by Todd Brown, May 25, 2012 9:23 AM
[Updated with trailer embed]Japanese director Toshiaki Toyoda carved out a very distinct niche for himself with his first trio of narrative features. Pornostar, Blue Spring and Nine Souls planted the director quite firmly as his nation's pre-eminent auteur of...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, May 24, 2012 2:04 PM
Some things are holy. If a person were to ask me "What film properties are off limits for remakes?" sitting at the very tip top of that list would be The Exorcist . William Peter Blatty's novel, and subsequent...
by Ard Vijn, May 24, 2012 10:04 AM
(It is not "Totoro-light", although I guess it can be called "Totoro-heavy"...) Trying to see anime in the cinema can be quite hard in The Netherlands. The last decade we've seen the latest Miyazaki films released thanks to the international...
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by J Hurtado, May 23, 2012 11:05 PM
There is a new home video distributor out there who seems to have the kind of massive cojones it takes to jump into the ever expanding niche home video market. That distributor is 5 Points Pictures (the live-action distribution arm...
by J Hurtado, May 23, 2012 8:50 PM
If someone had approached me a year ago and said, "Hey Josh, we're going to throw a film at you that involves Vietnamese B-boys dancing to save a community center and you're going to love it!", I would probably have...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, May 23, 2012 7:01 PM
Joachim Trier's second feature, Oslo, August 31'st is a day in the life of young Anders (played in a great turn by Anders Danielsen Lie), an affable and seemingly nice young man, who happens to be a recovering junkie,...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 3:15 PM
Leos Carax's Cannes-selected Holy Motors is a weird one. And it's got itself a weird trailer to match. From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 2:30 PM
Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac classic On The Road takes a bow in Cannes this year and US distributor IFC Films / Sundance Selects have just premiered a pair of clips to give audiences a first look at...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 1:55 PM
Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt (Jagten) has had a warm reception from both critics and distributors in Cannes - the competition title has already been picked up for distribution in more than twenty territories around the world - and the...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 12:15 PM
Fresh from its premiere in Cannes, two clips and seven character posters have been released from John Hillcoat's prohibition era action-drama Lawless. LAWLESS is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for...
