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Busan 2014 Review: DOES CUCKOO CRY AT NIGHT, A Simple But Well Told Parable

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Busan 2014 Review: DOES CUCKOO CRY AT NIGHT, A Simple But Well Told Parable

Busan 2014 Review: DOES CUCKOO CRY AT NIGHT, A Simple But Well Told Parable

Posted: 06 Oct 2014 03:00 AM PDT

Playing alongside the 50-odd new Korean films playing at Busan this year is a retrospective of the work of Jung Jin-woo, a prolific director and producer active from the 1960s to the 80s. Known as a purveyor of social melodramas highlighting separation anxieties after the Korean War, Jung switched gears in later in his career, when he began to look at the plight of women in his country. Kicking off this chapter in his filmography was 1980's Does Cuckoo Cry at Night, a simple parable with a restrained yet evocative style. A charcoal maker lives with his mother in the forest and one day the young girl Sooni comes to live with them. It is decided that she will wed the laborer when she comes...

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Watch Mark Hartley's ELECTRIC BOOGALOO Trailer Now!

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 07:30 PM PDT

Australian director Mark Hartley has brought his own country's B-movie history to glorious life with Not Quite Hollywood. He's taken us on a trip through the wild film history of American shlock transplanted to the Philippines in Machete Maidens Unleashed. And now he's tackling the undisputed kings of the B-movie pile with Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films.Following hot on the heels of its premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival the first trailer for the film is now online and it's every bit as entertaining and gonzo as you would hope when someone like Hartley is turned loose on this sort of material. It's also got some naughty bits, so consider this your NSFW warning.Check it out below!...

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New York 2014 Review: In MISUNDERSTOOD, A Little Girl Contends With A Family From Hell

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 07:00 PM PDT

Leo Tolstoy famously opened his classic novel Anna Karenina with this statement: "Happy families are all alike. But all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way." You'd be hard pressed to find a family much unhappier than the one depicted in Misunderstood, the latest feature by actress-director Asia Argento, her third as director and her first filmmaking effort in about a decade. The opening scene wastes very little time in establishing just how hellish an existence being part of that family is. Over a family dinner, mom (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and dad (Gabriel Garko) hurl vicious insults at one another, while the children are caught in the middle of this violent whirlwind. The one who gets the brunt of the cruel, abusive, and casually neglectful behavior...

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New York 2014 Review: THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE, Matias Pineiro's Beguiling Riff On Shakespeare

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 06:30 PM PDT

The Princess of France is Argentine director Matías Piñeiro's third entry in his series of Shakespeare-inspired films, which he calls his "Shakespearead." The first two of these were his 43-minute short Rosalinda (2011), inspired by "As You Like It," and his 65-minute feature Viola, which reworked "Twelfth Night." The Princess of France, which takes on "Love's Labour's Lost," is, like those other films, less a direct adaptation of Shakespeare than a work which uses the Bard's texts - translated into Spanish - as inspiration and counterpoint to the present-day romantic complications of a group of young people who are involved in the arts and incorporate classics from literature, painting, and music, into their daily lives. The Princess of France clocks in at a mere 70...

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Sitges 2014 Review: [REC4] Is Still Fun But Overly Familar

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 06:10 PM PDT

It's certainly been a while, but the Sitges Film Festival and its audience hasn't forgotten about REC and the impression it left in its 2007 edition. The film, co-directed by Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró won the best director and best actress amongst other awards, and most importantly, managed to scare and delight both critics and audiences alike. The film was a tremendous success, so it was only natural that they tried to iterate upon the formula again with REC2 in 2009, once again co-directed by Plaza and Balagueró, and REC3 in 2012, directed only by Paco Plaza. Sadly, the results were far from the original. The first REC was a truly breath of fresh air to the zombie genre, with its smart use of...

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Feratum 2014 Dispatch: Tal Zimmerman And Nicolas Kleiman Talk At The WHY HORROR? World Premiere

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Feratum hosted the world premiere of the documentary Why Horror? on Friday, October 3. Argentinean co-director Nicolas Kleiman and Canadian star Tal Zimmerman attended the screening and witnessed the very warm reception their film got with the Mexican audience. They also did a 20-minute Q&A afterwards, and now you can find the highlights from it in the gallery below....

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Feratum 2014 Dispatch: Film Awards Announced

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 01:00 PM PDT

The closing/awards ceremony of Feratum 2014 took place on Saturday, October 4 at the Cenobio Paniagua theater. Both Juan Mora Catlett and Alfonso Arau were honored during the event, before one member of the jury took the stage to announce the award winning films.  There were much more award categories than last year, including such strange additions as "Slasher Award" and "Feratum Creature." The Chilean zombie flick Videoclub took home the night's most important award, the bronze Nosferatum, for being the best international film according to the respective jury. Another Chilean effort, Perfidy, was honored as best horror film, while Bradley King's Time Lapse won the best science fiction film award. The Mexican competition was widely dominated by two feature length films (Paciente 27 and Zona...

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New York 2014 Review: It's The Trip, Not The Destination, In INHERENT VICE

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 12:00 PM PDT

P. T. Anderson faithfully adapts Thomas Pynchon's most accessible novel, the zaniest surf noir, Inherent Vice. It is also the first time he's worked with a large ensemble cast since Boogie Nights. The result is often hilarious, a laborious snapshot of the end of the groovy 60s.The film centers around Larry 'Doc' Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix), a dope smoking Private Eye, as he helplessly gets mired into what seems to be an unsolvable case. It all begins with the visit from his ex-girl friend Shasta Fay Hapworth (Katherine Waterston) whom he still carries the torch for. She tells him that her new fling, a billionaire construction tycoon Mickey Wolfmann (Eric Roberts), who inexplicably hangs out with Aryan Brotherhood, is about to get kidnapped by his wife...

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Review: DOCTOR WHO S8E07, Kill The Moon (Or, The Doctor Doesn't Decide)

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Let's get straight to it. The idea that Doctor Who is weighing in with its thoughts on abortion and a woman's right to choose is surprising, to say the least. The episode uses the realisation that there's something going on with the moon to tell a story about how it's really an egg that's about to hatch.The Doctor then leaves Clara, 15-year-old Courtney Woods (Ellis George) and the last surviving astronaut from a mission to save the moon (Hermione Norris) to decide whether the enormous creature growing inside the moon should live or die. It's rather unsubtle and a little heavy-handed - this is the abortion debate but on an oversized scale.Of course, the fact that the moon disintegrating would put the world in danger...

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Vancouver 2014 Review: THE GOLDEN ERA Hits All Of Its Marks

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT

The Golden Era follows the (tragically short) life of one of China's most celebrated female writers, Xiao Hong (portrayed by Tang Wei), in typically lavish period-biopic fashion. On an aesthetic level, the film is gorgeously realized by director Ann Hui, who checks off every successful period-epic-criteria box with aplomb. The performances, set design, score and costumes are all top-tier, making it no surprise that Hong Kong has submitted it as their Best Foreign Language film Oscar bid. I haven't yet seen Zhang Yimou's latest, Coming Home, but I certainly felt the magic of his '90s work alive and well in Hui's vision. The downside of all that dazzle and sweep is that it can be distancing. The film opens with Xiao informing us, from beyond...

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