Interview: Nae Caranfil Talks Romanian Film Industry, Storytelling And CLOSER TO THE MOON |
- Interview: Nae Caranfil Talks Romanian Film Industry, Storytelling And CLOSER TO THE MOON
- Blow It Up Real Good With The New EXPENDABLES 3 Trailer!
- LA Film Fest 2014 Review: JOSSY'S Playfully Parodies Power Rangers
- Crowdfund This! Resident Madman Greg Christie Returns With A New Book Project, DEAD HEROES!
- Get Your First Look At THE DEMOLISHER
- Fantasia Announces Titles for Off-Frontieres Development Marketplace
- LA Film Fest 2014 Interview: ECHO PARK Director Amanda Marsalis
- Criterion To Release ERASERHEAD, THE INNOCENTS, And More In September
| Interview: Nae Caranfil Talks Romanian Film Industry, Storytelling And CLOSER TO THE MOON Posted: 18 Jun 2014 03:00 AM PDT  During the Transylvania International Film Festival, Twitch sat down with a major figure in Romanian cinema, Nae Caranfil, whose films are zealously expected events in Romania. The director's latest film, Closer to the Moon, was part of the Romanian Days selection. It's the most expensive Romanian film to date and features an international cast. Twitch: How has the Romanian industry changed over the last couple of years? At the beginning of the 90s, we could still talk about film industry in Romania because there was a certain number of films produced every year. Now, we can talk only about film agriculture. You just plant a film into the ground and awards grow. I mean the industry changed a lot. I was privileged enough to start by making... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Blow It Up Real Good With The New EXPENDABLES 3 Trailer! Posted: 17 Jun 2014 02:30 PM PDT  After keeping things generally short and sweet in a series of initial teasers the Patrick Hughes directed Expendables 3 is getting down to business in earnest with the new trailer for the picture. You want explosions, helicopters, train heists and old dudes with guns cracking wise? Well, then, this is the trailer for you! It's got all of those things in spades! Check it out below!... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| LA Film Fest 2014 Review: JOSSY'S Playfully Parodies Power Rangers Posted: 17 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT  If you're a regular reader here at Twitch then you are probably aware of one of Japan's fastest rising directors: Fukuda Yuichi. Already a household name in his native country thanks to several TV shows, Fukuda broke out on the international festival scene in 2013 with Hentai Kamen and Kids Police. The titles alone were enough to garner these slapstick happy send-ups of Japanese pop culture attention. Our own James Marsh described Fukuda's film adap of his TV show, Kids Police, thusly: "ultimately, much like Fukuda's other comedy from this year Hentai Kamen, a one-joke movie stretched out to feature length, it's a hell of a good joke, and Fukuda has 11 episodes of TV series to fall back on when developing back stories and... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Crowdfund This! Resident Madman Greg Christie Returns With A New Book Project, DEAD HEROES! Posted: 17 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Brace yourselves for Twitch's resident Boozie critic, Greg Christie, is at it again. Having collected and expanded upon his epic Fear And Loathing series columns here at Twitch for his first e-book collection Pissing In The Punchbowl, Christie has launched a crowdfunding campaign for his latest literary effort, Dead Heroes, which he pitches as an e-novel about super heroes for people who are sick and tired of super heroes.Christie's a madman with a pen who has set himself a modest goal of just two grand for his crowdfunding effort, which he's already raised a quarter of. Check out his pitch video below and throw a few bucks into the till here.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Get Your First Look At THE DEMOLISHER Posted: 17 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Watch out Guelph, there's a new face on the streets and he carries a big stick. Director Gabriel Carrer has wrapped production on his Canadian indie vigilante thriller The Demolisher and Twitch has gotten the first look at the first selection of stills from the shoot and things are looking very promising, indeed.Latefox Pictures has completed production on, The Demolisher. Directed by Gabriel Carrer (If a Tree Falls, In the House of Flies), The Demolisher chronicles the story of a man named Bruce (Ry Barrett), an ordinary repairman tormented by a crippling sense of responsibility for his disabled wife Samantha (Tianna Nori), a former policewoman and survivor of a gang-related assault. Bruce's increasing hyper-sensitivity to the injustice suffered by his wife steers him down a... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Fantasia Announces Titles for Off-Frontieres Development Marketplace Posted: 17 Jun 2014 10:30 AM PDT  Further rounding out its Development/Production marketplace, The Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal adds another 12 genre projects under the Off-Frontières banner. Along with the Frontières titles, puts a lot of filmmakers, producers and other creative types in the same space. If you follow the indie horror and festival circuit, there are going to be a lot of familiar names below (not the least of which are Dario Argento, Simon Hunter, Jacob Tierney and Jorge Michel Grau).The 17th Fantasia Festival runs from July 17 until August 5, 2014, with the marketplace sandwiched in the middle weekend. Here are the Off-Frontières selections:A WORLD WAR II FAIRYTALE: THE MAKING OF MICHAEL MANN'S THE KEEP (UK / USA / France)Director: Stewart Buck (1st feature documentary)Producers: Stewart Buck - Buck... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| LA Film Fest 2014 Interview: ECHO PARK Director Amanda Marsalis Posted: 17 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Anyone who doesn't live in Echo Park (an eastside Los Angeles city-burbia-ish type enclave where everyone dresses cooler than you) doesn't get Echo Park. I don't live in Echo Park. Which is why I knew I needed to watch ECHO PARK, a sleepy and sweet love tale of the girl (Mamie Gummer) from the right side of the tracks who meets the boy (Anthony Okungbowa) from the wrong side of the tracks, and eventually realizes it's where she belonged all along (Anyone remember CRY BABY??) At LAFF we got the chance to get some questions answered from the first-time feature director Amanda Marsalis before their added screening tonight:TwitchFilm: In the director's statement you say an email 'just came to me, asking me to a direct a... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Criterion To Release ERASERHEAD, THE INNOCENTS, And More In September Posted: 17 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT  The Criterion Collection announced yesterday their September new releases, consisting of four brand-new titles and one Blu-ray update. American artist David Lynch finally joins the collection, as many film aficionados have been hoping for years. Lynch's debut feature, Eraserhead, is getting the Criterion treatment, with a Blu-ray and a DVD edition coming (there will be no dual format in September). In terms of extras, Eraserhead will come together with the making-of documentary Eraserhead Stories, six Lynch short films (all of them previously released on the "The Short Films of David Lynch" DVD), and both new and archival interviews. Two Criterion favorites are part of September's lineup also. I'm talking about Roman Polanski and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who in conjunct have now almost twenty films in... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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