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Kyoto International Film And Art Festival Announced For Autumn 2014

Kyoto International Film And Art Festival Announced For Autumn 2014

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 10:00 PM PST

Yoshimoto Kogyo, the entertainment giant that is home to many of Japan's biggest comedy personalities, including Big Man Japan and R-100 director Matsumoto Hiyoshi, announced today that they will be helping out with the running of next autumn's Kyoto International Film and Art Festival. The company is no stranger to this work, having run their own Okinawa International Film Festival for the past few years. This latest event is a re-launch of the Kyoto Movie Festival, which has been running since 1997 but is now aiming for a more international reach, promoting Kyoto as the birthplace of Japan's film industry. Some old-school film talent were present to sell the festival, including samurai and yakuza movie veteran and Toei stalwart Nakajima Sadao, producer of early Beat Takeshi works...

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THE ABCs OF DEATH 2 Announces Finalists In The 26th Director Contest! Watch Them All Now!

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:30 PM PST

After wading through a whopping 541 entries from 40 countries the twelve finalists for the ABCs Of Death 2 Search For The 26th Director contest have been announced, this final dozen selected half from public voting and half selected by a jury. Curious? Watch all twelve below and make your guesses as to which of these twelve will be crowned the final victor in a vote by the original anthology's 25 directors....

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The Stack: I DECLARE WAR, BODY BAGS, BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, And More

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST

I took a week off to prep the Gift Guide, which is shaping up to be a doozy. So is this week's reminder episode of recent home entertainment releases, featuring The Beauty of the Devil (1950) from Rene Clair and (finally) a solid edition of Night of the Comet, courtesy of our good friends at Shout Factory. Also up are The Right Stuff Blu-ray Digibook and Passion, the new film from Brian De Palma. I've got monster movies like Grabbers and Body Bags, and art house supernaturalism like Byzantium and Nosferatu. I've also got a ton more titles. Too many to list.  You can watch the entire video below. Vampire Twins shirt by Matt Mawson...

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Poster Premiere For Acclaimed Indie Drama SUGAR

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 12:02 PM PST

Rotimi Rainwater's acclaimed indie drama Sugar hits LA screens this Friday and Twitch is happy to present the new poster for the film based loosely on Rotimi's own real life story. Check all the details on the release plans and click the image below to see a larger version of the poster. Based on true events, SUGAR is the story of a young girl coping with PTSD on the streets of Venice, California. She survives on the fringes of society with her outcast friends, running from the torments of her past. Her new world begins to crumble when her uncle finds her through a social worker, forcing her to confront the demons she's been trying to escape for the past two years. SUGAR is an all...

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To Dream the Impossible Dream: Gilliam May Attempt DON QUIXOTE Again

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 11:30 AM PST

An article on The Playlist suggests that Terry Gilliam might attempt, for the seventh time, to make his dream of a film version of Cervantes' daunting novel, Don Quixote, a reality. The documentary on the subject, Lost in La Mancha, showed a lot of Gilliam's vision (as well as the difficulties that can haunt an auteur), and apparently it's a story that just won't let him go.On the surface, this film would seem like a no-brainer: based on the most famous Spanish novel of all time, translated into countless languages with no end of readers, on many high school reading lists, a great costume drama with great landscapes and sword fights, giants, two fantastic roles in Quixote and his sidekick, Sancho Panza. And Gilliam, with his...

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Haunted People, Haunted Places: The Films Of The Berlin School At MoMA

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST

Despite having one of the richest and most influential cinematic histories of any nation,  current German cinema's star rarely seems to shine beyond its borders. The films that make the rounds and get the spotlight or any awards attention are the ones that still usually ponder over the corpse of Nazism or chronicle the time of a Germany divided by the Iron Curtain. No doubt, there are compelling and important films to come from these still intriguing subject matters, but what of the Germany after the fall of the Berlin wall? Though only a handful of the films have made it out of German theaters and the international festival circuit, there has in fact been a bright new wave of German cinema to mirror that...

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TV Beat: ALMOST HUMAN, As Science Fiction, It's A Decent Cop Show

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST

Whenever I watch a TV show set in the future, I split into two people. One is the kid who was drawn to science fiction in his early teens, dreaming about Big Ideas played out in far distant galaxies and alternative realities. The other is the middle-aged man who knows the difference between true speculative fiction and modern-day dramas dressed up with space-age visual effects. On the scant basis of its pilot episode, Almost Human is a cop drama, wrapped in a blanket of computer-generated geegaws. Remove the visual effects, and it has the potential to develop into a traditional character study of a cop stuck in the past, one who doesn't deal well with changes. It's a story that's older than the movies, yet...

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AIRLOCK: Take An Exclusive First Look At New SciFi From The Creators Of THE TUNNEL

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 09:30 AM PST

It was all the way back in June of 2010 that we first came across producers Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey and their Distracted Media. the young Australian duo were determined to mess with established means of distribution with their feature film The Tunnel, a horror film which they funded by selling individual frames to backers in advance with the stated goal of releasing the completed film for free on BitTorrent when complete. And not only did they do it, but the film was quite good.The Tunnel was followed up by award winning web series Event Zero and they're moving along again now with upcoming scifi series Airlock. When a derelict ship docks with an isolated space station, Security Officer Jonah Wright is tasked with...

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Lisbon & Estoril 2013 Review: VIOLA Is A Strange, Audacious Little Film From Argentina

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST

The always interesting and exciting Argentinean cinema has been known for its very gritty realism and tight grip on the country's social and economic issues. Filmmakers like Fabián Bielinsky, Juan José Campanella and Lucía Puenzo lead with polished, socially invested productions. And then there's Lucrecia Martel and Matías Piñeiro, members of a group of young filmmakers who comprise an Argentinean New Wave of some kind and couldn't care less about mainstream drama where tragedy occurs and people learn and tears are shed. They seem to be more interesting in twisting narrative forms and playing around - which is the way anything remotely original tends to happen, really. Piñeiro's Viola is a very strange, puzzling film about women, love and... actresses, I suppose. Clearly an independent...

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Korean Box Office: Gangster Sequel FRIEND 2 Posts Solid Debut

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:30 AM PST

Compared with last year, business has been a little down recently but Korean films are as strong as ever as they commanded a 70% share over the past weekend with seven of the top ten films. 2.11 million tickets were sold over the frame, down from last year's 2.62 million, when A Werewolf Boy, the last Twilight film and Confession of Murder were vying for the top. Title Release Date Market Share Weekend Total Screens 1 Friend 2 11/14/13 50.60% 1,067,440 1,379,753 968 2 Thor: Dark World (us) 10/30/13 15.80% 346,931 2,607,991 518 3 The Five 11/14/13 12.30% 261,725 314,330 491 4 Gravity (us) 10/17/13 8.30% 128,511 2,941,144 288 5 Commitment 11/6/13 4.40% 107,009 967,557 402 6 The Counselor (us) 11/14/13 3.00% 63,823 80,824...

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Watch Six Minutes Of Studio Ghibli's TALE OF THE BAMBOO CUTTER Now!

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST

Studio Ghibli co-founder Takahata Isao returns to Japanese screens on November 23rd with the release of his latest animated feature, The Tale Of The Bamboo Cutter (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari) and with the public release just around the corner a six minute preview has arrived online.Of all the major animation directors in Japan, Takahata has long been the one least bound by the forms and style of typical Japanese anime. Yes, some of his films use the typical Ghibli style but more do not and this one very much finds Takahata exploring other styles and image to great effect. It's simply beautiful, beautiful work. Take a look below....

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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR and WHEN JEWS WERE FUNNY

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:30 AM PST

With a certain Scorsese film being bumped to a few weeks from now, we had a bit of a lull in major new releases, giving us time to showcase a couple award winning films. The first is Blue Is The Warmest Colour, the Canne-winning film that's generating as much press for its controversy as for the quality of the film Also had a chance to talk about the TIFF-Award winning When Jews Were Funny by stalwart documentarian Allan Zweig. Video embedded below...

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Johnny Knoxville Presents BAD GRANDPA In Mexico, Talks Spike Jonze's Deleted Character

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa opens in Mexico until next week (11/29) but Johnny Knoxville already visited the city to support the release. Together with director Jeff Tremaine, producer Derek Freda and co-star Jackson Nicoll, Knoxville met with the press for a short conference and, actually, leaved all the crazy fun for another time. There was no bad grandpa makeup or anything weird, just a regular 18-minute talk with Knoxville and Tremaine as protagonists. The most interesting subject discussed was co-writer Spike Jonze's character, which didn't make the final cut of Bad Grandpa and most likely will be seen on the Blu-Ray. In the gallery below you can read more about Knoxville, Jonze and Bad Grandpa with the top quotes from the Mexico City press conference! Jackass Presents:...

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