IFFR 2011: SENSATION review
(spoiler warning: this film does not contain any sex with sheep, and neither does this review) We have mentioned Tom Hall's "Sensation" before here at Twitch. A film about a lonely guy stuck on a sheep farm, who shacks up... More »
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IFFR 2011: Jan Svankmajer's SURVIVING LIFE review!
Present in person at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Jan Svankmajer was honored with a whole exposition dedicated just to him. Not only that: he also showed his full-length feature film "Surviving Life", his first new one after an absence... More »
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IFFR 2011: KAIDAN - HORROR CLASSICS review!
In August of 2010, the Japanese commercial broadcasting station NHK aired a television series of 4 episodes called "Ayashiki Bungô Kaidan". Kaidan are traditional folk stories, most often dealing with ghosts, which can be compared to the Brothers Grimm tales... More »
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IFFR 2011: MASKA review
It is no secret that over here at Twitch we are big fans of Stephen and Timothy Quay, also known as the Quay Brothers. They make films which consist either wholly or partly of inventive, artful stop-motion animation, and which... More »
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IFFR 2011: ATTENBERG review
Last year the International Film Festival Rotterdam showed the currently Oscar-nominated "Dogtooth" by Greek director Giorgos Lanthimos, with Athina Rachel Tsangari listed as associate producer. This year the IFFR shows another collaboration of these two although this time the roles... More »
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IFFR 2011: KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR review!
This year the International Film Festival Rotterdam had a weird treat in store: the World Premiere of Noboro Iguchi's "Karate-Robo Zaborgar". Known primarily for making films which contain buckets of blood and some naughtiness (or sometimes the other way round... More »
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Room for one more? It's Eight Rooks' TOP TEN FOR 2010
And to think I thought it would be a dull year. I might not have been able to join in the fun on the other side of the Atlantic, but the IFFR in Rotterdam (thanks to fellow Twitcher Ard... More »
  

LIFF 2010: ALL THAT I LOVE review
Jacek Borcuch's All That I Love is definitely a fantastic little film: just bear in mind you've almost certainly seen a great deal of it before. The story of a teenager growing up in 1980s Poland, set against the... More »
  

IFFR 2010: VISAGE Review
A Taiwanese director visits The Louvre to make a film. Uniquely, for "Visage" that sentence doubles as both a plot summary AND as a description of what happened for real behind the scenes, without the film being a documentary... This... More »
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Grimm Up North 2010: AMER review
Amer definitely wears its heart on its sleeve. Directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani are in love with the giallo, the pulpy Italian thrillers which had their heyday in the 70s and 80s and subsequently influenced a generation of... More »
  

MATSUMOTO's SYMBOL: Review
Talk to anyone who's already had the pleasure of seeing Symbol and they will warn you it is best to go in knowing as little as possible. Which, by the way, might actually explain the lacking amount of reviews for... More »
  

IFFR / IMAGINE 2010 : SYMBOL Review
When we here at Twitch posted the very first teaser for Hitoshi Matsumoto's "Symbol" nearly a year ago, we all wondered whether the man was a genius or if he had disappeared up his own ass.  Fear not: with his sophomore... More »
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TRIBECA 2010: MY QUEEN KARO Review
In Dorothee van den Berghe's second feature, ten-year-old, Karo (Anna Franziska Jager) is on her way from Belgium to start a new life with her free radical parents (Deborah Francois & Matthias Schoenaerts) in Amsterdam.  Lovingly crafted with a wonder... More »
  

TRIBECA 2010: POSSESSED Review
The eerie presence of death settles in comfortably within the first few frames of Lee Yong-Ju's POSSESSED. Unfortunately it is also a picture practically dead on arrival in creative effort.Milking a genre ten years past its prime, former assistant director,... More »
  

IFFR 2010: DEVIL'S TOWN Review
(Possible alternate title: "Men Suck And All Women Are Whores!" )   The Serbs must have a very peculiar view of their own nationality, judging by the way they choose to portray themselves in recent cinematic output. Soon to be... More »
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SXSW 2010: Simon Rumley's RED, WHITE & BLUE review
[With Simon Rumley's Red, White and Blue having it's North American premiere at SXSW we now re-post our review from the world premiere in Rotterdam.]It could be hard to sell people on Simon Rumley's Red, White & Blue. It... More »
  

SXSW 2010: DOGTOOTH (Kynodontas) review
[With Greek festival hit Dogtooth screening at SXSW we now re-post our review of the film that ran at the film's appearance in Rotterdam.]   Giorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth certainly doesn't lack for ambition. A father, pathologically opposed to the moral... More »
  

IFFR 2010: MIYOKO Review
(Warning: there is an NSFW pic in this review. So sue me...) At this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam there were two Japanese films nominated for the Tiger Awards. One was "Autumn Adagio" (reviewed here) and the other one was... More »
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IFFR 2010: AMER Review
'Amer' marks the feature film debut of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani who already made a name for themselves with award winning short films in which they experimented with still photography, color filters and what can only be called the... More »
  

IFFR 2010: POSSESSED a.k.a. 불신지옥 Review

(This review was published back in October '09 when the film was about to be released on DVD. I'm reposting it now because it played at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it garnered itself an audience rating of 3.6... More »
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