Learning from the Masters of Cinema: Henri-Georges Clouzot's THE MURDERER LIVES AT 21
While Henri-Georges Clouzot is best remembered for many of his later films, including The Wages of Fear and Diabolique, the French filmmaker's 1942 debut has gone largely unseen by Western audiences until now. The Murderer Lives at 21 (L'Assassin Habite... More »
  

New International Trailer For Perpetually Delayed Russian Horror VIY
It was all the way back in November of 2005 that Twitch first wrote about Russian horror film Viy, a remake of one of that nation's earliest horror films which is itself an adaptation of a story by Nikolai Gogol.... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Cannes 2013: Why Would Someone Want To Blow Up Christoph Waltz?
A live broadcast of Canal Plus show Le Grand Journal - broadcasting from the Martinez beach during Cannes - was interrupted today when two blanks were fired into the air by a man holding what appeared to be a grenade... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Watch The First Trailer For Jeunet's THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET
Are you ready to see what happens when Jean-Pierre Jeunet delivers his particular vision of Americana? Because that's what's coming in his first 3D film, an adaptation of Reif Larsen's The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet starring Helena Bonham Carter,... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Shudder With The First Teaser For Danish Horror POSTPARTUM

Ah, children. We're supposed to love 'em all the time but if we're honest the process of making them is kind of icky, kind of sticky while having them is even moreso, smells bad, and - if I may dare... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Second Teaser For Animated Film TARZAN 3D
This ain't your father's Tarzan. Unlike the Disney version, Constantin Film and Ambient Entertainment bring a fresh, modern spin on Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes in Reinhard Klooss's 3D animated film Tarzan with Kellan Lutz (The Twilight Saga) providing the... More »
By Al Young   
  

Watch A Pair Of Clips From Jarmusch's ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
Are you ready for a little vampire action, Jim Jarmusch style? The iconoclastic indie director heads to Cannes with his Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston starring vampire picture Only Lovers Left Alive and while plot information remains relatively scarce a... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

THE COSMONAUT Takes Flight. Watch An Exclusive Scene.
Nicolas Alcala's The Cosmonaut is a film we have been keeping a close eye on here at Twitch for years now, and with the crowd funded scifi drama arriving for free viewing on the official website May 18 we're pleased... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Watch The Astounding International Trailer For Ari Folman's THE CONGRESS
How do you follow a ground breaking film like Waltz With Bashir? If you're Ari Folman you break more ground with the next one, the next one in this case being a loose adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's The Futurological Congress... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Massive Destruction In First Trailer For Bondarchuk's STALINGRAD
Oh. My.Russia's Fedor Bondarchuk should need no introduction in these pages, the man being active as an actor, producer and director on numerous projects covered heavily on Twitch over the years. But for those who need refreshing, on the directing... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Indulging A Sweet Tooth Has Tragically Hilarious Results In Dutch Short SUGAR. Watch It Now!
It was at Fantastic Fest 2012 that I first had the chance to see Jeroen Annokkee's deliciously black comedy Sugar (Suiker), a short film that takes a simple premise and pushes it to a hysterical extreme. A beautifully constructed bit... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Trailer For Swedish Thriller RE. Someone Else Is In The House!
While Sweden may not be a hotbed for genre cinema, thankfully there are a handful of filmmakers in the country who feel that Sweden's exports should be more than just bikini teams, easy to assemble furniture, meatballs, and pop quartets. Enter... More »
  

Buy A Trap. Kill A Cub.
What do you mean you don't think 'Belgium' when you think 'horror'? Okay, fine, the nation known best for its monastic beer has never been much of a player in the horror scene but director Jonas Govaerts is looking to... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Julien Leclerq Delivers Intrigue In First Teaser For GIBRALTAR (THE INFORMANT)
In many ways it is quite strange that French director Julien Leclerq has not yet been snapped up by Luc Besson and the Europa machine, for if there is someone more capable of shooting the sort of glossy, technically impressive... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

THALE Director Brings Another Forest Creature To Life With Animated MUSHROOM MONSTER
It was back in October of 2011 while we awaited the premiere of Norwegian indie Thale that we first caught wind of an upcoming animated feature from director Aleksander Nordaas. Like Thale, Morkel The Moss Monster would present a revisionist... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Now on DVD: HAPPY PEOPLE - A YEAR IN THE TAIGA Shows What Werner Herzog Can Do
Werner Herzog sharing a director credit with Dmitry Vasyukov? That immediately raises the question: who did what? Our own Jim Tudor saw Happy People - A Year in the Taiga during its U.S. theatrical run earlier this year. He began... More »
  

Time Hopping Adventure Awaits In THE TREASURE OF LAKE KABAN
Yes, you are quite correct. The poster for Dmitri Korobkin's The Treasure Of Lake Kaban is hysterically horrible. The dog peeking in from the side is a particularly horrid (by which I mean amazing) touch in that department. But the... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

AMERICAN BURGER Will Bring 100% Dead Meat Worldwide This Fall
As technology shifts we continue to see independent producers experiment with alternative models to bring their films to audiences worldwide. And while they're not yet saying much in terms of specifics the producers of horror-comedy American Burger are gearing up... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Hot Docs 2013 Review: THE EXPEDITION TO THE END OF THE WORLD Asks Big Questions in Wide Open Spaces
Specifically, the eponymous End of the World is a place: The northern shores of Greenland that have been inaccessible due to ice-locked waterways, which now, due to changing climes, are open for a mere few weeks a year to such... More »
  

Kustom Kulture Doc FLAKE & FLAMES Now Available On DVD!
Dirk Behlau & Jesper Bram's Kustom Kulture doc Flake & Flames is finally on DVD and available with some really cool swag! This is a film I've been following with some interest as I spent a lot of my youth... More »
By J Hurtado   
  
 
  Next »
Page 1 of 60
Leading Voices in Global Cinema
More »
Featured Videos
1.
Watch The International Trailer For Mark Hartley's PATRICK
2.
Watch The First Trailer For Jeunet's THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET
3.
Watch The Stellar Cannes Teaser For Jeremy Saulnier's BLUE RUIN
Featured Articles

Learning from the Masters of Cinema: Henri-Georges Clouzot's THE MURDERER LIVES AT 21

While Henri-Georges Clouzot is best remembered for many of his later films, including The Wages of Fear and Diabolique, the French filmmaker's 1942 debut has gone largely unseen by Western audiences until now. The Murderer Lives at 21 (L'Assassin Habite au 21), based on the novel by Belgian author Stanislas-Andre... More »

China Beat: What did China See in IRON MAN 3?

Much has already been written, both on these pages and many others, about the landmark Hollywood-China co-production that is Marvel and DMG Entertainment's Iron Man 3. The film, directed by Shane Black, is the third solo outing for Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark, and has proved a phenomenal success around... More »

FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 2: I'M IN LOVE WITH EVERYBODY'S GIRL

CHAPTER 4: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANNA KARINA AND BUTT PLUGSI'm sitting outside at a small Café that my editor told me to meet him at. I'm a 10 minute walk from the Marche Du Film convention hall and I'm still waiting for my editor to arrive so he take guide... More »

CINEMA HOLOCAUST ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA, PART 1: THOSE GOD DAMN FILM BLOGGERS

MIKE'S JOURNAL. MAY 13. MORNINGI wake up sometime around five AM. My flight to France doesn't leave until five PM. I should be there for security check in sometime around 3PM. There is no reason for me to be up this early but I'm feeling anxious. I have an itch... More »

FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 1: A MAN'S HANDSHAKE SAYS EVERYTHING

CHAPTER ONE: THE BIGGER THE SIDEBURNS, THE BIGGER THE ASSHOLE. I've hit the big time now. I've finally made it. I'm in like Flint from here on out. I'm boarding a plane to France where I'll be attending the Cannes Film Festival for the first time.No more unpaid blogging from... More »
Most Popular
Follow Twitch

Never miss a thing! Headlines delivered daily.
E-mail address:

Recent Comments
More »
​