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Lisbon & Estoril 2013 Review: Polanski's VENUS IN FUR Does Brilliantly With Very Little

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Lisbon & Estoril 2013 Review: Polanski's VENUS IN FUR Does Brilliantly With Very Little

Lisbon & Estoril 2013 Review: Polanski's VENUS IN FUR Does Brilliantly With Very Little

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 01:00 AM PST

One could easily make the case that Roman Polanski is one of the very few living filmmakers with enough credentials to make a film based on a play based on a 19th century novel that would be the basis for the modern concept of masochism. If we bypass all the personal scandals and tragedy that have paved his life and career, and focus purely on the work he's produced for the past fifty years, it becomes pretty clear that the Polish-French master understands perversion like very few do. It's very much a defining trait in most of his films, which have pushed boundaries and made us confront our own notions of good and evil, right and wrong, or even made us wonder if those aren't...

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Interview: Andrea Pallaoro Talks About His MEDEAS

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST

Andrea Pallaoro's Medeas, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, is a strong and true piece of cinema, dealing with topics like alienation, desire, family and violence. In his first feature film, the Italian director explores the life of a family in the California desert in a way that makes the drought-stricken landscapes appear as inner images of the characters. A slow-burning, menacing conflict emerges between the religious father and his deaf-dumb wife who betrays him. In between are four children with their own needs and conflicts. Their daily life is captured with beautiful cinematography, an attentive ear to sound and a way of acting that gives room for our own interpretations. Pallaoro tells his story with cinematic means; there is not much dialogue needed...

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Five Flavours 2013 Review: 36 Describes A World Composed Of Digital Memories

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit's minimalist feature confirms a distressing yet completely plausible trend, which defines our age as the one where human memory has lost its true purpose. Though that assumption might sound nonsensical at first, it's not a surprise that people nowadays tend to rely only on artificial methods of storing what they've experienced in the past. In the process, they're subconsciously making themselves totally dependent on technology and thus making personal connections seem all the more fictitious and transitory.Since the beginning of the 21st century, genuine photographic memory is being gradually replaced by all kinds of digital cameras and mobile phones. Although the fact that we are able to save all precious memories with just one simple click is somewhat comforting, it's never a good idea...

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Five Flavours 2013 Review: HOMOSTRATUS, A Surreal Meditation On Contemporary Life

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST

Homostratus, the latest experimental piece from Vietnamese director Siu Pham, went a long and turbulent way from its production phase through to its world premiere here at Five Flavours Film Festival 2013 in Warsaw. Due to some misunderstandings with the distributors, an official release is not at all probable as of now and the film's future seems up in the air. Considering all that chaos surrounding this picture, it's been an even bigger privilege to be able to attend its only planned screening in recent history.Homostratus amazes and confounds in turns. At first, the film presents itself as a seemingly accidental montage of puzzling chapters that don't really fit the bigger image but separately aspire to reflect on the ambiguity of existence. As the storyline progresses,...

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AFM 2013: Image Entertainment Visits WOLF CREEK 2

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 08:30 AM PST

Fans of Aussie horror flick Wolf Creek will be pleased to know that the rights to the sequel, Wolf Creek 2, have been acquired by Image Entertainment this weekend at AFM. The company has scheduled the film for 2014. The only question is whether the film will have any sort of theatrical run or home video release. VOD is pretty much a no-brainer in this day and age. The article is not clear 'where' they have the rights but Image Entertainment distributes in the U.S. and U.K. An Australian theatrical release is forthcoming on February 20, 2014 from Roadshow Film Distributors. More from the company's press release: Original helmer and writer Greg Mclean returns to the sequel along with John Jarratt, who plays the film's original antagonist. Shannon...

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AFM 2013: Elijah Wood's COOTIES Spreading To Europe And Latin America

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST

Okay. Technically, Elijah Wood does not have cooties. But he is a production partner and stars in the upcoming horror comedy Cooties. And if you want to see Wood fight off a horde of savage elementary school children and you live in the U.K., Germany, Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) and/or Brazil, then by golly you're in luck. Cooties, a horror comedy, penned by Saw and Insidious scribe Leigh Whannell and Glee writer Ian Brennan, and directed by Jonathan Millot and Cary Murnion, was sold to Universal Pictures International Entertainment during AFM. Alison Pill (The Newsroom) and Rainn Wilson (NBC's The Office) also star. Here's the official synopsis:When a mysterious virus borne from chicken nuggets hits an isolated elementary school transforming the pre-adolescent children into a...

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Final Trailer For BRO'S BEFORE HO'S Is Rude. Rude I Say!

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 07:30 AM PST

Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil are probably best known as the directors of New Kids Turbo and New Kids Nitro, as well as being two of the actual New Kids themselves. But that was then: the New Kids have hung their mullets in the willows, and this is now. And this December, we get a new film from Steffen and Flip, outside of the chaotic universe of the New Kids: Bro's Before Ho's. We've already published some stills and a teaser in the past, but today Eyeworks published the final trailer, and here it is. Steffen and Flip have proven in the past that their talents are not so much in the originality of their jokes, but in their expertise in comedic timing...

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