IFFR 2008: PERSEPOLIS wins Audience Awards

Last night at the close of the 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam "Persepolis" won the KPN Audience Award. The audience gave it an whopping rating, with an average of 4.60 out of 5. You can see the whole list on... More »

By Ard Vijn

IFFR 2008: Malaysia, Denmark And Thailand Grab Tiger Awards

"I need a bodyguard now. I came with a flower in the pocket, and I leave with a tiger in the pocket!" Malaysian filmmaker Liew Seng Tat's exact words after his debut feature film, Flower In The Pocket, was announced... More »

By The Visitor

IFFR 2008: LIEW SENG TAT's Got Money! ... For His Next Feature Film

A haunted house. An African immigrant. A traditional Malaysian village. Sounds like fun! That's the premise for Liew Seng Tat's next feature film, In What City Does It Live?, which has just been awarded the Prince Claus Film Fund grant... More »

By The Visitor

Ho Yuhang's AS I LAY DYING Wins In Rotterdam

It's been a good year for Malaysian film internationally and the awards just keep piling up. The IFFR has just announced its three winners amongst the selection of short films and Twitch fave - and director of the stellar Rain... More »

By Todd Brown

Swedish vampire flick 'Let the Right One In' poster

Thanks again to the guys over at 24FPS for the heads up on this one. Over at UpcomingHorrorMovies they recently updated their listing for the Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In with a spanking new poster. Pretty. Let... More »

By Andrew Mack

IFFR 2008 KPN Audience Awards list has started, updated daily

This is always fun: during the International Film Festival Rotterdam they hand you a piece of paper when you enter a public screening. The paper just shows the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and you're meant to tear it... More »

By Ard Vijn

Website For Singapore Film LUCKY 7 Goes Live

Recently we had three of Hong Kong's biggest directors play the game of cadavre exquis in Triangle. Well now, Singapore aims to make the mother-of-all-cadavre exquis-films, with no less than SEVEN filmmakers making 10- to 12-minute segments! The film, Lucky... More »

By The Visitor

IFFR complete schedule known

Tradition dictates that the last Thursday before the International Film Festival Rotterdam starts, the complete list of films and (more importantly) the schedule is published in the "Volkskrant", one of the few remaining Dutch newspapers. The new festival management hasn't... More »

By Ard Vijn

IFFR 2008: A Trailer For Swedish Vampire Flick LET THE RIGHT ONE COME IN

Set in a rundown suburb of Stockholm, LET THE RIGHT ONE COME IN is a very romantic story containing strong violence and elements of horror. It tells the story of Oskar, a bullied boy who finds love and revenge through... More »

By Todd Brown

IFFR 2008: French Thriller LE TUEUR Impresses

With the International Film Festival Rotterdam just around the corner - and our own Ardvark preparing to run himself ragged covering it - the press releases are starting to appear daily, the latest one announcing a flurry of French titles... More »

By Todd Brown

IFFR 2008 premieres list (and it's a BIG list!)

The International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008 will be starting next week, and the press office has just released the list of all premieres this year, be it World premieres, European premieres or International (first time shown outside of their own... More »

By Ard Vijn

As IFFR 2008 is getting closer, more titles are announced...

Only a mere week is left before the complete schedule is published for the 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam! The festival itself will start on the 23rd of January and end on the 3rd of February, and I hope to... More »

By Ard Vijn

The International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008 announces some of its titles

Yes, the new year will start as always with anticipation for what's in store at the upcoming IFFR. Expect loads of updates as we near the 37th edition which starts the 23rd of January. The final list of films and... More »

By Ard Vijn

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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 »