by Michael Guillen, February 5, 2010 7:43 PM
It seems like you can't go to a film festival anywhere these days without national cinemas ending up in some kind of political stand-off. Whether or not one believes that a film festival is the proper venue to broker...
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by Todd Brown, February 5, 2010 2:59 PM
Right off the top, yes: upcoming Bollywood action film Prince wears it's influences right out front. Releasing worldwide in March, this one is openly courting comparisons to both The Matrix and Wanted both in terms of the wardrobe and...
by Todd Brown, January 29, 2010 7:57 PM
Ever been fired from a job? Ever wish you could wreak bloody havoc on the person who did it? Well, has Sajit Warrier got a film for you ...Titled Fired it tells the story of a corporate manager who...
by Todd Brown, January 22, 2010 8:38 AM
The importation of western stars seems to be the current rage in India and Ben Kingsley is the latest is a recent string of names to turn up in Bollywood.Kingsley is starring opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Teen Patti, a...
by Eight Rooks, January 15, 2010 10:17 AM
It's about suffering, appropriately enough, given for many viewers Tran Anh Hung's I Come With The Rain will be up there as two of the most punishing hours of cinema they're ever likely to sit through. Graced with a...
by James Dennis, January 13, 2010 6:47 AM
The Prince Charles Cinema, that legendary flea pit, is running an Asian film season from 18th Jan, screening six all-time classics of Far Eastern cinema over consecutive weeks. Kicking off with the original Godzilla, there's a wonderfully eclectic mix...
by Kurt Halfyard, December 30, 2009 12:53 AM
It seems that the Cannes film festival got things right this year, even if audiences seemed to not quite get the quality of the competition. After consideration of a wealth of films from around the world, big and small,...
by James Dennis, December 17, 2009 9:53 AM
Yang Ik-June's multi-award winning drama of domestic violence is set for a UK theatrical release on 29th January 2010 through Terracotta Distribution. Though you can expect a decidedly limited release pattern here, judging from Twitch opinion thus far, it'll be...
by Michael Guillen, December 16, 2009 12:10 AM
Admitting his pleasure at having been invited by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) to introduce Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927), Mark Cotta Vaz--author of Living Dangerously: The Adventures...
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by Michael Guillen, December 15, 2009 6:44 PM
A FIPRESCI award-winner, an Oscar® candidate and seven U.S. premieres highlight The Global Film Initiative's upcoming Global Lens 2010 film series. As announced late last week, 10 award-winning narrative feature films from Algeria, China, India, Iran, Mexico, Peru, Serbia, South...
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