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Busan 2014 Review: RED AMNESIA Is Haunted By Forgotten Ghosts

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Busan 2014 Review: RED AMNESIA Is Haunted By Forgotten Ghosts

Busan 2014 Review: RED AMNESIA Is Haunted By Forgotten Ghosts

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 03:00 AM PDT

Wang Xiaoshuai (Beijing Bicycle) returns to cap off his so-called legacy trilogy with a film that is one part thriller and one part melodrama. It does not always work, but when it does, it is largely thanks to the incredible presence of stage actor Lu Zhong, who plays Deng, the elderly protagonist.Deng shuffles through her stubborn days harassing her children. She visits her gay son Bing (Qin Hao), whom she cooks for, all the while scolding his lifestyle. His lover appears on screen and is promptly ignored by Deng as her traditional ways refuse to even acknowledge such a scenario.Later she visits her elder son Jun (Feng Yuanzheng). He too is given undue pressure by her constant visits as the daughter-in-law berates him while asking...

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Busan 2014 Review: TIMING Mixes Overstuffed Narrative And Plain Animation

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 01:00 AM PDT

Popular webtoonist Kang Full has become a big name in Korean film over the last few years following the success of features based on his work, such as BA:BO (2008), Late Blossom (2011), Neighbors (2012), and 26 Years (2012). At this year's Busan International Film Festival, Kang's work gets the animated treatment for the very first time with Timing, a film firmly planted in the supernatural and brimming with ideas but undercut by sketchy execution. In a high school plagued by a rash of suicides, a clairvoyant teacher has dreams of an impending catastrophe, and in a bid to stop students from taking their lives, she teams up with other people around the school with special abilities. One is a girl who can see 10...

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Twitchvision: Jason Gorber Talks Fincher's GONE GIRL, Smith's TUSK, And Dolan's MOMMY

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 12:15 AM PDT

David Fincher's back with Gone Girl, his Hitchcockian thriller about marriage and betrayal. Plus, another look at fest faves, from Xavier Dolan's Mommy to Kevin Smith's Tusk.Video embedded below...

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Check Out Phil Mucci's Video For Monster Magnet's 'The Duke'

Posted: 07 Oct 2014 12:00 PM PDT

We don't cover a ton of music video work here at Twitch but we make exceptions for directors we like. And we really, really like Phil Mucci whose work we've covered both as a music video director and in short films. And Mucci's bringing his distinctive style to his new video for Monster Magnet's The Duke, which has freshly arrived online. All sorts of nods to classic exploitation genres lie within. Take a look below.And enough with the video work, Phil ... I know it pays the bills and all but it's past time for a feature ......

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Opening Clip from AUTOMATA

Posted: 07 Oct 2014 11:30 AM PDT

We at Twitch are big fans of Gabe Ibañéz's new sci fi film Autómata, currently no. 3 on iTunes and due for release in the US this Friday October 10th. A fantastic vision of a surreal dystopian future, it tells a story robots, love, evolution, and a great lead performance by Antonio Banderas. We've been given an exclusive clip of the opening sequence, which sets the tale and shows some of the film's stunning cinematography. Check it out and see the film!...

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Review: TOWN OF THE LIVING DEAD On SyFy, Deep-Fried Zombie Movie-Making

Posted: 07 Oct 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Deep in the Bible Belt of 'Merica is the small town of Jasper, Alabama. As the opening monologue for SyFy's new reality show Town of the Living Dead explains, Jasper is your typical American small town. Everyone supports small businesses. Everyone goes to church on Sunday. Life is simpler in Jasper. Except trouble is lurking in the shadows, the dead are beginning to rise and the tranquility of this small town is about to get upset, not to mention a lot of its 14,000 residents.Enter Tina Tater and the crew of a homegrown zombie flick called 3 Days Dead. 3 Days Dead is the story of three 'good old boys' come back from a fishing trip to find out there has been a zombie apocalypse. SyFy is...

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Be Charmed By The Trailer For Malaysian Quasi-SciFi Comedy NOVA (TERBAIK DARI LANGIT)

Posted: 07 Oct 2014 09:30 AM PDT

It was just last year that we first came across the work of Malaysia's Nik Amir Mustapha and we immediately knew that he was one of us. The occasion was his debut film, a genre mashing drama titled Kil that revolved around a depressed young man who hires a hitman to kill himself only to fall in love and realize there may be no way to call the hit off. It was a smart, quirky, beautifully directed affair that left us hungry for more.And now more has arrived in the form of another quirky genre masher, this one the more openly comedic Nova (or Terbaik Dari Langit in its homeland). About to have its world premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival, Nova revolves around...

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New York 2014 Review: Exorcising The Past in HORSE MONEY

Posted: 07 Oct 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Horse Money is astonishingly beautiful in its visual poetry! Pedro Costa, who wanted to capture the life in Lisbon's ghetto area called Fontainhas in the late 90s, made a beautiful film called Bones (Ossos). During the shoot, he saw much beauty in the place and got to know its poor, working class, immigrant inhabitants. He decided to immerse himself in their lives, abandoning his huge 35mm film equipment, elaborate lighting setups and a big crew and started documenting their lives with small video camera. The experience bore him two more extraordinary films, In Vanda's Room and Colossal Youth, starring the inhabitants of the slum, which are remarkably immersive fictional films bordering on documentary territory. The three films became later known as The Fontainhas Trilogy.  Fontainhas has since...

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Win A 20 000 DAYS ON EARTH Poster Signed By The Filmmakers And Nick Cave!

Posted: 07 Oct 2014 08:30 AM PDT

Drafthouse Films is immensely proud to offer one lucky Twitch reader the opportunity to take home a stunning signed 20,000 Days On Earth poster. The acclaimed new rock doc starring the legendary Nick Cave is now screening in select cities, and expanding across the US in the coming weeks.20,000 Days On Earth is an inventive, lyrical ode to creativity and an intimate examination of the artistic process of musician and cultural icon Nick Cave. In their debut feature directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard fuse drama and documentary, weaving a staged day in Cave's life with never-before-seen verité observation of his creative cycle. It features those who have affected his life, including wry tales from the road shared with his regular collaborator, the multi-instrumentalist Warren...

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A Few Words With ABCs OF DEATH 2 Director Ohata Hajime

Posted: 07 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT

With horror anthology The ABCs Of Death 2 now available on VODwe've had the chance to fire a few questions by Henge director Ohata Hajime about his entry, O Is For Ochlocracy. Read on!The idea of putting a person on trial by zombies is very clever ... where did that come from? Since I was assigned a letter O, I looked up words that began with O in a dictionary to find a good title for my film. Then I found a word "ochlocracy" whose definition was "politics handled by fools" in a loose sense. It gave me an idea of making a strangely funny and weird drama. I always wanted to do a courtroom drama and also wanted to make a completely novel zombie film....

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Giveaway: Win A DVD Of AUTUMN BLOOD Or MISFIRE

Posted: 07 Oct 2014 07:00 AM PDT

We have a couple of DVDs to give away. You may win one of three copies of Autumn Blood or Misfire. Both films will be released on DVD on October 21. Misfire is being released by RLJ Entertainment and Image Entertainment. Autumn Blood is being released by Arc Entertainment. Misfire - A fearless D.E.A. agent waging a one man crusade against drug cartels on the U.S.-Mexico border, Cole (Gary Daniels) will stop at nothing to bring down the bad guys. When his ex-wife is kidnapped and his brother framed for it, Cole's battle against the cartel becomes personal. With the help of local reporter, the headstrong and hot-blooded Gracie, he navigates the deadly Tijuana underworld run by brutal kingpin Raul Montenegro. Now the clock is ticking down to...

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