Arvelo, Reha...

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TIFF 2013 Wavelengths Stretches Out With A LOT of Features

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 09:15 AM PDT

Like last years documentary-feature-slash-anthropological-thesis Leviathan, the Wavelengths section at this years Toronto International Film Festival has a lot of 'quasi-commercial' feature films on offer for the hardcore and casual cinéaste or cinephile.  In particular, Ben Wheatley's experimental and baffling A Field In England, which is already available on Blu-Ray in the UK, but here is getting its North American theatrical premiere at the festival; it promises a surreal and unusual experience in the dark.  Albert Serra's Dracula and Cassanova meditation, The Story of My Death, made with non-actors and drawing comparisons to his 2008 'Three Wise Men' feature, BirdSong is a highlight of the programme, Also, Tsai Ming-Liang's Stray Dogs is tucked away in here, too.  And worth mentioning are feature films from Estonia (A Spell...

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Israeli Thriller BIG BAD WOLVES Nets A Whopping 11 Ophir Nominations

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 08:30 AM PDT

The Israeli film awards look poised to take a turn into some very dark territory. The nominations for the Ophir awards - the local equivalent to the Oscars - have been announced and Big Bad Wolves - the sophomore feature from Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado - has garnered a whopping eleven nods, including Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor.The nominations come on the heels of the film taking home the Best Film award at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal and for those wondering what the buzz is about, take a look at the trailer below....

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Review: TOP OF THE LAKE Mixes Dark Mythology With Modern Trauma

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Jane Campion's television miniseries Top of the Lake (which played at Sundance and has aired in Australia, New Zealand, the US and the UK), co-created with Gerard Lee, is a dark mystery, one which uses the landscape of New Zealand to explore those hidden secrets that come flooding out with just a scratch upon the earth and skin. It's the kind of work that keeps punching you in the emotional gut while at the same time giving you strange dreams of metaphysical bliss. There are shades of her previous work, with the intrusion of pseudo-deities, myth and ritual, and gender clash and violence.Set in New Zealand's south island and starring Elizabeth Moss, Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan and David Wenham, it's ostensibly a crime thriller about...

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