Swedish Supernatural Drama MARIANNE On UK VOD This Friday!

One of our favorite little indie films to emerge from the festival circuit recently was Filip Tegstedt's supernatural laced family drama Marianne. And though things have been in limbo since its festival run, the film is finally starting to pop... More »

By Andrew Mack

Wenders, Redford, Glawogger And More Join For 3D Documentary Project CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE

While 3D technology has largely been used by Hollywood in the service of banging and crashing and blowing things up films such as Pina and Cave Of Forgotten Dreams have demonstrated that the technology has far more wide ranging uses... More »

By Todd Brown

First Concept Art For IRON SKY: THE COMING RACE

Director Timo Vuorensola is hard at work prepping a number of upcoming projects at the moment, lead among them the sequel to his crowd funded phenomenon, Iron Sky. Vuorensola promises to go even bigger and crazier with the second installment... More »

By Todd Brown

Haneke Presents New Book, Calls Directors Enjoying Their Old Films 'Retards'

During an intense evening presentation, the Filmmuseum Austria has presented a new book about Michael Haneke called "Haneke über Haneke" ("Haneke on Haneke"). The book comes out in German via Alexander Verlag. Originally published in France Haneke On Haneke is... More »

By Patrick Holzapfel

Horror Icon Catherine Spaak Dies THE THOUSAND AND ONE DEATHS

Veteran actress Catherine Spaak - star of Italian classics like Dino Risi's The Easy Life and Dario Argento's The Cat O' Nine Tails - will star in a new gore movie, The Thousand And One Deaths (Le Mille e Una... More »

By Pierre Hombrebueno

Watch The First Teaser From AMER Duo's THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS

The directing duo of Brune Forzani and Helene Cattet spawned a large and loyal cult following around the globe with the release of their debut feature, Amer. A picture steeped in the traditions of classic giallo, Amer left fans hungry... More »

By Todd Brown

Paris Cinema Festival 2013 Offers Wealth of Essential Cinema, New And Old

Every summer, from June 28 to July 9, Paris steps up its cinema game in a big way. This is no small thing in a city with probably more repertory and arthouse theaters per capita than anywhere in the world,... More »

By Brian Clark

Ari Folman's THE CONGRESS Gets Picked Up For US Distribution

Wow, Drafthouse Films is on a roll. Robin Wright seems plenty happy in the picture above and so are we. Director Ari Folman completely bowled us over with his (almost) fully animated documentary Waltz With Bashir. So rest assured that... More »

By Ard Vijn

First Look At Christophe Gans' BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

At the Cannes Film Festival, Pathé International released the first image for Christophe Gans' adaptation of the fairy tale Beauty And The Beast, featuring a first look at Lea Seydoux (Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol) as the beauty and Vincent... More »

By Al Young

Demons! Warlocks! College Kids In The Woods! It's A Second Trailer For UNFORGOTTEN SHADOWS!

Full marks to Ukrainian director Lubomir Levitski. He has clearly paid his dues watching American college-set horror films and mastered this particular sub-set of the horror world, both in terms of embracing the goofier conventions of the genre and building... More »

By Todd Brown

Paul Schrader Joins The Venice Film Festival

American auteur Paul Schrader will be back at the Venice Film Festival (28 August - September 7) as Head of Jury of the sidebar section Orizzonti. The movie brat guru, director of critical hits such as American Gigolo and loyal... More »

By Pierre Hombrebueno

Take a First Look at FONOTUNE - AN ELECTRIC FAIRYTALE

The creative forces behind the hit short film Yellow and documentary Visiting Uwe have joined together for a new sci-fi road movie, Fonotune - An Electric Fairytale. Directed by Fabian Huebner, who previously helmed the documentary about controversial filmmaker Uwe Boll, Visiting Uwe,... More »

By James Marsh

ONLY GOD FORGIVES Sparks French Film Ratings Controversy, PAINLESS Director Sheds Light On The Bigger Picture

Alright parents, show of hands. How many of you plan to take your twelve-year-old to see Nicolas Winding Refn's new ultra-violent film Only God Forgives, which includes a lengthy torture scene, as well as lovingly filmed shootings, amputations and beatings... More »

By Brian Clark

Watch The Astounding Trailer For Hybrid-Animation Documentary ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE

Though you may not know his name Ryszard Kapuscinski is a hero to thousands and an icon amongst the journalistic community. A Polish journalist covering independence movements and revolutions throughout Africa through the 1970s, making his living by walking into... More »

By Todd Brown

Luc Besson Has Never Been Funny. That Doesn't Stop Him From Trying With THE FAMILY.

There are many things that French director Luc Besson can claim to be. Funny is not one of them. This may, in part, explain why he thought it a wise idea to cast the also remarkably unfunny Robert DeNiro as... More »

By Todd Brown

Review: Michel Gondry's MOOD INDIGO Exhilarates, Exhausts

Michel Gondry is back. And he's going no holds barred.After slumming it as studio hired-gun and inner-city auteur (in 2011's The Green Hornet and 2012's The We and the I, respectively), the French director is back in small-batch surrealist mode with Mood Indigo (L'ecume... More »

By Ben Croll

Flash A Gorilla With Pilou Asbaek In The Trailer For SEX, DRUGS & TAXATION

A man exposing himself to a gorilla is not what I would typically expect to see in the trailer for a new film by Christoffer Boe but evidently this is what happens when the director of Reconstruction, Beast, and Offscreen... More »

By Todd Brown

DocsBarcelona 2013 Awards Top Prize To THE ACT OF KILLING

Already feted in Berlin, Telluride and reviewed by Jason Gorber at TIFF for Twitch last year, The Act of Killing continues to impact on jury members and festival goers alike. This time, DocsBarcelona wrapped up five days of shenanigans by... More »

By Carwyn Jones

Review: THE SHINE OF DAY Explores The Borderline Between Documentary And Fiction

Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 There is a strong tendency in Austrian cinema not only to use real locations but also to use real characters and their real background stories. With the recent success... More »

By Patrick Holzapfel

Euro Beat: Ben Wheatley's A FIELD IN ENGLAND Will Screen At Karlovy Vary Film Festival Before Release

As we reported already, Ben Wheatley's psychedelic civil-war horror story, A Field In England, is being distributed via a day-and-date theatrical VOD strategy in the UK, and will be available July 5. But it looks like some lucky folks will... More »

By Brian Clark

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Destroy All Monsters: Retire Superman

While the internet is tearing itself apart in its efforts to empirically determine whether Man of Steel "sucks" or "is awesome" - because such things are now apparently possible, given Superman Returns' near-unilateral, and intellectually disturbing, dismissal - I'd like to pause to make a gentler request: may we please... More »

Fifteen Unfilmable Novels And The Directors Who Should Try Anyway

Ah, the 'unfilmable' novel. Go back ten or fifteen years and it seems everyone had some sort of list of great novels that could never be brought to the screen. The limitations at the time were largely technical and in recent years those lists have dwindled with titles such as... More »

Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: On MAN OF STEEL, SuperJesus, and THIS IS THE END's Jewpocalypse

Back in 1933, while Hitler was ascending into power in Germany and diasporic Jews throughout the world looked on with concern, two high school students created one of the most indelible mythical heroes of the last century. Borrowing from the Nietzschean concept of the Übermensch, Joe Shuster and Jerry... More »

Twitchvision: Talking MAN OF STEEL and THIS IS THE END

This is the big week of Superman's return, with Zack Snyder's take on the caped saviour hitting our screens. While my opinion's kind of mixed on the film, there's still plenty to admire about it. I also discuss the overt Jesus imagery throughout, as expanded in a full cineruminations column... More »

70s Rewind: Bridges, Barbra, Bogdanovich, Brynner

Amazon's Prime Instant streaming service is not as well-established as Netflix and has far more modest offerings in off-beat and strange cinema. Still, since I temporarily dropped Netflix, I've been diving deeper into Amazon's catalog, and discovered a good number of films from my favorite movie decade. Here's a selection... More »