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Reed’s Bargain Bin: Babylon A.D.

14 September 2009 6:20 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Reed’s Bargain Bin [1] is a recurring column where Reed Farrington tells us about a movie he bought for under $5, and whether or not he regrets the purchase. Even though Film Junk followers would probably prefer to read current Tiff film reviews than a review of an older science fiction film, I have decided to submit this review of “Babylon A.D.” And at the risk of further enforcing the view that I have a poor taste in films, my review is generally a favorable one in contrast to popular opinion. I was aware that this film did poorly at the box office, but I didn’t realize how many bad reviews this film received until after I had watched the film and checked out the reviews on the Internet. The reason why I watched this film is that I try to watch all the high profile science fiction movies regardless of audience reception. »

- Reed

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DVD release inspirations including The Lucky Ones

17 August 2009 2:16 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »

Morning Boxwishers and welcome to what is a very quiet Monday morning on the DVDs front. Y’know how sometimes there are so many new Dvds, you just don’t know which one to choose from? This ain’t one of those days. That’s not to say that what we have, one new DVD and two new Blu-Rays isn’t exciting, it’s just lacking any heavy-hitters, those films that you countdown till they’re available. Instead we have The Lucky Ones, a quirky indie starring lady of the moment Rachel McAdams and, making their Blu-Ray debuts, Angel Heart and La Haine. See, it’s not so bad after all. Click over the jump for more.

If you see… The Lucky Ones, starring Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins and Michael Peña (Crash) as three Us soldiers that return from duty in Iraq to find that life has moved on without them. »

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Pour Elle (Anything For Her): A gripping, moody thriller with an award-worthy lead performance

18 June 2009 7:07 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

‘Anything For Her’ is the first major international outing for French director Fred Cavayé, but with a little help from lead actress Diane Kruger the film was deemed suitable for an audience outside France and so we in Blighty have been treated to a brief run at Curzon cinemas. I cannot claim to have an enormously wide-ranging knowledge of French films, but most of the fare that has travelled across the channel from the home of cinema and fallen upon my humble optic nerve has been in the Michael Haneke vein of fractured narratives or the Christophe Honoré mould of languid emotional tales. ‘Anything For Her’ certainly doesn’t fit into either of these categories. It is a gritty, noirish story about a husband desperately trying to free his innocent wife from jail. An academic somewhere in the dusty corners of Birkbeck College is probably trying to find proof that »

- Nicholas Deigman

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Eli Roth: Fun in the Cotton Belt

3 June 2009 6:03 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Part Two

Because Eli Roth was going to be in Berlin for six months doing his acting role as Sgt. Donny Donowitz on the Ingourious Basterds shoot (see more details in the first part of this interview here), the Hostel filmmaker told writer/director Quentin Tarantino to make use of him for 2nd-unit purposes if he wanted. “He didn’t, as he has to see every shot of the movie himself,” Roth says. “But he did get me to shoot the German propaganda film-within-the-film Nation’S Pride. I brought my brother Gabriel out to Germany and we filmed 130 shots in two days, during daylight hours, running, gunning and shooting people off tall buildings. It felt like doing [Grindhouse’s] Thanksgiving trailer again, with that same sort of energy.

“Quentin knows me so well and what I can do,” Roth adds, “and one day he said, ‘I don’t want to derail your directing career, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Alan Jones)

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Doc Filmmaker Havana Marking's Top Ten Films of All Time

1 June 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (interview with filmmaker with an upcoming theatrical release), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their Top Ten list of All Time Films. This month, Havana Marking (the documentary filmmaker behind Afghan Star - Zeitgeist Films 06/26/2009) gave us her list (in alphabetical order). We present Havana Marking's Top Ten Films of All Time as of June 2009.Bio: Afghan Star is Havana Marking’s first feature documentary, shot over the 4 months in Kabul. She has produced TV docs (both factual entertainment and one-off polemics) for over 10 years now, although directing is relatively new to her: before As she directed The Crippendales (2007)– a 30min film about the first troupe of disabled strippers winning the Channel 4@Sheffield scheme for New Talent. Etre at Avoir – Nicholas Philibert »

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Cannes: The French Perspective

20 May 2009 4:44 AM, PDT | Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news »

Nothing could stop GI Joe combatant (and French actor and screenwriter) Said Taghmaoui from attending the Cannes Festival. We knew that—and we don't speak French—which is why we requested a page from his diary:

My first experience in Cannes was in 1995, in support  of my film La Haine, which won several awards and launched my career. Now, almost 15 years and 40 movies later I am still in awe of the scope and influence of the festival. This year I am producing a television show with famed producer Tarak Ben Amar for Tunisian-based satellite channel Nessma TV. On top of following me to all the events, the show includes interviews with many of the big players here— Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Luc Besson, and Harvey Weinstein, among them. »

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Five: Stand Out Pieces Of Violent Urban Cinema

7 April 2009 5:44 AM, PDT | Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news »

"Urban" cinema tends to mean black cinema or cinema reflecting a "Ghetto" experience often from a youthful perspective. So I will that as a rough guide and then narrowing it down to crime related and violent features I'm going to look at some of the best from this "Genre", if it can really be called a genre.

1. La Haine (1995) Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz

La Haine is arguably the best "Urban" film ever made, certainly the most politically charged and the one with the most impacting ending. French Jewish director Mathieu Kassovitz may have gone on to make the crappy Gothica, but in 1995 he made the best film of the year. So the top film on my list is not American as you would expect, but French. In fact as far as I am aware, a decade after its release the film which took won best director and was nominated for »

- Leigh

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7 articles from 2009

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