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Melbourne 2014 Reveals Educational & Enlightening Next Gen Program

Melbourne 2014 Reveals Educational & Enlightening Next Gen Program

Posted: 20 May 2014 03:10 AM PDT

The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced the line-up for their very youth-centric all-ages program dubbed Next-Gen. Running since 2007, this terrific and diverse range of films seek to capture the imagination of young minds and inspire a new generation of film lovers.Highlights include new anime film Paterma Inverted which was nominated at the Asian Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), French documentary School of Babel and Mexican punk-rock feature We Are Mari Pepa.This year's diverse program includes the Japanese anime Patema Inverted, the richly inventive new film from newcomer Yasuhiro Yoshiura. The princess of a subterranean community, cheerful and inquisitive Patema loves investigating the maze-like tunnels and caverns of her homeland ­ especially the forbidden 'danger zone'. While out exploring, however, Patema falls headlong into...

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Turkish Short BASKIN To Get Full Feature Treatment

Posted: 19 May 2014 03:30 PM PDT

Congratulations to Turkish filmmaker Can Evrenol. Variety is reporting that Barcelona-based producer M's Entertainment will produce a low-budget feature length version of his short film Baskin. Evrenol will direct from his own screenplay in Turkey later this year with a local cast and crew. M's Entertainment head Emili Pons will produce. Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival deputy director Mike Hostench and Asmodexia director Marc Carrete will executive produce.We have an exclusive still from the short film to share with you to give you some sense as to why this news is awesome! Please, watch the trailer for his short as well. You will find that below. Shot independently in Istanbul, Turkey, during the height of the the police brutality and Gezi resistance that hit the headlines worldwide, the...

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Cannes 2014 Review: In THE WONDERS, The Stings of Adolescence

Posted: 19 May 2014 03:00 PM PDT

The Wonders (Le meraviglie) is a poetic realist portrait of painful adolescence. Director Alice Rohrwacher tells a slight coming of age tale infused with melancholy, hardship but not without a sense of beauty. Gone is the Italy of opulence and grandeur celebrated in last year's Cannes breakout, The Great Beauty. The rural countryside (a point where Lazio, Tuscany and Umbria meet) depicted in The Wonders is both gritty and austere, a land that gives and takes in return. For that matter, so do the people who populate it. Fourteen-year-old Gelsomina is the only one who gets through to her father, a severe German transplant named Wolfgang. Though harsh and quick to anger, he's not a bad man. Rather, he's something like a bee himself: spinning about...

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Watch: Akshay Kumar Threatens To Murder A Dog And Claims IT'S ENTERTAINMENT

Posted: 19 May 2014 02:30 PM PDT

Bollywood action-comedy king Akshay Kumar has been a very busy man lately. The guy has no less than seven films in production and scheduled for release before the end of 2015, and those are only the ones we know about. Two of those films should be shoved into the eyeholes of Indian filmgoers by the end of this calendar year. The first is AR Murugadoss's Holiday - A Soldier Is Never Off Duty, a remake of his (so-so) Tamil blockbuster Thuppakki. The second is this movie, It's Entertainment, and holy shit does it look like a disaster.I cannot find an official synopsis of the film, but the below English subtitled trailer seems straightfoward enough. Akshay Kumar finds out that he's an heir to a ridiculous fortune,...

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Cannes 2014 Review: WHEN ANIMALS DREAM, Stark And Haunting Arthouse Horror

Posted: 19 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT

One of the reasons I love genre film is that is gives opportunity to explore the human condition with strange metaphors, allowing the spectator perhaps a deeper and richer understanding than when trying to represent something directly. Such is the case with Jonas Alexander Arnby's When Animals Dream. Ostensibly a coming-of-age story about a young woman's burgeoning interest in love and sex, it uses the werewolf metaphor to examine how women are often treated when they try to seek their own independent path, especially in small and conservative communities. Marie (Sonja Suhl, in a terrific performance) lives in a small fishing town on the coast of Denmark. Her mother is an invalid (though no one will tell Marie why), and looked after by Marie and...

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Massive COMPLETE HALLOWEEN Box Set On The Way From Anchor Bay And Scream Factory

Posted: 19 May 2014 01:30 PM PDT

This is something I honestly thought would never happen. Anchor Bay Entertainment and Shout! Factory horror imprint, Scream Factory, have announced a massive, "complete" Halloween box set to hit store shelves on September 23. In addition to including every Halloween film, which was a challenge enough with all of the different licensing agencies and contracts involved, this set will also include the TV versions of the first two films and the oft-bootlegged Halloween 6 Producer's Cut. Pretty damned impressive.No word on extras just yet, though lord knows that there are a lot to include already on the market. Halloween, along with the Evil Dead series, has been one of Anchor Bay's cash cows for almost two decades, with re-release after re-release destroying horror fans' wallets...

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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: New Trailer, More Fun, And "I Am Groot"

Posted: 19 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT

This Guardians of the Galaxy. It could be the dark horse of the summer. And this new trailer is pretty darned fun. And you get to hear Groot for the first time, too. I am sold. All the teasers and trailers have hit their mark with me. But recent attempts at the space epic have not fared well. Is this too far away from the Marvel superhero films to still draw that crowd? I hope not. I think this looks like it is going to be a lot of fun. I really do hope it goes to the place that's the best. If June and July would like to hurry up and make a quick entrance and exit that would be nice. Guardians of the Galaxy opens...

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Fantaspoa 2014 Review: CHAMELEON (BUQÄLÄMUN), A Minimalist Azerbaijani Drama

Posted: 19 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT

I never expected to watch a film like Chameleon (Buqälämun) at Fantaspoa. This is not fantasy cinema at all but rather a minimalist drama and the very first Azerbaijani film I've ever seen. It is about people who are only connected through one occurrence, though the lack of a major plot stands out as well as a series of long static shoots. Three main characters face the end of a period in their respective lives, with loneliness, nostalgia and unfairness as some of the themes touched. Although in terms of actions, almost nothing is happening with them. On the one hand, we follow a construction supervisor and his new assistant. They travel around in an old little car, checking out their workers, but the main...

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Twitch And IndieGoGo Teaming To Help Bring Mattie Do's DEAREST SISTER To Life. Buy Some Blood And Join Us.

Posted: 19 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT

When Laotian director Mattie Do released her debut feature Chanthaly last year she entered the record books on multiple fronts. For Chanthaly was not only the first horror film made in the history of Laos, it was also the first Laotian film ever helmed by a woman and - after being selected at Austin's Fantastic Fest - the first Laotian film to ever screen anywhere outside of Southeast Asia. Which is not at all a bad accomplishment for a film produced on a total budget of under five thousand dollars. So, how does one follow this up? Well, for one thing Do promised her producers that she would one day bring Laotian film to Cannes and then promptly made good on that promise by having...

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Cannes 2014 Review: THE SALVATION Is Salivatingly Good

Posted: 19 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT

It's no longer really much of a bold move to call Mads Mikkelsen one of the finest actors working in the world today. A consummate thespian, his performances are always intoxicating to watch, be they in silly pulp-populism when playing Bond's nemesis in Casino Royale, to his devastating turn in the Oscar-nominated, Thomas Vinterberg directed film The Hunt.Mads got his start with his Scorsese to his DeNiro, Nicholas Winding Refn, with their 1996 collaboration in the first Pusher film. In many ways the two are children of the Dogme '95 movement that swept Danish cinema into international focus during that period, the enfants des enfants terribles as it were. In Refn's case, this fact was quite literal, with his father being a noted editor for...

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Hooray For Hollywood: It's The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel... Bien?

Posted: 19 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT

I don't know if any of you have noticed recently, but the world has gone mad. (Fine, madder.) And I wish it was only things like the imminent melting of Antarctica, the rise of global Holocaust denial and my sudden love of soyrizo. But, as any glance at the entertainment industry press should tell you, Hollywood is on the precipice of cratering as one of the preeminent American industries. Granted, the implosion may not be next year, but it is certainly looking like it will happen well before McMurdo Station starts floating away towards Chile on an iceberg. Just a few weeks back at a business leadership conference in Beverly Hills, Jeffrey Katzenberg made waves when he predicted the collapse of "release windows" to a...

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NYIFF 2014 Review: In SNIFFER A Man Finds Himself In The Dirty Laundry Of Others

Posted: 19 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Most people show a lot of who they are through their interactions with others. Sure, there's the person we think we are, or the person that we imagine ourselves to be on our best days, but it's really how we treat the people in our lives that determines our legacy. In Buddhadeb Dasgupta's new film, Sniffer (Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa), a private dick, or sniffer in the Indian jargon used throughout the film, discovers his true self though his search for truth and compassion in others. It is a marvelously humane look at humanity on its best and worst behavior, sometimes simultaneously, and goes to prove that what you do isn't always who you are.Anwar is a private detective working for a seedy agency specializing...

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