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Dallas 2014 Review: WORDS AND PICTURES, A Rivalry In Search Of A Romance

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Dallas 2014 Review: WORDS AND PICTURES, A Rivalry In Search Of A Romance

Dallas 2014 Review: WORDS AND PICTURES, A Rivalry In Search Of A Romance

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 08:30 PM PDT

In my youth, a cigarette company advertised their product with the tagline, "What do you want, good grammar or good taste?" It was a false analogy, of course -- the correct answer is, "Why can't I have both?" -- yet those long-ago words kept echoing through my head while I was watching Fred Schepisi's Words and Pictures, which features excellent, affecting performances by Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche in service of a premise that is as contrived and phony as that decades-old advertisement. Gerald Di Pego's original screenplay sets up the two actors as opposing forces of nature, teachers at a private high school who become rivals mainly because the story demands it. Jack Marcus (Owen), an alcoholic teacher of an English honors class, earned...

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R100, THE SACRAMENT, STARRY EYES, DOC OF THE DEAD, Miike Lead Strong Line-Up For 2nd Annual Stanley Film Fest

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 03:36 PM PDT

This rarely happens. Almost never do you look at a festival lineup and think, "I want to see (or already saw and loved) every single film that's playing." So kudos to the programming team at the Stanley Film Fest for really outdoing themselves on their sophomore fest. Filmmakers on the impressive list include such favorites as Miike Takashi, Kim Ki-duk, Ti West, Alex De La Iglesia, Nacho Vigolando, and Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement. Titles include Dead Snow, R100, Housebound, Starry Eyes, The Babadook, and Doc of the Dead. Plus, how about retrospective screenings of Gremlins, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Eyes Wide Shut? And all of that is only half the schedule. Can you tell I'm excited? A few words about the fest and...

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Black Fawn Distribution Brings The Boogie And Blood Of DISCOPATH On DVD

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 03:00 PM PDT

If you are like me and sometimes lament that slasher films are not funky enough, or do not bring the boogie, then lament no more. Black Fawn Distro is bringing disco back to Canada. They will be releasing Renaud Gauthier's disco-themed slasher flick Discopath on DVD and iTunes on June 10th! The mid-70′s: a timid young New Yorker leads an uneventful life until he is fatefully exposed to the pulsating rhythms of a brand-new genre of music: disco. Unable to control his murderous impulses that stem from a traumatic childhood experience, Duane Lewis transforms into a dangerous serial killer exiled to Montreal.Discopath bowed at Fantasia last Summer and enjoyed a successful festival run around the World. We will have a full review for everyone closer to...

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Fantastic Fest 2014: The Fantastic Market Is Now Open. Submit!

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 02:30 PM PDT

Submissions are now open for the second annual Fantastic Market/Mercado Fantastico at Fantastic Fest this September. The market will run for the first three days of the festival, September 18th through 20th. If you have a Work in Progress or a Pitch for a project that is tied in with a Latin American filmmaker and/or producer then you are invited to submit that project to the festival. The inaugural edition of Fantastic Market in 2013 was a great success and has yielded concrete results for filmmaker attendees. One project presented at the market is nearing completion and will be announced in the near future, and other projects have found producers and partners based on connections made at the market. We fully intend to build upon the...

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There Is Plenty Of Glacial Gore In New Trailer For BLOOD GLACIER

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Marvin Kren's creature feature Blood Glacier, formerly The Station, will slide into select cinemas and will also be available on VOD May 2nd, via IFC Midnight. There is a new trailer to share with you. In it you will find many of the practical effects it drew praise for from fans of classic creature features. Gore descends upon the Alps in this grisly tale of snowbound terror. Janek (Gerhard Liebmann), a prickly, lone-wolf technician, is part of a team of researchers investigating global warming at a remote weather station in the mountains. One day the group makes a seriously gruesome discovery: a giant glacier oozing what appears to be blood and, worse, transforming all in its wake into monstrous genetic hybrids. Soon Janek is at war...

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Review: For Gina Carano, Fighting Bad Guys Is IN THE BLOOD

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Survivors have scars. Losers have funerals. That is an example of the sage advice that Ava's father, an outlaw in his own right -- played with the neck straining vigor that only Stephen Lang can deliver -- gave her as he raised her to be a gal who takes crap from no one. In The Blood catches up with Ava 12 years after her father's murder. She is marrying Derek, whom she met at a support group for substance abusers. Though Derek's father (Treat Williams) has concerns that Ava is marrying Derek for his money, Derek loves her and nothing his father says or does can change that. Their honeymoon is going great, and then they meet one of the locals, Manny, who takes them out for...

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Review: THE UNKNOWN KNOWN Gives A Frustratingly Accurate Portrait Of Our Image Of Donald Rumsfeld

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT

A snow globe shaking back and forth, little white flecks - snowflakes - swirl and obfuscate whatever is in the globe. Oh my, what a loaded image. It is one of the chief ones Errol Morris employs in <strong>The Unknown Known</strong>, his lengthy interview with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Another is an endless ocean of waves: a blank canvas or adrift in the wilderness? True to form, after 96 minutes of Rumsfeld speaking, I felt as if I learned nothing at all from what he was saying. A marvelous bit of form echoing content, although for the sake of learning from history, it can be a bit infuriating. Rumsfeld, very recognizable for doing so many podium PR sessions on TV for the better...

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Review: NYMPHOMANIAC VOLUME II Brings The Pain...

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT

The day after I reviewed Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac Volume 1, as spoiler-free as possible, I ran back to the cinema for the premiere of Nymphomaniac Volume 2, and this leaves me in a rather uncomfortable spot for reviewing it. I'm dying to talk about the film in detail, but how am I supposed to say anything about the second half of a story without at least spoiling bits and pieces of the first half? It's not as if I'm discussing the latest Hunger Games movie, and can safely assume that everyone who reads this article has, by now, already seen the previous film. So I need to keep things intentionally vague. It doesn't help that the film's title and subject provide everything I write...

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Review: GOODBYE WORLD Waves Farewell In Fantastically Entertaining Fashion

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Man has always been fascinated with the end of the world, but filmmakers seem extra intrigued recently, with World War Z, It's A Disaster, This is the End, After Earth, Oblivion, The Fifth Season, and Cloud Atlas all tackling the subject cinematically over the last year or so. Now we can add Denis Hennelly's Goodbye World to that list. With equal parts comedy and heart, Hennelly's film is one of the more entertaining films on the list. With a realistic scope and interpersonal relationships that sing of sincerity, Goodbye World is the kind of indie that has real potential to break out and find an audience. If the world doesn't come to an end first, that is. Set almost entirely on a remote Northern California...

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IN THE BLOOD: Raven Banner Gets A Stranglehold On Canadian Rights

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 08:30 AM PDT

Toronto based outfit Raven Banner Entertainment has acquired the Canadian rights for the action thriller In The Blood, starring Gina Carano. They will release the film in Canadian cinemas on April 24. "Gina Carano is without a doubt, the most badass action heroine in Hollywood today," says Raven Banner's Michael Paszt. "It's a real thrill for us to be releasing the film in Canada." The film also stars Cam Gigandet (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2), Luis Guzmán (We're the Millers, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3), Amaury Nolasco (The Rum Diary, Prison Break), Ismael Cruz Cordoba (The Good Wife), Treat Williams (Chicago Fire), Stephen Lang (Avatar) and Danny Trejo (Machete)....

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Review: ALAN PARTRIDGE Keeps The Stakes Low And The Comedy Hilarious

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT

The highly anticipated big screen debut of Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge arrives in Alan Partridge a blissfully straightforward and outrageously hilarious comedy that finds the titular character caught up in a hostage situation at the local radio station in Norfolk where he works. When North Norfolk Digital is taken over by Gordale Media, changes to the staff and the direction of the station are inevitable. Partridge, though, makes a desperate attempt to save his job by throwing fellow DJ Pat Farrell (Colm Meaney) under the bus. Pat doesn't handle his dismissal well, returning to hold the station at gunpoint and unwilling to negotiate with anybody other than Alan. At this point I should probably admit that my prior knowledge of this popular character is virtually...

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Exclusive: THE RETRIEVAL Clip Gets To The Heart Of The Matter

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Now playing at Film Forum in New York, The Retrieval is a drama set during the U.S. Civil War that is charged with emotion. In my review, I endeavored to convey the mood of the piece: "The film's strengths are cumulative, gathering force as the story develops and the characters are revealed more fully." Nothing speaks louder and more accurately than the film itself, however, and happily we have an exclusive clip that will give you an idea of the atmosphere created by the actors and director Chris Eska. In the scene, runaway slave Nate (Tishuan Scott) arrives at a farm with young orphan Will (Ashton Sanders) in tow, only to get a different reaction than he expected. Taken out of context of the movie as a...

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Review: UNDER THE SKIN Burns Brilliantly, Bafflingly, Bleakly

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT

A long shot of a man waiting for a bus on a cool, foggy morning. The road winds through a valley where the stop and bench are at the bottom, and snakes up the other side. A woman walks into the frame, one whom we will be following as curious, but baffled onlookers for the duration of the film. The shot lingers, giving time for our eyes to wander around the frame as the camera is not focused on any one thing.  We know the bus is coming and are drawn, but not forced, to keep looking in the top-right corner of the screen. The two people keep their distance. The bus arrives. We are told nothing, merely shown. The scene evokes Haneke and Antonioni,...

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Review: Baseball Epic KANO Hits A Home Run

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 06:30 AM PDT

From the team behind Taiwanese epic Seediq Bale comes a rousing big screen sports saga telling the incredible true story of the Kano baseball team, a multiethnic squad of rural highschoolers who made it to the national championships in Japan in 1931.In this day and age it can be difficult to make a genuinely good sports film. Either the nature of the game itself alienates large portions of the potential audience if they are not interested or do not understand it, or the contests themselves tend to have a fairly predictable outcome. That said, when done right, a successful sports film can make audiences cling to the edge of their seats in anticipation, cheer out loud in the euphoria of victory, and even shed a...

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Is The BBFC About To Kill Independent Home Video In The UK By Accident?

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 05:30 AM PDT

A few months ago in a home video review round up, I called Arrow Video the finest cult home video label in the world. Part of that declaration was due to their incredibly impressive curation of titles, part of it has to do with the increasingly astounding quality of their visual and aural product, but a big chunk of what sets them apart from the competition around the world is the regular inclusion of comprehensive "bonus material". Arrow has made their mark on the international home video market by including feature length documentary films with many of their releases on top of the top notch booklets, interviews, commentary tracks, and spiffy packages. Those documentaries have, until now, been exempt from classification by the British Board...

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