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BAKUMATSU KOKOSEI Trailer: Travel Back In Time To Edo Period Japan

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BAKUMATSU KOKOSEI Trailer: Travel Back In Time To Edo Period Japan

BAKUMATSU KOKOSEI Trailer: Travel Back In Time To Edo Period Japan

Posted: 01 Apr 2014 07:00 PM PDT

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time to Edo period Japan? If that's the case, then the upcoming comedy Bakumatsu Kokosei (Bakumatsu refers to the final years of the Edo period; Kokosei is Japanese for high school student) and its heroes might bring you a step closer to your dream.Inspired by a 90's TV series of the same name, Lee Toshio's (Detroit Metal City) quirky period piece revolves around a high school teacher and her pupils who accidentally travel back in time to 19th century, just before the beginning of the Boshin War (1868-1869). Here's how AsianWiki describes the plot:In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu...

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NYIFF 2014 Will Open With Anurag Kashyap's UGLY, Plus More Films Unveiled

Posted: 01 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT

The 14th annual New York Indian Film Festival has announced its first few titles and they are, as expected, pretty damned fantastic. The festival will open with Anurag Kashyap's Ugly, a film that debuted at Cannes 2013 and has devastated audiences everywhere it has played since. This will be only the second North American screening of the film and Kashyap will be in attendance for a post-screening conversation. Also announced is a Sundance Film Fest favorite, Geetu Mohandas's Liar's Dice, featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Geethanjali Thapa, which I reviewed (link below). The closing film will be Aparna Sen's latest, Goynar Baksho, a tale of the changing role of women in India starring Konkona Sen Sharma.NYIFF takes place from May 5-10 in New York City at a variety...

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TURBO KID Blasts His Way Into Production! Check Out The First Still!

Posted: 01 Apr 2014 09:56 AM PDT

Post apocalyptic short T Is For Turbo from Montreal based film collective RKSS was a great favorite among the submissions for the contest portion of the first installment of The ABCs Of Death and while the short ultimately fell just short of making the final anthology it's very much a case of no harm, no foul. They're making it into a feature instead with ABCs producer Ant Timpson on board along with Hobo With A Shotgun director Jason Eisener. And with production now in its first week, we've got your first look at the first still up above, courtesy of DOP  Jean-Philippe Bernier. Read on for the official word ... Producers Anne-Marie Gélinas, Benoît Beaulieu, Ant Timpson and Tim Riley are delighted to announce the...

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POSEIDON REX Is Unleashed, And Bitey, In Exclusive Clip!

Posted: 01 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT

It was waaay back in October of 2012 that we spotted a teaser poster for the creature feature, Poseidon Rex. And it is good to know that the studio has not strayed too far from that original concept. Sure, ol' Rex actually looks like a T-Rex now. But, they kept the three girls in bikinis. There are just some things you do not mess with. And three girls in bikinis is not one of them. Fast forward a year and a half later and this grand opus will be unleashed unto the masses in cinemas and iTunes on April 18th. We have an exclusive clip to share with you and we have thrown in the trailer for good measure. The clip looks to be early on...

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Cineteca Nacional's Muestra 56 Lineup: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, THE WIND RISES, NYMPHOMANIAC, And More

Posted: 01 Apr 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Cineteca Nacional announced the rather surprising decision of returning to a former format for its most important film event, the Muestra International de Cine (International Showing of Cinema). Now we will have two Muestras in the year, one in spring and the other in autumn. The Muestra 56, kicking off in Cineteca Nacional on April 10, offers a fine selection of 14 international feature films. Following the tradition, a classic Mexican movie has been restored and will function as opening film (Roberto Gavaldón's The Kneeling Goddess was the choice this time). The highlights of this spring Muestra include Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (premiering in Mexico), Sono Sion's Why Don't You Play In Hell, Miyazaki Hayao's The Wind Rises, A Touch of Sin, Jodorowsky's...

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It's Time For Philadelphia To Get Weird Again With The 2014 Cinedelphia Film Festival

Posted: 01 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Amy Fisher, Pia Zadora, Joe Sarno, Public Access Television Oddities, Trick Baby, Classic Nikolodeon Game Shows, Underdog, and Low Fi Action Films Directed by Lawyers? Cinedelphia Film Festival Returns to Philadelphia April 10- 26th!It might be late March right now as I write this, but every time I step outside of the bar for a smoke, the cold air hits my face, and it's cold enough that it hurts. I can't help but wonder why I haven't hopped on a plane to get my ass out of this miserable city and tail to it Bali, Monaco, or Puerto Rico where I have friends and family living exceptionally well as broke ex pats. And it seems to me that I keep running across the same dead...

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Review: THE TENDER WAVES (Nežné vlny) Delivers Retro Maudlinism

Posted: 01 Apr 2014 06:30 AM PDT

Czech filmmaker Jiří Vejdělek has acquired the status of a successful commercial filmmaker with several domestic romantic comedies, Men in Temptation and Women in Temptation. His latest film, The Tender Waves, also falls under the niche of romantic comedy. (After a relatively cumbersome theatrical release, his producer started to boast about Vejdělek's Women in Temptation being picked by The King´s Speech producer for a U.K. treatment, a see-through PR strategy to mobilize the audience.)The retro Communist setting of The Tender Waves seems to be prevalent in many recent Czech films. Their use of history as something to immortalize, but also to revisit, and to redeem past sins. The best Czech film in 2013 according to domestic film critics and the Film and Television Academy became Burning...

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Check Out The NSFW Trailer For Japanese S&M-Themed Thriller FLOWER AND SNAKE ZERO

Posted: 01 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT

You know what the top executives of Nikkatsu, Japan's oldest major film studio, decided to do when they knew their precious entertainment company was on the verge of a financial disaster? Nothing spectacular. They simply believed in the power of the so-called "Roman Porno" (romantic pornography, to be precise) and pink films, and started producing features that dealt with such topics as sex, violence, romance, or S&M on a mass scale. Konuma Masaru's Flower and Snake (1974) is often cited as the picture that sparked such a surprising trend in Japanese cinema and saved Nikkatsu, which eventually filed for bankruptcy in 1993, only to be revived in 2010.Flower and Snake, which holds a special place in Japan's film history, gained a cult following over the...

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