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Okinawa 2014: ONE THIRD Wins The Golden SHISA

Okinawa 2014: ONE THIRD Wins The Golden SHISA

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Last Monday night saw the closing of the 6th Okinawa International Movie Festival. Before the event officially closed with a fireworks display over its beach-side setting, the winners of this year's awards were announced.The jury, headed by veteran director, screenwriter and producer Nakajima Sadao along with Gary Tang, Narahashi Yoko, Higa Etsuko and LiLiCo, awarded the Special Jury Prize: Golden SHISA Award to Shinagawa Hiroshi's One Third (Check out James Marsh's review here). The main competition section of the festival is split into two separate categories, 'Laugh' and 'Peace' representing the main concept of the festival. Taking home the prize in the Laugh Category was Katsuhide Motoki for Ultrafast! Sankinkotai, the story of a feudal lord in ancient Japan who must make his way to...

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Review: ILUSIÓN NACIONAL, Little More Than A Recap Of Mexico's History In The World Cup

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT

The professional Mexican football (soccer) league had one of its darkest chapters just last weekend, because of an extremely violent confrontation between members of a firm and the police inside a stadium in Guadalajara. In this country, as in many other parts of the world, a sport like football is primarily a passionate celebration, but one that is so massive (economically, politically and socially) that it, of course, also brings many problems. Olallo Rubio's third documentary (and fourth film in total), Ilusión Nacional, is a take on how the world's most popular sport relates to Mexican society and politics. It is set to be released in Mexico just two months prior the 2014 FIFA World Cup (smart timing, right?) and, indeed, it tries to confront...

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Interview: Composing for Hell - Joseph Trapanese Talks Scoring THE RAID 2

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 11:10 AM PDT

Image source: Joecomposer.com Spoiler warning: This interview discusses specific scenes from The Raid 2.  Pay attention to the score in The Raid 2: composer Joe Trapanese's work here provides so many moments that inform (or at least help us get a shorthand understanding of) its large cast of killers, criminals, and other underworld type crowding director Gareth Evans' martial arts sequel. You've heard some of his work: Trapanese has served as the composer for the animated TRON: Uprising and Oblivion with director Joseph Kosinski, and he's worked on everything from Fast 5 to TV's Dexter. Trapanese's work in The Raid 2 - largely a mix of electronic and symphonic elements - serves the film in a way that is coherent, yet allows each scene to...

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Review: LOCKER 13 - Don't Throw Away The Key For This Thriller Anthology Just Yet

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Locker 13 is a horror/thriller anthology, a collection of five cautionary tales about making the right choice. The wraparound story, The Other Side, stars Jon Gries as Archie. Archie is introducing Skip (played by voice actor Jason Spisak) to the night shift at a western theme park. As they tour the park Gries tells all these tales to Skip. They are meant to serve as cautionary tales, tales about making the right choices. Before Skip takes over the night shift he is warned not to tough locker number 13 in the employee change room. In each story locker 13 is the common point which draws them all together. The anthology itself ends with Skip's story, as curiosity overwhelms him and he looks into the locker and...

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Review: BLOOD AND TIES Loses Direction And Eventually Succumbs To Melodrama

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Due to a circumstantial, if not completely absurd, turn of events a young woman begins to suspect her loving father of being a ruthless kidnapper-cum-murderer the whole country's been trying to catch for almost 15 years. As a result, she finds herself doubting her deepest beliefs and feelings in Gook Dong-seok's overplotted ticking-clock thriller Blood and Ties. First-time director Gook must've been perfectly aware of the fact that contemporary South Korean cinema is full of more or less effective crime thrillers that exploit real-life murder cases, hence he tried to spice up a conventional formula with an overwrought family-in-shambles scenario, unfortunately to mildly satisfying results. Although initially Blood and Ties sparks a lot of interest with its intriguing and heartrending twist to a familiar premise, it...

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Hey, Toronto! Win Tickets To See Frank Darabont's THE MIST On The Big Screen!

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 08:30 AM PDT

All good things must come to an end and, alas, we're just about there with the Twitch presented Stephen King retrospective Kingdom Of Fear at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. We've got just two screenings left to go and bringing us into the home stretch tomorrow night is a screening of Frank Darabont's 2007 adaptation of King's The Mist. We've got two pairs of tickets to give away for this one and we're making it easy. If you want 'em just email me here and name another King work adapted for the screen by Darabont. Simple, right? Winners will be drawn at random....

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Fantasia 2014: Last Call For Submissions To Frontières Market

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Just a quick reminder to all you budding and veteran feature filmmakers out there that the deadline for submissions to this year's Frontières Internation Film Market at the Fantasia Film Festival is April 19! That is just three weeks away!From the Frontières site...To participate in Frontières @ Fantasia, the selected projects have to be market premieres with a completed script and need to be applicable to an international co-production environment where there would ideally be Canadian production elements (either in terms of production location, cast or crew, or post-production). It would have a domestic producer attached, although some exceptions could be made for experienced directors looking to find a new producer.The market is open to both seasoned directors and directors with successful short film experience proposing...

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The Many Faces Of Russell Crowe

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT

This week sees the premiere of Darren Aranofsky's Noah, and while the plot of that film is the subject of heated discussion between theologists, atheists and comic-book fans (who often tend to be both), nobody disagrees with the choice of Russell Crowe as the titular biblical pawn. And that is because we've become accustomed to seeing Russell Crowe portray strong men, who yet struggle between unwavering conviction and self-doubt. When he first became a worldwide household name, he was famous for a few roles in which he oozed a violent charisma, changing the very air of a room he entered with his intensity. But Russell followed those up with roles which allowed him to portray intelligence, sensitivity, and even vulnerability. He needs good material and...

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