Musical Archives
| 07/23/2007 |
HAIRSPRAY: Review During Peaches Christ's onstage interview with Mink Stole for the 9th season of Midnight Mass, she called for a national boycott of Adam Shankman's Hairspray. Granted, she enthusiastically—if not hastily—proposed said boycott as an indirect compliment to her on-stage guest... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/20/2007 |
NYAFF 2007 CAPSULE REVIEWS RETRIBUTION, DEATH NOTE, DEATH NOTE THE LAST NAME, NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE. The one unfailingly bright spot in all my preparations for Cornerstone Festival is getting screeners from the NYAFF folks. This is the second year in a row they’ve hooked me up and so far everything I’ve thrown in the player... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/15/2007 |
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer REVIEW In the wake of 2005’s shockingly successful first film comes the bigger and better sequel, “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”. An awkward title perhaps, but nonetheless accurate. Marvel’s popular angst-ridden gleaming soarer of the spaceways makes his big... (10 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/09/2007 |
Men in White Review Singaporean director-writer Kelvin Tong is best known for his movie The Maid. Why? Because he joins the rare ranks of local filmmakers whose films have actually crossed the million dollar mark (the only other of course being the undisputed local... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/07/2007 |
LA VIE EN ROSE—Interview With Olivier Dahan Meeting Olivier Dahan, the director of La Vie En Rose, during the film's festival screening at SFIFF50, was at first offputting because he struck me as a classic poseur. With an angled beret and an eyebrow ring, he seemed the... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/03/2007 |
Review: Kelvin Tong's MEN IN WHITE A comedy about ghosts trying to survive in a modern country like Singapore should be fun, right? Well, Kelvin Tong’s horror-comedy-musical Men In White (Gui Ah Gui Ah) is so to a certain extent, but to tell you the... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/01/2007 |
ONCE—The SF360 Interview with John Carney, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (and a Personal Aside) In tandem to my SF360 interview with the creative team of Once, I offer this personal aside: During the course of my conversation with John Carney, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, I mentioned to Glen that compensation for being a... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/21/2007 |
Turner Classic Movies Broadcast of Screened Out: Gay Images In Film Program Lineup June is Pride Month for the queer community and this year promises to be perhaps one of the richest celebrations in recent memory, beginning with the groundbreaking Turner Classic Movies broadcast of Screened Out: Gay Images In Film, a month-long... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/04/2007 |
Spider-Man 3 REVIEW It’s hard to criticize the previous “Spider-Man” films without sounding like a whiny fanboy. In this day and age of big-budget cookie-cutter comic book movies coming out one after another, Sam Raimi’s “Spidey” series has stood up as the pinnacle... (7 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/02/2007 |
IIFF 2007 - GLASTONBURY review Veteran music video director Julien Temple’s Glastonbury could’ve been an amazing concert film, with almost 40 years’ worth of performances from Britain’s foremost music festival to cull from. It could’ve been the definitive exploration of the event’s tangled history, from... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/01/2007 |
Guy Maddin's Brand Upon The Brain! Live Show On Tour Prior to Limited Theatrical Release Several of us lucky souls were fortunate enough to catch the Toronto Film Festival Premiere slash Live Show Extravaganza that is Guy Maddin's Brand Upon The Brain! Guy has taken his silent dream-fever pseudo autobiography (and a sequel of sorts... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/27/2007 |
Chuck Gutierrez' Odots We've been following the work of Chuck Gutierrez around here for a while, and with good reason. The protege of Sigaw director Yam Laranas is hard at work prepping his own feature debut and in the meantime has been sharpening... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/26/2007 |
2007 SFIFF50—Michael Hawley's Preview What follows are some alphabetically-arranged thoughts on the films Michael Hawley had the chance to preview for this year's San Francisco International Film Festival. With the exception of Flanders and La Vie en Rose, all were seen on screener DVDs.... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/26/2007 |
2007 SFIFF50—REVIEW of La Vie En Rose When I was a child of four living with my Grandma Nofre and Grandpa John in Ely, Nevada, I recall a late afternoon when we were gathered in their living room listening to the radio. A song came on that... (12 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/12/2007 |
SOUND OF THE SOUL—Interview With Stephen Olsson Stephen Olsson has produced and directed documentary films, television series and feature news reports throughout the world. He has been the recipient of television's three major awards: the National Emmy Award, the Du-Pont-Columbia Silver Baton for excellence in broadcast journalism... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/25/2007 |
AFI Dallas Report: Linda Linda Linda Review Regular Forum contributor Joshua Hurtado was kind enough to write up his thoughts on a film that Twitch's Mack raved about way back in September 2005. Let's rev up the buzz! My first film of this inaugural AFI Dallas International... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/14/2007 |
BACK CATALOGUE: KOCH VISION Let's face it sometimes things just get delayed. We writers are notorious for driving our editors crazy and for we writers who are also our own editors the problem is exacerbated by having to be our own conscience. This gave... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/28/2007 |
MARTIN SCORSESE TO TEAM UP WITH MICK JAGGER TO DIRECT AND PRODUCE ”THE LONG PLAY” Another press release - this one sounds like it could be a VERY cool project. Of course, if you stop to consider Jagger's cinematic track record... well, hopefully Scorsese's winning streak can offset that. Here's the big news: ACADEMY AWARD... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/22/2007 |
Amir Muhammad's THE LAST COMMUNIST DVD available on Amazon Amir Muhammad's "semi-musical documentary", The Last Communist (Lelaki Komunis Terakhir), is now available on Amazon. The film, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival last year, is in Mandarin, Malay, Cantonese, Hokkien, Tamil and English with full subtitles. The... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/17/2007 |
2007 SFIAAFF—Line-up Back in 1982, The San Francisco International Asian-American Film Festival offered 13 films to its fledgling audience. The festival's exponential growth in 25 years now caters to an expected audience of 30,000 with a line-up that includes 128 films from... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/09/2007 |
JANUARY MAINSTREAM DVD IN REVIEW The beginning of the new year brought good, bad and downright ugly DVD my way and since a lot of Twitchers don’t keep up with what they can find stateside (let’s face it Regions 2-8 are just more fun!) here’s... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/04/2007 |
More From Saving Sally Director Avid Liongoren After posting about Avid Liongoren's Saving Sally yesterday I dropped the director a note to see how things are going with the film. He fired back an immediate response to say he's hoping for six months until completion and also... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/03/2007 |
Review for Lee Hyung-Gon's 'The Fox Family' (2006). Another movie of the kind Korea does so well, for the most part, and another that I've waited a while in the hope of getting a chance to see. This time around, we have 'The Fox Family', literally a family... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/25/2007 |
2007 BERLIN & BEYOND—Festival Overview The 12th annual Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, presented by San Francisco's Goethe-Institut, was once again venued at The Castro Theatre commencing Thursday, January 11 and running through Wednesday, January 17, 2007. A two-film recap took place on Saturday, January... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/22/2007 |
Nobuhiro Yamashita's 'Linda, Linda, Linda' (2005) R1 USA DVD April 24th 2007. Well, after a longer than expected wait, finally we get 'Linda, Linda, Linda' on a Subtitled DVD release. VizMedia also have 'Taste of Tea' coming up this year for American release on DVD, and although that's appeared with Subtitles both... (11 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/07/2006 |
Let The Buyer Butt-ware! I've always seen my role here at Twitch as that of Guardian of Taste. As Moral Policeman to the masses I feel duty bound to raise the red flag of caution even when it may cost us valuable sponsorship dollars.... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/29/2006 |
Cory McAbee Back Behind the Camera! No, Werewolf Hunters of the Midwest isn't ready to roll just yet - though apparently it's getting close - but while we await the sophomore effort from the mad geniuses responsible for The American Astronaut we do at least get... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/25/2006 |
Two Soundtrack for Paprika Susumu Hirasawa, the music composer of the Paprika soundtrack is graciously offering two downloadable MP3 from the animated film on his official site for free. You may have listen to his music from several anime soundtrack such as Berserk or... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/13/2006 |
Trailer for Studio 4°C's Amazing Nuts! When it comes to unique and stunning animation, look no further to Studio 4°C's Amazing Nuts!, an anthology of four animated short with each featuring its own distinct animation style and music. Take a peek at the trailer and four... (6 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/09/2006 |
Update on Randy Greif's THE THREE TRIALS FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE The MySpace official page for Randy Greif's The Three Trials is online. As was previously reported here on Twitch, the official website for the movie is also online. The screenplay for The... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/08/2006 |
NOV 7 DVD IN REVIEW It’s been a long time in coming but for the foreseeable future I’ll be doing a DVD column that covers select releases on a weekly or bi-weekly basis depending on how much time I have and what’s crossed my desk.... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/30/2006 |
Terry Gilliam Working With Albarn's Gorillaz? Apparently So ... There are literally no further details bu Damon Albarn is quoted in the current issue of Uncut as saying that Terry Gilliam is on board for an upcoming Gorillaz film project. Which begs the obvious question: will Terry get to... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/24/2006 |
Toronto After Dark Diary: Day 4 - Tokyo Zombie and Funky Forest: The First Contact [Funky Forest is now available for pre-order on English subtitled DVD here.] Moving into the week we’ve been given a bit of a reprieve from the daunting task of taking in four films, one after the other. With only two... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/21/2006 |
Austin FF Report: Colma: The Musical Our friend Wells Dunbar covered the San Diego Asian Film Festival for us, and now that he's back home in Austin, Texas, USA, he's all set to take in some more films at the Austin Film Festival. Here are his... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/18/2006 |
Khaled El-Hagar Brings Back Egyptian Musicals with MAFEESH GHEIR KIDA According to this article, Egyptian director Khaled El-Hagar, is in post-production with Egypt's first musical film, MAFEESH GHEIR KIDA (Nothing But That). Now, just to set the record straight, that's a lie. Admittedly, there haven't been many musicals in... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/14/2006 |
SDAFF Report: Shorts, Androids, and a Musical Wasteland Our correspondent Wells Dunbar checks in from San Diego with comments on several shorts and capsule reviews of Puzzlehead and Colma: The Musical. Woe be unto the experimental screening with technical difficulties. Through it and only it would an audience... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/06/2006 |
A Deleted Scene From Lloyd Kaufman's Poultrygeist A deleted scene from Lloyd Kaufman's zombie chicken musical Poultrygeist has made it's way online and it is, as you would expect, high class all the way. Heh. Actually it's a musical number sung by despondent Muslim immigrant Jihad Jane... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/28/2006 |
AMERICAN HARDCORE—Interview With Director Paul Rachman and Screenwriter Steven Blush Just as the music of hardcore punk rock was not to everyone's liking and went generally unheralded even during its heyday in the early '80s, so too the relentlessly-charged documentary American Hardcore is not going to be everyone's idea of... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/23/2006 |
The U.S. vs. John Lennon REVIEW More than just the latest political documentary, and not just another Beatle-relate retrospective, “The U.S. vs. John Lennon” attempts to weave the two topics while slyly implying a relevance to today’s world. It is a documentary that swirls around a... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/17/2006 |
Yaji X Kita (真夜中の弥次さん喜多さん) Review [Having just seen the region one DVD release of Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Ramblers - and this is definitely the edition to get - I am reminded of just what a wildly tripped out film this is and am... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/12/2006 |
TIFF Report: The Short Films Of Jamie Travis A remarkably high percentage of my interactions with women involve expressions of shock, dismay, and outright disapproval that I have not done something that they feel I should have. I have had such an encounter repeatedly in the TIFF press... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/01/2006 |
2006 FRAMELINE XXX—Interview With John Cameron Mitchell [TIFF information page.] San Francisco has just wrapped up its 30th Frameline Film Festival. One of the highlights for me was the morning I picked up my phone and heard John Cameron Mitchell introducing himself. I mustered all my resolve... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/31/2006 |
GREASE ROCKIN' RYDELL EDITION My new edition of Grease arrived today dressed in a miniature leather jacket. If I were a middle-aged woman I’d be screaming with delight. But I ain’t. Still this this is a pretty good SE even if it does lack... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/20/2006 |
Review for Kankuro Kudo's 'Yaji & Kita : Midnight Pilgrims'. My turn to see and review Kankuro Kudo's Directorial debut, a film I stumbled across a trailer of a long time ago now, one which has been stuck in my imagination ever since then... and yes, it's as weird (if... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/14/2006 |
Twitch-O-Meter: Take Off, You Hoser! Hoser (hōz ´әr): noun. 1. A clumsy, boorish person, especially an uncouth, beer-drinking man often clothed in a flannel lumberjack coat, Kodiak boots and a toque. 2. What you call your little brother when your mother isn't in the... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/05/2006 |
Trailer Alert: Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny Jack Black is a minor deity in music and comedy. I am sure he would beg to differ. [MINOR!?!] Both a rock god [small g] and comedy film delight he ascended my list of permissible viewing allowances. Meaning, yes, I... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/02/2006 |
Karen David in Baz Taylor's TAKE 3 GIRLS, w/ Kabir Bedi, Charlie Brooks, Caroline Chikezie, Soni Razdan, Ramon Tikaram, Chris Adlington, Christopher Simpson, Royston Gooden, Johnny Palmiero, Dominic Cazenove, et al. At the bottom of this article are links to a large streaming version and a small downloadable version of a trailer for Baz Taylor's Take 3 Girls, as well as to a stills gallery for the movie. The screenplay for... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 07/30/2006 |
Update on JoJo Henrickson & William Holmes' STUMP THE BAND, w/ Courtney Bean, Dominique Davalos, Brittney Startzman, Becky Boxer, Brandon Tesar, (JoJo) Henrickson, Jake Hames, Ellen Fox, Danny Cooksey, et al. JoJo Henrickson & William Holmes' Stump the Band is scheduled to be screened at the 2006 MicroCinema Fest (MCF) in Palatine, Illinois on Friday August 11th at 10:20 p.m.. As was previously reported here on Twitch, the screenplay for Stump... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 07/28/2006 |
Suzuki's Princess Raccoon Coming To North America! There's no firm release date yet but a North American DVD release for Seijun Suzuki's Princess Raccoon has been announced as in the works. The disc is coming, strangely enough, from Geneon - a company that focuses almost exclusively on... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 07/19/2006 |
삼거리 극장 (Midnight Ballad for Ghost Theater) Teaser Trailer Released Let's say, just hypothetically, that one of your industry's best films of the last five years gets ripped off by Bollywood, calling it something like Zinda. So how do you react? Sue them? Noooo, Korea is going all Bollywood on... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 07/03/2006 |
다세포 소녀 (Dasepo Naughty Girls) Teaser Trailer Released From bored housewives looking for happiness, and a Casanova trying to conquer his biggest prey, to... high school students, dating, dancing, singing, and doing something a little raunchier in the weirdest School in town. Lee Jae-Yong has had quite the... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/24/2006 |
Michel Gondry desires to work more with The White Stripes This is just down right intriguing. I really like Michel Gondry and his work as a filmmaker [Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind] and as a music video director [Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk and White Stripes]. So when one of... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/22/2006 |
NYAFF Report: Krrish Review Two days in New York so far, two films from India, two radically different approaches. If Ram Gopal Varma's Company represents a break from the traditional approach of Bollywood films, then Rakesh Roshan's Krrish is a film that revels in... (29 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/20/2006 |
Krrish, Bollywood Superhero flick Director Rakesh Roshan from India has jumped on the superhero bandwagon with Krrish, his follow up sequel to the hit sci-fi movie, Koi...Mil Gaya. Its budget at 10 million US which isn't much compare to Hollywood superhero films but is... (7 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/15/2006 |
Brothers of the Head Trailer I've been kicking myself for missing Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Brothers of the Head while it was on the festival circuit for some time now but it looks as though I'm getting another chance with IFC films putting it... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/12/2006 |
WSFF Preview: Scene Not Herd Here we go with round four of my advance look at this year's Worldwide Short Film Festival - rounds one, two, and three available at the aptly labelled links - this entry looking at the music video themed Scene Not... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/08/2006 |
North American Trailer for Fatih Akin's Crossing The Bridge! After winning huge international acclaim for his searing Head On - review here - Turko-German director Fatih Akin took a bit of a left turn and recruited Einstuerzende Neubauten bassist Alexander Hacke to help him explore the many musical traditions... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/04/2006 |
DVD Review: Metal: A Headbanger's Journey Sam Dunn, trained anthropologist and metal-head, took us on a wicked tour of the metal music universe. Like Mola Ram in Temple of Doom, Sam ripped the still beating heart out metal’s chest to show everyone. We saw the roots... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/25/2006 |
JoJo Henrickson & William Holmes' STUMP THE BAND, w/ Courtney Bean, Dominique Davalos, Brittney Startzman, Becky Boxer, Brandon Tesar, (JoJo) Henrickson, Jake Hames, Ellen Fox, Danny Cooksey, Charles Klausmeyer, & Larry Wyatt The official website for JoJo Henrickson & William Holmes' Stump the Band is online, and there's a downloadable trailer for (and 193 stills from) the movie on that site. The movie is scheduled to be screened at the 2006 MicroCinema... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/24/2006 |
Interview With Amir Muhammad On the Ban Of The Last Communist When Dave Hudson alerted via the Greencine Daily that Amir Muhammad's latest film The Last Communist was banned in Malaysia, I was disconcerted and meant to write an entry, but was overtaken by reportage from 2006 SFIFF. I've since caught... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/22/2006 |
DVD Review: R3 HK 'NANA' On a train to Tokyo, Komatsu (Aoi Miyazaki) sits next to NANA (Mika Nakashima), a budding vocalist of rock band, BLACK STONES. They part at Tokyo Station, but they cross paths again as they compete for the same apartment. They... (7 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/22/2006 |
Website and Trailer For Jim Finn's Interkosmos Big thanks to Mike for steering me to the website of Interkosmos, the debut feature from Jim Finn. Finn has a number of experimental videos to his credit and for this, his first feature, he has put together one very... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/21/2006 |
Cannes: Seville International pre-selling Metal follow up. Seville International Pictures will spend some time during Cannes pre-selling the follow up documentary to Sam Dunn's awesome film Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Global Metal is the follow-up to the worldwide success, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Sam Dunn, headbanger and... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/21/2006 |
A Southland Tales Clip, Plus Interview Footage! Yes, I am a Donnie Darko fanatic and as such I have been eagerly awaiting the day I could see some actual footage from Darko writer-director Richard Kelly's latest, Southland Tales, in motion. The day is here. The official Cannes... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/02/2006 |
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey DVD specs, cover and more Woo hoo. Oh baby. I love this movie and cannot wait to pick up the DVD when it comes out. Seville Pictures sent us the specs and cover images to share with you so that metalheads and wannabes like me... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/15/2006 |
San Fran Report: Perhaps Love Review Michael Guillen reports ... Whether through intention or coincidence, the two press screenings this last Thursday—Peter Ho-Sun Chan's Perhaps Love and Giuseppe Piccioni's La Vita Che Vorrei (The Life I Want)—were both love stories structured as films within a film.... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/14/2006 |
Princess Raccoon Review If things work out as appears likely and octogenarian director Seijun Suzuki's failing health means that Princess Raccoon is his final work then give this to the man: he is going out on top of his game. Though he has... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/26/2006 |
AWESOME; I FUCKIN' SHOT THAT - Review Eisenstein was a Pussy. MTV-style editing has nothing on the number of cuts-per-minute in Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That (hereafter, AIFST). In fact, AIFST may just well be the defining film for the DIY video aesthetic of the first decade... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/24/2006 |
REASONER SAYS NEW DVD WALKS TOO NEAT A LINE Should you bother with Walk the Line on DVD? Assuming A LOT of you skipped it in general release I’ll offer the following.... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/20/2006 |
Romance & Cigarettes Trailer! John Turturro's genre-busting musical Romance and Cigarettes was one of my favorite films of last year's Toronto Film Festival but it has infortunately been locked in studio hell ever since, squeezed off the domestic release schedule thanks to studio mergers... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/19/2006 |
'Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!' trailer, pics, pre-screening dates I am a man of no particular tastes when it comes to music. I am pretty eclectic when it comes to what I listen to. One day it is Coldplay, the next it is As I Lay Dying. And then... (9 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/09/2006 |
Princess Raccoon Hitting UK Theaters In June Very little information on this beyond what's in the headline, but evidently a UK distribution company called Yume Pictures - who I haven't been able to find any information on at all - have picked up Seijun Suzuki's Princess Raccoon... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/07/2006 |
Ask And Thou Shalt Receive, etc etc ... English Subtitled Version of Suzuki's Princess Raccoon Now Available! Yep, we posted a whining little piece wondering aloud why there were no English subtitled version of Seijun Suzuki's Princess Raccoon available and the very next day we got word one was coming March 10th. Huzzah! For those unaware this... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/04/2006 |
Mayhem trailer from Metal: A Headbanger's Journey I don't know what I find more disturbing. That picture to the left of a metal fan at the Wacken Open Air metal music festival in Germany or the biography of Norwegian black metal band, Mayhem. I shudder at both.... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/03/2006 |
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party REVIEW As note-worthy as the always-hilarious Dave Chappelle starring in this free-form comedy/hip-hop concert film starring seems to be, even more noteworthy is the fact that it was helmed by visionary director Michel Gondry (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”). Gondry’s... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/02/2006 |
Whither Princess Raccoon? Sigh. While doing my regular rounds looking for interesting new DVD releases I stumbled across this new Taiwanese edition of Seijun Suzuki's Princess Raccoon, the eccentric old master's tripped out musical starring Zhang Ziyi and Joe Odagiri. Now, between the... (9 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 |
| 02/17/2006 |
[KOREAN DVD REVIEWS] 형사 Duelist (Part 1) 형사 Duelist Duelist - KOREA 2005 Hyeongsa Duelist (lit. Detective) 111 Minutes - 35mm Cinemascope 2.35:1 - Colour Produced by: 프러덕션 M (Production M), 웰메이드 엔터테인먼트 (Wellmade Entertainment) Distributed By: 코리아 픽쳐스 (Korea Pictures) International Sales: The Core Studio Opening... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/16/2006 |
[KOREAN DVD REVIEWS] 형사 Duelist (Part 2) 형사 Duelist 3 Disc Limited Edition enterOne Release Date: 01/19/2006 DVD - Korean Version (English, Korean Subtitles) OST Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 Region Code: Region 3 Format: NTSC DVD Format: DVD-9 (Single Side, Dual Layer) Audio: Korean DTS, Korean... (12 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/14/2006 |
Joe Strummer doc on the way If done right music movies can be freakin' sweet. And doing a movie about one of the pillars in the foundation of new rock is just awesome. Documentary filmmaker Julien Temple will be making a doc on Clash frontman Joe... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/13/2006 |
Another wkw Project? Kidman & Katrina Projects on Hold for Norah Jones? With the working title "My Blueberry Nights," Wong Kar-Wai has pushed back the production of his film "Lady from Shanghai" with Nicole Kidman to work with Indian Jazz/Pop singer Norah Jones. Reports from the Berlinale indicate that one of the... (7 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/07/2006 |
Perhaps Love Review All the signs leading up to its release were that Peter Chan’s Perhaps Love would be a glorious visual spectacle. The lushly designed musical was shot by acclaimed cinematographers Christopher Doyle and Peter Pau and the possibilities of what these... (12 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/05/2006 |
DVD Review: Taro The Dragon Boy 'Tatsu no ko Tarô' Taro is the epitome of laziness. While the villagers toil on the land to raise crops of millet and beans Taro sleeps about only getting up to eat and wrestle the local wildlife. Even Taro’s grandmother struggles to make ends... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/28/2006 |
Bollywood's Riding the Remake Train Again ... This Time It's Fight Club ... Whee! More remake madness from Bollywood but unlike Zinda - the largely shot for shot remake of Oldboy - which evidently gave all the irritation of a pointless and inferior remake with none of the added camp value you'd hope... (167 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/26/2006 |
'Dave Chappelle's Block Party' Trailer online Oh joy. I was just talking about this movie the other day with some friends who were lamenting the loss of The Dave Chappelle Show. "Well just you wait until Dave Chappelle's Block Party comes to theatres", I said with... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/17/2006 |
Hong Kong Film Critics Society 2005 Awards Bah. Critics. What do they know? Typically I don't pay too much attention to what they have to say. I find it sways my opinion and experience of a film to no benefit. Their reviews and critiques are always a... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/14/2006 |
Perhaps Love Hits DVD January 26th! Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love, one of my more anticipated films of the year, is slated to hit DVD in Hong Kong January 26th and the release looks like a good one. The feature is English subtitled with DTS and... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/10/2006 |
Update: Jet Li and Jay Chou 'Fearless' theme song and MV One month after we reported that Jay Chou [Initial D] would be writing the theme song for Jet Li's last martial arts film Fearless it was released on public radio yesterday. "I think that getting the chance to have a... (21 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/28/2005 |
New Films From Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming Liang and Bahman Ghobadi Part of Mozart Tribute, A New Crowned Hope We reported back in May on Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Intimacy and Turbulence, his feature film follow up to the brilliant Tropical Malady. What we didn't know at the time was that the film was part of a series of films commisioned... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/27/2005 |
Recap: Shinji Aoyama's ELI, ELI, LEMA SABACHTHANI?, Kôhei Oguri's THE BURIED FOREST, Shion Sono's INTO A DREAM, Kaze Shindô's KOROGARE! TAMAKO, Kentarô Moriya's SCHOOL DAZE, Mitsuo Yanagimachi's WHO'S CAMUS ANYWAY?, and Toshiaki Toyoda's HANGING GARDEN FOR TRAILERS AND REVIEWS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Shinji Aoyama's Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? (Eri Eri rema sabakutani) Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaya Nakahara, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Masahiro Toda, Shingo Tsurumi, Erika, Yûsuke Kawazu (Kawadu Yûsuke), and Mariko... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/09/2005 |
Mrs. Henderson Presents REVIEW In a lot of ways, the Weinstein Company’s new film “Mrs. Henderson Presents” is their typical Oscar bait, but really, when it comes down to it, it’s truly not. On the yes side, it’s a London period piece that revolves... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/08/2005 |
'The Producers' review My friend Mike has been involved in the theatre community here in Toronto for some years now so I would consider him somewhat of an authority on musical theatre. That, and it was down to him and that other sniffling... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/05/2005 |
New Perhaps Love Trailer and Music Video A new trailer and music video for Peter Chan's Perhaps Love have turned up online. The Takeshi Kaneshiro starring / Christopher Doyle shot film is Hong Kong's submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar and while I haven't really cared... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/26/2005 |
Official website and teaser trailer for Norihiro Koizumi's A SONG TO THE SUN (TAIYÔ NO UTA), starring Yui, Takashi Tsukamoto, Kuniko Asagi, and Gorô Kishitani The official website for Norihiro Koizumi's A Song to the Sun (Taiyô no uta) has just gone online today, and there's a downloadable teaser trailer (tokuhô) for the movie on that site. A Song to the Sun stars Yui (who... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/26/2005 |
Rent REVIEW As much of a phenomenon as Jonathan Larson’s “Rent” – a tragic and triumphant tale of poor artists struggling with AIDS, eviction, and each other - has been on stage, breaking social and cultural taboos while garnering a following of... (6 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/19/2005 |
Trailers for Akihisa Okamoto's THE CLASSROOM OF TERROR, Yukihiro Sawada's NO GRAVE FOR US, Eiichi Kudô's YOKOHAMA BJ BLUES, Yoshimitsu Morita's AND THEN, Yûsaku Matsuda's A HOMANCE, Jun'ya Satô's PEKING MAN, etc. On November 21st, Toei Video Co. Ltd. (Tôei Bideo K.K.) is scheduled to release five movies on DVD in Japan that starred Yûsaku Matsuda: Akihisa Okamoto's The Classroom of Terror (Bôryoku kyôshitsu - 1976), Yukihiro Sawada's No Grave for Us... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/13/2005 |
AFI FEST Report: Stories of Disenchantment (Historias del Desencanto) Review Once again we are fortunate to have Peter Martin with another review from AFI Fest. From Mexico we get his thoughts on STORIES OF DISENCHANTMENT and something about a singing heart and sharp teeth. I kid you not. Read on.... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/11/2005 |
Review of the Manu Chao and Radio Bemba rockumentary "Babylon's Fever" Jean-Luc Godard has been quoted as saying: "Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and [Michael] Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary." Such a comment, originating from one of the cinema’s arch-leftists, is addressed... (5 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 |
| 10/27/2005 |
Now That I've Eaten Your Octopus ... I Dance! The Hollywood remake of Oldboy is old news by now, but what about the Bollywood one? Yep, it's coming. It's called Zinda and it's being made by the same director who made a Bollywood version of Reservoir Dogs that so... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/27/2005 |
'Perhaps Love' to represent Hong Kong at Oscars Reporting only days ago that suggestions for nominees for Best Foreign Film at next year's Oscars are starting to come in we are pleased to report that the Hong Kong Film Producers Association announced today that Perhaps Love, directed by... (6 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/27/2005 |
The District (Nyocker) Wins Best Animated Feature at the Ottawa International Animated Film Festival Tamas, the sales agent for Nyocker and general all around good guy who we had the chance to meet during the Toronto Film Festival, posted a note about this in the comments section of an earlier Nyocker post, but it... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/25/2005 |
Kim Gordon's "Perfect Partner" - Screening around Europe I'm hoping a version of this comes out on DVD at some point as the experiment sounds very interesting. Perfect Partner is a collaboration of several talented artists including Sonic Youth Bassist Kim Gordon, video artist Tony Oursler and filmmaker... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/23/2005 |
Perhaps Love Trailer! That Hitman, I swear sometimes he reads my mind ... A couple times over the past few days I've swung by the official website for Perhaps Love - the Peter Chan directed / Christopher Doyle shot / Takeshi Kaneshiro starring... (10 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/16/2005 |
TIFF Report: Linda Linda Linda Review Trouble strikes a teen-girl band on the eve of their performance at their school's festival. Their lead guitarist has broken her finger and the lead singer has walked away from the band. The remaining band members, Kei, Kyoko and Nozomi,... (9 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/14/2005 |
TIFF Report: Romance and Cigarettes Review Ah, John Turturro. His presence is a nearly certain sign of quality and when he appears on the credits along side the Coen Brothers good things are sure to happen. Yes, the Coen's serve only as excutive producers (i.e. money... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/14/2005 |
TIFF Report: David Chappelle's Block Party Review Two middle-aged black men are trying to start a car with no luck. Enter stage right a younger black male. He stands over the car with the other men, looking on. The one behind the driver seat tries to start... (6 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/14/2005 |
TIFF Report: Nyócker! (The District) Review According to the producer of Nyocker!, theirs is the first feature length animated film out of Hungary since 1986. This unusual little film is a fusion of the visual styles of South Park, Angela Anaconda and Appleseed. The animation is... (14 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/12/2005 |
TIFF Report: Bangkok Loco Review Where to even begin with something like this? Fusing elements of the teen sex comedy, martial arts epic, police thriller and the musical, Bangkok Loco is one of those massively genre hopping efforts that tend to fail miserably when attempted... (12 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/06/2005 |
TIFF Report: The Wayward Cloud Review Shiang-chyi returns from Paris (and Liang's previous WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?) to find there is an extreme drought in Taiwan, and the government is recommending everyone eat watermelon instead of taxing the water supply. Meanwhile, Hsiao-kang has moved on... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/24/2005 |
Coraline - The Musical Neil Gaiman indicates via his blog that on top of the Coraline stop-motion animated film being made by Henry Selick, there is also a stage-musical adaptation in the works set to premiere in Brooklyn, NY in the fall of 2006... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/16/2005 |
TKO Hip Hop. Don't know - could be like, 25 years too late? Could be quite interesting though. Trailer isn't of the highest quality, but at least the menus are all in English and it's easy to get around. Due October in Japan... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/14/2005 |
New Video Clip From Toshiaki Toyoda Just took a quick spin by the official Toshiaki Toyoda website to see if there was anything new and, voila! A new entry in his series of "Unscreened Films" Now, the first one was basically just Toyoda and some friends... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/08/2005 |
Johanna: Hungarian Joan of Arc Opera? Okay, stay with me here ... I've been scrambling around trying to find information on Johanna since it played at Cannes without any luck at all. The IMDB doesn't even include the director's name, never mind any details, but there... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/06/2005 |
Second Trailer For The Rising A second trailer for Ketan Mehta's The Rising has turned up online. This is the big Indian epic - that seems redundant ... do they make any non-epics in Bollywood? - about the first Indian rebellion against British rule that... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/02/2005 |
Nine Naked Men Just Walking Down The Road ... Ah ... I love finding strange things in my email. Today I got a note from a UK film maker named Steve Sullivan inviting me to check out a short titled A Heap of Trouble "which features a plague of... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/02/2005 |
Princess Raccoon Hitting Japanese DVD Without English Subtitles Oh, now this hurts ... I just got a note from Chris over at HelloZiyi.us pointing me to the Japanese DVD specs for Seijun Suzuki's tripped out musical Princess Raccoon. It looks as though the film is getting the a-list... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 07/22/2005 |
The Man In Black Is In The Building: Walk the Line Trailer Online! Oh my ... Joaquin Phoenix was born to play this role. The trailer for the Johnny Cash bio-pic Walk the Line has just turned up online and it looks pretty stunning. If it holds up to the trailer we'll be... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 07/08/2005 |
Breakin' Collection. R1 USA DVD Boxset August 16th 2005. Here's something that haunts every day of my life. For all the cultural impact or worth of many things, including Hip-Hop, there's little decent material out there relating to it, wether in film itself or in information in sites. That... (3 Comments) / |