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L'Etrange 2014: THE VOICES Speaks To Voters At Festival's End

L'Etrange 2014: THE VOICES Speaks To Voters At Festival's End

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 03:30 PM PDT

One of the great fantastic film festivals came to a close last night. Paris' l'Etrange Festival closed out its 20th edition by honoring Marjane Satrapi's The Voices with not one, but two big prizes. The Franco-Persian director, best known for the adaptations of her own graphic novels Persepolis and Chicken With Plums, marked both her English language debut and her first time with somebody else's screenplay with The Voices. She was duly recognized for her effort, beaming as she was beamed in from Skype to collect the Canal+ Nouveau Genre Award (the festival's grand prize) and the equally prestigious Audience Award. While our Jason Gorber had a mixed reaction to the film, finding it both silly and schizoid, I found the work -- which plays something like Bill...

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Full Trailer For THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 Lights Up

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 03:00 PM PDT

While we've gotten an enticing series of 'propaganda' films related to the latest Hunger Games films over the past several weeks, it isn't until today that we have the first full trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. I've been a fan of the films, partly as an archer, but also as a fan of dystopian future tales and great female leads. As with the popular current trend, the final book has been split into two films. The greatest strength of the films is the cast: with Jennifer Lawrence, Donald Sutherland, and Philip Seymour Hoffman (in one of his last roles) returning, and the addition of Julianne Moore, my expectations are pretty high. The trailer doesn't reveal too much of the story for those...

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Giveaway: Win This Vinyl Edition Of The TAKE ME TO THE RIVER OST

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 02:30 PM PDT

See that purdy vinyl record spinning above? That my friends could be yours. It is the soundtrack from the Memphis music documentary Take Me To The River and we have one LP to give away. Because this item is one of the coolest items I have ever given away I am going to make you work for this one. You will have to dig a bit and compare notes for this one. Ready? This rapper, and singer on the Take Me To The River soundtrack, won an Oscar for a song he wrote for another film. Name that film. When you think you've worked out the answer e-mail me here. I will collect qualifying entries up to Midnight PST on Thursday, September 18th. This contest is open to...

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Mayhem 2014: Full Lineup Reveals Chainsaws In Texas, Haunted Houses And Vampires

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 01:30 PM PDT

Oh, what a week of Mayhem lies ahead for the folks in Nottingham, England! The Mayhem Film Festival, or Mayhem X to celebrate its 10-year anniversary, runs from October 30 through November 2. We have already reported that members from Astron-6 are bringing their latest effort The Editor and their collection of short films to the festival. And we also brought you up to speed on their youth program and video nasties programs that lead up to the festival weekend. The festival revealed the rest of their lineup today and there are a lot of favorites in it.I usually do not play favorites, but... to say that the Kiwi horror flicks Housebound and What We Do In The Shadows are on a bit of a tear...

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The First Teaser For Shankar's I Will Be The Most Spectacular 64 Seconds Of Your Day

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 11:30 AM PDT

This is even more amazing than I could have imagined.On Friday we brought you the first few glimpses of Shankar's I through a couple of posters and a motion poster, today we get the real thing. At an event in Chennai attended by not only Shankar and his crew, but also Superstar Rajnikanth and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shakar and the team revealed the first official teaser for his latest journey to the weirdest corners of the mind.No plot details yet, but the imagery alone is enough to sell me on I. We see Vikram taking on multiple characters including a Quasimodo-type, kicking monstrous amounts of ass in various action sequences, running across water, riding a cyborg motorcycle, and dancing up a storm in some absurdly colorful...

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Full PARASYTE Trailer Plays Like MEN IN BLACK With Added Decapitations

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT

I suppose it would have been foolish for anyone familiar with Yamazaki Takashi's previous work to have hoped that the helmer of the Always series, a director who has consistently gunned for the broadest possible audience, would have taken a more hard edged approach with his live action adaptation of Iwaki Hitoshi's hugely popular scifi horror manga Parasyte. Well, then, call me a fool because I hoped. But, no ... the full trailer for the film arrived last week whilst Twitch was in the thick of its Toronto International Film Festival coverage and it would appear that Yamazaki is buffing and polishing the source material in hopes of creating something akin to a Japanese take on the Men In Black films instead.For those unfamiliar, the...

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Masters Of Cinema's New THE THIEF OF BAGDAD Blu-ray Looks Fit For A Sultan

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 10:30 AM PDT

We make no secret of our love for Eureka Entertainment's boutique label The Masters of Cinema Series here at Twitch, and when it comes to Blu-ray releases of some of the greatest works of silent cinema ever made, they leave all their competitors in the dust.A few weeks back, Eureka announced the titles that will be coming to the collection between now and the end of the year, and arguably the most exciting inclusion was the release of the Douglas Fairbanks starring 1924 version of The Thief Of Bagdad. One of the biggest hits of Hollywood's silent era, this swashbuckling fantasy epic directed by Raoul Walsh was something of a pet project for Fairbanks, and can now be experienced in a sparkling new 1080p presentation...

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Exclusive: THE GUEST Video Scavenger Hunt - Win Killer Prizes!

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 10:01 AM PDT

Building up steam toward its theatrical release in the U.S. next Wednesday, September 17, Adam Wingard's The Guest stars Dan Stevens in a most unexpected role, and so we have been inspired to create a most unexpected giveaway. First, a stiff reminder about the movie. As noted, Dan Stevens stars as a soldier, but this soldier is a world away from the soldier Stevens played in the privileged Downton Abbey household. David is the perfect guest. Friendly and helpful, this young soldier arrives on the doorstep of the Peterson family, claiming to be a good friend of their beloved son who died in action. The Petersons welcome David into their home and into their lives, but when people start mysteriously dying in town, their teenage...

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Darkly Elegant Trailer For Venice And Toronto Selected Gangster Drama BLACK SOULS (ANIME NERE)

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 09:30 AM PDT

Italian director Francesco Munzi pulled off the difficult feat of being selected at both the Venice and Toronto film festivals - one of only a handful to do so this year - with his latest offering Black Souls (Anime Nere) and judging by the new theatrical trailer for this elegant gangster drama it's not at all hard to see how he did it. By being very good. Here's how Toronto pitched it:A former narcotics trafficker now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills is drawn back into his family's drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son, in this darkly elegant gangster drama. Six years after the Festival screened Francesco Munzi's Il resto della note, this talented Italian director returns with a Godfather-like tale that alternates between...

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Head To Soviet Russia With The Online Premiere Of Impressive Aussie Short Film FACTORY293

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT

You could say that writer-director Roderick MacKay, producer Justin McArdle and their talented team set themselves an unlikely goal - if not an impossible one - with their latest short film FACTORY293. How so? Well, they were attempting the very minor feat (deliberate understatement there) of transforming sunny, 2013 Perth, Australia into snow blasted landscape of rural 1940 Russia. In a remote part of Stalin's war-torn Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic, Grigor, Manager of munitions FACTORY293, faces the realities of his existence. Despite the infatuation of his female factory workforce, he is drawn to increasingly melancholic thoughts - Stalin has abandoned him. With a howling blizzard outside, the factory's power is suddenly cut, interrupting Grigor's intent to take decisive action. In a flurry to...

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Crowdfund This: The Short Film PRINCE ALI Will Embrace Cultural Perspective

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 08:30 AM PDT

The dramatic short film Prince Ali would mark quite the departure of style from what we would expect of director Kevin Hamedani and screenplay writer Max Borenstein. Hamedani wrote and directed the horror flick Zombies of Mass Destruction. Borenstein wrote Godzilla. So what makes Prince Ali so different? It certainly would not be populated with the undead or giant monsters. What we have here is a short story gleamed from a larger script that Hamedani had been working with. Together with Borenstein they believe that they found a beautiful story about a man who returns to Tehran, Iran after being away for twenty years to look for a bride. A crowdfunding campaign started on September 9th and already the project is near the halfway point of their $22,000...

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Blu-ray Review: THE DEVIL IS A PART-TIMER Delivers Funny Anime-Fast-Food

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT

(If you thought curly fries were the most twisted thing in fast food, think again...) This week, the hit anime The Devil is a Part-Timer will be released in Australia and New Zealand, courtesy of local distributor Siren Visual. Known for being champions of obscure or under-appreciated titles from the past, this release actually features a recent series, and gets the Blu-ray treatment. In it, King Satan runs a fast-food business, which may not be a surprise for many. What is a surprise though, is that he is running it as an assistant manager of one tiny outlet, and seems to be quite a nice young lad. What's going on here? Time for a review! The Story: During an epic other-worldly war between humans, devils...

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Crowdfund This: THE ONE & THE MANY Documents A Prison Theater Troupe In Italy

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 07:30 AM PDT

While rehabilitation programs in prisons is nothing new it is the more creative ones that catch your eye. The rehabilitation program at the maximum security prison Volterra in Italy is one program that caught the eye of filmmaker Inaya Yusuf. It is a revolutionary inmate theater program, Compagnia Della Fortezza, run by theater artist Armando Punzo. This film is an opportunity for us all to learn about Compagnia della Fortezza and its inmate-actors from the ground up. The One and The Many will explore how deeply impactful theatre and arts programs can be for inmates.Inaya began a crowdfunding campaign to help complete the project. She and her team have already been over to Italy once to film and have planned for one more trip over to complete filming....

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Hey Toronto! Win Tickets To COHERENCE - But Only If You Dare!

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Do you live in Toronto, Canada, and have a burning desire to see a mind-bending thriller entitled Coherence that you may or may not be wildly enthusiastic about? Of course you do! I must admit, I was positive about the movie but not wildly enthusiastic about it when I saw it last year, but it turns out that mine is a minority opinion. Several other members of the Twitch Film crew absolutely adore Coherence, so it is incumbent upon you to see it for yourself so you may form your own opinion. And, as always, we recommend that you visit a local bijou (aka movie theater) to maximize your possible viewing pleasure. Coherence opens in Toronto on Friday, September 19, and we have five (5)...

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