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- Hey, Australia! Check Out Madman's Reel Anime 2013 Massive Giveaway No. 3 (of 5)
- TIFF 2013 Review: A TOUCH OF SIN Is A Touch Too Slight
- TIFF 2013 Review: THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS Will Break Your Brain
- TIFF 2013 Review: THE UNKNOWN KNOWN Is A Zen Koan
- Giveaway: DEAN SLATER, RESIDENT ADVISOR
- MOTELx 2013: OPEN GRAVE, YOU'RE NEXT Bookend Incredible Lineup At Lisbon Fest
- Santiago 2013 Review: KARAOKE GIRL Triumphs As A Fiction, Fails As A Documentary
- The Stack: FRIDAY THE 13TH THE COMPLETE COLLECTION Blu-ray Tin, WAR WITCH, AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL, And More
- UKRAINE IS NOT A BROTHEL Trailer Bares The Truth Behind Topless Feminists
- Venice 2013 Review: Tsai Ming-Liang's STRAY DOGS May Be One Of The Most Powerful Retirements In The History Of Cinema
- Venice 2013: Sono Sion Talks About His Latest Masterpiece And What He Thinks About Miike Takashi And Kitano Takeshi
- TIFF 2013 Review: UNDER THE SKIN, Brilliant Cinema Of Alienation
- Destroy All Monsters: Can You Like The Film If The Filmmaker's A Dick?
- They Ain't The New Kids Any More, But The Gang's Back In First Trailer For BROS BEFORE HOS
| Hey, Australia! Check Out Madman's Reel Anime 2013 Massive Giveaway No. 3 (of 5) Posted: 11 Sep 2013 08:00 PM PDT  To celebrate the upcoming Reel Anime Festival 2013, Madman is giving you, our dear readers, the chance to win some wonderful prizes! During the five weeks in the lead up to the festival, there will be a new competition offering you the chance to win an awesome prize pack every week. This week, we have a 009 Re: Cyborg prize pack to give away, and it includes: - Eden of the East Complete Series (DVD or Blu)- Eden of the East Movie 1 (DVD or Blu)- Eden of the East Movie 2 (DVD or Blu)- Reel Anime 2013 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... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| TIFF 2013 Review: A TOUCH OF SIN Is A Touch Too Slight Posted: 11 Sep 2013 07:30 PM PDT  Almost a week after I screened A Touch Of Sin, I'm still trying to come to grips with my reaction to it. There's plenty to admire about Jia Zhangke's film, from its stark violence through its sweeping scope, but I can't help but come back to the fact that its 129 minute running time made it feel bloated and overwrought.I admit forthrightly that the audience I saw the film with was enraptured with the work, there were murmurs of content after the lights went up. For this viewer, I found the heavy handed script (an award winner at Cannes) too overt to truly get into. I didn't need twenty minutes to get a point that was made fairly simply, it's not shocking for this audience... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| TIFF 2013 Review: THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS Will Break Your Brain Posted: 11 Sep 2013 04:30 PM PDT  Already well loved on the festival circuit for a string of stellar, giallo infused short films, Belgium based directing duo Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet burst on to the international scene is spectacular fashion with their 2009 debut feature Amer. An overwhelming sensory experience, Amer established the duo as among the finest visual talents of our time, the visuals overwhelming as they took the influences of the classic films they loved and shaped them into a unique voice of their own. And now they return with their sophomore effort, The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears, which does the same only moreso.The premise is simple: A man returns home from a business trip and discovers that his wife is missing. After failing to find her... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| TIFF 2013 Review: THE UNKNOWN KNOWN Is A Zen Koan Posted: 11 Sep 2013 03:00 PM PDT  A snow globe shaking back and forth, little white flecks - snowflakes - swirl and obfuscate whatever is in the globe. Oh my what a loaded image. It is one of the chief ones Errol Morris employs in his lengthy interview with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Another is an endless ocean of waves: a blank canvas or adrift in the endless wilderness? True to form, after 96 minutes of Rumsfeld speaking, I felt as if I learned nothing at all from what he was saying. A marvellous bit of form echoing content, although for the sake of learning from history, it can be a bit infuriating. Rumsfeld, very recognizable for doing so many podium PR sessions on TV for the better part of a... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Giveaway: DEAN SLATER, RESIDENT ADVISOR Posted: 11 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT We've got a nice little prize pack to give away in connection with the iTunes and VOD release of Colin Sander's comedy Dean Slater, Resident Advisor. After their overenthusiastic RA is imprisoned in Mexico, a group of college freshmen are plunged into their first semester under a renegade Resident Advisor, Dean "The Dean" Slater. The boys battle viral video stigma, psychotic girlfriends, and hangovers on their way to creating a more analogue college experience. In the movie, Dean Slater uses a Kendama (wooden skill toy) as his zen thing. Thus, the prize pack includes the following: -- A signed DVD of the film. -- A beer opener. -- And a professional, limited edition, Cherry Wood Kendama. To win this bounty, all you have to do... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| MOTELx 2013: OPEN GRAVE, YOU'RE NEXT Bookend Incredible Lineup At Lisbon Fest Posted: 11 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT  The 7th edition of MOTELx, the Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, begins its five-day cinematic blitzkrieg today, bringing 80 feature and short films from near and far to a horror-ravenous audience. If this morning's 11 a.m. line outside the historic Cinema São Jorge is any indication, they're really hungry. The festivities kick off tonight with the international premiere of Gonzalo López-Gallego's much anticipated Open Grave, a disorienting tale of an amnesiac who wakes up in a forest ditch filled with cadavers and the resultant gamut of situational/existential questions. Closing the festival is a rare festival screening of Adam Wingard's uniquely styled home invasion thriller You're Next. Fest highlights include screenings of Frank Khalfoun's French reboot of 80s cult classic Maniac, Robert Ben Garant and Thomas... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Santiago 2013 Review: KARAOKE GIRL Triumphs As A Fiction, Fails As A Documentary Posted: 11 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT  There are many people out there who may be bigger experts on what is the nightclub culture in Thailand, but I guess that I can still have an opinion on the subject, just from what I've learned in this movie, that was part of the main International Competition at the SANFIC, Santiago Film Festival. I can say that I've learned something about this subject because the movie mixes the languages and stylistic approach of fiction and documentary filmmaking. Karaoke Girl wants you to understand from pretty early on that this is more a fictionalization of facts documented in situ at Bangkok.So, from what I could gather of the film, there are many karaoke places in Bangkok, in which many girls serve drinks, but at the same... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT  It's fitting that I have 13 items to cover this week since Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection hits Blu-ray in a beautiful tin. Does this set kill the possibility of other purchases? No way! Blandings: Series One is anything but bland. Michael Shannon gives a fiery performance in The Iceman. New on Blu stateside are Dracula: Prince of Darkness, the surreal An American Hippie in Israel, and Scanners II and III, Lastly, go out of your way to get ahold of the stunning time of war coming-of-age feature War Witch and the deeply evocative Radio Unnameable, which gives voice to one of radio's greats, DJ Bob Fass. ... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| UKRAINE IS NOT A BROTHEL Trailer Bares The Truth Behind Topless Feminists Posted: 11 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT  Recently screened at the Venice Film Festival, Kitty Green's documentary Ukraine is Not a Brothel has received a strongly positive response from two of my Twitch colleagues who have seen it. Here is the festival's intriguing synopsis: Ukraine Is Not a Brothel reveals the truth behind Ukraine's topless feminist sensation Femen. A movement that began in the snow-filled streets of a corrupt, post-Soviet Ukraine, Femen's naked war against patriarchy has taken the European media by storm. An intimate look into the lives of these women, however, and the bizarre revelation of the patriarchal forces that power this organization, prove that these titillating activists aren't the "fiery feminists" they claim to be. The filmmaker says she spent a year living with five of the activists, "shooting... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT  If Stray Dogs really is the last movie of Tsai Ming-Liang, then it would be one of the harshest losses of modern cinema, but at the same time one of the most powerful retirements in the history of the medium. In his latest effort, the Taiwan-based director explores the power of the cinematic image to its core. He is more concerned with feelings than with content. The movie deals with a lost family at the edge of society and their desperate need for a mother. One could say that the film is about isolation and the eternal fight of a poor existence. But even more, it is about the feelings that arrive with those topics. In Venice, half of the audience could not endure... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT  He's got a new haircut, but Sono Sion is still the provocateur we used to know. A man of few words, here's what he told us about his latest masterpiece, Why Don't You Play in Hell, and what he thinks of the current Japanese cinema scene..Twitch: Today we are celebrating the 70th edition of the world's oldest film festival, Venice. But what is cinema for you?Sono Sion: Oh well, there's no definition for that. My process of making films changes every time, depending on what I want to say and how I wanna use the medium. For example, I've done a film about the recent earthquake in Japan, and that one has a clear message in it. This time, instead, I've done something that is... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| TIFF 2013 Review: UNDER THE SKIN, Brilliant Cinema Of Alienation Posted: 11 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT  A long shot of a man waiting for a bus on a cool, foggy morning. The road winds through a valley where the stop and bench are at the bottom, and snakes up the other side. A woman walks into the frame, one whom we will be following as curious, but baffled onlookers for the duration of the film. The shot lingers, giving time for our eyes to wander around the frame as the camera is not focused on any one thing. We know the bus is coming and are drawn, but not forced, to keep looking in the top-right corner of the screen. The two people keep their distance. The bus arrives. We are told nothing, merely shown. The scene evokes Haneke and Antonioni,... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Destroy All Monsters: Can You Like The Film If The Filmmaker's A Dick? Posted: 11 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT  Steve McQueen's a dick. At least, he seems to be. I don't know the man personally and I've never spent any time with him one-on-one, but here at the Toronto International Film Festival, in Q&As and at press conferences, he behaves like a dick. To be fair, a lot of McQueen's behaviour is in response to processes that I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. People who ask questions at film festival Q&As do not, in my experience, have the widest frame of reference in terms of how films are made, and tend not to be interested in the kinds of things filmmakers are interested in, either. Add to that the questioners who are only interested in satisfying their own egos - the "this is... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| They Ain't The New Kids Any More, But The Gang's Back In First Trailer For BROS BEFORE HOS Posted: 11 Sep 2013 06:20 AM PDT  The gang's not quite all here but fans of Dutch comedy group New Kids have reason to celebrate today as the first trailer for Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil's latest film, Bros Before Hos, has arrived and features their compatriots Tim Haars and Huub Smit in key roles. And while they may have put away the mullets for this one it's clear that the sense of humor hasn't changed a whole lot. No subtitles here but, honestly, given the title and the creators, do you really think you'll have a hard time figuring it out? Check it out below.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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