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Fantastic Fest 2013: JODOROWSKY'S DUNE Wins Audience Award, THE DIRTIES, THE CONGRESS, and AFFLICTED Also Cited

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Fantastic Fest 2013: JODOROWSKY'S DUNE Wins Audience Award, THE DIRTIES, THE CONGRESS, and AFFLICTED Also Cited

Fantastic Fest 2013: JODOROWSKY'S DUNE Wins Audience Award, THE DIRTIES, THE CONGRESS, and AFFLICTED Also Cited

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 09:00 PM PDT

Before a packed audience, the awards for Fantastic Fest 2013 were handed out tonight in Austin, Texas, USA. Here is the prepared statement by the festival with the announcement: Fantastic Fest is pleased to announce this year's Fantastic Fest Award winners. It has been an outstanding year for features & shorts, making the job of honoring a select crop all the more difficult, but our esteemed team of jurors have done the nearly impossible and chosen the best films of the festival. The audience awards are presented by accounting firm Maxwell Locke & Ritter (http://www.mlrpc.com/) who provided the certified tabulation of ballots this year and are the exclusive accounting sponsor of Fantastic Fest. Dell Precision is the presenter of the prestigious "Next Wave" Award, which...

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Fantastic Fest 2013: Day Four Images - Tim Loses His Shirt. Again. Secret Screening No. One & Nerd Rap Throwdown?

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 08:30 PM PDT

Day four at Fantastic Fest is but a distant memory and our team remains remarkably unscathed in the land of the longhorn (HOOK 'EM HORNS!). Back home we continue the enviable task of documenting their journey for them. You know. Just in case they wake up in the middle of a field the following morning with someone's number scrawled on their forearm by a Sharpie. It was also the first Secret Screening of the festival; a tradition carried on by AICN's Harry Knowles. The first film he managed to bring to the festival was Eli Roth's Green Inferno. And according to Eli they were not planning to screen the film any time soon since it was bought up at TIFF so good on Harry to...

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: WOLF Roars Out Of The Gate With Criminal Self-Assurance

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 07:00 PM PDT

Boom! Without giving away the timing or context, at a certain point Wolf explodes into shards of glass that then recombine to reveal a wider, wilder landscape. Up to that moment, Jim Taihuttu's film was speeding on a straight narrative highway, with a few sweeping curves to guard against the possibility of conventionality. What appears to be a youthful nighttime lark -- the brazen theft of motor scooters -- quickly resolves into a portrait of a Moroccan immigrant who has rebelled against the hard-working lifestyle of his devoutly religious parents. Majid (an intense and glowering Chico Kenzari) is making his own way in Dutch society, but his hard-headed personality landed him in prison. Recently paroled, he seems to have learned nothing from the experience. He...

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Hey, Australia! Check Out Madman's Reel Anime 2013 Massive Giveaway No. 5!

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 06:30 PM PDT

To celebrate the upcoming Reel Anime Festival 2013, Madman is giving you, our dear readers, the chance to win some wonderful prizes! This week, we have an Evangelion prize pack to give away, and it includes: - Evangelion merchandise from the 2013 Evangelion Art Exhibition Tour - Evangelion 1.11 (DVD or Blu)- Evangelion 2.22 (DVD or Blu)- Evangelion 3.0 theatrical posterFor a chance to win, all you have to do is to follow these two simple steps:1) Tell me in 25 words or less why you should win this prize2) Email your answer, name and postal address to me at: hugo[at]twitchfilm.netThis competition will close at midnight on Monday September 30. Good luck!Reel Anime Festival is run by Madman Entertainment, Australia's leading distributor of anime, independent film, Asian cinema,...

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: MISS ZOMBIE Scrubs The Patio To Her Own Rhythm

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Times are tough all over, especially if you're a zombie. Though Miss Zombie has obviously been made with skillful intent, the film's dry, art house flavor mutes any horror impact from its premise. And that appears to have been an intentional move on the part of writer/director Sabu. Sabu is the creative 'pen name,' as it were, of Tanaka Hiroyuki, who acts under his given name, and here I must admit to a limited familiarity with his work, which has been largely limited to the international festival circuit. But one doesn't need to be intimate with his prior films to recognize his ability to frame and stage dramatic action with arresting style. Miss Zombie begins with the delivery of a very large package to the...

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ScarJo Goes Manhunting In This Further Look At UNDER THE SKIN

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:30 PM PDT

Under The Skin, Jonathan Glazer's first feature film since 2004's Birth has been dividing audiences from Venice to Toronto for its transgressive content and startling atmosphere. Basically Scarlett Johansson is an alien in human form and she's on the hunt for Earth men, for, you know, nefarious alien needs and such. An it only seems to get weirder (and possibly more human) from there. We at Twitch have been digging the vibe of the film thus far, including a teaser trailer a few weeks back. Kurt Halfyard, who saw and reviewed the film at Toronto was quite taken with the flick overall.Adapting Michael Faber's quite unconventional novel in a decidedly unconventional way, Glazer and his co-writer Walter Campbell jettison more than half of the source...

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Review: SACRO GRA Looks More Like a Quiet Sheep Than a Golden Lion

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:00 PM PDT

"Come with me, my love, on the Great Ring Junction" was the beginning of a popular parody song by Corrado Guzzanti, one of Italy's most famous TV comedians, and for twelve years that was what the media had to say about the GRA, in Italian the "Grande Raccordo Anulare" (Great Ring Junction) a ring-shaped highway surrounding Rome. Nothing to be happy about it, nothing to be proud, every unfortunate Italian who has to get inside Rome knows he'll have to spend at least one hour in the feared and well known Great Ring Junction, lost in the traffic jam for God knows how long.Suddenly it was dragged out of the traffic news, its name was said out loud to the world by one of Italy's...

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: MONSOON SHOOTOUT, Looking For Answers With Guns And Thunder

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Yes, shots are fired, and yes, a drenching torrent of rain is pouring down when a police officer and a suspect confront one another in a dark alley in Amit Kumar's Monsoon Shootout. Faithful to its title, the Indian drama effectively considers the implications of that shootout from more than one perspective. What if the suspect is a stone cold killer? What if he's an innocent bystander, the victim of a case of mistaken identity? What if he's some combination of the two? Adi (Vijay Varma) reports for his first day of field trials as a brand-new sub-inspector in Mumbai's Crime Branch, and is shocked to see his new commanding officer, Inspector Khan (Neeraj Kabi), calmly kill two men suspected of murder. It's a baptism...

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Fantastic Fest 2013: Antonio Tublen Drunkenly Reviews Antonio Tublen's LFO

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Karate ! Yab boom ! Now you shall hear. Bergman, step aside. Now it's my turn . or ... ? LFO is crazy good . yup , so it . do you know it is synthezisers in it? So damn cool , right? where the hell do I start? Hmm ... yes, I'm on the fantastic party. loveliest festival ever ! Thanks to everyone who got the film there. , Tim league - you are wicked! Yes that's right, now we're talking LFO . FTW !The film 's a bombastic masterpiece in. ... you have to see it. Hardcore !Why should you watch it then? yes, it is just so damn nice . The cast is really good . The story is wonderfully weird ....

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Fantastic Fest 2013: Day Three Images: Tim's Bloody Nose And Todd Eats His Shirt

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT

One of the highlights of the festival each year is the Fantastic Debates. Two men enter. They bicker a bit. They enter the ring and one man leaves as they say. If done right and in the spirit of fun the debates can be downright hysterical. Our own lord and master has entered the ring twice in years past and has come out victorious both times. And festival founder Tim League always offers his body science in the name of entertainment and always caps off the evening with a debate and fight of his own. And this year he entered into a debate with Man of Tai Chi director Keanu Reeves about the merits of Tae Kwon Do versus Tai Chi. Then he fought Tiger...

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Review: Eugenio Derbez's INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED Recalls The Laziest And Sappiest Adam Sandler Movies

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Eugenio Derbez was once an irreverent television comedian. At least that's how I recall him from the time I was growing up (the nineties), watching stuff like Televisa's coverage of the 1998 FIFA World Cup with Derbez mocking the serious soccer commentators or doing sketch comedy. It's material that for a kid might be hilarious and daring but that's really too dumb and simplistic to hold up nowadays as comedy gold. The fact that Derbez's directorial debut Instructions Not Included (aka No Se Aceptan Devoluciones) is full of lazy jokes doesn't strike as a surprise at all. He has been indulging the same formula for more than a decade with his foolish persona, achieving one of Mexico's most famous/ b eloved television series with La...

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Third Window Films Bring The Best Independent Japanese Cinema To Raindance 2013

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT

The 21st Raindance Film Festival, one of the largest independent film festivals in the world, is starting in just a couple of days' time. This year's Festival will be having a special focus on Japanese independent cinema with a strand titled 'Way Out East'. UK distributor Third Window Films have programmed 7 out of the 13 films in the lineup for Way Out East and will be bringing over 5 directors from Japan to represent their latest works. Check out the gallery below for details of the films, and also Raindance's official website for the full lineup and ticketing information.  ...

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Fantastic Fest 2013: Navot Papushado Drunkenly Reviews Papushado And Keshales' BIG BAD WOLVES

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT

17:00 and I'm sitting in the tent of the " Fantastic Fest " in Austin Texas just outside the world's coolest movie - Alamo Draft House. My stomach blows some good pounds of barbecued meat 's fine " Smith ." And I finished a few minutes to load huge amount of shots of " Jameson " . Why is it important that you know all this? That half an hour before Todd Brown to write a " review drunk " and explain to the world why " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf " is the best film ever made .And how can you refuse to Todd offers such a challenge , especially after yesterday he ate his shirtHis wine sauce cooked because he...

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See Marina De Van's DARK TOUCH For Free!

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Marina de Van's latest thriller Dark Touch hits selected theaters, VOD, and SundanceNowon September 27th and you could see the film for free!In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Neve finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve's explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Neve has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manifest. Haunted objects, an eerie score and a moody, oneiric look complement this intense and frightening peek into child abuse and the searing imagination of writer/director...

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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks PRISONERS, ART OF THE STEAL and WIZARD OF OZ 3D

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Still recovering from the long hours of TIFF (and writing all these Twitch reviews!) but managed to take in a screening during the fest of Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners and Jonathan Sobol's Art of the Steal. Also was thoroughly impressed with what Warner Brothers did with the 3D IMAX presentation of the 1939 Classic Wizard of Oz.Video embedded below...

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