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Udine 2014: Twitch's Top Ten Most Anticipated Films

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Udine 2014: Twitch's Top Ten Most Anticipated Films

Udine 2014: Twitch's Top Ten Most Anticipated Films

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 04:00 AM PDT

Friday, April 25 sees the start of the 16th edition of Europe's biggest and finest festival for popular Asian cinema -- the Udine Far East Film Festival. During the busy and eventful nine days, attendees will be able to watch some of the most highly praised -- and undoubtedly carefully selected -- regional offerings, many of which will have their International and European premieres. Given that most of the pictures shown in the competition section probably won't be distributed widely across the old continent, it's a wonderful opportunity to catch up on Asian mainstream film right in the heart of Italy's wealthy and welcoming provincial town.I'll be attending the highly regarded event for the first time this year, and since I've heard so many great...

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Review: BRICK MANSIONS Is Kind Of Fun, And Maybe That's Enough

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 10:01 PM PDT

Obviously, there's a bit of metatextual, non-diagetic solemnity to Brick Mansions, the final feature film starring one Paul William Walker the Fourth. Sure, we're going to get whatever scenes from Fast and Furious 7 they'll cobble together, but, really, this is his last shebang. Do we see Mr. Walker zoom around in a car for no particular purpose other than "thrills"? Yup. But this time, we see a fully packaged action star, one meant to compete mano-a-mano against the likes of David Belle, aka that guy in District 13 who helped popularize all that Parkour stuff.Ostensibly, this is a remake of Luc Besson's original Banlieue shtick, with the script once again penned by this most prolific of French action maestros. Instead of the slums of Paris,...

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DVD Review: Urasawa Naoki's MONSTER, Episodes 31-45

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT

(We're past the halfway point? Nooooooooooo...!) Australian distributor Siren Visual continues its release of the Monster anime unabated, and the third boxset, released last month, is the strongest one in quality so far. Despite sporting an IMDB-rating of 8.6, and being shown on English-language channels, Monster was previously never released in its entirety on DVD in an English-friendly version, and this current release shows just how big a shame that is. My reviews of the first and second boxset were very positive indeed, and if you just want to know if this one keeps up with those, rest assured it does. The Story: Years ago, brilliant surgeon Tenma saved Johan, a young boy, only to see him grow up into a human monster: a...

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Dark Czech Comedy KRASNO Taps Into A Coen Vibe

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Though recent Czech comedies have generally been of the very light and crowd pleasing variety it appears that writer / director / star Ondrej Sokol has a little something else up his sleeve with Krasno, a dark comedy steeped in obvious genre and noir influences that seems more in line with something that the Coen Brothers would cook up. Cineuropa sums up the story like this:The story follows a reunion, when main protagonists Adam and Michal return to their rural hometown, Šumperk, for a weekend. Michal is visiting his dying father, with whom he has a decaying relationship - he blames him for his mother's mysterious death. They happen upon a bigger reunion at their old high school and wreak havoc after getting drunk. Soon,...

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Stanley Film Fest 2014 Preview: (Almost) Every Film Reviewed!

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 10:30 AM PDT

There is something frightening going on in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies. The second annual Stanley Film Fest kicks off at the historic Stanley Hotel tomorrow and it is scary how good the lineup is. On top of great flicks, the lineup includes a ton of cool events that promise to put Stanley up there with Fantastic Fest on the fun-o-meter. Being that the Stanley is the inspiration for The Shining's Overlook Hotel, many of the events are Kubrick-related including the festival-closing Big Wheel Death Race! This being a highly curated festival and us being Twitch, we've already run reviews for just about every non-revival film playing at the festival. Check out the gallery below for a look at every single film on offer...

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Concept Art And Plot Details For VANISHING WAVES Duo's Upcoming EMERGENCE

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT

It was back on Friday that we first brought word of Vanishing Waves directing duo Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper's upcoming science fiction film Emergence, with word that it had received development funding from their local film institute in Lithuania. Nothing further was known at the time but we now have two pieces of concept art for the film along with the first synopsis which promises a tale set in the world of bio-art. Evolution is an ascent towards consciousness. EMERGENCE - it's a fantasy neo noir. Blending an orientalist atmosphere with wonders of synthetic biology and creative bio-design, this metaphysical story explores the themes of free will and deep human desire for the marvelous and mystery. LAMARCK, a professional art appraiser, is tricked into...

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Blu-ray Review: BETTIE PAGE REVEALS ALL, A Pin-Up Girl As Feminist Icon

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT

How is it possible that an American figure model who ended her career more than 50 years ago continues to be so influential upon today's popular culture? Mark Mori's Bettie Page Reveals All makes the case that the subject of his documentary was a woman ahead of her time. Born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1923, Bettie Page grew up in disadvantageous circumstances; she says her father molested her and her mother didn't want her. Like many young girls of the time, she dreamed of being a glamour girl, and even had a screen test in Hollywood, though that didn't lead anywhere. Instead, she survived an early, unsuccessful marriage, provided for herself with office jobs, and eventually moved to New York City. In her late 20s,...

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Destroy All Monsters: BACK TO THE FUTURE and The Power Of Love

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT

The power of love is a curious thing, as Back to the Future's power ballad affirmed. If you grew up in the 1980s (or really, any decade of cinema which mythologized the fairy-tale patriarchy, in whatever modernist guise), movies like Back to the Future would boil the romantic notion of a predestined life partner down to single, key, highly cinematic moments. In both versions of the timeline in Back to the Future, the moment Lorraine Baines knows she'll spend the rest of her life with George McFly comes when he kisses her at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance - not before, not after, but at that exact moment, and so insolubly that Time Itself can evidently be cemented by a single smooch to the...

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Blu-ray Review: Bill Forsyth's THAT SINKING FEELING From The BFI

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Before creating such classics of modern British Cinema as Gregory's Girl and Local Hero, Glaswegian filmmaker Bill Forsyth's debut feature was the 1979 gem That Sinking Feeling, about a gang of young chancers who look to make a quick buck by stealing a truckload of stainless steel kitchen sinks. Forsyth had already been working in documentaries for a good decade when he approached the Glasgow Youth Theatre, looking for fresh young talent to cast in a filmed version of a script he'd written, Gregory's Girl. However, as he got to know the young lads, and workshopped ideas, scenes and characters with them, Forsyth shelved the relatively ambitious tale of a young footballer who falls for the new girl who joins the school team, in favour...

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