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Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces Of Polish Cinema At Film Society Lincoln Center

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Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces Of Polish Cinema At Film Society Lincoln Center

Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces Of Polish Cinema At Film Society Lincoln Center

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:00 PM PST

New York City-based readers! The great Martin Scorsese is about to give you a one of a kind opportunity to explore the magnificent world of classic Polish cinema. For just 12 busy days Film Society of Lincoln Center will turn into a hot destination for all movie aficionados, who might feel that their film education can't be really complete without the experience of seeing some of the greatest Polish pictures ever made on the big screen.Starting tomorrow (February 5) you will be able to see not only many beloved and celebrated works directed by the country's major creators of the post-war film movement, but also a number of rare gems that even many Poles are probably not familiar with. Due to countless circumstances Poland's cinema is...

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Hey Australia! Win Tickets To See Chow Yun Fat's FROM VEGAS TO MACAU In Cinemas!

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 02:00 PM PST

From Vegas To Macau is the latest collaboration between Hong Kong director Wong Jing and star Chow Yun Fat, who of course worked together on the classic gambling film God Of Gamblers and its popular sequel. James Marsh, our Asian Editor, calls it "fast, funny and spilling over with escapist antics in opulent surroundings". I wholeheartedly agree and have found it to be the most fun Hong Kong film I have seen in a long time. Thanks to China Lion, we have FIVE double passes for From Vegas To Macau to give away to you, our dear readers.For a chance to win, all you have to do is to follow these two steps:1) Like the China Lion Facebook page, and2) Email your name and postal address...

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First Trailer For Poignant Japanese Drama OUR FAMILY

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 01:30 PM PST

From Ishii Yûya, the director of last year's highly successful Japanese film The Great Passage, comes a heartbreaking drama based on the recently published novel by Hayami Kazumasa. Our Family (Bokutachi no Kazoku) centers on a shattered family that suddenly needs to come together when one of its members, the 60 year old mother, is diagnosed with a deadly disease. The poignant and distinctly tearful atmosphere of the first trailer is in perfect accordance with the even more depressing storyline, which is briefly summed up in the following few sentences:Since Reiko (Mieko Harada) turned 60-years-old, she seems to get more and more forgetful, but her husband Katsuaki (Kyozo Nagatsuka), first son Kousuke (Satoshi Tsumabuki) and second son Shunpei (Sosuke Ikematsu) do not care or notice. One day,...

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Fearsome Samurai Meets Cute Kitty.

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST

One for the "Only From Japan" file? I think so.A feature length outing of a (presumably) popular TV series, Neko Samurai tells the tale of a down on his luck samurai hired - wait for it - to kill a cat. But it's so fuzzy. So cute. And he just can't do it.The man with the eyebrows in the lead role is Kitamura Kazuki, seen rather a lot in these parts recently thanks to his lead role in The Mo Brothers' Killers (in which he'd have no problem at all killing a cat) and a smaller support part in Gareth Huw Evans' The Raid 2 (ditto) plus a fairly lengthy history with Miike Takashi (ditto ditto).Check out the trailer below....

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Watch The Full Trailer For Toyoda's CROWS EXPLODE!

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST

Continuing the series of Japanese teen gang films launched to massive popularity by Miike Takashi with his Crows Zero films, Blue Spring and Nine Souls helmer Toyoda Toshiaki steps to the controls for Crows Explode. Set in the same school as the originals a couple years later, most of the original characters have now graduated making this something of a reboot for the story but the style is very, very familiar.The full trailer is freshly arrived on the scene and for those missing the angry young man phase of Toyoda's career, well, there are plenty of angry young men to be found here. Check it out below....

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Watch The Compelling Trailer For Brazilian Cross Dressing Drama CASTANHA

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST

Soon to premiere at the Berlinale, a trailer has arrived for Davi Pretto's Brazilian cross dressing drama Castanha and it promises one very odd and equally compelling piece of work.João is a 52-year-old actor who lives with his 72-year-old mother, Celina. He spends his time between his night job as a cross-dresser in small gay bars and the roles he portrays in modest plays, movies and TV shows. Tormented and haunted by ghosts from his past, João's day-to-day life starts to merge with the reality in which he lives and the fiction he performs.Take a look at the trailer below....

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Ambulante 2014 Dispatch: DEATH IN ARIZONA (MUERTE EN ARIZONA), Love Hurts In This Fragmented Docu-fiction

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST

Ambulante 2014 is screening Tin Dirdamal's feature length docu-fiction Death in Arizona (Muerte en Arizona) together with Gilberto González's short film Love In Time of Fires (El Amor en Tiempos de Incendios). I think there's a thematic reason behind the decision of placing these two works on the same bill: both deal with love relationships. Death in Arizona is mostly about the hurt that comes after a breakup, while the short film follows a long-term marriage that is now facing a new facet that perhaps is not as joyful and unambiguous as their past. The double bill clearly shows how difficult a relationship can be and is quite interested in this connection as, certainly, we are dealing with opposites (a broken and a married couple)...

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Ha Ji-won Cast in Ha Jung-woo's CHRONICLE OF A BLOOD MERCHANT

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 09:30 AM PST

Before he makes a decision on his offer to potentially star alongside Lee Jung-jae and Jun Ji-hyun in Choi Dong-hoon's 30s-set blockbuster thriller Assassination, Ha Jung-woo will be spending some time both before and behind the camera with his sophomore directing gig Chronicle a of Blood Merchant. Joining him in this adaptation of a 1995 novel by Chinese writer Yu Hua will be Ha Ji-won, the actress known for her spunky action roles in Duelist (2005) and Sector 7 (2011). Blood Merchant transposes its original Chinese cultural revolution setting to Seoul and tells the story of a young laborer who has his sights set on his village's most beautiful woman. But before he can marry her, according to the town's rules he must sell his...

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IFFR 2014 Review: HARD TO BE A GOD, Russian Science Fiction Unlike Anything Before

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST

(Persevere, even though it's sometimes hard to be an audience...) Every year it's a delicate game of pick-and-choose when the International Film Festival Rotterdam reveals its roster. With almost 400 titles to choose from, all you can see is bound to be a small sample. But when I spotted Alexei German's Hard To Be A God (Trudno Byt' Bogom), my interest piqued: a three hour long Russian science fiction film, twelve years in the making, six of which were for the actual shooting? On top of that, the film is an adaptation of a book by the Strugatski brothers, on whose work Tarkovsky's Stalker was based. Reviews from the Rome Festival proclaimed the film to be incomprehensible yet gorgeous, so I went to see it...

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Korean Box Office: MISS GRANNY, FROZEN Lead Korea's Biggest Weekend

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 08:30 AM PST

It was a huge weekend for theaters during this year's Lunar New Year, the biggest in fact, with around five million tickets sold. This was above the 3.5 million recording during last year's Lunar Year frame and significantly above the previous 4.5 million viewer record set during late summer last year when Snowpiercer and The Terror Live duked it out. What's more, a surprisingly close battle for first place took place as the two leading pictures swapped places a few times over the course of the week. With Lunar New Year falling on a Friday this year, the holiday stretched over Thursday to Saturday. Figures below are for the standard three-day frame.TitleRelease DateMarket ShareWeekendTotalScreens1Miss Granny2014-01-2234.30%1,753,8053,919,21410222Frozen (us)2014-01-1635.80%1,641,6386,003,2339693Man in Love2014-01-226.70%341,0541,325,5204704Hot Young Bloods2014-01-225.30%280,7141,501,1794225The Attorney2013-12-185.60%278,78811,145,5864086The Huntresses2014-01-295.00%261,880402,0803807The Nut Job (ca/kr)2014-01-294.00%215,981304,4093728Police Story 2014 (ch)2014-01-291.60%80,501121,6322509Inside...

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Hooray For Hollywood! The Answer To Your Question Is: Money

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST

Hello! My name is Todd and I will be your humble(ish) guide through the sausage factory that is Hollywood.  Or, to be more precise, I will be endeavoring to provide a window into aspects of the business of filmmaking that may seem odd, counterintuitive, byzantine and/or opaque.  Very often, the reason things seem this way is because they are odd, counterintuitive, byzantine and/or opaque. They are this way for a reason and that reason is almost always "money". When Twitch's Todd Brown invited me to write on the business of Hollywood (and by "Hollywood", I really mean the business of cinema in general as all of the market mechanics everywhere are based on what Hollywood has laid out), I was given a short, starter-list of topics...

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Chart A Course To The KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST

With director Joe Lynch's long awaited LARPing comedy Knights Of Badassdom arriving on VOD and digital platforms February 11th - and theatrical screenings popping up around America thanks to Tugg - fragments of the map to the fictional land of Eliphaz are popping up around the web. And, yup, that's one up there. What do they all point to? Probably something badass, given the title ...KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM follows three best friends (Peter Dinklage, Steve Zahn and Ryan Kwanten) and dedicated LARPers (Live Action Role Players) as they take to the woods to reenact a dungeons and dragons-like scenario fresh out of the mythical Middle Ages. Trouble arises after they unwittingly conjure up some serious evil in the form of a blood-lusting Succubus, from the...

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Now On DVD: FROM ABOVE, A Romance That Wants To Be A Tearjerker

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 06:30 AM PST

Danny Glover toplines the cast of From Above (formerly titled Chasing Shakespeare), a romantic drama with a twist that aims to jerk tears. After playing the festival circuit, the film arrives on home video today. When it played at the African Diaspora International Film Festival in November 2013, our own Christopher Bourne had this to say: As per the title, the Bard's plays and poetry make superficial appearances in this maudlin would-be tearjerker, which opens this year's festival. [The film begins] with a scene in a torrential, lightning-filled rainstorm in which William Ward (Danny Glover) bids a teary goodbye to his dying wife Venus (Tantoo Cardinal). William deals with the aftermath of his wife's death as awkward flashbacks are interspersed, showing us how the younger...

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SXSW 2014: Watch THE INFINITE MAN Trailer, Aussie Time Travel Rom-Com

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST

The Australian time travel rom-com The Infinite Man will have its World Premiere at SXSW next month in Austin, Texas. It marks the feature film debut of Hugh Sullivan, who also wrote the flick. The film was produced by Kate Croser, who served in the same capacity for the cult television series Danger 5, though the projects appear to share very little in common. The first trailer has been released and you can watch it below. The Infinite Man is a time travel comedy-romance about Dean (Josh McConville), a man whose attempts to construct the perfect romantic weekend backfire when he traps his lover Lana (Hannah Marshall) in an infinite loop....

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