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NASHVILLE, IF...., HAROLD & MAUDE Head Masters Of Cinema Q2 Slate

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NASHVILLE, IF...., HAROLD & MAUDE Head Masters Of Cinema Q2 Slate

NASHVILLE, IF...., HAROLD & MAUDE Head Masters Of Cinema Q2 Slate

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 03:30 AM PST

Another raft of quality classics have just been announced as joining Eureka Entertainment's Masters of Cinema series. Lindsay Anderson's brilliant If...., Robert Altman's Nashville, Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole and Hal Ashby's Harold & Maude will be released between April and June 2014, alongside Elia Kazan's Boomerang, John Cassavetes' Too Late Blues, Richard Fleischer's Violent Saturday and Charlton Heston medieval epic War Lord.Here's the press release for all the details:The latest slate of films from Eureka!'s The Masters of Cinema Series brings together some of the most heralded masterpieces of the 20th century. Releases include Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole (the follow-up to the great director's Sunset Boulevard, and a follow-up to Masters of Cinema's extremely successful releases of Wilder's Double Indemnity and...

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World Premiere Of HAUSU Director's SEVEN WEEKS To Close Yubari 2014

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 10:20 PM PST

The Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival is a favourite cinematic celebration here at Twitch, and next month we'll be heading east to snowbound Hokkaido, Japan for this year's celebration of weird and wonderful genre cinema. The official programme has now been released and the big news is that Seven Weeks, the new film from Hausu director Obayashi Nobuhiko, will have its world premiere on 2 March as the festival's closing film. Rest assured, we'll be there to check out this 3-hour opus, starring Shinagawa Toru, Murata Yuji and Matsushige Yukata.While details are pretty scarce right now, our resident Japanese contributor, Chris O'Keeffe, was able to assist with a translation of the official synopsis:The snowy city of Ashibetsu, Hokkaido, the present. Suzuki Mitsuo (Shinagawa Toru) owner of the...

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Review: In LABOR DAY, Real Men Bake Pies

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 09:00 PM PST

Kate Winslet is a Real Woman. And Josh Brolin is a Real Man. And yet, they cannot be together.  That's the tragedy of the new drama, Labor Day (based on the novel by Joyce Maynard, who also wrote the source book for Gus Van Sant's To Die For). And make no mistake, that's drama read "melodrama", as in Douglas Sirk-ian 1950s level yarns, so unapologetically awash in far-fetched dysfunction and hot-house volatility amid gloriously stretched-thin plausibility. Such is the melodramatic intent and vibe of director Jason Reitman's new uncharacteristic film. (Reitman being the maker of snarky stylish comedies of the now, always about troubled individuals, such as Juno and Up in the Air.) Much of the attention focused upon Labor Day has been about how absurd...

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Review: LOVE IS IN THE AIR Crashes On Familiar Romantic Rocks

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 08:00 PM PST

Awash in cliches, flashbacks, and montages, Love Is In The Air (Amour et Turbulences) subscribes to the exhausted yet still popular notion that for everyone there is but one true love. It must be fate, therefore, that seats Antoine (Nicolas Bedos) next to Julie (Ludivine Sagnier) on a trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris. Once upon a time, they loved each other, and then they broke up. Now, with the clock ticking, Antoine and Julie have six hours to relive their great romance, rekindle the sparks, and work through all the thorny issues that divided them, to the amusement of fellow passengers and one disapproving flight attendant. Six people, including director Alexandre Castagnetti and leading man Bedos, are credited with adaptation and dialogue, with...

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Sundance 2014 Review: FRANK, A Fun Musical Mashup That Doesn't Quite Mesh

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 07:00 PM PST

All the ingredients are her for me to adore Frank. You've got a quirky premise surrounding a bunch of musical fun, a standout performance by one of the world's best actors, a mix of the somber and the slapstick all coming together with a bunch of memorable one-liners.Yet for all its pieces, I'm not sure Frank adds up to what it could have been. It comes close enough to being a masterpiece that it's a bit frustrating, its ending just a bit too contrived, as if it ran out of steam.Along the way, however, there's a hell of a lot to admire. We're introduced to Jon, played by Domhnall Gleeson with a terrific manic air. He's coming up with tunes on the spot, crafting jingle-like...

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HERE COMES THE DEVIL Coming To Toronto And Ottawa In February

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST

Here Comes The Devil is arguably one of our favorite horror films from the festival circuit last year, from one of our favorite Spanish language directors. Adrián García Bogliano's scintillating horror film will have limited theatrical runs here in Toronto and over in Ottawa in February. All of this is thanks to the folks at Video Services Corp (VSC). In Toronto it will play at The Royal in Little Italy and in Ottawa it will play at the Mayfair Theatre, which is probably in a Little 'Something' I imagine. I think it wholly appropriate that his film opens on Valentine's Day here in Toronto, what with all the sexuality dripping throughout. Our apologies to everyone making V-Day plans in Ottawa because it opens there a week...

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Sundance 2014 Review: IMPERIAL DREAMS Is A Taut, Effective Social Drama

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 06:00 PM PST

About two-thirds the way through Malik Vitthal's remarkable film, the lead character makes it plain - he's just trying "to do the right thing."Back in 1989, another African American filmmaker showed how doing the right thing wasn't always easy. Spike's joint was a technicolor dream, a Public Enemy-fueled romp through one volcanically hot day in Bed-Stuy. Vitthal's story is far less fable, and far less bombastic, but in its own way Imperial Dreams might be an even more powerful testament to the moral morass that constitutes life for some in the inner city.We're introduced to Bambi as he's waking home from jail, his belongings swinging on his side in a silly looking plastic garbage bag. Through voiceover we hear about the challenges of reintegration, how...

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IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE: Watch The Trailer For The Latest From Director Of A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST

[Updated with English subtitled version of the trailer.]Announced January 15th as in competition at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival, Hans Petter Moland's Kraftidioten has gotten itself a brand new English title to go along with a brand new trailer. Formerly known as The Prize Idiot the film has been retitled In Order Of Disappearance for the international market and it once again features Stellan Skarsgard - leading man of Moland's previous A Somewhat Gentle Man - in the lead role.Nils drives a snow blower and has a carefree life in snow covered Norway, until his son's death suddenly puts him in the middle of a drug war between the Norwegian mafia and Serbian criminals. In this world he is a beginner - armed with heavy...

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UNDER THE SKIN Red Band Trailer Will Do Just That

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST

Like the previous clips and teasers, the latest bit of image for Jonathan Glazer's film adap of the Michel Faber book is short and strange, only this time its got a barrage of pull quotes from critics. And according to the fine folks at Hitfix, who have the exclusive, was cut by Glazer himself. I take it this means the last ones were too. Now many of those quotes go by so fast that I can't tell if Kurt Halfyard has one in there, but here's his review to tide you over until April 4th, the date in the U.S. when Scarlett Johansson's alien makes initial contact... and will then feed on us all.  ...

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Review: VENUS TALK Drowns Out Despite Strong Female Stars

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 04:00 PM PST

As a fan of Moon So-ri and production company Myung Films, I felt that I should be excited about Venus Talk, their first collaboration since Im Sang-soo's excellent A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003). But on the other hand, with its middle-aged female cast and heavy Sex and the City parallels, I was never this film's intended audience. Given the lack of strong female roles in today's Korean film industry, I'm glad to see a major film like this come along but that still doesn't mean this particular offering held much appeal for me. Independent TV producer Shin-hye (Uhm Jeong-hea), confident housewife Mi-yeon (Moon So-ri) and single mother Hae-young (Cho Min-soo) form a trio of 40-something friends that go through the ups and downs of their...

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A Blind Man And A Deaf Man Versus A Death Cult In Action Comedy YOU CAN'T HEAR ME, YOU CAN'T SEE ME Teaser

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 02:00 PM PST

Here's a bit of fun for old school action fans, a new action comedy in the works in Indonesia from director Andrew Suleiman. Titled You Can't Hear Me, You Can't See Me a proof of concept short is currently in the works to lay the groundwork for a proposed feature very much in the vein a classic Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow action comedies. That's a lofty goal, to be sure, but the teaser for the short certainly displays an awful lot of high end martial arts work. The story revolves around a pair of young men - one a blind judo master, the other a deaf but equally skilled fighter - vying for the attention of a beautifully blind folk singer who is the...

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Amar'e Stoudemire Signs On As EP For Documentary THE VILLAGE OF PEACE

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 12:30 PM PST

An intriguing project has just gotten a very high profile boost with word that NBA star Amar'e Stoudemire has signed on as an executive producer on Ben Schuder and Niko Philipides' documentary The Village Of Peace.The Village of Peace explores a community of African-Americans from Chicago, who in 1967 began a two-year migration to Dimona, Israel. The founders of the Village recount their epic journey from the backdrop of oppression and upheaval in Chicago, through the unfamiliar terrain of Liberia, to what they now call home in the Negev Desert. Approximately 300 people made the original migration. Today, more than 5,000 African-Hebrew Israelites live in Israel. The stories of four villagers are woven together to portray a community unlike any other, inspired by ancient scripture...

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SXSW 2014 Embraces TV, Announces Feature Lineup Led By JOE, OPEN WINDOWS, THE RAID 2

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST

The 2014 film edition of South by Southwest (SXSW) is embracing television. Their new category "Episodic" will screen "premieres of innovative new work hitting the small screen," including the latest from HBO, Showtime, AMC, Hulu, Fox, and the El Rey Network (Robert Rodriguez's latest venture). As for narrative features and documentaries, 115 have been announced for the festival, held in Austin, Texas, and running from March 7-15. It's the usual mix, favoring American independent movies and a good selection of U.S. documentaries, along with studio releases and samples of world cinema. Narrative features that caught my eye include David Gordon Green's Joe, with Nicolas Cage, will receive its U.S. premiere; as far as I know, it doesn't have U.S. distribution yet, so that's intriguing. Robert...

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Everything That's Not You Wants To Kill The Red Band Trailer For Seth MacFarlane's A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 11:30 AM PST

So, what did you think was going to happen after the massive worldwide success of Ted? That Seth MacFarlane was going to clean up his act? Never gonna happen, as made very clear by the very dirty and very, very funny new red band trailer for the Family Guy creator's latest big screen effort A Million Ways To Die In The West.Seth MacFarlane directs, produces, co-writes and plays the role of the cowardly sheep farmer Albert in A Million Ways to Die in the West. After Albert backs out of a gunfight, his fickle girlfriend leaves him for another man.  When a mysterious and beautiful woman rides into town, she helps him find his courage and they begin to fall in love.  But when her husband,...

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Watch This Interview With Joko Anwar, Director Of MODUS ANOMALI And FORBIDDEN DOOR

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST

This is from RealTalk, a webseries of interviews with some of the most prominent voices in Indonesia, created by Hannah Al Rashid (Modus Anomali, V/H/S 2), where they tell the brutally honest opinion and stuffs that is rarely seen on mainstream media, let's say TV. Joko Anwar (The Forbidden Door, Modus Anomali) is the prominent voice in Indonesia filmmaking with various directing and writing credits on features and short films. In this interview, he gives his vivid opinions on various issues in Indonesia filmmaking, Indonesia in general, and about his passionate method in filmmaking with his cast and crew. Let's say no more and watch this incredible interview right away. (it's in Bahasa Indonesia with English subtitle) Real Talk WIth also already did interviews...

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Review: RHYMES FOR YOUNG GHOULS, A Must See Debut

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST

"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 international audiences -- the post-genocide period of Canada's 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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THE RAID 2: 'Hammer Girl' Sends Love ... And Hammers!

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST

The Raid 2 is hell bent on destroying the brains of the lucky audiences who come into contact with it -- now you can add members of the Australian postal service to that list. Upon checking my mailbox recently, a special teaser, which could only be described as a 'love letter' had been delivered -- opening the sticky brown paper wrapping -- the contents revealed an early, bloody valentine gift from 'Hammer Girl' herself.I can't wait to meet her in person... The Raid 2 opens in Australian cinemas (and other international territories) on March 28, 2014! ...

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KING OF THE HILL Director Gonzalo López-Gallego To Helm New Thriller SANCTUARY

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 09:01 AM PST

US-based production company Atlas Independent has tapped Spanish director Gonzalo López-Gallego (King of the Hill, Apollo 18, Open Grave) to direct their new film Sanctuary, based on a script by Ryne Douglas Pearson (Mercury Rising, Knowing).According to an article on SciFi World (in Spanish), tells the story of three documentary filmmakers who go to South America to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a village. They find a strange building in the middle of the town, with no sign of entry or exit.If you haven't seen King of the Hill, I insist that you find a copy. It's an incredible film about a man and woman running from an unseen gunman in the hills of Spain, playing on rural thriller tropes and video game aesthetics. (In...

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Review: 12 O'CLOCK BOYS Is A Hell Of A Bike Ride

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST

It's no surprise to long-time readers of my reviews that I'm enamoured with David Simon's Baltimore. From Homicide: Life On The Streets, through The Corner and of course The Wire (still perhaps the best programme that has ever aired on television), these fictional works exposed a very real, unique culture of inner city Baltimore in a way that remains a touchstone years after they aired. I grant immediately that David Simon had nothing to do with the making of Lotfy Nathan's tremendous film, 12 O'Clock Boys, yet the spirit that drove Simon's shows runs throughout this documentary. There's something about the row houses, the grass courtyards flanked by brick low-rise apartments, the dockyards seen in the distance, and thickly accented "ee-you" at the end of...

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Review: TIM'S VERMEER Conjures Up True Magic

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST

For decades now, Penn & Teller have made a living pricking the balloon of illusion, showing the skill and sheer tenacity behind magical performances that's as compelling as any level of deceit or subterfuge. What makes their shtick so engaging is that they go out of their way to show you how the trick was done, and then still manage to awaken within you that sense of wonder you first felt when as a child you saw some hack do the ball-and-cup trick at a birthday party. For Penn & Teller, science and craftsmanship are the true spirit of magic, and they don't need to rely upon notions of the supernatural or superhuman in order to sway an audience with the power of their performance....

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Ambulante 2014 Review: DARKNESS (PENUMBRA) Follows A Deer Hunter Who Will Bore You To Death

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST

After its world premiere at the IFFR 2013, Eduardo Villanueva's Darkness (original title: Penumbra) has had really good presence on the Mexican film festival circuit, as it was part of FICUNAM, Riviera Maya and most recently Morelia. And now it will have yet another chance to be seen by a Mexican audience thanks to the traveling documentary film festival Ambulante. Curiously, Darkness was not screened with the documentary selection in Morelia but rather as one of the Mexican feature length fictions. So, is it a documentary or not? Darkness is in the vein of many recent Mexican films that play with that, a sort-of "docu-fiction" if you will. It's also one of those that are destined to remain within the festival circuit, as it is...

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