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Santiago 2013 Review: HIJO DE TRAUCO (Trauco's Son) Is Admirable, Yet Hollow

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Santiago 2013 Review: HIJO DE TRAUCO (Trauco's Son) Is Admirable, Yet Hollow

Santiago 2013 Review: HIJO DE TRAUCO (Trauco's Son) Is Admirable, Yet Hollow

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 07:01 PM PDT

Chiloé is an island in the territory of Chile, and it's maybe the most interesting place in my country that I've yet to visit for myself. It's plagued with myths and legends, creatures and magicians, stories about ghosts and witches that could make up for a total lack of mythology in the rest of the country. What is with this piece of land that has been so filled with creatures and events, obviously created to explain certain phenomena that happens only in the island? The Trauco (or Trauko) is one of the most famous, it's a dwarvish figure with great strength and powers, who has an particular taste for raping virgins.Obviously it's a myth created out of necesity, the unmarried young women who ended up...

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New York Film Fest 2013 Review: Praise the Lord! James Franco's CHILD OF GOD Is A Revelation

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 05:30 PM PDT

Love him or hate him, James Franco has one of the more interesting Hollywood careers going these days. My own relationship with the man was born of indifference and suckled at the teat of hatred, thanks in no small part to the 2011 Oscars. But his skeezetastic turn in Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers weaned me of my hate, and I'm slowly starting to feel the love. If not for his artistic output, then at least for the audacity of his career choices. He's pretentious yet self-deprecating, prudent yet reckless. He stars in blockbuster tentpoles, ridiculous self-referential soap opera arcs, makes no budget art films, and adapts "unfilmable" works of literature. I don't know, but I think it might be time to start taking him seriously....

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Watch Donnie Yen Kick Some Serious Ass In A New SPECIAL ID Clip

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:30 PM PDT

In the Information age where even the smallest news detail is exposed online before a film is released, there are some things that are better left unseen at the risk of spoiling the element of surprise. However, being an eager action fan for all things involving Donnie Yen putting the beatdown in true bad ass fashion, I couldn't help share this fight scene clip for Clarence Fok's Special ID.  It features Yen laying a path of destruction on a gang of thugs in crammed kitchen and it looks brutally awesome.  The other two major fights scenes will occur at the mahjong parlors and a broken highway bridge.   Among the other action highlights beside the fight scenes is the insane vehicular mayhem.  The car stunts...

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New York Film Fest 2013 Review: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Affectingly Re-examines Nature vs. Nurture

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:00 PM PDT

It seems Kore-eda Hirokazu is incapable of making bad movies. The babies-switched-at-birth premise in films is nothing new. But he just makes it so darn affecting and poignant, avoiding all the clichés that go with this kind of blurry-eyed family drama. Him getting unbelievable performances out of his child actors is already legendary since, then 12-year old Yagira Yuya won the Best Actor Award at Cannes in 2004 for his film Nobody Knows. But it really stumps me how Kore-eda manages that with kids every time. Like Father, Like Son is no exception. For example, I really need to know how he captures moments where child actors shrieks in true delight while maintaining themselves in character. HOW? If Kore-eda's last film I Wish was more...

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New York Film Fest 2013 Review: AT BERKELEY, A Fascinating, Immersive Examination of the Famed Educational Institution

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT

For 46 years now and counting, the 83-year old filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has carved out an endlessly fruitful niche within his chosen genre: the examination and function of various institutions. His methodology has remained unchanged since his first films in the 1960s as a practitioner of the cinema verité style of filmmaking: no voiceover, no interviews, no on-screen titles identifying speakers, no music cues. Wiseman gives us immersive, fly-on-the-wall experiences, letting editing and visual juxtapositions express the messages he seeks to convey about the places he chooses to film.The great strengths, as well as certain weaknesses, of Wiseman's method are on full display in his latest, At Berkeley, a four-hour study of the famed of University of California campus, his 38th documentary and his 40th...

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Cinefilipino Review: Mike Alcazaren's PUTI (WHITE) is a Gorgeously Atmospheric Horror Until It Decides to Become a Conventional Morality Tale

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT

At the center of Mike Alcazaren's Puti (White) is Amir (Ian Veneracion), a counterfeit painter who leads a reclusive life with his son, Jaime (Bryan Pagala). His wife died a couple of years back. Other family members are abroad. His social interactions are limited to Nika (Jasmine Curtis-Smith), a young arts student who assists him in his forgeries in exchange for some lessons, and the art dealer (Leo Rialp) who peddles his replicas to wealthy collectors. Brooding and perpetually in a state of unkempt, Amir is a man resigned to his wasted fate. There is little joy in his life. The craft that destiny has chosen for him forces him to view the expensive works he copies upside down. He admits to Nika that the...

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Camera Japan 2013 Review: EVANGELION: 3.0 Has (Not) Left The Remake Arena.

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT

(Change whatever you want, how much you want: it's all still the same in the end...) A year ago, we were only a few weeks removed from the world premiere of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, yet so little had been shown of it and the teasers were so vague, that doubt still existed if there actually was a movie there or not. Then, of course, the premiere happened, the film turned out to be really real, and fans worldwide could start discussing its contents again. And oh boy, was there a lot to discuss... This week, the excellent Camera Japan Festival in Rotterdam was kind enough to show the film theatrically, just as they did with the previous two films, and that is...

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Watch The First Teaser For Miike's MOGURO NO UTA

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Miike's getting weird again. After a run of big and comparatively safe studio productions, Miike Takashi got bloody again last year with the release of Lesson Of The Evil and he's following that up now with an adaptation of Takahashi Noburo's manga Moguro No Uta. Nippon Cinema describes it like this:Moguro Not Uta revolves around an underachieving cop with a strong sense of justice named Reiji Kikukawa. Kikukawa is secretly tasked with infiltrating a large criminal organization in order to destroy it from the inside.That synopsis, however, does not even begin to sum up the craziness contained within the 30 second teaser. Take a look below to check it out....

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Interview: Nicolas Winding Refn On Sci-Fi And The Genius Of JODOROWSKY'S DUNE

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 08:23 AM PDT

A few months ago I was lucky enough to spend a couple of hours talking with Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn. While the bulk of that interview was about his latest directorial effort, Only God Forgives, for another publication (which you can read online here), we also spent a few minutes discussing his involvement in Frank Pavich's incredible documentary, Jodorowsky's Dune. With that film's double win at Fantastic Fest last week, where it won both the Audience Award and the Best Documentary prize, now seemed the perfect opportunity to share this brief discussion, which covers Refn's relationship with Jodorowsky, his involvement in the film and his future science fiction projects.Twitch - I recently saw JODOROWSKY'S DUNE, which of course you're in, and I wanted to...

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: KIDS POLICE Gets Big Laughs From Small Heroes

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 07:15 AM PDT

Writer-director Fukuda Yuichi brings his own TV series Kodomo Keisatsu (aka Kids Police) to the big screen in impressive fashion, with this slick, frequently amusing action comedy that enthusaistically embraces its ridiculous premise and succeeds in large part thanks to a showcase of impressive child performances.When evil terrorist organisation Red Venus inflicts a powerful nerve gas on the elite SID unit of the Yokohama police department, they succeed in transforming seven of its top operatives into children. Now trapped in pre-teen bodies and forced to live double lives both as innocent kids and the city's best crime fighters, the Kids Police are determined to bring Red Venus to justice and retrieve the antidote to return them to their former adult selves.Yes, the premise for Kids...

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