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Durban 2014 Review: Documentary Short THE LAST BOERS OF PATAGONIA Is Sumptuous And Stirring

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Durban 2014 Review: Documentary Short THE LAST BOERS OF PATAGONIA Is Sumptuous And Stirring

Durban 2014 Review: Documentary Short THE LAST BOERS OF PATAGONIA Is Sumptuous And Stirring

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 04:00 AM PDT

Around the turn of the 19th century, a few Boer families - Afrikaner descendants of the original Dutch settlers in what is now South Africa - fled the country to escape persecution by the British during the Anglo-Boer Wars. A ship took them to Argentina, where for over 100 years they have kept their culture and language alive in an isolated pocket of Patagonia. The Last Boers of Patagonia documents this astonishing community, who speak an archaic form of Afrikaans that is extinct in modern South Africa, and at risk of disappearing completely as the remote population ages, and subsequent generations increasingly identify with Argentina. Despite the inevitable cultural dilution over time, many remain deeply connected to their South African roots, and even the youngest and most...

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Durban 2014: THE LAST BOERS OF PATAGONIA Trailer And Stills

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 03:00 AM PDT

The Last Boers of Patagonia documents an astonishing community in Argentina whose roots stretch back to what is now South Africa. Though we've had a taste thanks to a trailer (see below) and a teaser for the eventual feature film documentary The Boers At The End Of The World (previously covered here), the 15-minute short documentary that just screened at the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) was our first opportunity to really get at the flavour of this film, and it is delicious. For the first time we get insight into not just the collection of charismatic characters that populate the screen, but also the academic interest in this unique case as filmmaker Richard Gregory takes a team of linguistics researchers with him to document their unique Afrikaans. The short shown...

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PiFan 2014 Review: CAMERA Has A Good Eye But Lacks Focus

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 12:12 AM PDT

The debut feature from James Leong showcases the director's strong visual sensibility, but with an unimaginative and wasteful screenplay, Camera fails to capitalise on its intriguing premise.Set in a near-future Hong Kong, a gaping class and wealth divide has seen the city's older neighbourhoods fall into squalor and disrepair. While powerful corporations battle for the land in both the commercial and political spheres, the masses are left to eke out a meagre living however they can.Ming (Sean Li) drifts between these two worlds, trading off his skills as a surveillance expert to expose the crimes and vices of the elite. Blind in one eye - the result of a clouded childhood incident that still haunts his dreams - Ming lives alone, developing miniature, high-tech surveillance...

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First Glimpse Of Neill Blomkamp's CHAPPIE

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 08:30 PM PDT

A Facebook page for Neill Blomkamp's Chappie, a sci-fi comedy starring fellow South Africans Ninja and ¥o-Landi Vi$$er of Die Antwoord as themselves and frequent Blomkamp collaborator  Sharlto Copley (Wikus in District 9 and Kruger in Elysium) as the titular android Chappie, has gone live and indicates we can expect the film in 2015. Die Antwoord separately posted the first image of Chappie himself. Chappie's local South African cast is fleshed out with some big international names, not least of which are Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver, and Dev Patel.After being kidnapped by two criminals during birth, Chappie becomes the adopted son in a strange and dysfunctional family. Chappie is preternaturally gifted, one of a kind, a prodigy. He also happens to be a robot....

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Fantasia 2014 Review: IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE Is Cold, Wry, Excellent

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 08:00 PM PDT

I think it's pretty hard not to completely adore Stellan Skarsgård. From his achingly perfect performances working with Von Trier, to comic book blockbusters like Thor, to the original Insomnia, he's one of the great actors of this or any generation.Yet audiences, it seems, sometimes take his talents for granted. Sure, he's received a share of plaudits, but for an actor with such range and sensitivity I think he's deserving of being considered in the absolute upper echelon of performers.Perhaps one reason that he doesn't quite get the respect of some of his peers is that he's unafraid to balance doing art house cinema with mainstream action fare. Skarsgård is comfortable as the everyman as he is the tortured soul, and gives dignity to even...

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BANG BANG Teaser Gives You Abs, Explosions, And Footjets(?) Aplenty!

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 07:30 PM PDT

Fox Star Studios in India gave us what could turn out to be the most ridiculous teaser of 2014 today with the first footage from Siddarth Anand's Bang Bang! The film is an official remake of the Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz film Knight and Day, which is remarkable in that they actually bothered to get remake rights for a film. Headlining Bang Bang are Hrithik Roshan, who has proven his action chops in films like Dhoom 2, and Katrina Kaif, on whom a Barbie doll is based. Director Anand has a couple of solid Bollywood rom-coms under his belt with Bacchna Ae Haseeno and Salaam Namaste, however, his action skills are as yet untested unless you count his "cars turning left" opus, Ta Ra Rum Pum....

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First Poster For THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 07:15 PM PDT

Peter Jackson has shared the first poster for The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies ahead of the big event Warner Brothers has planned for San Diego Comic-Con. And it is a ripper!The poster is clearly intended to remind us where The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug left off, rather than hype us up for the titular battle, which *SPOILER ALERT* is a glorious clusterfuck crescendo of dwarves and men and elves and orcs and wargs and bats and giant eagles and motherfucking bezerker bear-mode Beorn. All in good time, and good times ahead. ...

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Japan Cuts 2014 Interview: UZUMASA LIMELIGHT Captures the True Dying Art of Samurai Cinema's Kirare-Yaku

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 07:00 PM PDT

Uzumasa Limelight is a love letter to the unsung heroes of samurai cinema, the kirare-yaku; the team of actors whose job is to die spectacularly on screen, as seen through the fictional eyes of one of its true artists.  We had a chat with Director Ochiai Ken, Actress Yamamoto Chihiro and Producer Mori Ko at the Japan Cuts festivalThe Lady Miz Diva:  You've written your previous features and short films, but this film came from somewhere else.  Please tell us how UZUMASA LIMELIGHT came to you?Ochiai Ken:  Well, first of all, there was Fukumoto Seizo {Laughs}, the legend.  This story and the script was largely based on his life.  Ono Hiroyuki, the writer/producer, has kind of been with him through filming and also he lives...

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NIGHTCRAWLER Trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal In Sunglasses Lays On The Smooth Sleaze

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Dan Gilroy, brother of Tony, took over some of the writing duties on the Bourne franchise from his older sibling, who also directed the Jeremy Renner outing. Gilroy also penned Real Steel and Tarsem's The Fall. Here he makes his directorial debut with Nightcrawler, a film that foolishly escaped my gaze in yesterdays big TIFF announcement. As of this moment, the trailer certainly has my attention.  Jake Gyllenhaal, on fire after his one-two punch with Denis Villeneuve last year (Enemy, Prisoners) plays Lou Bloom, an ambitious, morally dubious crime reporter in Los Angeles who, judging from the images on display, will do anything to climb the ladder at the TV newsroom. In a brilliant pitch, the trailer is narrated as a perky job interview (to a fetching, as...

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COLD HARBOUR: Watch The Trailer For The South African Crime Thriller

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Carey McKenzie's Cold Harbour won a glowing review from our own Stuart Muller after its world premiere in Durban and if you're wondering why ... well, the first trailer below should give you a solid indication. Here's how the festival describes the film:When a body washes up on a beach in what looks like a gang-related turf-war murder, Khayelitsha policeman Sizwe Mia sees his chance to make detective. But the deeper he digs, the thicker the conspiracy. Unsure of who to trust, Sizwe must fight to stay on the right side of a law he believes in and maintain his integrity in a world that does not reward it. Atmospherically shot, Cold Harbour is a bleak crime drama rooted in the moral ambiguities of crime,...

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Watch The Trailer For Hasan Karacadag's POISON X

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Turkey's most prolific purveyor of things that go bump in the night is back and doing what he does best with the upcoming Poison X. Produced by J-Plan in association with Taff Pictures, Project X again taps into regional folklore while giving things a very modern twist all in the name of making you jump out of your socks.Dilek and her husband Ömer lead a calm and peaceful life in the city of İstanbul, Turkey, their days countersigned by the ticking of their comforting routine.Until, one night, Dilek wakes from her sleep with a dreadful feeling..."A terrible nightmare,", she explains. "Something about the Devil...he whispered in my ear..."The episode marks the beginning of sinister happenings that lead Dilek to believe that her house is inhabited by creatures; beings that hide in dark...

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Destroy All Monsters: BOYHOOD And The Experience Of Now

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT

"Suppose your life a folded telescope Durationless, collapsed in just a flash As from your mother's womb you, bawling, drop Into a nursing home. Suppose you crash Your car, your marriage - toddler laying waste A field of daisies, schoolkid, zit-faced teen With lover zipping up your pants in haste Hearing your parents' tread downstairs - all one." - X.J. Kennedy Film is a temporal archive, and Boyhood is the most magnificent ever built. Boyhood coalesces boyhood down to a breathless, 3-hour supercut, and whether you call its core conceit (the filming, over 12 years, of actor Ellar Coltrane in a series of dramatic scenes as he ages from 6 to 18) a creative masterstroke or art-school gimmick, the effect is the same. That I...

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NY Asian 2014: MANSHIN: TEN THOUSAND SPIRITS, Moon So-ri On Challenges For Korean Actresses And Shamanism

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Moon-So-ri won acclaim for her fearless roles in films like Oasis and A Good Lawyer's Wife. She comes to the New York Asian Film Festival with Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits, a surreal docu-narrative about the life of a shaman.  We talked about the advantages of not fitting into Korean beauty standards and being an actress of a certain age. The Lady Miz Diva:  Please tell us what brought you to MANSHIN?Moon So-ri:  This might be a behind-the-scenes story about the casting, but the director, Park Chan-kyong, had a short film called Night Fishing, and I was actually supposed to be in that film.  I was getting ready for the film for about a month, learning all the things that Manshins do.  I found out on...

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Own the Remastered Deluxe Editions Of Rankin-Bass Animation Classics THE HOBBIT (1978) And THE RETURN OF THE KING (1980)

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Today marks the anniversary, in the year 2941 of the Third Age (by Shire Reckoning), of Bilbo's departure from Beorn's Hall for Mirkwood, in the company of 13 dwarves and a surly wizard in JRR Tolkien's literary classic The Hobbit. Today also marks the release by Warner Brothers of remastered, deluxe editions of the Rankin-Bass animated classics The Hobbit (1977) and The Return Of The King (1980). Sadly, Beorn does not appear in the Rankin-Bass The Hobbit (though he's played to the hilt by Mikael Persbrandt in Peter Jackson's version), but that is no reason not to celebrate these overlooked classics, all but forgotten in the post-Peter Jackson's Middle-Earth world. For all their flaws, they remain enthralling manifestations of Tolkien's created universe. The films hosts a wealth of phenomenal voice...

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The Sun Rises In NOBLE HEARTS Trailer

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT

Indonesia has yet many places and stories to explore, now it's time for those who very first to see the sun rise in Indonesia every day.based on a true story in far east of Indonesia, Munting, a district near the border between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, the indigenes children not willing to continue their education to senior high school because of the nearest one is 155 miles away from their home in Merauke. Mr. Wambrau, Munting junior high school principal, sees the importance of education and along with his peers fight to have government build a senior high school on their district. The government official agree with a term, they must have at least 8 student to start building the senior high school, but...

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