Drafthouse Films To Bring THE VISITOR Back To The Big Screen
Attention cult film fans, a screen near you is going to get significantly weirder in the near future with word that Drafthouse Films is bringing 1979 cult film The Visitor back to the masses.AUSTIN, TX - Wednesday, June 19th, 2013... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

This Poster Boy Will Crush You With His Giant Nazi Stilts
Thanks to MPI Media/Dark Sky Films we have the new poster for Frankenstein's Army, coming to VOD and theatres in select US cities on July 26. Directed by Richard Raaphorst from a script by by Miguel Tejada-Flores and Chris Mitchell, Frankenstein's... More »
  

Euro Beat: Is It Art Or Porn? France Re-Opens The Debate
For the first time in many years (at least since 2000's Baise-Moi), sex in cinema has become a point of controversy in France. That's thanks in large part to the fact that the two most critically acclaimed films to come... More »
  

Kim Basinger Takes The Lead In Morgenthaler's PETIT
Regular readers of Twitch should be well familiar with the work of Anders Morgenthaler by this point, the popular Danish cartoonist proving to be a restless and intriguing talent. Already well known in Denmark thanks to his comic strip work,... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fellini's Forgotten Pupil Augusto Tretti Has Passed Away
"He disappeared in silence." Sadly this is how everyone is recalling Augusto Tretti's recent death. He died on the 7th of June, and while 10 days have gone by since he passed away, it still seems that in Italy nobody... More »
  

European Film Industry Saved from EU-US Trade Talks
With talks about to begin on reworking free trade agreements between the European Union and the United States, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht has apparently removed cultural industries from the table, an article in The Hollywood Reporter states. Prominent... More »
  

The Holocaust Serves As Backdrop For Psycho Sexual Thriller IN HIDING
Assuming that filmmakers around the globe wish to continue making films about the Holocaust - and given that such films are routinely trotted out as awards bait in countries across Europe, I would assume that is the case - then... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Brazil's RIO 2096: A STORY OF LOVE AND FURY Wins Top Prize At Annecy Film Festival
Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury, the feature debut from Brazilian director Luiz Bolognesi, has won the top prize at Annecy Film Festival. The film revolves "around the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he... More »
By Hugo Ozman   
  

Giuseppe Tornatore's THE BEST OFFER Wins Big at the Embarassing Italian Oscars
Do you know the worst awards show in the world? They are the David di Donatello -- sort of an Italian Academy Awards -- the only awards where the presenters talk more than the winners, where the hosts confuse one... More »
  

Watch The New US Trailer For Refn's ONLY GOD FORGIVES
Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives arrives on US shores in July with the sleepy eyed Ryan Gosling aiming to do bloody vengeance at his mother's command. And an impending release means a brand new trailer.Julian (Gosling), an American fugitive... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

First Teaser For New Italian TV Series DIABOLIK
No one knows anything about it. There's still no director attached and no cast has been announced. All we know is that Italian broadcaster Sky is producing a new Diabolik TV series  through their production company, Sky Cinema. The famous... More »
  

Check A Trio Of Character Posters For Refn's ONLY GOD FORGIVES
With Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives hitting US screens in July, US distributors Radius have been rolling out character posters for the primary players in the piece and we've got all three below.Julian (Gosling), an American fugitive from justice,... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Mikkelsen Gets His Gun In First Shot From Danish Western THE SALVATION
A Danish western? I can't say that it's the first genre I'd expect to come from the Nordic nation but given the high number of Scandinavian settlers who emigrated to North America in the 1800s there is certainly some history... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Stellan Skarsgard And A Battered Kristofer Hivju Share A Laugh In First Shot From THE PRIZE IDIOT
Director Hans Petter Moland won a lot of fans around these parts with his 2010 effort A Somewhat Gentle Man. The Berlin selected comedy starred Stellan Skarsgard as a man freshly released from prison and trying to put his life... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Nicolas Bro Is The Flea! Fear Him!
One of Twitch's favorite character actors gets to play super villain in Ask Hasselbalch's upcoming adaptation of popular children's books Antboy. 12-year-old Pelle accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers. With help from his friend, comic book... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

SNABBA CASH (EASY MONEY) 3 Trailer Locks And Loads
Before he became RoboCop it was Swedish crime film Snabba Cash (Easy Money) that launched Joel Kinnaman to stardom. Immediately snapped up by The Weinstein Company and prepped for US remake - reportedly with Zac Efron taking on the Kinnaman... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Iconic Warrior Musashi Miyamoto Gets The Arthouse Treatment In Sidney Lexy Plaut's DARK SAMURAI
What's this? A trance inducing, time hopping, hypnotic treatment of iconic samurai Musashi Miyamoto - author of The Book Of Five Rings - from Denmark? With the producer of Valhalla Rising and Only God Forgives on board as an executive... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Review: BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO, A Dark, Haunting Treat
A timid, unsure man named Gilderoy (Toby Jones) has just flown from London to Italy. He shuffles through the corridors of a nearly abandoned building. He is greeted coldly by a detached but beautiful secretary, Elena (Tonia Sotiropoulou), who directs... More »
  

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Announces An Impressive Line Up
A couple of days ago Karlovy Vary International Film Festival programmers teased us with the first news about some of the films (including Mood Indigo on opening night) they have selected for this year's edition of one of the oldest... More »
  

Sydney 2013 Review: AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER Tells A Story Of Shocking Social Injustice
Danis Tanovic, director of the Oscar-winning No Man's Land (2001), brings a shocking real story to the big screen with his latest film, An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker. The film was a great success at the... More »
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