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Thai Martial Arts Choreographer Panna Ritthikrai Dead At 53

Thai Martial Arts Choreographer Panna Ritthikrai Dead At 53

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 03:52 AM PDT

Reports are surfacing from Thailand that celebrated martial arts choreographer and film director Panna Ritthikrai has died from liver disease, aged 53.Ritthikrai is probably best known for his work with action star Tony Jaa in films such as the Ong-Bak and Tom Yum Goong series, but he also directed a number of features including The Bodyguard and the fantastic olympian-actioner Born to Fight. He was an integral player in the new wave of Thai action cinema that took the world by storm at the start of the 21st century, and continued to be a pivotal force until the very end. Gareth Evans, director of Indonesian action flick The Raid, tweeted earlier today "What Panna and Jaa did w/ Ong Bak revitalised martial arts cinema. The importance of...

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Second Training Video Surfaces for Sakaguchi Tak's RE:BORN

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 03:37 AM PDT

Japanese martial artist Sakaguchi Tak is set to come out of retirement in a big way next year, with Re:Born, which reunites the Versus star with his Death Trance director, Shimomora Yuji. It's a potenially lethal combination that, done right, could result in a seriously entertaining flick.Due to start shooting early in 2015, details about Re:Born are still under wraps, but its creators are touting the project as Tak's final action film. The producers are also hosting open auditions for roles in the film, the details of which can be found in the video below. ...

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Karlovy Vary 2014 Review: CORN ISLAND, A Poetic Contemplation On Humanism

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 03:00 AM PDT

The flourishing festival runs of the coming of age drama In Bloom, directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß, and Levan Koguashvili´s comedy drama Blind Dates hint at a brighter future for Georgian cinema. The recently premiered second feature by George Ovashvili, Corn Island, can now be added to this list.With a difficult production process (the film is co-produced by seven countries) and a diverse production staff (people from 13 nations collaborated), Corn Island looks like a little miracle.  That however does not in any sense possible damage the inherent qualities of Ovashvili´s artistic vision, which is perfectly transposed onto the screen. The title refers to an anomalous phenomena of temporary island-like formations created by forces of the nature. An interesting fact and potent metaphor...

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Durban 2014 Review: BETI AND AMARE Is A Bizarre Ethiopian Oddity

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 06:50 PM PDT

It is 1936 and Mussolini is on the move, the fascist leader's troops pressing into Ethiopia to increase their foothold in Africa. Fearing the worst teenaged girl Beti is sent away from the big city by her mother to live instead with her grandfather in his remote and isolated hut. Yes, it's a meager existence with just the old man and a sickly goat in a one room mud wall and straw roof hovel but if it keeps Beti safe from the imminent violence then it is surely worthwhile. But when the goat dies Beti is left alone as grandfather goes in search of new livestock to supply their basic needs and Beti is left alone to fight off loneliness and the advances of the...

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Karlovy Vary 2014 Review: FREE FALL, A Remarkable Cinematic Tapestry From The Director Of TAXIDERMIA

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 05:20 PM PDT

Gyorgy Palfi is one of the most interesting Hungarian filmmakers of the present day cinema. Starting with the experimental Hukkle, full recognition for Pálfi came with Taxidermia, a generational family drama on obsession, which impressively carved that story into the symbolic routes of Hungary's journey from feudalism to capitalism. In talking about Taxidermia, calling the film unusual would be an understatement, as it encompasses many more subjects which are delivered with bravado and an unrivalled style. Palfi's next features, I Am Not Your Friend and Ladies and Gentlemen: Final Cut did not leave the director standing in his own shadow, yet the situation of state funding in Hungary prevented him to from working on more salient and memorable works. However, the Jeonju International Film...

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Japan Cuts 2014 Review: TALE OF A BUTCHER SHOP, A Sensitively Observed Documentary Of A Working-Class Family

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Tale of a Butcher Shop, Hanabusa Aya's sensitively observed documentary on a family of butchers in Kaizuka City in Osaka, Japan, begins in a very startling fashion, with an unflinching depiction of a cow's slaughtering. A man leads the cow carefully down a road to a slaughterhouse, and after he places the cow in position, another man brings it down with a blow to its head from a spiked hammer, killing it instantly. After that, blood is drained from its body, and other members of the family skin it and carve it up in preparation for processing. A narrator talks us through the process, describing how not a single part of the cow is wasted; every part of its body, down to its gristle and...

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Durban 2014 Review: 1994 THE BLOODY MIRACLE

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT

"The true miracle of the 1994 elections, is that they happened at all. If this was a miracle, it was a truly bloody one." John Kani, narrating for 1994 The Bloody Miracle.1994 The Bloody Miracle, a documentary three years in the making, is a poignant reminder of what South Africa's metamorphosis from Apartheid to "Rainbow Nation" cost, and a sobering reflection on just how close it all came to falling apart. It is also a post-hoc revelation of truths that many white South Africans refused to believe at the time, about the extent to which the white government and the military fueled violence and discord and chaos. The film is co-directed by Cape Town filmmaker Meg Rickards and Botswana-based cinematographer Bert Haitsma, who set out to...

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NY Asian 2014: Director Shin Yeon-shick Collaborates With Kim Ki-duk And K-Pop Idol Lee Joon On ROUGH PLAY

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT

After years of directing self-scribed features of his own, director Shin Yeon-shick, garnered new attention with Rough Play. The cautionary tale of the perils of fast fame was penned by Kim Ki-duk, and starred K-Pop idol, MBLAQ's Lee Joon, who showed a side of himself that none of his fans could have ever expected to see. I caught up with director Shin at the New York Asian Film Festival.The Lady Miz Diva: How did the story of ROUGH PLAY come to you?Shin Yeon-shick: The production company gave it to me.  It was the investment company.  Kim Ki-duk was part of this investment company and the people there thought that Kim Ki-duk and myself would make a good team.  They all thought it was a good fit. ...

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Your First Look At Adam Sandler And Company In PIXELS

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT

So EW has your first look at Adam Sandler and the rest of the 'Arcaders' in Christopher Columbus' adaptation of the short film Pixels. Left to right you have the lovely Michelle Monoghan, Sandler, Josh Gad and Peter Dinklage sporting a wicked mullet. Shown above in their suits for the first time, the so-called Arcaders are on their way to take down Pac-Man. "They're actually becoming sort of cultural heroes at this point. It's a very important shot in the film," says Columbus.According to the report the three were video game prodigies back in the early 80s. But times are tough and Sandler is now a TV repairman, Gad a conspiracy theorist and Dinklage a felon. When aliens misinterpret satellite feeds of classic video games as...

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