Short Film: Guy Maddin's NIGHT MAYOR

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Below is the latest short film from Guy Maddin called NIGHT MAYOR.

The film is about Nihad Ademi, an inventor from Bosnia who immigrates to Winnipeg. He builds, with his children, a machine called the "Telemodium" which uses the waves of Aurora Borealis to broadcast footage of "every day life for every day people." The footage is shown in different parts of Canada, coast to coast. Eventually, people begin to take to these images and start broadcasting their own, that is, until the police get involved.

The movie lasts 13 minutes and is shot in glorious black and white like his previous work of My Winnepeg a documentary about Maddin's home city. The whole style I would describe as experimental, original shot in the style of the black & white movies of the early 1900's  and this short movie is online courtesy of NFB -National Film Board of Canada and they describe the auteur as "an imaginative cinematic riff on the significance of a public film producer." Guy Maddin is very new to me and when I watched this short I got the feeling I liked what I was watching but if you asked me why I couldn't say but he is a very proud Canadian and his previous cv contains alot of Canadianesque projects, check it out Night Mayor below;

Trailer For YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE

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When you go to a film festival alot of the movies screened are without film distributors for certain countries and off course showning there movie at a particular festival can help the movie get that elusive distribution rights. Even when you do get it, sometimes you may have to wait a very long time to see the movie on a theatrical release and YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE by Sook-Yin Lee is one example of how long you have to wait.
First screened away back  September 2009 at Toronto Film Festival, the movie has now been picked up by E1 Entertainment and they have posted a full trailer online, check it out below after the break . There's no news on when it actually will be release but do expect a summer release, as for UK & Ireland no word if it'll get a release.

Extended Promo for Idris Elba in LEGACY

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The amount of people who actually thought Idris Elba was American was quite extraordinary, he's cockney London man through and through so the parts in The Wire, upcoming The Losers, 28 Weeks Later are testiment of how authentically American Elba can perceive to be, you could say the same about Eamonn Walker who he acts with in The wire and this LEGACY as he is also a Londoner.
Legacy is the duo's latest movie which had its world premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival back in February, the Scottish City that the studio Black Camel that backed the movie comes from as well as the setting for some of the Manhattan backdrops. The movie is now starting its way around the American & International festival scene and below is an extended promo trailer which gives a little more footage than the teaser and its a cross between a featurette / trailer.
I'm frustrated I couldn't get a press ticket for this movie when its screened in Glasgow as all ive heard & read is positive things. No UK or even American release date has been confirmed but hopefully later in the year the movie will get some sort of running in the cinema.

Theatrical Trailer (& Teaser) For DEATH AND CREMATION

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Like the source of this post I am a fan of Brad Douriff as a actor,maybe not so much the movies and television he has appeared in. Everything from One flew over the cuckoo's nest, voice of Chucky in Child's Play Franchise (and once again for the remake), Grima Wormtongue in Lord of The rings:2 towers and most recently in Werner Herzog's reworking of  Bad Lieutenant:Port of Call New Orleans. He is a fine character actor thats made a lot more bad movies than good ones.
So below is the the theatrical trailer (& teaser) for his latest movie Death & Cremation which he plays Stan a single recluse 59 year old man who contributes to society by offering cremation services in his funeral home. What Stan actually does is murder people he sees as social bullies and he takes Jared a young 17 year old bullied teen under his wing as a trainee, but as the police start to piece together the clues of the dissapeared Stan mustr decide if his trainee is worth keeping alive.
This part sounds perfect for Douriff who seems to play the jekyll and hyde type characters, nice, perfect friendly people on the outside but creep, evil sadistic on the inside.

4 new clips from Luc Besson's ADELE BLANC-SEC

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This Wednesday Luc Besson's Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec  will hit the cinemas of Belgium & France (no word yet of UK/Irish theatrical release date yet) and the movie's studio Europacorp (whom distribute in UK & Ireland) have released 4 new clips from the highly antcipated movie.
I'm affraid there's no subtitles but it's a good chance to learn your French a little or just simply admire the whole look of the movie....

Trailer For Phillip Bacon's YELLOW BELLY END

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When I was studing Graphic Design at Salford University visually I tried to create a style that was minimal, effective as well as eye catching and YELLOW BELLY END definitely has those things.

Created by Phillip Bacon who was a illustration student at Manchester University and this was actually his graduation project and in this day and age it's very rare for an graduation project to be noticed. It's very absurd, obscure piece of animation, but to me its Bacon's visual style that makes me want to watch this. Hopefully the full animation will find itself online soon, meantime check out the trailer/clip below;

wATCH :French Sci-fi Short FARD

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Below is an great looking sci-fi  animated short from the creative minds of Luis Bricenco and David Alapont...FARD.

This animation very much created in a neo futurist style ala Fritz Lang, very clean style, montone pallete . It is a French movie and there's no subtitles but the animation is very minimal in talk so its still worth a check if you dont speak French anyway.

New Trailer For Paper Man

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Dramedy seems to be the big thing these days in movieland if its not action comedy and here is the trailer for upcoming indie dramedy PAPER MAN.
The movie stars Jeff Daniels who plays a failed  middle aged writer who forms a unlikely friendship with a 17 year old girl played by Emma Stone and both go through life with their imaginary friends; Captain Excellent (Ryan Reynolds) and a fellow teen called Christopher (Keiran Culkin). The pairs relationship does come with much disapproval from his wife(Lisa Kudrow) and his ' superhero friend'.
There isn't a release date yet for this movie in UK and Ireland but there will be a limited release stateside from April 23rd.

ONG-BAK 3 Trailer Looking fantastic!

 
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I'm not the biggest martial arts fan in the world I could probably could only name one or two of the big names within the movie genre but in the last few years since enhancing my knowledge of movie Tony Jaa.
The Ong Bak franchise has helped to get him worldwide recognition from fans all around the world and recently the trailer for the 3rd movie has debuted online, you can see it below. The movie has plenty of blood, sweat, over the top action just plain old madness and fun to watch if your a diehard martial arts fan or even if you want pure escapism from the outside world check this out!
Looking like the movie is scheduled for a May5th release in Thailand as for the rest of the world it might get some sort of coverage through certain cinemas if not on the small screen via DVD.

Second New Trailer for Phillip Ridley's HEARTLESS

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I caught this movie back in mid-february it kicked off my Glasgow Film Festival season for me and it is an very enjoyable movie and refreshing to the pallette especially with the amount of crap coming out of Hollywood these days, so when something thats a little bit different comes along its just nice to watch whatever the genre or country is comes from.
Heartless is about Jamie a young guy (played by Jim Sturgess) who has an large birthmark on his face, he feels ashamed, hes picked on by the local youths. He would do anything to get rid of the birthmark and he gets his chance when he meets a demon (might be the devil?) who gives him a chance of new face but when you deal with the devil, theres a price to pay…you must kill someone.
Trailer gets you into the thick of the movie, very intense, provoking but also sad as well, all in a very good movie with a brilliant cast to back it up. Timothy Spall, brilliant Eddie Marsan,Noel Clarke, Clémence Poésy and Joesph Mawle as the demon.
The movie is getting a limited release in the UK & Ireland on May 21st, which is a shame and as for USA no news yet but possibly IFC may pick it up giving the movie some coverage stateside.

Fantastic short THE GIFT

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Below is an superb little short called THE GIFT created by Carl Erik Rinsch the man whom last year was nearly directing the Alien Prequel but it caused an uproar within the hardcore fanbase of Aliens. I usually post any great shorts on this blog but because this was so good I decided to do it first on my mainstream blog.
The movie is part of the Parallel Lines Comeptition ran by Phillips and The Gift is the story of an Robot manservant who flees the police through the streets of Moscow. This little gem of an movie is one of 5 other movies in the competition , all are directors of Ridley Scott’s commerical wing RSA and he has judged all the movies, you can check out the rest of the movies here at the Phillips website. Do check this movie out as Warner and Fox according to Heat Vision arefighting it out to persuade Rinsch to make this short movie an full length one!

Theatrical Trailer for Ho-Cheung Pang's Wai dor lei ah yut ho (Dream Home)

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A Few months back I posted the teaser trailer for this movie Wai dor lei ah yut ho (Dream Home). The movie was in post-production period but that long road is nearly over as the movie will be out next month in Hong Kong (13th May), so when the release date comes out a full theatrical trailer usually follows and its below.
This is an slasher movie, so you'll be expecting a little bit of blood and guts here, well no. Possibly something to do with the laws in Hong Kong but more likely to tease the viewer to check the movie, like the recent Expandable trailer that gave away the actual Willis &Scwharznegger cameo i'm sure they dont want to spoil things here.

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Trailer For Yuasa Masaaki's YOJOHAN SHINWA TAIKEI!

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During my teens into early twenties my highlight of the weekend was heading upto Glasgow city centre to the comic book shops to my latest dc or marvel comics which eventually came manga and anime. Every day I would try source out new stuff but as time went by I lost interest mostly down to lack of money to buy what I like, but more recently I have started to rediscover anime once again and like my movie education I want to rediscover my anime/manga again.
Above is a second trailer for Yuasa Masaaki's YOHJOHAN SHINWA TAIKEI  a fantastic looking anime, with first look at the first character I thought I was looking at Japan's version of Desperete Dan! But what we get here is an fine example of great Japanese animation that graphically looks alternative but still with distinctive anime traits. it seems Masaaki shifts his drawing style per project which is sometimes a good thing but can be negative as well but on first impressions this is great stuff and a example how how talented the artist is.
Yohjohan Shinwa Taikei is an anime made for Japenese TV which will be starting soon and all I can say is brilliant stuff...give me more!!!

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Trailer For Aussie Outback Horror PRIMAL

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Above is the trailer for Australian outback horror PRIMAL which can be described as an Australian version of Eli Roth'sCabin Fever. Its frenzied, paranoid and damn scary if your in a strange land.
The movie has 4 students who head out into the outback to study wall paintings but whilst they camped outside one of the girls decidesto have a skinny dip and becomes very delerious. Soon as she gets out she is overcomed by fever, bleeding, confusion and she transgress into an predatory state...Primal. It doesnt take long for the other friends to realise they are the prey and she is the hunter and they must escsape. Before they can another one of their group becomes primal and they must kill their friends or simply be killed and the only way of escape is through the cave where the wall painting is and  inside they learn the true meaning of the paintng.
AV pictures has picked up the rights to the movie for UK & Ireland so expect a release sometime this year and its likely to be VOD/direct to dvd

Trailer for Sang-Soo's THE HOUSEMAID