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MISS HOKUSAI: New Production I.G Project Is An Edo Period Piece

MISS HOKUSAI: New Production I.G Project Is An Edo Period Piece

Posted: 25 Apr 2014 04:00 AM PDT

Japanese animation house Production I.G has announced a new project for release in 2015. They will adapt the manga Sarusuberi by manga artist Sugiura Hinako. The animated feature will be directed by Hara Keiichi (Summer Days with Coo and Colorful). Maruo Miho (Colorful) wrote the screenplay. The character designer and chief animator will be Itazu Yoshimi (Denno Coil,The Wind Rises, and Dreaming Machine). Background artist Ono Hiroshi (A Letter to Momo and Wolf Children) is also part of the production. The time: 1814.The place: Edo, now known as Tokyo. One of the highest populated cities in the world, teeming with peasants, samurai, townsmen, merchants, nobles, artists, courtesans, and perhaps even supernatural things. A much accomplished artist of his time and now in his mid-fifties, Tetsuzo can boast clients...

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South African Action Thriller iNUMBER NUMBER Unleashes On Home Turf

Posted: 25 Apr 2014 03:00 AM PDT

South African action thriller iNumber Number was a closely watched film here at Twitch even before it blew us away at the Toronto Film Festival. And with good reason; the picture has been subsequently picked up for worldwide distribution (by XYZ Films for North America, and Hong Kong/Amsterdam-based Fortissimo Films for the rest), and has already been optioned for a remake by Fast & Furious producers at Universal. South Africans will now finally, and firstly, be able to see the much hyped film, which had its local premier on April 22, and opens nationwide in the country today. Star S'dumo Mtshali rose to fame in South Africa as the winner of a local reality TV show, Class Act, in which contestants competed for a contract with a...

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Review: THE QUIET ONES, The Dull Roar Of Disappointment

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 10:01 PM PDT

As expected, the newest Hammer horror film is atmospheric and moody; unfortunately, the atmosphere is dire and the mood is dull. The Quiet Ones is a veritable alphabet soup of disappointment: a is for aimless, b is for baffling, c is for confusing, d is for desperate, and so on. The setup is promising. "Cure one patient, cure the world," says Professor Joseph Coupland (Jared Harris) to his students at Oxford University in 1974. He invites po-faced Brian McNeil (Sam Claflin), who carries around his 16mm camera for no discernible reason, to record an experiment the professor is conducting on Jane (Olivia Cooke), a suicidal young woman with no memory of her past. Brian joins the professor and two other equally bland students, Harry (Rory...

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THE GUARDIAN Interview and Behind The Scene

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 03:00 PM PDT

On April 30th The Guardian - an Indonesian action film - will hit theaters across Indonesia.  We've already shared the trailer and now I get a chance to sit down with the executive producer Sarjono Sutrisno and the director Helfi Kardit to talk about the film and go home with the Behind The Scene footage that you can watch after the interview. Your movie from best-selling book "Surat Kecil Untuk Tuhan" (A Letter To God) is Indonesia film with most audience back in 2011, but since then you didn't make any film base on best selling book or the same genre that you've know sell well to Indonesia audience? why? Sarjono Sutrisno (SS): Because i wanna try all angle, i don't wanna be trapped...

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Tribeca 2014 Review: TIME IS ILLMATIC, An Illuminating Look Back at the Creation of a Hip-Hop Classic

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT

This year's Tribeca Film Festival got off to a rousing start with the screening (and accompanying concert by its subject) of Time is Illmatic, a documentary by multimedia artist One9 about the making of Nas' immensely influential 1994 debut album Illmatic. Timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of this album, and the attendant release of a tricked-out anniversary reissue, Time is Illmatic gets well beyond the promotional, ready-made aspects of such a project by delving deep into the details of what went into the record's creation. Not only are the musical aspects covered here, but also the emotional details, Nas' family history, and stories of life on the streets of his native Queensbridge which Nas so vividly described on the album. As a result,...

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A HARD DAY: Check The Subtitled Trailer For The Cannes Selected, Deliciously Dark Korean Thriller

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 01:30 PM PDT

Selected to screen as part of the Director's Fortnight sidebar in Cannes, director Kim Seoung-hun's ultra darkly comic thriller A Hard Day has released an English subtitled trailer and it's not hard at all to see what got the Fortnight people excited about this one. Breakout potential? I'd say so, yes.On the way back from his mother's funeral, special crimes detective Gun-su gets into an accident, killing a man instantly. In order to cover up his crime, he hides the body inside his mother's coffin, with her inside. A few days later, Gun-su's crime pops up on the police database and his partner is heading up the case. Gun-su feels distressed as his partner slowly uncovers more details of the accident. To make things worse,...

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Three New Lobby Cards For Franco-Italo Horror Trilogy PHANTASMAGORIA

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT

The horror anthology Phantasmagoria has now entered into post-production in preparation for its Market screening at Cannes. It will also make its festival debut shortly after at Fanta Festival in Rome, Italy in July with hopefully more festival announcements to come. The anthology has also had its world wide sales right acquired by Italian outfit Open Reel. Cosimo Santoro, The Open Reel president of international sales says,The Open Reel is glad to have chosen to represent Phantasmagoria. We really liked the film, recognizing above all the talent of the three directors and the balance of each episode. Phantasmagoria is the first horror title that we acquire. It's a big bet for us, as we are looking forward to work with it not only in a specific circuit...

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Third HOBBIT Film Retitled 'HOLY CRAP, AREN'T WE DONE YET?'

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Okay, that's not the actual title. Nor is it Bring Me More Gold, I Don't Have Enough Yet And If You Don't I'll Pad Out The Story Even More. No, the third Hobbit film has jettisoned the original There And Back Again title for the much more action-y Battle Of The Five Armies. And there you have it....

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Review: MOONE BOY Season 2 Is Very Fecking Good

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Tales of boyhood, of one's family, and one's town, are a down right staple in TV Land. From Leave It To Beaver to The Wonder Years, it seems that every decade of television must have at least one iconic male-centered coming-of-age show (even when said show takes place a couple of decades behind present day).In 2012, actor Chris O'Dowd and co-writer Nick Vincent Murphy decided to fictionalize their own rise to adolescence on the small screen. Those who took notice of their efforts were treated to the earnestly charming, delightfully goofy and occasionally bawdy Moone Boy... which consists of the chronicles of one young Martin Moone (David Rawle), his imaginary friend Sean Murphy (O'Dowd), and the whole Moone clan in the small town of Boyle,...

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Review: BLUE RUIN, Or, Revenge Is A Pain In The Ass

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Besides the fact that I doubt we'll see a more deft, thrilling genre film this year, I'm very pleased that Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin addresses a number of issues that revenge films have been overlooking for decades. For example, after you've been irrevocably wronged and made it your mission to set that right, what if you can't afford a gun? Guns are expensive. If you get a gun, which one do you get and how long do you need to spend learning to shoot it? Okay, screw the gun, let's go with a knife... but if you kill one person with a knife, won't there likely be others who want to kill you back? I'd like to go on about the ways that Charles Bronson...

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Battling Marxists, Feminists And Communist Ninjas To Keep The World Safe For Fascism! Check The CAPTAIN FALCON Trailer Now!

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 09:30 AM PDT

Fear not, faithful Fascists!In a world gone mad with opportunity for all and equal rights for women one man is standing up for you! The Captain is coming! Yes, Joao Leitao's action comedy Captain Falcon (Capitao Falcao) continues to wend its way through the post production process and with the anniversary of the Carnation Revolution - the end of the Fascist dictatorship in Portugal - arriving tomorrow Twitch is proud to premiere the first Portuguese trailer for the film.Though this one is very much meant as a trailer for the local audience - meaning there are no subtitles included and the voice over is rife with jokes riffing on typically Portuguese matters - there's still loads for the international audience to love, from the colorful...

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Review: LOCKE, An Ingenious Thriller

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT

British second time director Steven Knight brings an ingenious thriller of 84 minutes in length solely shot in one location; the inside of a car. Its name: Locke. Welsh construction manager Ivan Locke, played by Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight, Bronson, Warrior, Inception), has an ideal life. He has the perfect family, a dream job and tomorrow should be the crowning moment of his career; Europe's biggest concrete filling in history. But one call will force him to make a decision that will put all of that on the line. He drives home at night and receives a phone call revealing that in a couple of hours he is about to become a father with a woman he had a one-nighter with and afterwards never...

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Tribeca 2014 Interview: MANOS SUCIAS Director and DP Share Stories from Colombia

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT

With two LED panels, one Canon C300 and a crew of no more than a dozen people including locals, co-writer/director Joseph Wladyka and co-writer/cinematographer Alan Blanco went to Buenaventura, Colombia - a heavily narco-trafficked country - to film Manos Sucias ("Dirty Hands")."One of my favorite moments making this film was when me, Joe and the two leads went out to sea in a small boat to get some scenes," says Blanco after their premiere in New York City this week. "The motor didn't work very well and we could have been stranded at sea, but was worth it."It seems that much was worth it on Manos Sucias, an authentic and heart-wrenching portrayal of drug trafficking on the pacific coast of Colombia. After the successful Kickstarter...

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Review: In Jos Stelling's THE GIRL AND DEATH, Beauty Matters

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Recently I came across an article at salon.com titled David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture by Matt Ashby and Brendan Caroll. In it, they talk about our popular culture so completely immersed in irony and lazy cynicism that it has become a hindrance to move forward in art. It's a theme I've been thinking about a lot. I have to admit that I am just as guilty of contributing to creating this environment, though. My articles, over the years, have been inundated with sarcasm and dismissive one-liners. I have lost my way to see beauty as it is when it presents itself. Sentimentality has become my enemy and I incessantly mocked whoever embraced it.The Girl and Death, winner of 2012 Golden Calf...

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Sitges 2014 to Open with [REC]4: APOCALYPSE: Watch The New Trailer!

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Director Jaume Balagueró was on hand today at the Sitges Film Festival press conference, to present the first trailer for the last film in the [REC] franchise. [REC]4: Apocalypse is set to open the festival, which will run October 3rd - 12th. Other film announcements are The Distance, the second feature from Catalan director Sergio Caballero, which will be in the official selection; and Lee Sujin's Han Gong-ju will open the New Visions category.An exciting addition to the festival this year is Blood Window, created in alliance with the Ventura Sur market. It's a new category dedicated to emerging Latin American fantastic cinema, and it will include a new award for Best Latin American Fantastic Genre Production. Excerpts from the press release about the announced films, the new...

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