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11/04/2006	Paolo Sorrentino's L'amico di famiglia (The Family Friend) L’amico di famiglia (The Family Friend), the new movie written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino opens in italian cinemas November 10. Presented, to mixed reviews, at the last Cannes Film Festival it is the follow-up to Sorrentino’s brilliant Le conseguenze... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
08/27/2006	What is Happening with Mike Judge's Idiocracy? UPDATED Good news on the Idiocracy release. It seems that Mike Judge's latest is being given a limited release after all. Despite previous rumours that the film was finished but in limbo indefinitely (here), Box Office Mojo is indicating that there... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
06/24/2006	LAFF Report: Grain in Ear (Mang Zhong) Review Raise your hand if you know what it's like to be a single Korean-Chinese mother living at the edge of society. Cui (Liu Lianji) is raising her playful son the best she can. She dutifully tries to teach him the... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
05/11/2006	Clerks II - Wrangles ahead a few weeks Not only is Kevin Smith's 12-years-after-the-fact sequel being shown "Out of Competition" at Cannes, but MGM (??? - I thought this movie was cheap enough for the Weinsteins exclusively, but MGM has a piece of the pie, go figure) has... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
02/24/2006	Trailer for Thomas Clay's THE GREAT ECSTASY OF ROBERT CARMICHAEL, starring Dan Spencer, Ryan Winsley, Charles Mnene, Danny Dyer, Lesley Manville, Miranda Wilson, Michael Howe, and Ami Instone FOR TRAILER, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE There's a downloadable trailer for Thomas Clay's The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael on the subsite of the South by Southwest Film Conference & Festival (SXSW Film). The movie is scheduled to... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
02/17/2006	BIFFF: Shinji Aoyama's ELI, ELI, LEMA SABACHTHANI?, starring Tadanobu Asano, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaya Nakahara, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Masahiro Toda, Shingo Tsurumi, Erika, Yûsuke Kawazu, and Mariko Okada FOR TRAILER, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Shinji Aoyama's Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? (Eri Eri rema sabakutani) is scheduled to be screened at the 24th Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film (BIFFF) in Belgium on March 20th at 8:30... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
01/12/2006	Thomas Clay's THE GREAT ECSTASY OF ROBERT CARMICHAEL, starring Dan Spencer, Ryan Winsley, Charles Mnene, Danny Dyer, Lesley Manville, Miranda Wilson, Michael Howe, and Ami Instone There are eleven stills from Thomas Clay's The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael on the website of international sales agent Wild Bunch Sales Limited. The screenplay for The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael was written by Clay and Joseph Lang.... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
12/07/2005	Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 'Three Times' R3 HK DVD December 22nd 2005. In competition at Cannes this year, Hou's film 'Three Times' seems to have caused a little controversy. Going to catch this one then, I think. Certainly buying 'Cafe Lumiere' when that arrives on R1 USA DVD on December 27th 2005,... (8 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
11/28/2005	AFI FEST Report: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Review Tommy Lee Jones has staked out West Texas in the same way that John Ford claimed Monument Valley as his own. As a bonus, he brings Barry Pepper along for a bumpy ride. Even if you didn't know beforehand that... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
11/28/2005	AFI FEST Report: Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noël) Review An all-star European cast, a timely anti-war message, and a true story combined to create a picture that’s a big box office success in France and is poised to smash records in Germany. "C-o-n-v-e-n-t-i-o-n-a-l" is the conclusion I drew from... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
11/09/2005	Cafe Lumiere. by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, with Tadanobu Asano. Already been issued in some places on DVD, including a dodgy edition in the UK, Hou Hsiao-Hsiens' 'Coffee Jikou' aka 'Cafe Lumiere' is due an American disc late December '05, early '06. Seems we missed a trailer for 'Three Times',... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
10/29/2005	Official website for Shinji Aoyama's ELI, ELI, LEMA SABACHTHANI?, w/ Tadanobu Asano, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaya Nakahara, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Masahiro Toda, Shingo Tsurumi, Erika, Yûsuke Kawazu, & Mariko Okada The official website for Shinji Aoyama's Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? (Eri Eri rema sabakutani) is now online, although at present it's just a home page. The movie premièred at the Cannes Film Festival, in the section Un Certain Regard, on... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
09/13/2005	TIFF Report: Caché Review Five minutes into Caché you are still looking at the same unobtrusive city street in a upscale treed neighborhood. The credits crawl across the screen one letter at a time. Why does this feel ominous and forboding, when nothing... (12 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
08/24/2005	L'Enfant Trailer Online The French trailer for the Darennes Brothers' L'Enfant - this year's Palme D'Or winner at Cannes - has turned up online. My French isn't good enough to really track the dialogue properly but it certainly looks solid, which you'd expect... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
07/19/2005	Korean News in Brief: July 19 [Lady Vengeance, Cha Seung-Won, Kim Ki-Duk] In a surprising move, at least for a country that never cared about protecting fellow viewers from spoilers, a group of 1,400 netizens wrote a petition to ask news reporters and film critics to avoid spoiling Park Chan-Wook's new film... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
07/13/2005	주먹이 운다 (Crying Fist) R3 DVD Menu Design and More The kind folks at DVD Prime have posted caps of the Crying Fist DVD, which is releasing this Friday. Here's the goods in popup form: Main Menu Chapter Selection Audio Setup Subtitle Selection Extra Features 1 Extra Features 2 Extra... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us
05/24/2005	Ryoo Seung-wan's Crying Fist wins at Cannes In light of the DVD release news that logboy graced us with we should also point out that Ryoo Seung-wan's film, Crying Fist, was the only Korean film to grab a prize, the International Critics Award for non-official selections, at... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us

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