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Proper Trailer For Tom Moore’s Brendan And The Secret Of Kells
1 December 2008 12:05 PM, PST
Making a children’s animated feature about the art of Biblical caligraphy seems like rather an odd choice and yet that’s exactly what Tom Moore has done with his feature Brendan and the Secret of Kells. And, as we saw with the early teaser back in the summer he seems to be doing rather a good job of it. Well, that teaser was a rough job, prepared largely for internal use, but now the proper theatrical trailer has arrived and it’s looking like very strong stuff, filled with dazzling visuals and a solid sense of style. Check both trailers out below the break.
Todd Brown
Poland’s Platige Image Returns With Chick!
1 December 2008 11:59 AM, PST
For my money Poland’s Platige Image is still one of the truly great, under-appreciated animation houses in the world. Yes, the industry is slowly clueing in and they’re definitely keeping busy but animation fans in general still seem generally in the dark, most likely becaus ethey’re an outfit based in Poland rather than the Us or Japan. But believe me, when it comes to animation - particularly digital animation - there are few better anywhere in the world.
Case in point: Platige have just released the trailer for their latest animation short, a film by director Michał Socha titled simply Chick (Laska). Check it out below the break.
Todd Brown
Director Kumakiri Kazuyoshi Scales It Back With Non-ko
1 December 2008 11:07 AM, PST
Director Kumakiri Kazuyoshi has been turning heads around here at Twitch right from day one. His debut film Kichiku marked him as a talent to watch, a status borne out by his next few films before he arrived at his most acclaimed effort so far, Green Minds, Metal Bats. And then Kazuyoshi kind of hit a pothole on his road to success with the high profile Freesia, a film that did - shall we say - underwhelming business. So Kazuyoshi is now doing the sensible thing: he’s getting back to his low budget roots with Non-Ko.
Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores. Her father is always in a stubborn rage,
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Todd Brown
Get Behind The Scenes Of French Survival Thriller Ferrata (High Lane)!
1 December 2008 9:45 AM, PST
While I’m still awaiting the chance to show you a proper trailer for Abel Ferry’s French survival thriller Ferrata - or High Lane in English - that is apparently going to have to wait a little while longer. My enthusiasm for this one, however, continues unabated based on the stellar promo I saw for it at the American Film Market. It’s a fairly basic story, really - a group of young mountain climbers opt to take a disused and abandoned route for their climb and struggle to survive when the obligatory Bad Things happen - but Ferry pulls it off with remarkable realism and style thanks in no small part to the fact that a huge percentage of the film was shot on actual mountain locations.
So, no trailer but if you want to get a look at how this thing was put together there is a
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Todd Brown
Torino Film Festival Wrap Up
1 December 2008 9:12 AM, PST
[The Torino Film Festival just wrapped up - naming Tony Manero it’s big winner, a choice that both surprises and pleases me to no end - and our very own Paolo Gilli was present throughout. He weighs in now with his take on events.]
The Torino Film Festival (21-29 November), that closed this past weekend, is probably Italy’s finest Festival, always equally divided between the old and the new, American, Asian and European cinema. This year’s edition, the second under the supervision of actor-director and Cannes favourite Nanni Moretti (Ecce Bombo, Caro Diario, Aprile and La Stanza del figlio), had again an impressive line up, including W (Oliver Stone), Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson), Somers Town (Shane Meadows), The Escapist (Rupert Wyatt), festival-winner Tony Manero (Pablo Larrain), Die Welle (Dennis Gansel), Made in America (Stacy Peralta), Religulous (Larry Charles), Hunger (Steve McQueen), Dream (Kim Ki-duk), United Red Army (Koji Wakamatsu) and many more.
But Torino wouldn’t be complete without its traditional retrospectives, covering this time the complete filomgraphies of noir-master Jean Pierre Melville and Roman Polanski (including all of his acting roles). Besides those, there was a third retro,
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Todd Brown
Mindflesh Is Coming.
1 December 2008 8:42 AM, PST
Chris Jackson is a gateway for obsessions to pass from the mind to the physical world. To close the gateway he must face his childhood trauma before everyone he knows is killed by extraterrestrials.
Mark this on your calendar boys and girls: Twitch and Caachi Films are very proud to announce that for three days only - December 12, 13 and 14 - we will be streaming Robert Pratten’s Mindflesh in its entirety, for free, here in the pages of Twitch. Call it our Christmas present to you. Our violent, bloody, naked, Cronenbergian Christmas present to you.
We’ll be rolling out the full blooded - and fleshed - version fo the trailer a little bit later as a reminder that this is coming but for now you can check out the PG rated - but still very impressive - trailer below the break.
Todd Brown
Iffr 2009: Rotterdam gets a new format, part of which is scary…
1 December 2008 8:23 AM, PST
Joy! In less than two months from now the International Film Festival Rotterdam will be in full swing again, albeit with a thoroughly changed programme format, when compared to previous years.
Iffr 2008 marked the first time Rutger Wolfson was directing the festival, and as such he didn’t make too many changes in the way films were categorized. But now that he has signed on for at least another four years there will be some changes apparent, starting with the format.
Quoting the Iffr webpage:
...a new and simplified format with three main sections. This will make the programme clearer and do more justice to individual films and special themes.
Gone are festival sections as “Time and Tide” and, most importantly, “Rotterdämmerung”.
I’ll miss that last one because this always contained the anime and insane genre films. This is where you found titles like “Casshern”, “AAchi & SSipak” and “Paprika
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Ard Vijn
History Gets Goofy In Korea’s 1724 Geisha House Riot * Update *
30 November 2008 8:29 PM, PST
While it’s far too soon to say whether Korean period-set action comedy 1724 Geisha House Riot is actually going to be any good one thing is already certain: this aint going to be your father’s stodgy old period drama. Rude, colorful and loaded up with people getting punched in the face this one is clearly aiming to be a period epic in name only, simply using the setting as an excuse to ramp up the colorful costumes and settings. The first teaser is out now but will likely not mean much to non-Korean speakers as it is little more than a blooper reel loaded up with the key actors swearing at one another. Check the teaser below the break and watch for more as we get it.
** We’ve got the first trailer now, as well, and there’s a whole lot more to it. This is looking fun.
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Todd Brown
The First Proper Teaser Arrives For Albert Arizza’s Ramirez
30 November 2008 5:42 PM, PST
We have been following the progress of Albert Arizza’s Spanish serial killer film Ramirez in these pages for a good long time now, from the days the first stills arrived through to it’s first ever screening as a work-in-progress at the Sitges festival back in September. But in all that time the one thing that we haven’t been able to do is show you a trailer for this unusual, strangely meditative piece of work. And that was for one simple reason: no trailer existed. But one does now and it’s a doozy. Sharply edited, crackling with energy and blessed with a man who must be the greatest voice over artist in god knows how long - he does it in English, no less - the teaser actually plays at a slightly higher tempo than the film itself does but for those who want a bit of
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Todd Brown
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