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Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival Brings Terror And Joy With Seventh Edition

Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival Brings Terror And Joy With Seventh Edition

Posted: 11 Sep 2014 02:00 AM PDT

What foul beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Strasbourg to be born?Why, the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival of course, which begins this Friday, Sept. 12th and runs through the 21st.To celebrate seven years as one of France's largest genre events, event organizers Spectre Films are pulling out all stops. The legendary Tobe Hooper will serve as Jury President, presiding over an official competition stocked with some of the year's biggest gems. Festival goers will have the spooky pleasure of discovering Fabrice de Welz' Alleluia, Till Kleinert's Der Samurai and Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night with all three directors present. Old Scratch will finally be getting his due with the aptly titled "Sympathy For The Devil" retrospective, highlighting...

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Watch This Pair Of Teasers For Miike Takashi's AS THE GODS WILL!

Posted: 10 Sep 2014 09:40 PM PDT

Twitch is nothing if not a fan site for Japanese enfant terrible Miike Takashi.Miike has broken open the world of international genre cinema more than anyone else in the last twenty years. From his origins as a director for hire on Japanese V-cinema gangster flicks in the early '90s to the present day, there may not be a single working director who has shown the kind of range as he has. While his 1999 breakthrough film, Audition, did make him a name to watch on the festival circuit, it was his later films like 2010's 13 Assassins remake that pushed him closer to the ever elusive mainstream conciousness.In the last four years, the relentlessly productive Miike (94 credits as a director since 1991, and 11...

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Toronto 2014 Review: '71 Is A Remarkably Assured, Emotionally Powerful Debut

Posted: 10 Sep 2014 05:00 PM PDT

Yann Demange is very clearly a filmmaker who knows what sort of stories he wants to tell and how he wants to tell them. The sort who clearly knows his own skill set, how to best put it to use, and how to draw excellence out of those around him. He is, in short, the real deal. Already well known to audiences in the UK for his highly acclaimed - and rightfully so - Channel 4 drama Top Boy he takes his bow to audiences worldwide with debut feature '71and between the two projects Demange has already forged a clearly recognizable identity.Demange is a world builder, not in the fantastical sense but in the sense that he crafts exquisitely nuanced, complex, and morally gray worlds...

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Toronto 2014 Review: Jennifer Aniston Bares Her Soul In CAKE

Posted: 10 Sep 2014 03:00 PM PDT

"I hope you're ready to be depressed," whispered the person sitting next to me to no one in particular as the opening frames of Cake started to roll. Indeed, director Daniel Barnz's film about a woman confronting debilitating pain, drug addiction, and suicidal thoughts in the face of unimaginable tragedy does deal with some pretty dark subject matter. But through all of this, Cake is never actually depressing. Sad, sardonic, and perhaps emotionally draining, but it's not depressing. The success of the film rests on the shoulders of star Jennifer Aniston. We meet her Claire in the lowest of places, kicked out of her chronic pain support group for her caustic attitude. It's suggested Claire might not have been a pleasant person to begin (she's...

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Fantastic Fest 2014: Final Wave Of Films Includes IT FOLLOWS, AUTOMATA And THE TRIBE

Posted: 10 Sep 2014 01:30 PM PDT

Ah Fantastic Fest. One of the epicenters of genre film and the one place where you will find the highest concentration of Twitch writers in the World for one week. Seriously, if you wanted to damage the nerve center of Twitch, wait for us to congregate en mass in Austin every September! Throw down some barbecue and wait for us to gather around it, then boom!The festival is just over a week away and as Team Twitch prepares to provide exhaustive coverage (literally and figuratively) they have announced the final wave of films and some of the guests coming to town. The entire press release is below but let me give you a taste. James Gunn will be moderating the red carpet World premiere of David...

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Mayhem Film Festival Unveils Teen Mayhem And Mayhem Certificate X Programs

Posted: 10 Sep 2014 01:00 PM PDT

As part of their ten years anniversary the Mayhem Film Festival in Nottingham, England is pulling out all the stops to celebrate. In the days leading up to the festival there are two new programs which we mentioned before, Teen Mayhem and Mayhem Certificate X. The lineups for those two programs have now been announced!Teen Mayhem is a program dedicated to pre-teens and young teenagers, to get them hooked on genre film at an early age. The day will start with a FX make-up workshop with local make-up artist and prop maker Jayne Hyman (makeup fx trainee on Edge of Tomorrow). There will be a screening of Yoshiura Yasuhiro's anime film, Patema Inverted. There will be a special event around CBBC Wolfblood. Members of the...

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TUSK Fans In Los Angeles, Start Making Up Diseases, Because...

Posted: 10 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Here is something you do not write up about every day. Unless you write for High Times; then I guess you would write about this every day. Or, you just really, really like the subject matter. I digress! Moving on! Kevin Smith's Tusk had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week. For folks living in L.A. (or if you have a car and a full tank of gas) there is a... unique product tie-in happening for most of September.Toke up with "Mr. Tusk" and "White Walrus" medical-marijuana strains available now at Buds & Roses in Los Angeles! Let's get blazed! A24 partners with THE WORLD'S BEST EVER and BUDS & ROSES, a Los Angeles based medical-marijuana dispensary, to sell two brand new cannabis...

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MICGénero 2014 Review: MI VIDA ES UN ALBUR, Or, Being A Tough Woman In Tepito

Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Mi Vida Es Un Albur is a documentary set in the "barrio bravo" Tepito, one of Mexico's toughest neighborhoods. Located in downtown Mexico City, very near Garibaldi and the Palace of Fine Arts, Tepito is best known for its enormous open-air market, where all kinds of things are sold, including tons of pirate material. Tepito has been historically connected to violence too; you shouldn't be surprised if you're there and you hear some gunshots. It is that kind of place. As protagonist, the doc has a woman from Tepito named Lourdes, who used to sell pirate products and now works selling children's clothing. While the film opens showcasing the business aspect of the barrio, as Lourdes indicates that she won enough money through piracy to...

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Toronto 2014 Review: THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY, A Sublime And Specific Sex Comedy

Posted: 10 Sep 2014 09:01 AM PDT

Starting off with what is undoubtedly the opening credit sequence of the year, Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy never ceases to surprise and delight over its 100 minutes, offering a dry but meticulous humour and rhythm. Those credits, offering the promise of 'perfume by' and 'lingerie' by,' evoke a specific period of Euro-sleaze cinema from the early 1970s that was drenched in velvet, silk and hosiery (and undoubtedly all kinds of musk). Harpsichords and cellos abound.In Strickland's previous film, Berberian Sound Studio, he took the mood and repeated patterns of the Italian Giallos to deliver a witty and uncomfortable workplace comedy. It was a film where a British man is driven mad simply by the culture shock of alien ungraspable protocols. It was terrifying,...

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Destroy All Monsters: More Niche Than Niche, And Other Lessons From Kevin Smith's TUSK

Posted: 10 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Spoilers for Tusk in the article below! In Tusk, a dipshit podcast host with the world's most ridiculous moustache (Justin Long) gets abducted by a madman, surgically altered, and sewn into a fleshy walrus suit. His captor, who goes by many names and is played to sun-dazzled perfection by Michael Parks, once survived a shipwreck and spent the next several months in a period of unparalleled bliss, living on an island with a benign walrus he named Mr. Tusk. Now, this man periodically enslaves passers-by and implements his transform-into-walrus scheme, and forces them to participate in recreations of those happy, walrus-adjacent months. This is cinema. It's cinema of a certain type, certainly; the payoff of Francis Ford Coppola's long-ago assertion in Hearts of Darkness:...

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Hey Vancouver! Win Tickets To COHERENCE And Blow Your Mind!

Posted: 10 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Do you want to see a movie titled Coherence that reportedly "somewhat intimidated" me? Of course you do! Now, to temper your enthusiasm, I must point out that this giveaway is only available to readers in Vancouver, Canada -- sorry, residents of cities named "Vancouver" in other countries -- who want to see the mind-bending film when it opens in theaters in your fine city on Friday, September 12, or shortly thereafter. We have five (5) pairs of passes; these passes are what is called in the exhibition business "run of engagement," which means you can use them once during the film's theatrical engagement. (Personally, I wouldn't wait too long, because if you waited until, say, Sunday, September 14, the world might end on Saturday,...

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