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Yubari 2014 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: HOUSE Director Obayashi Nobuhiko Talks SEVEN WEEKS And The Art Of Cinema

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Yubari 2014 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: HOUSE Director Obayashi Nobuhiko Talks SEVEN WEEKS And The Art Of Cinema

Yubari 2014 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: HOUSE Director Obayashi Nobuhiko Talks SEVEN WEEKS And The Art Of Cinema

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 04:00 AM PDT

In the pantheon of great Japanese directors the name Obayashi Nobuhiko might not immediately stand out, and until a few years ago, the man and his work were all but unknown in the West. That all changed in 2009 when his debut feature, 1977's House, was pulled out of retirement and shown to a packed audience at the New York Asian Film Festival, garnering acclaim and subsequent restored home releases in England and the US, courtesy of the Criterion Collection and Masters of Cinema. House is a work of frenetic, mad genius. The story of a group of high school girls who visit a peculiar old woman in a haunted country cottage is an absolute tour de force of wild, colourful visual effects and a mash-up...

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Imagine Film Festival 2014 Reveals Whopping Line-up

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 12:00 AM PDT

On the 9th of April this year, the Amsterdam-based Imagine Film Festival will start, opening with Christophe Gans' Beauty And The Beast. And now that the festival's site reveals its entire program, it turns out that its opener is not the only stunner in its tremendous worldwide selection of quality genre films. There is the highly anticipated The Raid 2 (its predecessor won this festival two years ago), and Killers by the Mo Brothers. There are titles like Raze, and Savaged, and Moebius, and Cheap Thrills, and Enemy... There is anime like Miyazaki's The Wind Rises and Shinkai's Garden of Words... Sion Sono is represented with Why Don't You Play in Hell, and Alejandro Jodorowsky with The Dance of Reality... Speaking of him: the documentary...

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SXSW 2014 Review: HOUSEBOUND, A Deadpan, Diabolical, Haunted Thriller

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 04:11 PM PDT

If looks could kill, Kylie would be on death row. In Gerard Johnstone's deadpan, diabolical, and haunted thriller Housebound, Kylie (Morgana O'Reilly) is an angry, insolent young woman, full of piss and vinegar, so when she's convicted of a crime and sentenced to eight months of detention in the home of her mother, Miriam (Rima Te Wiata), it feels like life imprisonment to her. Kylie resists any impulse to act in a civil manner toward Miriam or her stepfather Graeme (Ross Harper), and is hostile in her court-ordered sessions with psychiatrist Dennis (Cameron Rhodes). Kylie's attitude hardens when she learns that Miriam has long felt that the family home is haunted, an idea that the young woman dismisses out of hand. Miriam, after all, chatters...

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New To Netflix: Middle-Tier Prestige TV, Parenting, Classic Epics and Modern Silents

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT

This week's entry of New To Netflix has a heavy focus on quality TV that doesn't quite get the twitter chatter or critical limelight of Breaking Bad, True Detectives and House of Cards but is still quality stuff. In there is also two very different takes on modern parenting, one in documentary form and the other Roman Polanski's handsome remounting of the play, "God of Carnage."  Then there are two Oscar winners that couldn't be further apart, perhaps the largest wide-screen epic ever shot, and 2011's Academy Ratio black and white silent affair with a two winning performances and a cute dog.  Onwards....

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