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Preview: Transylvania 2014 Unites Absorbing Features By A Flock Of Fresh Filmmakers

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Preview: Transylvania 2014 Unites Absorbing Features By A Flock Of Fresh Filmmakers

Preview: Transylvania 2014 Unites Absorbing Features By A Flock Of Fresh Filmmakers

Posted: 29 May 2014 02:00 AM PDT

The Transylvania International Film Festival (May 30 - June 8) takes place in the second biggest Romanian city after Bucharest, and the unofficial capital of the historical province of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca. The fest will screen 12 daring features by six first time and six second time directors in its main competition. Last year, the Transylvanian Trophy went to the highly acclaimed Indian drama, The Ship of Theseus, which happened to also win the best cinematography award. The fest's artistic director Mihai Chirilov, asks the following, referring to this year´s crop of competition titles:  "How many fiction films - borderline documentaries - about albino Afro-Americans are there? How hard is it to make a two-character film, with time and space unity, without turning it into a theatre...

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Matt Johnson's CIA Thriller OPERATION AVALANCHE Gets North American Distribution

Posted: 28 May 2014 02:30 PM PDT

Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson caused quite a stir last year with The Dirties, his feature-length debut, in which he starred with Owen Williams in a thriller that tackled the subject of high school shootings with daring and intelligence. His follow-up, Operation Avalanche, "investigates the truth behind the CIA's involvement in the space race" and promises to be just as invigorating as his debut. According to a press release, Lionsgate has snapped up all U.S. and Canadian rights to the film. Production is scheduled to begin on June 30 in Toronto, Houston, and Washington D.C. From the official statement: "The CIA, the 1960's and the space program have always been obsessions of mine. Working with partners like Lionsgate, who understand the scope and vision of what we are creating,...

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EXCLUSIVE: Find Out What Is In The Box In Your First Look At COHERENCE

Posted: 28 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT

We have kept pretty mum on James Ward Byrkit's sci-fi drama Coherence. We do not want to give away too much about his award winning film (Fantastic Fest 2013). But then Oscilloscope came to us with the first exclusive clip from the film and we could not say no! Buzz from the festival circuit has been largely positive so we are delighted to share this with you now. On the night of an astrological anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, this film is a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.In the clip, one of the dinner guests has found a locked box. What is...

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Ariel Awards 2014: THE GOLDEN CAGE Dominates Mexican Oscars

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:31 AM PDT

Diego Quemada-Díez's debut film The Golden Cage (La Jaula de Oro), a drama about Central American immigrants travelling to the United States, won big at the 56th edition of the Ariel Awards, the Mexican equivalent of the Oscars. After having a successful presentation at last year's Cannes Film Festival, where it won the A Certain Talent Prize for Ensemble Cast, The Golden Cage was released in Mexican movie theaters just this month and it's still playing in some. The Golden Cage took home nine Ariel Awards, including Best Film, Actor, and Original Screenplay. Amat Escalante, another Cannes 2013 Mexican winner, got the Best Director Ariel Award for Heli, while Quebranto was cited for best doc. Few surprises overall really, and perhaps the most shocking thing...

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Destroy All Monsters: Superheroes Last All Summer Long

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Note: Major spoilers for X-Men 7 follow. In the last scene of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Wolverine wanders through X-Men Heaven, distinguishable from the church at the end of LOST only by the absence of pan-theistic iconography in the stained glass. The light is gauzy and soft, the sound slightly off-focus, and the photography slow and dreamlike. We know this is X-Men Heaven because everything is as it should be, and no one has died. All those who have given their lives in X-service, not just in Days of Future Past but throughout the X-Men series, are here with Wolverine, good as (old)new. Kelsey Grammar is Beast again. Professor Xavier is played by Patrick Stewart and is sitting in his chair. All of the...

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