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IFFR 2014: What The Audience Liked Best

IFFR 2014: What The Audience Liked Best

Posted: 11 Feb 2014 01:51 AM PST

(Forget the snobby arthouse critics... see what the PAYING people thought!) Last week saw the end of the 2014 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Prizes were awarded, parties given... and the final audience ratings were added to the tally. The IFFR audience ratings are always something to look forward to. Available from the third day of the festival, and updated daily, they often provide some priceless pointers towards choosing what to go see during the last few days of the festival. So many titles at the IFFR are made by unknown artists, or are World Premieres, that it is always impossible to predict the entire top five. Surprises happen every year, and for me the audience ratings list is a definite must-see, so...

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Berlinale 2014 Review: SPROUT's Short and Sweet Seoul Odyssey

Posted: 11 Feb 2014 01:00 AM PST

A little girl's trip to the market becomes a charming journey through modern Korea in Yoon Ga-eun's delightful short film Sprout, which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival last October. Korean indie cinema often makes a point of demonstrating what's wrong with society while many of the values most prized by citizens are typically found in the nation's commercial output, albeit through rose-tinted windows. Thus it has been a treat to see some younger, low-budget filmmakers explore the positives of their country in recent years. Films like Koala (2012) have not forgotten the realities of the society they inhabit, but they have also placed the good right alongside the bad. Sprout, an unassuming yet kaleidoscopic journey through midsummer Seoul's sundrenched hills and back alleys,...

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Drafthouse Films Acquires Nick Cave Doc 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 08:35 PM PST

Drafthouse Films have purchased the North American rights for the documentary 20,000 Days On Earth, a film about a fictional day in the life of musician Nick Cave. The film was the feature debut of visual artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. It had its World Premiere at Sundance this year, where it won "Best Directing" and "Best Editing" Awards in the World Cinema Documentary category. It had its European Premiere at the Berlin Film Festival yesterday. Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon, Nick Cave. With startlingly frank insights and an intimate portrayal of the artistic process, the film examines what makes us who we are, and celebrates the transformative power of the creative spirit."I...

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Berlinale 2014: Exclusive Photo From Serial Killer Drama BLACK COAL, THIN ICE

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 01:04 PM PST

Heading soon to its world premiere in a competition slot at the 2014 Berlinale, Black Coal, Thin Ice (Bai Ri Yan Huo) follows "a down-and-out detective and his successful protégée who reunite to tackle a cold case and catch a serial killer still on the loose." The third feature from director Diao Yinan, after 2003's Uniform and 2007's Night Train, the new film is set in a small town in Northern China in 1999, and stars Liao Fan, Lun Mei Gwei, and Wang Xuebing. The festival notes comment: "This director's third feature is a noirish thriller in drained colours which, whilst playfully alluding to the genre, also invites us into the lives of very ordinary people." Black Coal, Thin Ice is a Jiangsu Omnijoi Movie...

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Director Of KIDNAPPED Shooting New Horror In Hungary

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST

Last week, shooting began on Miguel Ángel Vivas's new flick for Sony Pictures, Welcome to Harmony. Shooting continues until early April in Budapest with Matthew Fox (Lost) and Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) as the leads, while Ahna O'Reilly, Clara Lago, and Quinn McColgan support.Alberto Marini and Vivas have adapted the story from the book Y Pese a Todo (And Despite Everything) by Juan de Dios Garduño. It's a post apocalyptic story set in a small, snowy US town where the few remaining humans need to learn to live together and also fight against infected savage creatures and zombies to survive.  It's a co-production between Spain's Vaca Films, Ombra Films in the US and Laokoon Films in Hungary. Televisión Española, Canal Plus, Canal Sur, Telefónica and...

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LIVING IS EASY WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED Big Winner At Spain's Oscars

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 10:02 AM PST

Six Goyas landed in the laps of director David Trueba and his friends for Living Is Easy With Your Eyes Closed (Vivir Es Fácil Con Los Ojos Cerrados) on Sunday night in Madrid. The film won best picture, director, screenplay, actor, new actor, and soundtrack. Inspired by actual events in 1966, it's a comedy road movie about an English teacher obsessed with the Beatles. He drives to Almeria when he hears that John Lennon is acting in the comedy How I Won The War and en route picks up a teenager and a pregnant woman.The other big winner with eight statues was Álex de la Iglesia's comedy Witching and Bitching (Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi), which dominated the technical categories. Best Foreign Spanish language nod went...

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Twitch's Favorite Robotic Cops (Resurrection Optional)

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST

The metallic clank of his feet. The whirling drill sound of his arms and torso twisting into motion. The stentorian command of his voice. Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop set a high standard for robotic law-enforcement officers back in 1987, a standard that José Padilha's new RoboCop will be hard-pressed to top when it expands into North America on Wednesday, February 12. But Verhoeven's vision, based on a great script by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, and brought to life by a large team of talented craftspeople and an excellent cast, led by the great Peter Weller, was not the first time robotics and/or cops brought back to life played a role in providing law and order on the big screen. Our writers were eager to share...

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Review: GET MARRIED IF YOU CAN (CÁSESE QUIEN PUEDA), An Irritating Rom-Com Starring Martha Higareda

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 08:01 AM PST

Famous Mexican actress Martha Higadera (Amar Te Duele) decided to write a romantic comedy for a Valentine's Day release, and now it is a reality called Get Married If You Can (Cásese Quien Pueda), directed by first-timer Marco Polo Constandse and starring Higareda herself. The movie works from a very basic premise and uses the rom-com formula to an annoying result. The story is about Ana (Higareda), a young spoiled woman who finds out that her fiancé cheated on her just before their weeding. To the surprise of Daniela (Ana's sister, played by Higareda's real-life sis Miri) and Gustavo (Nosotros Los Nobles' Luis Gerardo Méndez), Ana still wants to get married with the cheating dude because she can't see beyond her nice, superficial life. On...

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Learning From The Masters Of Cinema: William A. Wellman's WINGS

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 05:00 AM PST

Dubbed the last great silent film, William A. Wellman's 1927 action-packed epic is a simple story of friendship, love and rivalry set against the colossal backdrop of the First World War. Featuring some of the most incredible aerial battles ever committed to film, Wings remains a bona fide cinematic spectacle to this day, thanks in large part to a gorgeous new restoration.Small town lad Jack (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) is infatuated with city girl Sylvia (Jobyna Ralston), unaware that she has pledged her devotion to his best friend, David (Richard Arlen), heir to the town's richest family. When war breaks out, both men enlist in the air corps, with Jack mistakenly believing Sylvia is in love with him. He also fails to realise that Mary (Clara...

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Berlinale 2014 Review: HISTORY OF FEAR Is Brooding, Atmospheric, And Glacially Slow

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 04:00 AM PST

History of Fear is set in an unnamed Argentine suburb, an idyllic community where rich families' vast estates are bordered on every side by barbwire fences and imposing gates. The presumed effect is to keep the people inside safe, but all it really does is instill in them the feeling of being under perpetual siege. One gets a similar feeling watching the film itself.Like an Ur-arthouse Downton Abbey, the film follows the lives of both the gentry rich and the lower class residents of neighbouring slums who work as their servants. If that sounds like a simple enough hook, I must say that it took me a solid 30 minutes of screen-time to even figure that much out. The film is not what you would...

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