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NY Asian 2014: Actress Lee Eun-woo Talks Family Dynamics & Karma In Kim Ki-duk's MOEBIUS

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NY Asian 2014: Actress Lee Eun-woo Talks Family Dynamics & Karma In Kim Ki-duk's MOEBIUS

NY Asian 2014: Actress Lee Eun-woo Talks Family Dynamics & Karma In Kim Ki-duk's MOEBIUS

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 05:00 PM PDT

Director Kim Ki-duk's castration epic, Moebius has blazed a trail of controversy.  At the heart of the film is a bravura performance by Lee Eun-woo, in a dual role as a mother who is equal parts Medea and Mommy Oedipus, and a hapless mistress caught in the twisted family dynamics. The Lady Miz Diva: If you were describing MOEBIUS to someone, what would you say?Lee Eun-woo:  Karma.  Moebius is karma.  Director Kim Ki-duk has his own interpretation of the film about family and religion, but I have my own interpretation, which is karma.  If I may, I'd like to read Director Kim's statement of what the film is about:"What is family?What are desires?What are genitals?Family, desires, and genitals are one from the start. I am...

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Durban 2014 Review: HARD TO GET Is Easy To Love

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 04:30 PM PDT

Over the past few years there has been an unmistakable sense that South Africa is a film nation on the rise and if that is, indeed, the case then its continued ascent will rest on the shoulders of bright young talents such as writer-director Zee Ntuli. At the tender of age of just 25 Ntuli's debut feature - the action-drama Hard To Get - got the nod as the opening night selection at the Durban International Film Festival and while it certainly shows some room for future growth it also shows a potent talent with an obvious gift for drawing performances from his actors and an uncommon ability to shift tones on a dime. In a post screening Q&A session Ntuli stated that a guiding...

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Japan Cuts 2014 Review: LOVE'S WHIRLPOOL Offers Potent Mix of Eroticism, Comedy, And Melancholy

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Miura Daisuke (Boys on the Run) adapts his own award-winning 2005 play Love's Whirlpool into his latest film of the same name, and it is quite a remarkable and wonderfully acted film where sex is the main subject and the driving force behind what happens. However, despite this singular focus, deeper layers are laid bare in this quite literally revealing tale of Japan's fuzoku (sex industry), and how people use this as an escape from superficial and rather empty existences in order to indulge their deepest and darkest desires.The film's theatrical origins remain rather obvious, as the action is restricted mostly to a living room and a bedroom of an apartment in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. However, the fine acting by the cast -...

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First Teaser for GOD HELP THE GIRL Shows Off Its Film Grain Glory

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 01:30 PM PDT

One of the more buzzy titles at the year's Sundance was Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch's directorial debut God Help the Girl. The good folks at Amplify scooped it up and are bringing it to theaters on September 5. Now we have a lovely teaser trailer that gives us a glimpse of Emily Browning and her cohorts as they gallivant in a period Glasgow to exactly the sort of music you might expect. Enjoy!...

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Durban 2014: OF GOOD REPORT, Revisiting Last Year's Banned Masterpiece

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Of Good Report is an astonishing South African noir thriller -- I've never seen better South African film making -- about a teacher-pupil relationship that spirals into obsession and violence. The film was selected as the opening film for the 2013 Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), and was scheduled to screen exactly one year ago today. Instead, on the eve of the festival, South African authorities banned the film for depictions of child pornography, the first such censorship of a South African production since the days of Apartheid. In hindsight the irony is heavy; Of Good Report is so obviously a scathing indictment of the very sexual predation that the censors used to justify its banning. So why review it now, a year after the fact? Because...

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Crowdfund This: A Blu-ray/DVD Boxset Of NEW DIRECTORS OF JAPAN

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT

UK-based distributor Third Window Films is a popular company in these parts, lauded for its dedication to making Asian cinema available to the general public. And not just the famous ones either: the company has often focused on obscure films and new talent as well, often at quite some financial risk to itself. Well, speaking of risk: to be able to publish a Limited Edition boxset of several films by new Japanese talent, Third Window Films had to be assured of at least 250 sales to make the project a financially viable one. So what did Third Window Films do? They raised a Kickstarter campaign. Quoting a couple of items from the press release: This project, hopefully the first of many (depending on its success!),...

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SEPTIC MAN Coming To VOD And Theaters In August

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Plan your meal times accordingly around the viewing of Jesse Thomas Cook's Septic Man. Starz Digital Media will be releasing the Canadian potty horror flick on VOD on August 12 and in theaters on August 15. From the creators of Monster Brawl, Exit Humanity, and Pontypool comes this award-winning origin story of Jack, a sewage worker who's determined to uncover the cause of the town's water contamination crisis. But when he becomes trapped underground in a septic tank without food or water he undergoes a hideous and repulsive transformation. In order to escape the tank, he must team up with a docile Giant and confront a murdering madman. Hailed as a "stunning," "funny," and "visceral story that will leave you shaken - and desperate for a...

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NY Asian 2014: Director Lee Su-jin Talks Rape, The Pressures Of Blame, And HAN GONG-JU

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT

One of the most haunting films at this year's New York Asian Film Festival had to be HAN GONG-JU. Loosely based around horrific real life incidents in Korea, director Lee Su-jin captures in his first feature the waking nightmare a teenager must face after a brutal rape. WARNING: There be spoilers!The Lady Miz Diva:  Why did you decide to make a film about this subject? Lee Su-jin:  There a series of things that continue to make me think deep thoughts and those things tended to be rape, bullying, and suicide, and those are the starting point of the subject of this film.It's a fictionalised account, but did you do a lot of research into the actual Miryang case? LS-j:  Not necessarily.  The Miryang incident did work as...

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Win A Signed Poster For Sci-Fi Thriller THE HUMAN RACE

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Xlrator Media will release Paul Hough's sci-fi thriller The Human Race on DVD on Tuesday, July 22. We have three posters signed by director Hough, and some of the stars of his film, Eddie McGee, Paul McCarthy-Boyington and Richard Gale (director of The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon).Eighty strangers from all walks of life are ripped out of their daily lives and forced to participate in a brutal race to the death. The rules are simple; follow the arrows or you will die, step on the grass and you will die, get lapped twice and you will die. Only one participant will survive. Race or die. There can only be one winner, but who will survive and for what purpose?This contest is open to...

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The Many Faces Of Ed Harris

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT

This week, Planes: Fire & Rescue is released by I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Pixar, and Ed Harris is attached as voice-actor. Therefore, this week's installment of our quiz is all about Ed. It's ironic to see, whoops, hear him as a voice actor, even if it's not for the first time. For Ed Harris is probably best known for looking strong, confident, the stereotypical American hero or Aryan villain, provided what the script calls for. That would be selling him short, though, because he is a fine, fine actor indeed, and not afraid to experiment with unusual character parts. Not all of these are successful, but more often than not Ed Harris turns out to be the most reliably good thing about the films he's in. So once again...

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RAGE Clip: Hey, Nic Cage, How Far Do You Want This To Go?

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Paco Cabezas' action thriller Rage is now available on VOD and iTunes; and the theatrical run began last Friday. We have a clip from the film to share with you. In it, Nicolas Cage has brought in some friends from his past. One of them has a question. To which, Nicolas answers with another question. If this were primary school, he would get a wrap on the knuckles for that. But this is Nicolas Cage! His daughter is missing and he don't give a hoot about conversational etiquette. Paul Maguire (Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas) is a respectable businessman and loving father living a peaceful life...until his violent past comes back to haunt him. When his teenage daughter is taken from their home, Paul...

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