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Tokyo 2013 Lineup Announced

Tokyo 2013 Lineup Announced

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 01:00 AM PDT

The lineup for next month's Tokyo International Film Festival was announced last week and along with the usual assortment of new Japanese and Asian cinema it offers up a lot of stuff that has been making headlines at recent film festivals. In the competition section stuff like Richard Ayoade's The Double and Joe Swanberg's Drinking Buddies have received positive reviews on this site. In the Special Screening section is a great chance to catch stuff that could take a while to reach Japan like festival opener Captain Philips and Steven Soderburgh's Behind the Candlelabra. The World Focus section actually collects together films which have been well received at other festivals with documentary Jodorowsky's Dune being top of my must watch list.Competition SectionAu revoir l' été...

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Etrange 2013 Interview: Stephen Sayadian Is 'The Most Interesting Man In The World'

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 07:00 PM PDT

Stephen Sayadian is just one of those 'Guys'. A born provocateur. A gregarious storyteller. A genre unto himself. He's been everywhere and met everyone. He may not be a household name, but name one in front of him and chances are he'll have a few stories about them.The genre he created, dominated and left behind could best be described, I suppose, as surrealist nightmare art-porn. But, funny. With Nightdreams, Cafe Flesh and Dr. Caligari, Sayadian lifts from experimental theatre (where he has also worked extensively), silent cinema and absurdist comedy to create X-rated films that are anything but erotic, hallucinations that stick with you long after the leads have pulled out. And after making three of the very strangest films I, or anyone else, has ever or...

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: RAGNAROK, A Fun Family Adventure, With Norwegian Style

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 07:00 PM PDT

Curse you, Indiana Jones! The bullwhip-toting, fedora-wearing, hard-loving professor created unrealistic expectations for all cinematic archeologists who have followed in his footsteps. Thus, the gentle, mild, soft-spoken Sigurd, a tall and slender family man who is still coping with the loss of his wife, hardly seems the type to chase after a Viking myth about the end of the world, especially with his two children in tow on a supposed "family vacation" in the desolate, far north Finnmark region on the border between Norway and Russia. Yet watching the unlikely adventure hero Sigurd try to balance the competing interests of family and work -- to be more accurate, a personal obsession -- is one of the pleasures offered by Ragnarak, directed by Mikkel Brænne Sandemose,...

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The Producers Of THE COLLECTOR Become THE HUNTED: Watch The Trailer!

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 06:55 PM PDT

Premiering at Screamfest LA on October 10th, the producers of The Collector and The Collection return to horror with The Hunted. Here's how the festival describes it:Chasing their dream of landing their own hunting show, Jake (Stewart) and Stevie (Blevins) head to the dense, secluded mountains of West Virginia. Equipped with only their bow and camera, they have just three days to kill a monster buck big enough to grab the attention of the Outdoor Channel...and they've found him. But the sun has set, and they realize they're not alone. The pair decides it's time to call it quits and leave the woods and their dreams behind. With the setting sun, their realization may have come too late as they are finding out escaping may...

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Fear & Loathing at Fantastic Fest 2013, Part 2: CHAOS REIGNS, ASSHOLES!

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 06:00 PM PDT

CHAPTER 4: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM IS DEAD; I KILLED IT, I AND I. It's Thursday night, September 26th 2013. Or maybe, I should say that it's Thursday night October 1st 2009. I don't know. Time travel is really fucking complicated and my head already hurts to think about it. What's important is that I'm in the bathroom of The Elephant Room, a popular jazz club located in the heart of downtown Austin. It was one of my favorite haunts when I lived here back in 2009. And oddly enough, here I am drinking at the same small, super hip jazz club once again, back in 2009 even though it should be 2013. And even more importantly, I'm standing in the women's bathroom and...

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: SEPTIC MAN Is Surprisingly Serious And Smart.

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 05:10 PM PDT

DO NOT watch this while eating. In fact just go vomit now.  Director Jesse Thomas Cook has created one of the most unusual films I've seen in a while and the trick he pulls off was enough to make me smile . But be forewarned Septic Man is every bit as disgusting as the premise makes it sound and then some. When various and most heinous plagues begin to decimate a small Canadian town the local government begins evacuation of the folk and the sewers. Trust me. Everything and everybody here evacuates. But since they know the problem is in the sewers the town fathers approach Jack, a local plumber, who has saved them before. They promise Jack the moon, a pot of money and a...

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Feratum 2013: Full Details On Mojica Marins' Visit And Second Wave Of Films, Which Includes BIG BAD WOLVES And EEGA!

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT

Mexico City's Cineteca Nacional (the Cinematheque) hosted the final press conference of Feratum 2013, with the festival's director Miguel Angel Marín leading the panel that revealed the second wave of films (the out-of-competition selection) and full details on the visit of José Mojica Marins (Zé do Caixão/Coffin Joe). Feratum 2013 kicks off on October 3 with the screening of Calvin Reeder's The Rambler. As a cool fact, Ulises Guzmán, director of Alucardos, Retrato de un Vampiro and Feratum programmer, presented The Rambler paraphrasing an extract from Chase Whale's Twitch review! "If David Lynch and David Cronenberg teamed up with Werner Herzog early in their careers and made a movie together, it would have been Calvin Reeder's The Rambler." It sure looks like a killer opening film, but perhaps...

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New To Netflix: Thrillers! Horror! Samurai! Docs!

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Back from a week's hiatus, and there are plenty of new goodies in the Netflix cookie jar.  This week we've added coverage for The Netherlands, along with the usual territories of Canada, The United States, Mexico, Brazil, The United Kingdom, Ireland and Scandinavia.  Fresh on tap, we have big pharma shenanigans, witch covens, travels beyond the infinite, malevolent oceanic organisms, noble ronin, and the most perhaps the most ambitious documentary project in the history of the medium....

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Fantastic Fest 2013 Review: NORTHWEST Points Toward A Young Man's Criminal Future

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT

A stolen watch is the MacGuffin in the Danish crime film Northwest. Its theft sets in motion the opportunity that young Casper has been waiting for, even though he doesn't know it yet. Casper lives with his mother and young siblings in the northwest area of Copenhagen, Denmark. The neighborhood's outward appearance is that of an open, airy, sunny collection of houses and apartment buildings, but within the brick and painted stucco walls are criminal gangs whose rivalries are rooted in generational and racial differences. Casper works efficiently as a burglar under the thumb of a gang run by Arabs, but his take-home pay doesn't go very far beyond providing for the material needs of his mother, his 17-year-old brother Andy, and his young sister...

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ASMODEXIA Set Visit Reveals More of the Spanish Horror New Wave

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT

About an hour north of Barcelona, an old tuberculosis hospital was converted to a large film studio, the Parc Audiovisual de Catalunya. Fans of Spanish horror film have likely seen several films shot there, and the most recent film in production is Asmodexia. The first feature film directed by Marc Carreté, written by Carreté and Mike Hostench (co-director of the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival), the studio's former use has served useful for some scenes of the film, which I was able to visit recently.Asmodexia tells the story of a grandfather and granddaughter exorcist team, who travel the Barcelona area plying their trade. On set, I had the opportunity to watch a scene being shot, and talk to Carreté and Hostench about the film. In addition,...

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TIFF 2013 Review: RHYMES FOR YOUNG GHOULS Is A Must See Debut

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT

"The day I found my mother dead I aged by one thousand years." So begins this harrowing, explosive debut from Jeff Barnaby. The backstory may be unfamiliar to audiences - the post-genocide period of our countries treatment of its Native population was governed by the Indian Act, words from which serve as the introductory passage to this film. It was mandated that any child of age was to be placed into a "residential school", and that "any means necessary" could be used to force the youth away from their communities. Ostensibly to foster the education of these children, the schools became rife with abuse and corruption, where the language and culture of the individuals was subsumed under the aegis of "civilizing" these children. This practice...

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