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Fantastic Zagreb: Fourth Edition Celebrates A Fantastic Spirit (Gallery)

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Fantastic Zagreb: Fourth Edition Celebrates A Fantastic Spirit (Gallery)

Fantastic Zagreb: Fourth Edition Celebrates A Fantastic Spirit (Gallery)

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 03:00 AM PDT

Jim Mickle's Cold in July had its first post-Cannes film festival presentation at a gorgeous and inspiring location - an open-air screening in castle Medvedgrad, overlooking the city of Zagreb halfway up the mountain of Medvednica. The wonderful location was site to one of the premiere events for Fantastic Zagreb, the Zagreb Fantastic Film Festival, a labor of love by film and festivals veteran and festival director Stjepan Hundic and co-founder Mirjana Mia Pećina.The Medvedgard event was a true celebration of fantastic spirit - the winding, scantly lit and creepy road up the mountain was the stuff of dark fantasy and horror. While we were not ambushed by any werewolves, vampires, orcs or escaped mental patients / murderers, I had the distinct feeling their eyes...

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Learning From The Masters Of Cinema: Fritz Lang's FRAU IM MOND

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 02:00 AM PDT

In 1929, just two years after changing the face of cinematic science fiction with Metropolis, German filmmaker Fritz Lang returned to the genre with the infinitely more grounded and realistic Frau Im Mond (Woman In The Moon).Far less well-known than its predecessor, Frau Im Mond would prove Lang's only other foray into the sci-fi genre, despite numerous attempts to get similarly themed projects off the ground after moving to Hollywood. In this film, Lang strives for a documentary-style authenticity in his tale of rival entrepreneurs battling to be part of mankind's first manned lunar mission. Many of the film's technical details prove incredibly accurate, influential and prescient, with Lang often credited with coining the take-off countdown in this film that would be adopted by space...

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CHOPPER Director To Pen Justin Lin's SHAOLIN TEMPLE Remake

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:09 PM PDT

Andrew Dominik, the New Zealand writer-director of Chopper, Killing Them Softly and the criminally under-seen western The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford will next write the screenplay for Shaolin Temple, the big-budget remake of the 1982 Shaw Brothers classic, for Justin Lin.The Fast And Furious director is currently in production on the latest instalment of The Bourne Identity franchise, but will then turn his attentions to this 3D reinterpretation of the film that debuted the talents of a young Jet Li more than three decades ago. Produced by Troy Craig Poon of Perfect Storm Entertainment, Bruno Wu of Seven Stars and Wang Changtian of Beijing Enlight Pictures, this Chinese co-production has already been tagged as a large scale tentpole release with...

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Lord Richard Attenborough: 1923 - 2014

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 05:00 PM PDT

Less than a week shy of his 91st birthday, news has come from across the pond that actor and director, Lord Richard Attenborough passed away earlier today at a nursing home he lived at with his wife. Attenborough had a film career spanning six decades. He began acting in the early 1940s and his breakout role came in 1948 as gangster Pinkie Grown in Brighton Rock. He starred in one of the all time great WWII films The Great Escape, which featured a massive ensemble cast including Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn and James Garner. Contemporary audiences will remember him best as John 'spared no expense' Hammond in Spielberg's Jurassic Park films.He began directing in 1969 with Oh! What A Lovely War. A...

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Pretty Packaging: Take A Look At HERZOG - THE COLLECTION Blu-ray Boxset

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 02:00 PM PDT

For Werner Herzog fans with a Blu-ray player, 2014 has turned into a remarkable year, as boxsets of his work are being released on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, the BFI released an 18-film boxset, while distributor Shout released a 16-film boxset stateside. Annoyingly, both sets have a big overlap while each has its own exclusive content as well. Herzog completists and other fanatics may have to grind their teeth and order both. Me, I was eying both sets, cautiously hoping for a price-off between them, as I intended to buy only one. But which one? The films I really wanted most were on both, and while the BFI won the price-content ratio, the Shout collection looked much nicer and better presented....

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Mexico Picks Its Films For The 2015 Academy And Goya Awards

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:30 PM PDT

The road to the 2015 Oscars has began in Mexico with the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) revealing which movies are competing to represent the country at the world's most famous film awards. 21 films will be considered for the Oscars and only one will eventually become Mexico's official submission; then the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will nominate it or not for the Foreign Language Film category. Even though the Cantinflas biopic and Luis Estrada's La Dictadura Perfecta are yet to be released, I would put them as clear favorites. The rest are much smaller productions, though there's undoubtedly quality films there, such as Workers, Quebranto (my favorite Mexican film of 2013), and The Incident, which is the only genre...

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Film 4 FrightFest 2014: Watch The Day Three Video Diary

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 12:30 PM PDT

More goodies from FrightFest TV on all things gory, ghouly, ghostly and gangly. Yes, it's day three of FrightFest 2014, with coverage and interviews for The Harvest, The Babadook, The Sleeping Room, Starry Eyes, Digging Up The Marrow, plus a discussion with Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins on their short film series Show Pieces.You can watch the video below.   ...

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