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Lima Film Festival 2014 Comes Of Age And Releases Its Full Lineup

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Lima Film Festival 2014 Comes Of Age And Releases Its Full Lineup

Lima Film Festival 2014 Comes Of Age And Releases Its Full Lineup

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Another year, and another edition of the Lima Film Festival is upon us. Just in time for its milestone 18th birthday, the Fest has released their full slate of films, both in the Fiction and Documentary competitions and other sections.Argentina, the biggest film industry in South America, has a couple of highlights. If you've been wondering where Viggo Mortensen has been hiding for the last few years, he can be found in Jauja, a drama from renowned director Lisandro Alonso (Los Muertos, Liverpool). There's also the eagerly anticipated Wild Tales, Damián Szifron's dark humoured anthology film.With more and more movies being made here, it's no surprise that Peru has four films in the Fiction Competition. Álvaro Velarde (Destiny Has No Favorites) returns to local screens with...

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Fantasia 2014: Impressions From The Frontières Pitch Sessions

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 02:30 PM PDT

As great Canadian bards of the 20th century once wrote into one of their lyrics, "If I had a million dollars, I would buy you a monkey. Haven't you always wanted a monkey?" Yesterday morning we "industry-types" gathered together for the Frontières International Co-Production Market pitch sessions. Buyers, sellers, financers and lesser hanger-ons like myself (festival programmer) shook the cobwebs from travelling the day before to see twelve projects chosen to participate in this year's market. Each project was given fifteen minutes to convince us that their project was worthy of our investments. In no particular order I have chosen my top five pitches. If I had a million dollars I would "buy their love". Based on the quality of their presentations and the ideas and concepts...

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Ning Hao Gets His Apatow On With New Comedy BREAKUP BUDDIES

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Chinese director Ning Hao has won a legion of fans at home - and a decent sized cult around the globe - thanks to his quirky sense of humor, an element typically woven into stories based in other genres, and with his latest effort he's going all out on that front.Titled Breakup Buddies the film follows a former singer and his best friend on a road trip to deal with the emotional aftermath of a messy divorce. Huang Bo and Xu Zheng star in what could easily be seen as a local spin on the films of Todd Phillips or Judd Apatow. Check out the trailer below....

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First Teaser For Miike's Bloody Manga Adaptation AS GOD SAYS

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 01:30 PM PDT

What does God say?If you're Japanese cult auteur Miike Takashi evidently he says "Lay on the blood!" And ever the diligent sort, that's exactly what Miike is doing with his live action adaptation of Kanshiro Muneyuki and Fujimura Akeji's manga As God Says. First announced back in November this tale of school kids forced to fight each other to the death now has a first teaser. And, yep: Red stuff. Check it out below....

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Check Out Three Alternate Posters For Fabrice du Welz's COLT 45

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 12:30 PM PDT

Fabrice du Welz is having himself quite a year with his Alleluia premiering in Cannes and his dark action film Colt 45 gearing up for French theatrical release. And while things are relatively quiet on the Alleluia front we've gotten hold of a trio of alternate posters prepared for Colt 45 by Belgian artist Gilles Vranckx (Amer, The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears), all of which were passed over in favor of a much more conventional (read: boring) Photoshop job. Check 'em out - along with the trailer - in the gallery below.Police armourer and firearms instructor Vincent Milès is a shooting ace. Only 25 years old, his prowess is the envy of the world's finest but, to the incomprehension of his colleagues, Vincent...

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Scott Adkins And Wu Jing In First SPECIAL FORCE: WOLF WARRIOR Teaser

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Chinese martial arts star Wu Jing sits in the director's seat for the upcoming Special Force: Wolf Warrior - a project previously known just as Wolf - but you know he's not going to let his international co-star Scott Adkins have all the fun on screen so, yep, Wu is up there kicking ass, too.What happens when you put two of the world's most gifted screen fighters on screen together? Well, the first teaser for Special Force: Wolf Warrior has arrived so you can look for yourself. Wu has a definite fondness for a mid 80s vibe as a director so fans of the classics, take note ... and check out the teaser below....

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Japan Cuts 2014: Kitamura Kazuki Talks KILLERS, MAN FROM RENO And NEKO SAMURAI

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 09:30 AM PDT

Beginning his career as one of Takashi Miike's go-tos in films like The Way to Fight and The Man in White, hitting his stride in Ryuhei Kitamura's Azumi and Godzilla: Final Wars, and even turning up as one of the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill, actor Kitamura Kazuki is one of Japan's most recognizable faces.  As the recipient of Japan Cuts' Cut Above award, Kitamura comes to the festival with three very different new films; the noirish Man From Reno, the gory Indonesian nightmare, Killers, and in a complete changeup, the family-friendly, utterly charming, Neko Samurai.The Lady Miz Diva:  How do you feel about receiving Japan Cuts' Cut Above award here in New York? Kitamura Kazuki:  I'm genuinely happy.  For awards, per se, in my...

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The Many Faces Of Choi Min-sik

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT

This week, Luc Besson's new science-fiction-slash-action thriller Lucy premieres, starring Scarlett Johansson as a human who becomes a divine being. Ouch, go easy on the typecasting there, people! Speaking of which, there is an intense evil Asian dude in the film, and he is played by Choi Min-sik. And that actually is a surprise, as the actor is known for being picky about the roles he plays. Another thing Choi Min-sik is known for, is that he is a very, VERY good actor, who brings an impressive physicality to each performance, despite not looking at all like an action star. So once again I'm going to use a gallery of six close-ups of one of my favorite thespians to make a quiz. Click through the...

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THE DEAD LANDS: Maori Warriors Battle In First Teaser For Toa Fraser's Period Action Epic

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT

Soon to have its world premiere as part of the Special Presentations program at the Toronto International Film Festival, director Toa Fraser breaks new ground with his upcoming feature The Dead Lands. An entirely Maori language action-drama set before the colonization of New Zealand The Dead Lands captures a proud culture on screen in a way that has never been done before.Hongi (James Rolleston) - a Maori chieftain's teenage son - must avenge his father's murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery. Vastly outnumbered by a band of villains, led by Wirepa (Te Kohe Tuhaka), Hongi's only hope is to pass through the feared and forbidden Dead...

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Fear & Loathing At Comic-Con 2014, Part II: How I Went To San Diego, Joined A Cult, And Sold My Screenplay

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT

CHAPTER 4: STUPID FUCKING WHITE MEN DOING STUPID FUCKING WHITE MEN STUFFScott may be a lot of things.  Crazy may be the first that comes to mind, but he's no liar. Unlike the mental institution that I was just released from, I was given another seventy two hour time frame, and this time it was accurate. It's Thursday evening when we arrive at the San Diego train yard which borders on Petco Park just behind the San Diego Convention center. I can almost hear the mating calls of slightly autistic geeky males in heat. I can almost smell their man funk, a combination of natural pheromones, hoagie pit B.O., and Aqua Velva after shave. It's 8pm and the sun is just beginning to set. We...

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Review: AND SO IT GOES, Easy To Enjoy, Easy To Forget

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Rob Reiner has gotten a bad rap. His latest film, And So It Goes, will not change that. From Reiner's very first feature, This Is Spinal Tap in 1984, the filmmaker has trafficked freely in genial, heartfelt, genuine sentimentality, as well as a frank nostalgia for days gone by. That matched the tenor of the times, especially for film fans who felt swamped by the growing blockbuster mentality being cultivated in Hollywood. His films were never as raw or incendiary as the independent films that were increasingly demanding attention, but The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, and A Few Good Men represent an impressive string of well-crafted, populist, mainstream movies In 1994, North was a major misfire,...

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Review: MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT, Woody Allen Still Believes

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Woody Allen may not believe in God, but he does believe in magic. This much has been clear for years, at least since "Oedipus Wrecks," his entry in the 1991 anthology film New York Stories, in which a hapless magician's mother vanishes only to reappear in the sky over all of Manhattan as unescapable omnipresent nag, calling out his every flaw to all the world. Allen plays the flummoxed magician, and Mae Questel is the newly disembodied mother. It's a silly bit of psycho-analytical fluff, but perfectly passable. So too is Magic in the Moonlight, Allen's latest product courtesy of the systematic annual filmmaking treadmill he's been exercising upon for most of his career. Thankfully, Magic doesn't feel systematic, which is thanks in part to its early...

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Review: A MOST WANTED MAN, All Cloak, No Dagger

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT

The stakes are surprisingly low in Anton Corbijn's latest effort A Most Wanted Man; a skewed take of the war on terror and the complexities of institutions and stateless beings. The film, set in the wintry German city of Hamburg, purposely keeps it low key, slowly reaching its clinical conclusion in just over two hours with barely an eyebrow raised. The film shoots for realism, achieving it ten-fold; this is, after all, a John Le Carre adaptation. Boorish sector administration and hushed conversations can only carry a film so far, however, and the results of this muted screenplay ensure a safely disappointing ride.The late Philip Seymour Hoffman is on-point as Gunther, a troubled anti-terrorist agent who runs a small group of dull spies comprised of actors...

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