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[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by another fantasy revamp of a storybook classic, Mirror Mirror .] Red Riding Hood's signature shawl symbolizes the eroticism and menace at the heart of The Company of Wolves , Neil Jordan 's sensuous reimagining of the iconic fairy tale. Jordan blends realities with the same dreaminess that characterizes his entire film, opening with a wolf's dash through a misty fantasyland forest that ends at a manor house and the arrival of a modern car, out of which appears the parents of Alice ( Georgia Slowe ) and, in an upstairs room behind a locked door, Red Riding Hood herself, Rosaleen ( Sarah Patterson ). Via a pan across her room, Rosaleen is discovered asleep in bed and apparently wracked by a feverish nightmare that seems to bleed into the real world—or does it actually become real?—once Jordan's camera reaches a window overlooking a mountain range, and we're transported back into an ancient forest.
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Kirsten Tan, Pedro Gomez Millan, Sandi Sissel, Pepe Avila del Pino Zachary Kerschberg, Tony Martinez Stewart Thorndike, Jennifer Ruff, John Tintori, Prithi Gowda Charlotte Rabate, Marie Constantinesco, Elif Karagoz Shiva Bajpai, Armando Diaz Joey Kuhn, Kiara Jones Vladimir de Fonteney, Cristian Carretero Virginia Urreiztieta, Jonas Carpignano, Brian Lanin, Eunice Lau, Jeff Bliss, Anastasia Frank, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Omar Zuniga Hidalgo Mick Casale, Sehaj Sethi, Jason Stefaniak, Bruce Thierry Cheung Nikita Liamzine, Ash Bhalla The Sundance Institute announced the 8 projects selected for its annual June Directors Lab , which will take place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Five of the 8 directors are recent alums of the Grad Fillm Program. Congratulations to Keith Davis, Sara Colangelo, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, Holden Osborne, and Carlo Mirabella-Davis.
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Deux frères sont passés maîtres dans l’arnaque de haut vol. Rien n’est impossible pour eux et les mises en scène sont toutes aussi spectaculaires les unes que les autres… Ronin est le terme qui désigne le samouraï sans maître.
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Polica are one of those buzzed about bands that arrive at SXSW on a wave of whispers about their talent. But that’s what happens when Grammy-winning artist Bon Iver (himself a buzz band) name check you as “The best band I’ve ever heard.”
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Tarantino and Almodóvar finally make films equal to the ones they've always claimed as inspirations. Let’s start with a few images: A psycho jive artist dancing around as he cuts a man’s ear off. A retired bullfighter slumped in front of a television set, masturbating furiously to slasher movies. Scenes like those, from Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” and Pedro Almodóvar’s “Matador,” pretty much secured the bad-boy reputations of their creators. Tarantino came to be regarded as a hyped-up pop culture junkie spritzing bloodshed and movie references in equal measure. And Almodóvar was thought of as something like the post-Franco John Waters, mixing ’50s Hollywood-style melodrama with cheerful hedonism awash in sex and drugs.
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Benjamin : It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.
Around 3 a.m. last night, I couldn’t break free from my bed. I tried to, multiple times, each effort feeling increasingly impossible. I was beneath mounds of quicksand, essentially; the comforter and sheets smothering me like tar. The only way the whole experience could’ve have been more terrifying would have been if Freddy Krueger showed his face and revealed that the ordeal was of his doing. But, of course, it wasn’t. Instead, I was stuck in authentic nightmare territory, a direct result of a film I watched only three hours prior.
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Story: It's 1934, and we're in the middle of the Dust Bowl, a time when sand storms and disease were running rampant across the Great Plains. After his mother's death, 18-year-old fugitive Ben Hawkins ("Terminator ...
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A prime contender for film(s) of the year, this German trilogy consists of three self-contained films each with a different director, interconnected by the threat of a criminal on the loose in the forest town of Dreileben. Taken all together, it amounts to a new, exciting take on the omnibus concept: the three pieces are perfectly self-sufficient, but their interplay of perspectives, both contradicting and complementary, yields an expanding universe of dramatic effects and interpretations. All screenings in HDCAM. Petzold’s piece is a teen dream of desire and deception cast under a Hitchcockian spell.During the live case study of their acclaimed “father-daughter interspecies love story,” also known as the poignant documentary One Lucky Elephant, director Lisa Leeman and producer Jordana Glick-Franzheim walked our members through the process of getting their labor of love funded, premiered at major festivals -- continue reading →
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The latest edition of The Black List surfaced on Friday, thanks to the intrepid reporting of Nikkie Finke . Yes, we're a little behind, but we wanted to take a deeper look. She's revealed all of the 97 screenplays on the list, compiled by studio executives sharing the details of the finest scripts on their desks yet to be produced.by Colin Beckett posted March 29, 2012 Go to Article by Mihnea Mircan posted March 21, 2012 Go to Article by Mark Holcomb posted March 15, 2012
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" And so it was decreed that each year, the various citizens and districts in the country of Panem that each section would offer up in tribute one young man and one young woman, to fight to the death in a pageant of honor, courage and sacrifice. The lone victor, bathed in riches and perfection for the rest of their life, would serve as a reminder of our generosity and our forgiveness to the rebels... to everyone. " 1) I find The Hunger Games more compelling as an idea, or a narrative with subversive implications, than as an actual film.
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The complete line-up of the 67th Venice Film Festival was announced yesterday, with twenty-two films competing for the the Golden Lion, the festival's highest honor which was awarded to Samuel Maoz's Lebanon last year. Not paying attention to films in production has its benefits; quite a few of the filmmakers presenting their works this year came as a pleasant surprise.