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TIFF 2013: Watch The Teaser For Silent WW2 Thriller CANOPY

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TIFF 2013: Watch The Teaser For Silent WW2 Thriller CANOPY

TIFF 2013: Watch The Teaser For Silent WW2 Thriller CANOPY

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 08:00 PM PDT

Australian filmmaking is firing on all cylinders at the moment, with the country showing four films in Venice and six in Toronto. Most of them are high profile indies, but one of the unknown wild cards screening at TIFF is Canopy, the debut feature from Aaron Wilson. Singapore, February 9, 1942. The Japanese invasion is underway. Jim (Khan Chittenden), an Australian airman, wakes up dangling from a tree by his parachute strings, somewhere in the middle of a vast wilderness overrun by hostile forces. Jim must fend for himself -- until he literally runs into a Singapore-Chinese resistance fighter, Seng (Mo Tzu-Yi), who has also been injured and is also lost. The men realize that their only hope of surviving lies with each other.Check out the poster...

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Opening In Australia: THE GATEKEEPERS, A Terrifying Bird's-Eye View Of Conflict

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 07:30 PM PDT

Opening in select theatres in Australia on Thursday, 5 September, The Gatekeepers is a truly powerful film. Covering the never-ending war on terror and occupation from the early 60s until now, the film is half history lesson and half meta-spy retrospective. It is essentially 'Conflict 101' with one utterly crucial difference: The men behind these decisions, the former leaders of the Shin Bet, provide crucial commentary. These men are as shady as this counter-terrorism grp that they represent. Their conversations are frank but also orchestrated. The situation there has always been messy, but they claim responsibility for the successful prevention of attacks and push each failed decision on the politicians. It is hard to believe them, but I was irregardless captivated by them when I saw...

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Fear & Loathing at TIFF 2013, Part I: Daddy Didn't Love Me Stories

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 07:00 PM PDT

CHAPTER 1: THE FOUR STORIESCHAPTER 2: HOOKERS, METH, LOFTS, AND CONDOS. IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA. It's just a little past one in the morning on a Saturday night.  It's Labor Day weekend, it's officially the last weekend of the summer. The night air is already crisp and cool. It even smells like fall already. But the city is bustling with activity. There are men and women pooling out onto the sidewalks from the trendy new Fishtown bars, fumbling their way to the corner to chain smoke their American spirits and Camel lights. The men are all wearing their shiny muscle tees and open button ups with the collars popped.  The women are all miniskirts and daisy dukes cut so off short that the bottom...

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Watch The Full Trailer For Alfonso Cuarón's GRAVITY

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 06:45 PM PDT

Even with all the praise from Venice and Jim Cameron calling it the "best space film ever done", and even with Alfonso Cuarón's previous film Children of Men still standing tall as one of the greatest films of last decade, something has been lacking in all the promo material from Gravity to make it a must-watch experience for me.This new fuller trailer for the film has remedied this somewhat; it's an up close and personal piece of mayhem, that features Sandra Bullock spinning out of control as the space station disintegrates around her. There are flashes of Clooney, and some semblance of story, but this is mostly a tease of tension and panic, and it works wonders. Check it out below....

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Tollywood's Action Comedy King Manchu Manoj Mugs Like Mad In POTUGADU Trailer

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 06:30 PM PDT

I love Manchu Manoj. I've made no secret of the fact that Tollywood's Jackie Chan is an extremely guilty pleasure of mine. He's not a particularly great actor, but he is most definitely a Class-A ham and hands-down the most entertaining action performer in Andhra Pradesh these days. Rocking Star Manoj's latest is Potugadu, a remake of a Kannada film called Govindaya Namaha, a film in which a man (Manchu) falls in love with four different women. A couple of months back we gave you the first 45 seconds of footage, but this new trailer triples that amount, focusing a lot of dialogue (which I can't understand) and romance (which I'm also a bit at a loss for). However, there's a decent chunk of new action...

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Review: LA MAISON DE LA RADIO Takes A Fun Look At A French Media Conglomerate

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 06:00 PM PDT

The latest film from French master Nicolas Philibert (To Be and To Have, Nénnette) takes a naturalistic and, at the same time, fun look at one of the most important media conglomerates of France, Philibert's camera takes a long and deep look at the insides of the big round building that is the house of Radio France International, with its own offices, press rooms, conference rooms, recording booths, and concert halls. Many of the elements and moments that we see in the film, specially those that are not inherently connected to the making of a radio show, or at least those that are part of the modern radio that we listen to nowadays, are covered, like the recording of a short story, read out loud...

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Fantastic Fest 2013: Shorts Lineup, From ANGST To ZIEGENORT

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 05:30 PM PDT

Serial killers, satanic rituals, and "an exasperated amphibious creature recalling the adventure that led him to a sushi restaurant chopping block" are featured in the first three short films announced for Fantastic Fest 2013 -- and there are more than three dozen more in the lineup. A quick scan reveals Masaaki Yuasa's "candy-colored" animated wrestling film Kick-Heart will be playing, too, which is the one I've heard the most about, but the real fun in the shorts programming is hearing about the ones that emerge as "must-sees," which then often leads to the discovery of delightfully bent visions. Also cool: Kier-La Janisse is now the festival's lead shorts programmer, which raises interest even higher. Her brief bio is below: Fantastic Fest is wildly excited that...

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Venice 2013 Dispatch, Lost The Count Of Days: A Sliced Penis Is Not So Funny

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 05:00 PM PDT

We've lost track of our days here at the Venice Film Festival. Time is so strict that it makes it impossible to talk about every single film and vision going on the big screen. The main competition remains maybe the weakest section of the glance, and we're actually not so sure that some hidden aces will still come the following (last) days. Roll on:...

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Keep On Truckin' In Hi-Def With The CONVOY (1978) UK Blu-ray

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 04:30 PM PDT

Bizarrely based on the 1975 country and western song of the same name, Convoy (1978) is late period Peckinpah and not his finest work by any stretch. This rambling tale of CB radio-toting truckers and corrupt lawmen in New Mexico still bears the unmistakable hallmarks of a Sam Peckinpah film, though, despite significant on-set difficulties (due to the director's multi-substance abuse) and a tamer subject matter than most of his canon. Put aside your preconceptions and it's an enjoyably daft, if slight, romp for anyone that found Smokey and the Bandit just a little too chirpy. Kristofferson is highly watchable as 'Rubber Duck' and Magraw does her thing as well as you'd expect (or indeed, not expect). There's a hugely entertaining turn from Ernest Borgnine as corrupt sheriff Lyle 'Cottonmouth'...

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Check The Official Trailer For The L'Etrange Festival 2013!

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 04:00 PM PDT

The Paris based L'Etrange Festival gets underway tomorrow (today in Europe, as you read this) and Twitch is proud to once again be involved as a media partner for the massive event. We'll have both Ben Croll and Shelagh Rowan-Legg reporting back from on the ground at the festival throughout and for those who want an early taste, you can check out the festival trailer below....

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Korean Film Festival In Australia 2013 Preview: Twitch Rounds-Up The Essentials

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Have you found recent festivals in Australia desperately lacking in the Asian cinema department? You are not alone! The vibrant, diverse fourth year of the Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) hits Melbourne this weekend! We love Korean film at Twitch, and so, to get you prepared and participating we have put together a roundup of the top films from the festival. Click through the gallery below for a great snapshot of the fun weekend to come.Check out the Melbourne schedule for the festival here....

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TIFF 2013 Preview: 13 Flicks That Have Lit Up Previous Festivals

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Part six (you exhausted yet?) of our massive Toronto International Film Fest preview series is here. The festival kicks off tomorrow and we've got a quick refresher on a few of the big films that have premiered at other festivals earlier this year. Check 'em out below and come back tomorrow when we raise the curtain with our top picks!...

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Win A Limited Edition ELECTRIC MAN Poster

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Scottish indie comedy Electric Man hits US DVD September 10th and to celebrate the producers are giving away a pair of limited edition posters. That'd be it to the left.Jazz and Wolf need money to pay off their landlord. hope appears in the form of n ultra rare comic, Electric Man Issue 1, which mysteriously appears in their shop. However, they're not the only one who want to get their hands on it. Want your chance to win? No problem. Email me here and name the actual most valuable comic according to current values. Please include your mailing address. Check out the trailer below!...

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Venice 2013 Review: RIGOR MORTIS Pays Eerie Homage To Hong Kong Vampires

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Hong Kong popstar-turned-actor Juno Mak continues to defy expectations with his directorial debut, a sombre and eerie eulogy to the hopping vampires of the 1980s that trades the sub-genre's signature laughs for world-weary melancholy from a fine cast of screen veterans. After the surprise success of Wong Ching Po's Revenge A Love Story, lead actor Juno Mak, who also conceived of the bleak thriller's premise, felt sufficiently empowered to step behind the camera and helm a feature film of his own. Inspired by the traditional Chinese vampire films of his youth, most notably Ricky Lau's Mr. Vampire (1985), Mak set out to resurrect and ultimately lay to rest that particular sub-genre of Hong Kong horror. Set in a shadowy, otherworldly apartment complex, populated by a...

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Destroy All Monsters: Divergent Twilight, Catching Fire

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT

First of all, this neo-genre needs a name. There are enough entries now, and whatever movement Twilight started in Hollywood ain't stopping. The stories tend to fall under either creature fantasy (The Mortal Instruments, The Twilight Saga) or near-future science fiction (The Hunger Games, Divergent). They unilaterally feature a teenaged female protagonist plucked from a stable family life to cross the mythic plane and engage in hero deeds. They almost always feature at least one, and often two, male suitors, who are usually magically or technically empowered, and often (at least initially) more empowered than the protagonist. At their spine is the romance between the female lead and one or both of the suitors, and a cycle of attraction, rejection, and reclamation by that lead...

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Aliens, Lasers And Space Boobies Galore In SPACE DANDY Trailer

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT

Space Dandy is the latest animated series from Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop creator/director Watanabe Shinichiro and he has taken madness to new heights. There really is no way I can begin to describe the mental sugar rush that awaits you in the trailer below! The series is set to debut in early 2014 so you will just have to watch this trailer over and over and over again! I do not want to take up any more of your time so this is a brief description of the series that I found... Space Dandy (stylized as Space☆Dandy) is an upcoming Japanese anime series directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and produced by Bones. The series will follow Dandy, an alien hunter who is the "dandiest man in space",...

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TIFF 2013: Trailer For Bruce McDonald's THE HUSBAND, A Dark Comedy Stewing In Anger

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Bruce McDonald's latest film, the dark comedy The Husband, is set to have its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, September 9. The film was co-written by his lead actor, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, who has worked with McDonald before on The Tracey Fragments. The trailer has dropped ahead of its premiere next week and you will find it below. Henry, the hero of Bruce McDonald's gutsy The Husband, is having a really bad year. His wife, Alyssa, a former teacher, is in jail for sleeping with a fourteen-year-old student, leaving Henry to raise their infant son alone. He loathes his ad agency job -- and his co-workers even more. Moreover, the burden of single-parenting has essentially cut Henry off from his friends, leaving...

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RED WHITE & BLUE's Simon Rumley To Direct Paranormal Project THE LAST WORD

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 06:30 AM PDT

Red White & Blue director Simon Rumley has been attached to direct a paranormal project titled The Last Word. He will be directing a script written by Ben Ketai who has three 30 Days of Night titles to his credit. Based on true events, Word centers on the strange and tragic aftermath endured by the participants in the trial of a young man in Texas who was wrongly convicted and executed for the rape and murder of a nun.The true events by which this film will be based on are from a murder case back in 1983 when a 17 year-old mentally challenged boy named Johnny Frank Garrett is wrongfully accused of raping, murdering and mutilating post-mortem a 76 year-old nun. The death penalty was issued and...

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Watch A Second Trailer For Jeunet's THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 06:00 AM PDT

Due for release in France in mid-October, a new trailer has arrived online for Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 3D adaptation of Reif Larsen's The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet starring Helena Bonham Carter, Kathy Bates, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie, Dominique Pinon and Kyle Catlett. A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.If you're a fan of Amelie thinking to yourself right now "Hey, this could be kind of amazing and right back to the sort of charmingly quirky stuff that made me love Jeunet in the first place," then this trailer is here to say you are correct....

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