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New International Trailer for Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Zero Theorem’
News | Ananda Dillon | June 13, 2014Dangled before us since early last year, Terry Gilliam’s highly anticipated next film The Zero Theorem has a new international trailer that continues to tantalize us. With a vague “Summer 2014” expected US release, the film follows Qohen Leth, played...
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LAFF 2014: The Ever After
Film Festival | Ananda Dillon | June 13, 2014Writer turned director Mark Webber is only 34 years old, his wife of a few months, Teresa Palmer, is 28. Incredibly young and newlywed for the level of drama they face in Webber’s latest directorial endeavor which involves him...
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LAFF 2014: Runoff
Film Festival | Ananda Dillon | June 13, 2014Films set in the Midwest have the perfect background for the slow delivery of a well told story. A natural element of the setting I suppose. Competing in LAFF’s Narrative Competition is the slow and mesmerizing Runoff. Starting with...
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LAFF 2014 Opening Night: Snowpiercer
Film Festival | Ananda Dillon | June 12, 2014The 20th Los Angeles Film Festival has begun! Despite its location in the heart of the film industry in downtown Los Angeles, and the now 20 years it has under its belt, the LA Film Fest hasn’t yet joined the ranks...
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GKIDS to Distribute Brazilian Animated Film ‘The Boy and the World’
News | Aaron Pinkston | June 11, 2014Those who have an appetite for smaller-scale, hand-drawn animation certainly know about GKIDS. The distribution company has released many great animated films over the past few years, including underseen Oscar nominees A Cat in Paris, Chico & Rita and Ernest & Celestine (which...
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First Clip for ‘White Bird in a Blizzard’ starring Shailene Woodley
News | Aaron Pinkston | June 10, 2014Take a look at the first clip released for the upcoming film White Bird in a Blizzard, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies. In the clip, stars Shailene Woodley and Shiloh Fernandez make out in montage form, all scored to Depeche Mode....
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Iranian Vampire Film ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ Gets North American Distribution
News | Ananda Dillon | June 9, 2014Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the Iranian film that premiered five months ago at Sundance. The film also opened the New Directors/New Films event in New York. Shot in black and white,...
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NXNE 2014 Preview
Film Festival | C.J. Prince | June 9, 2014As the name implies, North by Northeast can be seen as a sort of partner to Austin, TX’s South by Southwest. The festival takes place in Toronto from June 13-22, and will see plenty of bands, comedians, films, artists...
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Giveaway: Visitors Blu-ray Combo Packs
News | Dustin Jansick | June 9, 2014Three decades after their original collaboration for Koyaanisqatsi, filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Phillip Glass create an artistic achievement with Visitors, arriving on Blu-ray combo pack, DVD and Digital HD on June 10. Steven Soderbergh presents this wordless portrait...
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Nicolas Winding Refn’s Next Film Will Be ‘I Walk With The Dead’
News | Aaron Pinkston | June 6, 2014Nicolas Winding Refn, who delighted many film-goers with Drive and alienated them with Only God Forgives (our review), has announced his next project, and it is a doozy. The Danish auteur will next make I Walk with the Dead, his first straight-on...
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Trailer and Poster for Ari Folman’s ‘The Congress’
News | Aaron Pinkston | June 2, 2014Check out the official poster (courtesy of EW.com) and trailer for Ari Folman‘s upcoming film The Congress, starring Robin Wright. In the film, Wright plays a version of herself, who sells her digital likeness to Hollywood producers in order to...
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Anita Monga On the 2014 SF Silent Film Festival
Film Festival | Bernard Boo | May 28, 2014It’s time once again for San Francisco’s silent era Castro Theatre to do what it was made to do and show eager audiences once again why silent films define what movie magic really is. Starting tomorrow, Thursday May 29th,...
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Trailer: Magic in the Moonlight
News | Zachary Shevich | May 28, 2014Magic in the Moonlight takes Woody Allen back to France and back in time again, though there will be no Midnight in Paris-esque time traveling involved (we think). Set in the 1920s, Colin Firth stars as Stanley, a magician...
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Details Revealed for Michael Haneke’s Next Film, ‘Flashmob’
News | Aaron Pinkston | May 27, 2014According to Film Comment, Michael Haneke has released details for his next film, called Flashmob. Described as a “multi-character drama on the fragile relationship between media and reality,” Flashmob is an idea Haneke has been noting for the past few years,...