Teaser Trailer For indie drama Gimcrack

Gimcrack Teaser from Sun-Ho Pak on Vimeo.

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Above is the first teser trailer for GIMCRACK a new indie drama by  Sun-Ho Pak. This movie is the directors feature debut and has been a bit of a risk for him too. Pak is an American Korean after discovering his ethnic culture he decided to go to Korea taught at one of the citys universities for a few years (learning Korean in USA before he went) and now he's taken the step into fim industry.

Gimcrack is the final outcome, read the offical press release after the break but befre then watch the trailer above....

TheMOET British Independent Movie Awards 2011 Winners Annouced Busy Night For THE KINGS SPEECH & MONSTERS

As Tron Legacy had its freezing cold UK premiere in London Leciester Square the annual British independent Movie Awards sponsored by Moet  took place in the The Old Billingate Market in fashionable East London. There was two movies that came out of the night very sucessful, THE KINGS SPEECH and MONSTERS picking up a total of 8 awards between them.

Tobe Hooper's The Kings Speech came out with 5 gongs which included For Best British Independent Film,  Best Screenplay (David Seidler), Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Supporting Actor (Geoffrey Rush), and Best Supporting Actress (Helena Bonham Carter). 

Gareth Edwards MONSTERS was the other big winner of the night scooping up 3 gongs including best director, best achievement in production and BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT (in visual effects)., Edwards also just missed out on Douglas Hickox award for best debut director which went to The Abor's Clio Banard,

In other awards  Carey Mulligan  won th Best Actress for Never Let Me Go, with Helena Boham Carter picking up another gong  with the the Richard Harris award for outstanding contribution by an actor to British film, while Liam Neeson received the Variety award. Joanne Froggat picked up most promising newcomer for her part in In Our Name and A Prophet for best foreign Movie.

Full full list of winners after the break....

Detective K: Secret Of A Peddlers Inn Gets First teasrer Trailer

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A new teaser trailer for IM Sok-yun's Detective K: Secret Of A Peddlers Inn gets a teaser trailer before its January 27th,2011 release in South Korea. The movie also stars KIM Myung-min and HAN Ji-min

Synopsis

Wherever he goes or whatever he does, trouble seems to follow detective KIM. He receives a special mission from the king to investigate LIM’s family, one of the royal families. LIM is suspected of funneling taxes to be paid to the king and it is KIM’s mission to find the evidence to support that suspicion.
During his investigation, he acquaints LIM’s daughter-in-law Ah-young, whose reputation for her loyalty to one man is well known all over the town. With the help of Ah-young, KIM uncovers a conspiracy despite LIM’s constant interference. KIM falls deeper into the rabbit hole and endangers himself in the process.

Any time Ive seen promotion for this movie I seem to think its the chinese Dectective Dee movies which they are not though you can see similar style plus there both period crime dramas, teaser trailer after the break...

Trailer For Korean Movie HEART IS BEATING (Duel) Starring Lost'sYunjin Kim

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Now Lost s finished im sure the hardcore fans of the tv show will be wondering where to go next for there fix andone way sometimes fans like to do is follow the tv shows/movies the actors may take. Yunjin Kim who played Sun in the show has a new movie coming out called HEART IS BEATING (Duel) as she stars as a woman desperete to get a heart transplant for her young daughter whose heart is diseased and begss a middle aged woman whose son is a gangster for a fortune to save her daughter but as time goes against things start to get desperete.
Heart is Beating is directed by Yoon Jae-geun and co stars Park Hae-il, Jeong Da-hye, Kim Sang-ho

and the movie will be released in Korea on 6 January 2011, trailer is after the break....

Synopsis

Previously known as "The Confrontation" (대결)


“If you have one heart but two to save, what you will going to do?”


One middle aged women is acrried into hospital in a coma. Yeon-hee, who has been searching for a heart to transplant to her daughter, who has critical heart disease, is begging middle aged women's gangster son, Whee-do, by giving him a fortune. But when the reasons for Whee-do's mom are revealed one by one, Yeon-hee, who became desperate, is teaming up with dangerous people...

Its Daddy Cool Teaser trailer For French Canadian movie FUNKYTOWN

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I dont mind dance themed movies that have some sort of story behind other than dance, films like step up which are pure dance movies and tough they performers are very talented they dont just interest me especially when your bombarded on tv with programmes like Britian's got talent your bombarded every minute of theday. So FUNKYTOWN is a movie set in 1976 Montreal when punk and disco where the music to listen to but disco was the more popular mainstream choice when studio 54 inspired clubs ruled the roost along with sexual freedom. The movie is based around the  Limelife Discotheque where if your into disco and you wanted to mingle with the celebs this was the place to go.
The movie is very dark, sexy and for adults as well those who love Saturday Night Fever as this seems to mold into a similar style movie and they do it well. The movie is in French and directed by  Daniel Roby and stars

Patrick Huard, Paul Doucet, Raymond Bouchard, Sarah Mutch, Justin Chatwin, Geneviève Brouillette and François Létourneau.


Funkytown is set for a 2011 release, check the first teaser trailer after the break,...

English Subbed Trailer For Korean HAUNTED HOUSE PROJECT

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Back in the summer I brought you the trailer for THE DESERTED HOUSE, a Korean hand held cam horror but now a english subtitled version has hit the net with its new name THE HAUNTED HOUSE PROJECT. The movie does actually look scary, a bit of a slowburner at first and it seems to go crazy and we see elements ofParanormal Activity, Blair Witch Project and even a little Last Exorcism, enough to give you a few brown trouser moments!Today in Singapore the movie was released which means we're able to catch a english subitles


Synopsis: Over the course of forty two years, six went missing, eight had unexplained accidents and eleven were murdered. Three haunted house club members and three camera crew decide to look into this infamously haunted house, known to be possessed by real ghosts. Ignoring all signs from the other world, they enter this haunted house and disappear without a trace. Video footage of what they saw during their visit was later recovered, which may reveal why and how they met their end.

Final Trailer For Adam Mason's LUSTER

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Know Your Enemy as the poster says, but who is the enemy? Andrew Howerd stars as Anderew Luster a trouble businessman who is trying to make sense in whats going on and only to find who he is arguing with is nastier manipulative alter ego. murder, madness and mayhem will take Luster in one hell of a roller coster ride of his life.
I really love the way the trailer shows the two sides of Luster the good and the bad sides it reminded me of the Andy Serkis Gollum/smeagol part in Lord of The Rings movies, smartly done to make the viewer think there is actual two people. Apparently this movie has taken a long time to be made but now its in the final stages of post production before its release date and to tell how long its been in post production director Adam Mason has made  the horror movie PIG .
LUSTER also stars Xander Berkley (24, Nikita, Kick Ass), Holly Valance (Neighbours, Taken, Shark, Prison Break) and Billy Burke (Twilight, Drive Angry 3D), trailer after the break.....

Trailer For Wararaifu!!! (aka What A Wonderful Life)

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The Offical   Yuichi Kimura’s Wararaifu!!, aka “What a Wonderful Life!!”,  has been released online by Phantom Film via Youtube. The movie stars Shuichi Furukawa who plays a young man living alone in the outskirts of Tokyo Japan. He's planing to eventually move in with his fiancee Mari (Yu Kashii) but before anything happens he receives a unexpected call from his mother that they would be moving out of his childhood home which he forgets about. After scurring across the city to the house and he tries to find the spare key but was unable but during that pause he reflects on the time he had as a child in the home.
Wararaifu will be released in Japan on January 29th 2011, check out trailer after the break...

Teaser for Takashi Miike's Nintama Rantaro

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This may shock some people who know who Takashi Miike is and you may not believe this little teaser trailer is for a movie directed by Miike!!! Yes its true the above is for NINATAMA RANTARO which is based on the popular manga series Rakudai Ninja Rantaro (created by Sobee Amako) & Anime  about a 8 year old boy who is born into a ninja family. the boy enrolls in the local ninja but he gets distracted when hes with his 2 clumsy friends and when a son of the local assassins appears on the scene he must raise to the occassion and save a friend. Whatever you yes Miike has created this live action and most importantly its for the kids this and thats what matters!
Nintama Rantaro will be out in Japan in March 2011.

No Crocidile Shoes in this movie just Crocidile heads with trailer For KNIFER

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Not as maniac as Gaspar Noe but just as odd as well as compelling below after the break you'll find the trailer for KNIFER.
This is not exactly a new trailer as I posted this originally in August as Macherovgaltis(Μαχαιροβγάλτης)  but now the trailer has been repackaged with its new English name KNIFER. Thanks to the sucess of Dogtooth, Attenburg around the Film Festival circuit, now Yannis Economides is trying to follow suit and looking at the evidence he should do fairly well. So if you like your movies a mixture of arthouse elegence, weirdness with plenty of drama you should check this one out ....

Trailer For Stellan Skarsgaard in KINGS OF DEVIL ISLAND (Kongen av Bastøy)

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There's a few actors out there in movieland who may have a few years ago appeared in one or two good movies then disappeared of the face of the earth and suddenly there appearing in every tom dick or harry, Stellan Skarsgaard is one of those actors however he does choose better 'qaulity parts'.
For those who just see Hollywood many only see Skarsgaard as bootsrap bill from Pirates of Carribean, One of the three dads in Mama Mia or the Vactian City chief security officer in Angels & Demons, but lookfurther affield we are talking about one of Scandanavia's biggest movie stars and below is the trailer for his next movie KINGS OF DEVIL ISLAND (Kongen av Bastøy).
The movie is set in a Oslo Young persons prison during the early 20th century, though he maybe the big name its the youngsters playing the prisoners who are the real stsars her with Benjamin Helstad one of the noteable names delivering what looks like a positive review with this movie only been his second feature. Kristoffer Joner another big name in Norway also appears.

KINGS OF THE DEVIL ISLAND will be out on December 17th in scandanavia, synopsis and trailer after the break....

UK Trailer For MAMMOTH starring Michelle Williams & Gael Garcia Bernal

Soda Pictures have sent me the new trailer for MAMMOTH starring Michelle Williams and Gael Garcia  Bernal which is getting a limited release in UK & Ireland next Friday 5th November.
Dysfunctional families seem to be one of the big movie topic especially in the independant/world cinema with Kids Are All Alright ( lesbien couple with kids trying to contact their biological father) and early next year Animal Kingdom about the youngest of a  known criminal family who doesnt want to be in the 'family business' and is pressurised to blag on his family to the cops.In Mammoth Leo(Bernal) is an owner of a booming gaming website and Ellen a emergency nurse  and they have a 8 year old daughter who seems to spend more time with the Fillipino maid (Marife Necesito) who works long and hard to send money home for her 2 sons. Leo heads to Thailand for business and what happens there sparks of a string of events that lead to consquences to all of them.
Mammoth is directed by acclaimed  Swedish director Lucas Moodysson ( A Hole In My Heart, Container). Apoligies to Soda Pictures for taking so long to post this. You can catch Mammoth at Odeon Convent Garden London and Screen Dublin
Synopsis and Trailer after the break....

Trailer For Sono Machi no Kodomo

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Popular Japanese Television drama Sono Machi no Kodomo has had its cinematic trailer released for the film version of the series.
The drama is based on 2 survivors of the 1995 tragic Kobe(Japan) earthquake  who where kids then but now adults both living in Tokyo and the day before the 15th anniversary they meet each other by accident. Both chat away with each other undecided if they both want to attend the ceremony due to the emitional scars the event had on them and both find it hard to share there experiences with each other and a gap between them appears,Whilst travelling together the glimpses of the truama both occoured come apparent as they edge closer to ground zero.

The movie is due to be released nationally January 15th 2011 in Japan but before then special screening will take place in Kobe and Osaka on November 20th. The movie stars Eriko Sato and Mirai Moriyama both who had first hand experience of the event, trailer after the break...

From Blade Runner to Guiness Adverts, now Arthouse Rutger Hauer in Fleur Boonman''s PORTABLE LIFE

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Rutger Hauer will be known to many as the pyschotic killer cyborg in Blade Runner then remembered for been the man in black in the popular Guiness tv adverts during the 1980's and now he's doing arthouse in Fluer Boonman's PORTABLE LIFE.
The movie is wonderfully shot and since the era I called my 're-education' in movies I do love watching these arthouse type movies many are fantastically weird others terrible and curiousity drives you to watch.

Portable life is been aimed for a February 1st 2011 release in Netherlands, trailer after the break...

LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010 Line Up Annouced

Over the weekend 24th International Film Festival of Leeds annouced its line up for this years festival which will happen in November from 4th – 21st.


The festival is split up into 5 programmes: Cherry Kino which focuses on the contemporary experimental movies, Cinema Versa which delves into the world of documentaries , presenting the Human Rights & Underground Voices profiles an extraordinary series of radical ideas and maverick stylists. Fanomenon offers a fantastic selection of great movies from around the world as well a great selection of Japanese Anime but you cant forget the festival annual Night of the Dead X celebrating its 10th anniversary along with Day Of the Dead probably Leeds version of Frightfest with day and night versions. Official Selection offering a wide selection of UK Premieres from around the world all fighting for the festivals Golden Owl award and finally theres the Short Film City the festivals short film programme.

The opening movie will be THE KINGS SPEECH directed by Tom Hooper (Dammed United) stars Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffray Rush, Guy Pearce and Michael Gambon. The movie is based on a true story about Prince Albert(Colin Firth) the Queens Father in his struggle to get rid of his stammer and he engages a friendship with Lionel Logue (Geoffray Rush) who helps him find his voice and guide the nation through troubled times. The movie had its world premiere at Toronto winning the peoples choice and what fitting place to show the movie in Leeds where the movie was partly filmed.

Some of the highlights of the festival are Mark Romanek‘s NEVER LET ME GO, aslo Aussie hit thriller ANIMAL KINGDOM, Palm D’OR winner UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL PAST LIVES, Pissed off Santa in RARE EXPORTS, METROPOLIS and RED, WHITE AND BLUE. I’m also angry with my self that I missed a chance in Glasgow to catch a screening of the Anime REDLINE which will be screened in Leeds as part of the Anime all dayer which runs in conjunction with the Comic Bubble comic convention which happens in the city at the same time.


The festival’s tickets will cost £80 for a single pass or £140 for two people giving you access to the whole event. The Night (& Day) of the dead festival pass costs £30/£25 (concessions) with a joint pass costing £50(£30 concessions). As ever the tickets for the movies will be bought up quickly so if your interested in going its best to get in fast to avoid dissapointment, for full details on how and where to book go to the festivals tickets page.

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Trailer & Video Inteview For RESTREPO

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This weekend in UK, Dogwoof released the tense wartorn documentary RESTREPO.
The movie has been described as The  Real Hurt Locker with more tension & emotion, going into a war seeing  things from a different angle , trying to get a little more respect for the soldiers as the the movie also shows the postwar effect on soldier as well. But what the movie does do you come out with no respect for the politicans who sent the soldiers into this unjust war, hiding behind an excuse for making the war just when we know that its a curtain for the real reason.
Our good friends at Screenrush caught up with the movies director Tim Hetherington asking him about the pressures in creating a documentary in a warzone, Ive also included the trailer for the movie as well, as I dodnt post it previously.
Check out the video interview and Trailer after the break...

Final New Trailer Jose Padilha's ELITE SQUAD 2

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A new final trailer for Jose Padilha's ELITE SQUAD 2 (Tropa de Elite 2 ) went online the weekend the movie was released cinematically in Brazil.
The movie has had its fair share of critics who've tried to prevent the movie been released but those critics arent film ones but the police whom this film is about and the corruption within the force. To really piss off the police thousands of bootleg copies where made and sold on the streets and thats what i call a vote of confidence from the people!
Whatever the police where goint to do in attempt to stop the movie it wasnt going to suceed as people power won at the end of the day and Padilha has the critics backing with Berlin film fest awarding the movie an accolade!The actual movie does look good with a mixed bag of action as well as drama, trailer after the break...

Theatrical Trailer For Award Winning Documentary MARWENCOL

Thanks to everyone keeping the faith with the blog as well the Peoples Movies, its been a hard time for all, I'm doing my best with a new job and now very limited time to post and been let down by several people who offered to help out and basically stabbed me in the back.
 There is however one person true to his word and helped me out thats Cinehouse supporter Pierre who alerted me to this, the theatrical trailer for MARWENCOL. This is a documentary is about Mark Hogancamp a man who was brutally assulted and beaten to a pulp left for dead leaving Mark with Brain damage and massive loss of memory. The documentary catalogues Mark's fascinatiing unusal road to recovery by creating 1:16 scale fictional town of Marwencol set in WW2 all created in his backyard and watching the movie you can see he has become consumed in the whole town.
The movie is also further evidence that people's road to recovery from a pyshical injury & psychological scars are different and the so called 'convental' way isn't always the answer.Marwencol is a captivating movie which you deeply connect with Mark and you do have the feeling you are on that road to recovery with him, its sad but deeply uplifting.
The movie has won numerous awards including SXSW, Cleveland, Seattle and Comic-Con Best Documentary Awards, so if thats not proof to check this out  well enough said. IFC Films will release the movie in USA on October 8th but no word on the British release, hopefully cinematically but more likely to be direct to DVD, trailer after the break....

Trailer for Ah Gan's DON QUIXOTE - 3D

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With on off fiasco with Terry Gilliam's proposed version of Don Quixote it's seems filmmaker Ah Gan has got there before him. This isnt a full on adaptation but a fantasy adaption of the classic Spanish book but based on the legendary Chang'an dynasty warrior.
I am really interested in seeing this but only in 2D NOT 3d (if you follow my Peoples Movies blog Im not a fan of 3D movies) The movie stars Gao Tuo, Karena Lam, Liu Ye and Wang Gang with no offical release date yet confirmed yet.
Trailer after the break...

Trailer For Movie Gegege no Nyobo

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Comicbook artists in the west in general may not have celebity status such as a movie star, a few are well known and may get close to celeb status with hollywood current liking to all things comicbook, But in Japan comicbook artist or Manga artists actually do have celeb status like many movie stars and below is a trailer of an expample of that status.
Gegege no Nyobo is an autobiographical look at Shigeru Mizuki the creator of 'Gegege no Nyobo' wife Nunoe. The movie is an adaptation of the television series of the same name which is running on japanese national television at this moment and the movie does also follow the years Mizuki toiled in becoming a famous artist and the hardship both had to go through as well.
Kankurô Kudô plays Shigeru and Nunoe is played by Kazue Fukiishi and fans of the artists work & tv series can catch this movie when it goes on national release in Japan on November 20th, trailer after break...