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Saswata Chatterjee Returns In Bengali Aladdin Story ASHCHORJYO PRODEEP

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Saswata Chatterjee Returns In Bengali Aladdin Story ASHCHORJYO PRODEEP

Saswata Chatterjee Returns In Bengali Aladdin Story ASHCHORJYO PRODEEP

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 09:00 PM PDT

Not many Bengali films make it out of Calcutta and pierce the international film consciousness, however, one very recent film got close. Anik Dutta's Bhooter Bhabishyat was one of the best received Bengali mainstream films in recent memory, and thanks to a fully subtitled, good looking print on YouTube, a lot of people who normally wouldn't care got to see it. Genuinely funny and nearly deserving of its two hour runtime, Bhooter Bhabishyat was a neat ghost comedy that resonated with audiences across India.Anik Dutta is back, and he's bringing the big guns this time. Ashchorjyo Prodeep is a contemporary Aladdin story about a struggling man who gets a much needed push from a modern genie. However, just like with any story like this, you...

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We Have The First Trailer Of RUMMY, Featuring Tamil Breakout Star Vijay Sethupathi!

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 08:00 PM PDT

I haven't been covering a whole lot of Tamil films here lately, mostly because nothing really interesting has crossed my path. However, when a performer gets such unanimous praise as Vijay Sethupathi over a series of surprise box office hits, it's probably best to keep an ear out. Sethupathi's latest triumphs were the all-in-one-night horror comedy Pizza, and the kidnapping black comedy, Soodhu Kavvum, a film about which I heard fantastic things but was unable to review due to the lack of advertised subtitles at my local theater. However, the film held a screen in suburban Dallas for about a month, which is a feat normally reserved for big budget blockbusters. His latest is Rummy, and if this trailer is any indication, he may continue...

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Fantasia Wants Your Movie!

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 02:30 PM PDT

Heads up, filmmakers! Though it feels like they just wrapped up their 2013 edition the massive Fantasia Festival in Montreal is already on the prowl for shorts and features to populate the 2014 program. That's right, their call for entries went out today so if you're sitting on the next great work of art be sure to pass it their way....

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Young Boys Indoctrinated Into The FATHERLAND In Gripping South African Documentary

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT

Director Tarryn Crossman has tackled the thorniest of possible subjects with new South African documentary Fatherland. In a South Africa working hard to heal the scars left by years of institutional racism Crossman tells the story of extremist Afrikaaners, pockets on the fringe of communities where racism is still alive and well and extreme paramilitary camps are held multiple times a year to indoctrinate their children.Fatherland is a coming of age story about three 16 year old Afrikaans, white boys who decide to spend their summer holidays doing basic military training, like their dads. But, when they find themselves at a tented camp deep in the bush, hungry, tired and being indoctrinated by the old Afrikaans regime, they are forced to decide where they fit...

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Brunei's First Ever Commercial Film Is Silat-Based Action Drama YASMINE

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Here's a surprising fact: Despite having the second highest standard of living in SE Asia (behind Singapore) and local cinemas doing a bustling business, the country of Brunei has apparently never produced a feature film for commercial release in the nation's entire history. Not one. That will change when Siti Kamaluddin's Yasmine hits the big screen.A martial arts themed drama about a young woman - the titular Yasmine - striving to become a silat champion, the two million dollar production has enlisted the help of Jackie Chan cohort Chan Man-Ching (his resume includes stunt work on Drunken Master 2, Rumble In The Bronx, Supercop and more) to handle the stunt work with the twenty year old star Liyana Yus dropping out of school to train...

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IS TRUE DETECTIVE Another Winner For HBO? The New Trailer Says 'Hell, Yes'.

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT

The cast and crew of upcoming HBO effort True Detective were enough to attract attention. A cop show at the cable giant - which has had great success with crime but usually from the criminal perspective - directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey? What's not to like? According to the new trailer, nothing.Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson star as Louisiana detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, whose lives collide and entwine during a 17-year hunt for a killer, ranging from the original investigation of a bizarre murder in 1995 to the reopening of the case in 2012. Michelle Monaghan also stars as Hart's wife, Maggie, who struggles to keep her family together as the men in her life become locked...

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Fear The Horrors Of Lee Hardcastle's GHOST BURGER

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Feeling hungry, kids? Because stop motion animator Lee Hardcastle has got a scary - and tasty - tale to tell with Ghost Burger. A sequel to Hardcastle's ABCs Of Death entry T Is For Toilet set twelve years later this latest effort is a twenty minute long ghost story in Hardcastle's signature style and featuring the first ever use of Ghost Scope technology in which you slap on a pair of 3D glasses and one eye sees ghosts while the other sees the world as normal. Check out both the regular and Ghost Scope versions of the film below....

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47 RONIN: Watch The New Trailer

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Let's just call it what it is: Upcoming Keanu Reeves star vehicle 47 Ronin is quite possibly one of the costliest B-movies ever made. While Universal Pictures may have set out to make a high concept, revisionist epic it is becoming increasingly clear that what they've ended up with is pulpy in the extreme, filled with over the top villains, paperback fantasy wish fulfillment, and cliche upon cliche ramped up to a thousand. And, honestly, if you take it as what it increasingly appears to actually be rather than what it was originally supposed to be, it actually looks quite fun. After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind, 47 leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and restore honor to their people. ...

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In Conversation: Andrew Pyper on the Success and Legacy of THE EXORCIST

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 11:00 AM PDT

It's a remarkable testament to the power of William Friedkin's Oscar-Winning The Exorcist that forty years after its release in 1973, it not only remains largely unmatched in the horror genre, but it continues to unsettle entire new generations. In honor of this ghoulish time of year, and The Exorcist currently playing at Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox Theatre every night until Halloween, I recently sat down with Andrew Pyper, best-selling Canadian author of the award-winning psychological horror novel The Demonologist (hitting paperback in Canada on January 7th and on March 11th in the US) to talk about his evolving relationship with The Exorcist, how it impacted him as a writer, what makes the movie so effective, and why it deserves to be consistently ranked as...

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Indie Beat: Top 5 Most Intriguing Indies In November

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 10:00 AM PDT

When we get down to awards season, it becomes even harder to discern the nature of so-called independent and limited releases. Like October, many of November's limited releases, start out as such, but are in fact "high-pedigree" studio films (or studio acquisitions) that by February are hoping for some rather rich accolades garnished upon them by the Academy. Though I did highlight 12 Years A Slave last month -- which is undoubtedly one of this year's biggest contenders for awards -- as, at least initially, a limited release, this month I'm doing my best to steer clear of such films, and instead aiming for the more odd or left-field choices. Yes, some rather prestigious names still appear on this list, but then again, one could...

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KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE: The First Teaser And New Poster Arrive!

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT

How will the Shimizu Takashi live action adaptation of Kadono Eiko's popular Kiki's Delivery Service children's novels  play out on the big screen? The tale of a young witch living on her own for the first time and making a living by operating a flying parcel delivery service has a huge following around the world thanks to the Miyazaki Hayao directed animated adaptation of the first book in the series and so anticipation has been running high for the live action take - an adaptation of the first two novels - and after a series of stills from the set a new poster and the first teaser have now arrived.And? She's smiley. Jiji the cat is still around and still black. And there will be...

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NYC Happenings: The Golden Age Of Spanish Horror At Anthology

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT

My dear NYC readers, that headline should be speaking volumes already. The Anthology Film Archives is featuring a cavalcade of films from Spain's horror heyday from October 30 - November 10. It's Must-watching no doubt, so our own Peter Gutierrez will now give you a taste of the what to expect at AFA -- Ben Umstead, East Coast Editor  Welcome to some great downtown programming for the Halloween season: a lineup of crowd-pleasers that's just artful enough and just B-movie-ish enough to satisfy on all the levels that count. In fact, five years ago I did see the Paul Naschy vehicle The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman on a big screen a few blocks from the Anthology, and the East Village audience did love it....

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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks ALL IS LOST, THE COUNSELOR and THE SUMMIT

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 08:30 AM PDT

As a certain Jackass takes the top spot, there are still a slew of Oscar contenders making their way to theatres this week. Robert Redford soaker All Is Lost has the makings of a great film, but falls apart towards the end. The same can be said for Ridley's Counselor, where a tightly constructed script with some fine moments simply doesn't add up to much more than tedium.Finally, a look at the opening of Sundance 2012 film The Summit, an interesting mix of documentary and recreation, telling the tale of tragedy scaling the peak of K2.Video embedded below...

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Interview: Corneliu Porumboiu talks about When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 08:00 AM PDT

During the Vienna Film Festival I had the opportunity to sit down together with Corneliu Porumboiu, one of the greatest voices of New Romanian Cinema to talk about his latest feature When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism and about his perception of cinema.>In his film he tells the story of a filmmaker struggling with his film and his life in general. He goes through an existential crisis screwing one of his actresses and pretending to be sick instead of going to the set and shoot. This film easily shows how fertile it is to look at processes and situations instead of big plots.Hello Mr. Porumboiu, is it the first time for you at the Viennale?No, it is the second time I am here and...

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Watch The Exclusive Trailer For Stuart Simpson's CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY VANILLA

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 06:00 AM PDT

Part Taxi Driver. Part The Good The Bad And The Ugly. All ice cream man.Twitch was pleased to present the Tom Hodge designed poster for El Monstro Del Mar director Stuart Simpson's latest cult opus Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla last week and now we're even more pleased to follow that up with a first look at the trailer for the film. Soon to premiere at Monster Fest in Australia, here's how the festival describes it:Stuart Simpson is a major Australian talent. His films defy genre and expectation. CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY VANILLA is his best yet. A meticulously crafted journey into the fragile psychology of an ice-cream van driver, it is dramatic, black and hilarious. Glenn Maynard is incredible in the lead role. Unmissable!Check out the trailer below!...

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