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Introducing Durban 2014: Seaside South African Cinema At The Durban International Film Festival

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Introducing Durban 2014: Seaside South African Cinema At The Durban International Film Festival

Introducing Durban 2014: Seaside South African Cinema At The Durban International Film Festival

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 04:00 AM PDT

Ah Durban! South Africa's cultural melting pot of English, Afrikaner, Indian, and Zulu. Famous for her sunny beaches and busy harbour; infamous for her cauterizing curries and wizardly weed. I grew up in the central green foothills you can see below, half an hour from those miles of golden sand. The snowcapped mountain range in the distance is the Drakensberg, named for the vast dragon's back it resembles. You may well have seen those mountains up close if you've ever watched Cry, The Beloved Country, or the historical war films Zulu and Zulu Dawn.Durban is also home to Southern Africa's longest running and largest film festival, and as a local boy it gives me the giddys to introduce Twitch's virgin coverage of the Durban International...

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PiFan 2014: Preview Part 3 - Vision Express

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 01:00 AM PDT

Bags are packed and e-tickets have been downloaded in preparation for tomorrow when various members of Team Twitch head off to Korea for PiFan, Asia's biggest celebration of genre cinema. While excitement is bubbling over at the thought of the amazing lineup (and the chance to again witness Asian Editor James Marsh rock the karaoke mic) its time to take a quick look at another section of the lineup. So before you finalize your schedule, check out the picks from Vision Express, which 'suggests a new vision for international genre films, beyond the bounds of conventional fantastic movies'. Standouts include Ben Wheatley's A Field in England, along with catching up with a selection from my adopted home, Japan, with the likes of The Round Table,...

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LAGGIES: Are You One? Watch Trailer To Find Out

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 01:00 PM PDT

The latest film by Lynn Shelton, Laggies stars Keira Knightly, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Sam Rockwell in the tale of a woman who refuses to 'grow up.' The new trailer suggests that 'growing up' means supporting yourself financially and not acting like a kid. According to the official synopsis: Having spent her twenties comfortably inert, 28 year old Megan (Keira Knightley) reaches a crisis when she finds herself squarely in adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to pursue any and no one to relate to, including her high school boyfriend (Mark Webber). When he proposes, Megan panics and given an opportunity to escape - at least temporarily - she hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika (Chloë Grace Moretz)...

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First OUIJA Trailer: Don't Play Unless You Want Demons In Your House

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 12:05 PM PDT

When will you kids learn? As demonstrated in the first trailer for the upcoming Ouija, If you don't want demons in your house, then don't summon them with an Ouija board and then wonder where they came from. Stiles White, writer of supernatural flick The Possession and a credited co-writer on the truly kooky Knowing, makes his directorial debut. Olivia Cooke, a winning presence on TV's Bates Motel but stuck in a thankless role on this year's The Quiet Ones, stars with Douglas Smith (Stage Fright). Michael Bay's production company Platinum Dunes is involved, and so is Jason Blum, a specialist in low-budget horror, whose Paranormal Activity featured a Ouija board. The trailers features a number of familiar beats -- snippets of horror moments we've all seen...

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NYAFF 2014 Interview: Korean Acting Legend Park Joong-hoon Talks TOP STAR, His Directing Debut

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 11:05 AM PDT

The New York Asian Film Festival handed their Celebrity Award to one of the most prolific stars of Korean cinema.  Park Joong-hoon has won many international awards for films like Nowhere to Hide and Radio Star during his nearly 30-year acting career.  He now turns director for Top Star, an insider's look at the rise and fall of fame.The Lady Miz Diva:  How do you feel about receiving the New York Asian Film Festival's Celebrity Award?Park Joong-hoon:  First of all, I'm really thankful, of course.  And it has a kind of special meaning, this Celebrity Award from New York; when I was 25 years old, I was already an actor, but I temporarily stopped and came here to study for two years.  So I was...

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Post-war Japanese Animation In Mexico, Presented By Cineteca Nacional And Japan Foundation

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 10:30 AM PDT

Mexico's Cineteca Nacional and the Japan Foundation have put together a very interesting film program titled Anime: Post-war Japanese Animation (Anime: La Animación Japonesa de Posguerra). The thematic is pretty clear, so let's jump right into the details and film selection.Starting at Mexico City's Cineteca Nacional on Thursday, July 17th, with the screening of Shubuichi Setsuko's The Glass Rabbit, the program offers both feature length and short films, as well as a conference with guest director Furukawa Taku. Born in 1941, Furukawa is the director of many short animations that were produced through his own company Takun Box. Those include the five-minute Phenakistoscope, winner of the Jury Special Prize at the 1975 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Before going on to do his own stuff, Furukawa...

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Exclusive Interview: Twitch Talks To Steve James About LIFE ITSELF And More

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT

It's a rare pleasure to be able to follow up with an interview subject on a given project. I had the pleasure of speaking with documentarian Steve James mere hours after his remarkable film, Life Itself, made its debut. With a room chock full of Roger Ebert's friends and families, it was certainly a raw and emotional screening, and our conversation (found here on Moviefone, along with a chat with Chaz Ebert) proved to be a wonderful experience. Several months later, James was in Toronto, screening the film to members of Toronto's Doc Institute. This was one of many unofficial screenings between the Sundance premiere and the Cannes release, allowing James to essentially lecture on the film, using it as a way not only...

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First Live Action PARASYTE Teaser Arrives

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 09:30 AM PDT

After years of development and a false start involving The Grudge helmer Shimizu Takashi, the first part of Japanese live action adaptation of Iwaki Hitoshi's popular scifi / horror manga Parasyte hits local screens in November from director Yamazaki Takashi.The story revolves around a teenage boy whose hand is infected by an alien parasite, giving it - the hand, that is - strange, often uncontrollable, and always rather violent powers. Which would be a bad thing in most circumstances but given that the alien parasites have taken over the minds of most people the alien-hand actually gives him a fighting chance to survive in a world gone mad.The first teaser for the hotly anticipated film has just arrived and while very much a tease it...

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Full Trailer For Sono's TOKYO TRIBE Pushes The Crazy To Epic Levels

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT

This would appear to be a rather good time for fans of Japanese cinematic excess. After stints of varying length demonstrating to the world that they are capable of creating 'proper grown up cinema', Japan's two reigning kings of on screen madness - Miike Takashi and Sono Sion - are both back to the full bore madness and that's nothing but good news for fans. You want proof? You got it. The full theatrical trailer for Sono's latest effort, Tokyo Tribe, is freshly arrived on the scene and while this latest promo for the hyper stylized tale of clashing street gangs starts with a (relatively) polished and complete scene (look! I can tell a story!) it quickly spins off into utter lunacy. Lunacy of the...

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Watch An Extended Trailer For Studio Ghibli's WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT

Studio Ghibli have been winning praise for The Secret World Of Arrietty director Yonebayashi Hiromasa's adaptation of Joan G. Robinson's children's novel When Marnie Was There and with the film freshly on Japanese screens a new extended trailer has arrived to further stoke interest. What else is there to say about this? If you're at all a fan of Studio Ghibli's work then this is already must viewing ... and if you're not, well just take a look below....

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Destroy All Monsters: Darkness Before The DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Spoilers! There's the going theory that depressives are more clear-headed in a crisis, because we spend so much time mentally rehearsing the worst-case scenarios. When such scenarios ultimately arise, all the prep work has been done. If so, this summer's moviegoers might prove themselves uncommonly useful upon the coming of the end times. Our pop culture is dreaming, obsessively, about the end of the world. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is another film in a line that sees the annihilation of the human race's supremacy over life on the Earth as a matter of when, not if. When Godzilla was released I quipped that if we could not, collectively, get our shit together to actually solve the planet's environmental catastrophe, Hollywood can at...

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Fantasia 2014: New Trailer For World Premiere Of THE DROWNSMAN

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Chad Archibald's moist slasher flick The Drownsman will have its world premiere at Fantasia on August 2 at 5:15 p.m. in the renovated DB Clark Theatre. To mark the occasion, they have cut a new trailer. After almost drowning in a lake, Madison finds herself bound to a life of fear. Unable to describe what happened to her during the moments she was underwater, Madison begins to develop hydrophobia: an abnormal fear of water. Crippled by her past trauma, Madison attempts to shut out the world around her but, her fear intensifies when she begins to be haunted by the vision of an evil figure. After watching her struggle for over a year, Madison's four friends stage an intervention in a desperate attempt to help. In...

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