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Tokyo 2013 Interview: Film REKORDER Mikhail Red Talks Cinema Pirates And Pioneers

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Tokyo 2013 Interview: Film REKORDER Mikhail Red Talks Cinema Pirates And Pioneers

Tokyo 2013 Interview: Film REKORDER Mikhail Red Talks Cinema Pirates And Pioneers

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST

At just 21 years of age Filipino filmmaker Mikhail Red has written and directed his first feature length film. Mikhail started his career early under the guidance of his father Raymond Red, a key figure in Filipino independent cinema and the recipient of the Palme d'Or in 2000 for his short film Anino. Like his father, the young director leans towards the experimental and as a result his debut, Rekorder has been shot on a number of different formats which retain their original aspect ratios. The film tells the story of Maven, a movie pirate with an obsession for filming the world through his outdated video camera. It's an interesting film dealing with a number of issues including piracy, social media and an increasingly disconnected society but...

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Five Flavours 2013 Review: HANYUT/ALMAYER'S FOLLY, A Great Adventure Well Worth A Closer Look

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST

HANYUT (Malay) - Drifting off into peril, without any real way of getting back.The foregoing definition, which appears only after the final scene of the picture, perfectly evokes the tone of Hanyut/Almayer's Folly and emphasizes the omnipresent feeling of an inevitable doom that's hanging above all of the characters' heads throughout the whole time. Predetermined fate leads their lives onto a path of mischief, conflict, madness, betrayal and hatred. As in a Shakespearean tragedy, although not as brutal and with much lower body count, all the actors maneuver uncomfortably through rough terrains without being aware that most of their actions may have terrible consequences.Based on Joseph Conrad's rather unsuccessful novel, U-Wei Haji Saari's Hanyut/Almayer's Folly is the most expensive production in the history of Malaysian...

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Blu-ray Review: BLACK LAGOON: ROBERTA'S BLOOD TRAIL, A Welcome Revisit

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 02:00 PM PST

(Putting the "Maid" back in "Warrior Maiden", this is Roberta: she has a big gun, she took it from her Lord...) Let's start this review with saying that I am a huge fan of the first two seasons of Black Lagoon (reviewed here). The last storyline of the second season was arguably the best yet, ending all characters at a low point while leaving all other things the series was already so good for at a high point. Then, in 2010, season three arrived, or rather Roberta's Blood Trail. For while the episode-numbering continued as normal, the format changed from a regular twelve-part series to a shorter five-OVA series, telling a single, longer story using longer (but fewer) parts. This sort-of-third-season has now finally arrived...

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APOKALIPS X: Watch The Sales Promo For The Post Apocalyptic Action Fantasy

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST

It's been a long time coming for Mamat Khalid's post-apocalyptic action fantasy Apokalips X. A hugely popular director in his native Malaysia - where he is responsible for a string of massively successful horror comedies - Khalid changed gears significantly with Apokalips X, aiming for something bigger, more effects driven and more complex by far than most of what is produced in Malaysia. The post production process has been long and complicated but the film is now completed and is being offered for international sales at the American Film Market by Birch Tree Films, who have offered us a look at their English dubbed international sales promo.Chemical warfare has destroyed the world leaving only a handful of teens and youngsters alive and struggling to carve...

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Indie Beat: Old Ways And New Directions With Filmmakers Andrea Sisson and Pete Ohs

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST

I met Andrea Sisson and Pete Ohs (collectively/creatively know as Lauren Edward -- their middle names) the night their documentary I Send You This Place screened at WestFest, an experiment in micro-festing put on here in Los Angelese by the fairtrade filmmmaking site Seed&Spark. I had curated a pair of films that would be playing the final night, but made it a priority to attend all three evening of the fest. As the short block of credits rolled for their film I knew instantly that I wanted to speak with the married couple about the journey they had just shared with us... and what was next.  I Send You This Place is a documentary of emotions, gauged, weighted and balanced by the environment these vessels...

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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks THOR: THE DARK WORLD, THE BOOK THIEF and DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 07:30 AM PST

This weekend saw the release of Thor: The Dark World, and, well, I kinda liked it! (Certainly more than this flick...)On the other hand, The Book Thief proved to be far more slight than I would have enjoyed, and while the performances are sure to garner attention at awards time, I didn't fall for Dallas Buyers Club either.Video embedded below...

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TV Beat: SLEEPY HOLLOW, Solving The Strange Mystery Of A Headless Horseman

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST

A headless horseman gallops out of a nightmare and into the modern day in Sleepy Hollow, a new series that returned to broadcast television last week with an even more apocalyptic vision. In Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," first published in 1820, the secluded, upstate New York setting is known for its haunted atmosphere (according to Wikipedia), and the tale ends with "superstitious schoolmaster" Ichabod Crane ("a Yankee and an outsider"), who pines for the young Katrina Van Tassel, disappearing after a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. Sleepy Hollow refashions Crane into a British soldier during the Revolutionary War who defects to the side of the American patriots. During a fierce battle, he cuts the head off a mounted soldier...

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EXCLUSIVE Interview: Bong Joon-ho On The Crew And Influences Behind SNOWPIERCER (Part 3 of 3)

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 05:00 AM PST

In the third and final part of our epic interview with Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho we discuss the incredible crew he assembled behind the scenes, the influences behind the film's stunning production design and the input of fellow Korean Park Chan-wook, who served as a producer. BEWARE, one conceit of Snowpiercer's narrative is that different carriages in the train are revealed only as characters encounter them. During this interview we discuss the design of many of these rooms, which may be considered spoilers by sensitive readers, though no real plot points are revealed. Later, one signifcant plot spoiler is discussed in detail, which I have marked accordingly.Twitch - Behind the camera you pulled together so many different talents. You brought in a lot of different people...

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