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Busan 2014 Review: WILD FLOWERS Wilts After A Bristling Start

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Busan 2014 Review: WILD FLOWERS Wilts After A Bristling Start

Busan 2014 Review: WILD FLOWERS Wilts After A Bristling Start

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 03:00 AM PDT

The lives of aimless youths at the bottom of the social ladder are the focus of Wild Flowers, a bleak look into teenage destitution in the streets and back alleys of Seoul. Uncompromising in its focus and brisk in its introduction to the sordid realities of a gaggle of bristly girls, Park Suk-young's debut is a kinetic but unfocused snapshot of wayward youth. Eun-soo and Soo-hyang, a pair of runaway girls, save Ha-dam, another lost teenager when she is attacked by a man on the street. Together they weave through the wintry Korean metropolis to find shelter, only to be tricked by a young man who leads them to a rundown motel where they are locked up against their will and forced into prostitution. Tae-sung,...

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Feratum 2014 Dispatch, Day 1 & 2: WHY HORROR?, Mexican Selection, And More

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 01:01 PM PDT

For the second year in a row, I'm in Tlalpujahua, Michoacán covering the Feratum Film Fest for Twitch. Thursday, October 2 was the first day of the third edition of this Mexican genre festival and it kicked off for me with the screening of a couple of short films and a feature length competition title.Just like last year, the arrival to the town's main venue was a little confusing. While the program indicated that the 4 PM slot was already the third screening, the theater was still closed. For one second I thought, this is Feratum 2013 all over again, with last minute changes and a notorious disorganization. Actually, by the time the press arrived to Tlalpujahua, Feratum had already made at least two important...

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Hey Australia! Get Ready For The Best Ever Japanese Film Festival In Its 18-Year History

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 12:02 PM PDT

This year, Australia's Japanese Film Festival is not only massive in terms of number of screening locations (which include Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Broome, Cairns, Canberra, Christchurch, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Townsville and Wellington), but also the quantity and quality of the films being showcased.   The festival will open with the Australian Premiere of Lady Maiko, a musical comedy by Suo Masayuki (Sumo Do, Sumo Don't, Shall We Dance?), which is loosely based on the Audrey Hepburn classic My Fair Lady. The Closing Film in Sydney and Melbourne will be The Vancouver Asahi from director Ishii Yuya (The Great Passage), based on the true story of a Japanese-Canadian baseball team in Vancouver. In all other cities, the Closing Film will be A Tale of Samurai Cooking...

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Busan 2014 Review: MARGARITA, WITH A STRAW, A Top Shelf Crowd Pleaser

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 11:01 AM PDT

Premiering this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, Margarita, With A Straw received standing ovations at each of its three sold-out screenings, and it is not hard to understand why. Dismissing any cliché or heavy handed sentiments, director Shonali Bose instead focuses on a remarkably gifted young girl with cerebral palsy named Laila. She has everything and is surrounded by love and support. She writes music for an indie band at her University in Delhi and like all young single-something's she is lonely and sexually frustrated.When something happens at her school her mother makes an informed decision to transfer Laila to a University in New York. It is like a dream come true for her, and a chance encounter leads to a passionate romance; one...

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'The Treasure Is Already On Your Back': THE WONDERS Director Alice Rohrwacher Interview

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Alice Rohrwacher's The Wonders (Le Meraviglie), a dramedy about a rural Italian agrarian community, took home the Grand Prix at this years Cannes Film Fest. It's an amazing feat considering it's only the second feature of a 33 year old director. So I was expecting a mousy, serious artist type. Bur Rohrwacher turns out to be a bright, spunky, rambunctious young woman with a great sense of humor. As we talked about her filmmaking, it was hard not to fall for her. Thank you Alice, you made my day.Twitch: There always seems to be a sibling rivalry in your films. How much of it is based on your relationship with your older sister (Alba Rohrwacher of I AM LOVE, DORMANT BEAUTY)?Alice Rohrwacher: Not so much....

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Hugh Laurie And Tom Hiddleston To Star In TV Adaptation Of John le Carre's THE NIGHT MANAGER

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 09:30 AM PDT

Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston are signed on to star in an espionage drama adapted from John le Carre's 1993 novel The Night Manager. The drama is being developed in partnership with the BBC, who will air the series in the U.K. According to THR plenty, if not all of the major U.S. networks want in.Night Manager follows Jonathan Pine, a former British soldier-turned-night luxurious hotel night auditor. Pine crosses paths with a French-Arab woman named Sophie with ties to Richard Onslow Roper, an English black marketer who specializes in weapons. The woman provides Pine with incriminating documents, which he forwards to a friend in British intelligence. After Sophie winds up dead, Pine works with intelligence operatives and goes undercover as part of a sting against Roper to avenge...

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Busan 2014 Review: A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION Is David Lynch Meets Hong Sangsoo

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 05:00 AM PDT

Following his terrific debut Romance Joe (2011), Lee Kwang-kuk is back in Busan with A Matter of Interpretation, a breathless play on dream logic with smart plotting and a great script that proves he's no fluke, and then some. Frustrated by her cast members' blasé attitude at their matinee show's zero attendance, an actress walks out in frustration and plonks herself on a park bench, pondering her stalling career and a failed long-term romance that ended in the same place. She meets a homicide detective there who turns out to be a better dream interpreter than investigator but soon her dreams, as well as those of other characters, become difficult to differentiate from reality. With crisp, well-framed and fluid photography and a bouncy, breezy script,...

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