by Ard Vijn, February 7, 2012 6:25 PM
(It's not a prequel to "Z"... I think?) Greek cinema is turning heads lately, scoring points at festivals worldwide, getting awarded left and right and ending up in people's Top-10 lists. This recent wave arguably revolves around the team which...
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by Brian Clark, February 7, 2012 11:22 AM
For the second time in two years, I am frustrated and a bit sad to begin discovering the work of a great, oft-overlooked filmmaker upon reading news of their death. Such was the case last year with Jean Rollin,...
by James Marsh, February 7, 2012 3:30 AM
Just as Berlin 2012 is about to kick off over in the German capital, a decidedly more modest selection of titles has just been announced for this year's Hong Kong European Film Festival. Curated in part by the various consulates...
by Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, February 6, 2012 5:00 PM
This is not going to be your typical wedding video. Paco Plaza's [REC] GENESIS, set to be unleashed in Spain on March 30, looks like it might be taking a slight detour from the previous two films. However, it doesn't...
by Todd Brown, February 6, 2012 3:00 PM
Polish production house Platige Image has received a great deal of praise in these pages over the years, praise borne out this year by the Oscar nomination for Damian Nenow's stunning aerial dogfight short Paths Of Hate. Observers of...
by Al Young, February 6, 2012 2:37 PM
Any child of the 80's cartoon era can take a trip down to memory lane with Space Stallions, a 2012 Bachelor film project from Denmark-based The Animation Workshop. The retro CG animation is seemingly a mash-up of something between He-Man...
by Todd Brown, February 6, 2012 2:30 PM
Denmark's Esben Toft Jacobsen had remarkable success with last year's debut feature, Berlin-selected children's fantasy The Great Bear. And so it comes as no surprise that Jacobsen is teaming up with production house Copenhagen Bombay once again for a...
by Todd Brown, February 6, 2012 1:48 PM
You know what they say about overnight successes? Most of them are built on years upon years of hard work in relative obscurity. And that is certainly the case with Belgian animators Stephane Aubier and Vincent Patar. When the...
by Ard Vijn, February 5, 2012 10:18 PM
(Guns? Guns? Wee don't need no steenking guns!) This year at the International Film Festival Rotterdam there was an Icelandic entry for the Tiger Awards: director Oskar Thor Axelsson's first feature-length film "Black's Game". Normally Tiger Award nominees are artistic...
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by J Hurtado, February 5, 2012 9:57 PM
Of all the hedonistic madmen the cinema has produced, Klaus Kinski may be among the wildest. Kinski's notorious mania and unstable emotional state on film sets is the stuff of legend. His persona even inspired his frequent collaborator, Werner Herzog,...
