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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Three

17 December 2009 11:42 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »

Dinner for Schmucks

Opens: July 23rd 2010

Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams

Director: Jay Roach

Summary: A renowned publisher encourages his friends to invite the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. Just as they find the most pathetic man yet, the host is injured and ends up trapped with the man all night long.

Analysis: A remake of director Francis Veber's 1998 César award-winning "Le Diner des cons", 'Schmucks' is one of the highest profile comedies of next year with one of the strongest casts for the genre in recent memory. It also marks the return of "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" helmer Jay Roach who has produced several films in recent years but hasn't directed since 2004's "Meet the Fockers".

The question now lies not in the performers or director but the material itself and whether a Gallic comedy can »

- Garth Franklin

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Decade: Gasper Noe on “Irreversible”

12 December 2009 1:05 PM, PST | indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news »

Editor’S Note: Every day for the next month, indieWIRE will be republishing profiles and interviews from the past ten years (in their original, retro format) with some of the people that have defined independent cinema in the first decade of this century.  Today, we’ll step back to 2003 with an interview indieWIRE’s Erin Torreo had with Gasper Noe upon the release of his controversial “Irreversible.” Tunnel Visionary: Gaspar Noe’s Brutal “Irreversible” … »

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2010 Sundance Film Festival Out-of-Competition Films: Spotlight

3 December 2009 6:27 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Yesterday we gave you a list of all the films playing in-competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.  We now have the list of the films playing out-of-competition and they’re divided up into four categories: Premieres, Next, Spotlight, and Park City at Midnight. Since combining these lists would be a lot to read for just one article, we’ve broken it up to make it easier on your eyes.  You’re welcome.

Films in the Spotlight category include Louis C.K.: Hilarious; Rodrigo Garcia’s Mother & Child starring Naomi Watts, Annette Benning, and Kerry Washington; the great-sounding documentary Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks; and Enter the Void, the new film from Gaspar Noé (Irreversible).  Films in the Park City at Midnight category include High School starring Adrien Brody; and Buried starring Ryan Reynolds.

Hit the jump to check out synopses for all of the films playing in these categories. »

- Matt Goldberg

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Uncanny Birthday Suits

23 November 2009 7:30 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Celebrating cinematic folk, born on this day 11/23. Get out your kazoos.

Franco, Maxwell and Harpo. Half of the fun of building these posts

is these completely nonsensical groupings!

1859 Billy the Kid, outlaw. I've always thought it a mystery as to exactly why people routinely idolize characters whom they would never want to meet in real life. Murderers, criminals, thieves, (especially gangsters)... they all get the silver screen pedestal treatment. Billy has been portrayed dozens of times and Val Kilmer, Emilio Estevez, Kris Kristofferson, Buster Crabbe and Paul Newman have all done the job.

1888 Harpo Marx I'm embarrassed to say this but I can never remember which Marx Bros is which. When I watch 30s comedies, I almost always select a screwball romance.

1892 Erté artist over whom wee Nathaniel obsessed, wanting a whole animated movie to spring forth from his theatrical illustrations of ladies in elaborate headdresses and fab gowns.

1913 Michael Gough, »

- NATHANIEL R

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25 Most Disturbing Movies #1: Irreversible

11 November 2009 10:08 AM, PST | GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news »

Finishing Simon Augustine's countdown of the Most Disturbing Movies (Read Part 1 for the first 13). [<< #2]

1. Irreversible (2002) 10/10

The undisputed king - no doubt about it. Bar none. No holds barred. Hold everything. Hide the kids, lock the door, be prepared to white knuckle it and hold on tight. L'enfant terrible and talented sonafabitch Gaspar Noé used some of the most prodigious command of sight, sound, and atmosphere since Kubrick to completely envelop you, rendering you helpless and utterly aghast.

Irreversible, still banned in several countries, is an all-out assault on the senses: the camera swirling and dipping like a drunk sailor getting sea-sick; the grinding, insisting, dread-soaked musical score; the flashing effect that can cause seizures; the backward titles; the backward chronology; the backwardness of the characters who get caught up in a maelstrom of violence; the foreboding bell of horror tolling, that signals the beginning of the film. »

- underdog

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Lff: Drenched in Death

19 October 2009 4:20 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

If you thought Dave'd finally dropped dead from exhaustion, then, quite apart from that being rather insulting (I can last more than a week, thanks), you were wrong. I merely took a weekend breather, but I'm back headlong into the London Film Festival for its remaining two weeks. This week's hot tickets include Julianne Moore in Atom Egoyan's Chloe, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and one of my most anticipated of the fest, Jacques Audiard's A Prophet. Today's Gala screening was Jane Campion's Bright Star, but since you'll all have heard all about it already, I'll just say that this tender, romantic, fluid and poetic film is one of my favourites of the fest so far, and caught me just at the right moment. But onto darker, twistier, weirder things.

Gaspar Noé's latest, Enter the Void, is as baffling and lucid an experience as his films always are. »

- Dave

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Sitges ’09: My Sitges Story—Part 10

16 October 2009 5:02 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Monday, October 12

If you are not into the sun, sand and cinema that Spain’s Sitges (see last report here and go here for the fest’s official site) has to offer, the next best thing about this international film festival is the socializing. Hundreds of genre celebrities, fans and journalists have assembled in this coastal town, and this edition has witnessed such folks as Thirst’S Park Chan-wook, Tetsuo’s Shinya Tsukamoto, The Abandoned’s Nacho Cerdá (busy teaching in Barcelona, he tells me), Ghostbusters’ Ivan Reitman, [Rec] 2 helmers Paco Plaza and Jaume Belagueró (“Doing better at the box office in Spain than the first film,” Belagueró says), Day Of The Beast’s Alex de la Iglesia (looking very professorial), Orphan’s tiny terror Isabelle Fuhrman and Irreversible’S Gaspar Noé (whose controversial new film Enter The Void is debuting here), just to name a few.

Of all this terrifying talent, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Tony Timpone)

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Sitges ’09: My Sitges Story—Part 10

16 October 2009 5:02 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Monday, October 12

If you are not into the sun, sand and cinema that Spain’s Sitges (see last report here and go here for the fest’s official site) has to offer, the next best thing about this international film festival is the socializing. Hundreds of genre celebrities, fans and journalists have assembled in this coastal town, and this edition has witnessed such folks as Thirst’S Park Chan-wook, Tetsuo’s Shinya Tsukamoto, The Abandoned’s Nacho Cerdá (busy teaching in Barcelona, he tells me), Ghostbusters’ Ivan Reitman, [Rec] 2 helmers Paco Plaza and Jaume Belagueró (“Doing better at the box office in Spain than the first film,” Belagueró says), Day Of The Beast’s Alex de la Iglesia (looking very professorial), Orphan’s tiny terror Isabelle Fuhrman and Irreversible’S Gaspar Noé (whose controversial new film Enter The Void is debuting here), just to name a few.

Of all this terrifying talent, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Tony Timpone)

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London Film Festival: Enter The Void

16 October 2009 12:37 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Enter The Void Directed by Gasper Noé Ever since the notorious Irreversible prompted the dubious honor of causing the largest walkout in Cannes history back in 2002, Gallic maverick Gasper Noé appears to have been paying the rent with a couple of music videos, an advert (appropriately enough) for condoms and a contributing entry to the pornography themed collection of short films Destricted whilst he struggled to secure the funding for his cherished follow-up, which screened at the London Film Festival this week. Enter The Void is less a film than an experience, more an immersion into a deranged mind, a delirious hallucination that is operating on the very cusp of the cinematic medium. Connoisseurs of extreme and outré cinema rather arrogantly adopt a posture of being unshockable, of having seen it all before these days, a gauntlet that Noé' has passionately grasped with this psychedelic fever dream, an almost distressing »

- John

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Paris Review

2 October 2009 5:03 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

Paris is a magical city.  Being introduced to the ancient architecture and the thick, rich culture, especially for an American not used to it, can be overwhelming.  I was fortunate enough to visit twice.  The first time was with a group of three other Americans.  We were stationed in England and had to leave base for the weekend.  Since we didn’t need visas and because we figured we might not have another opportunity, we pooled our money together and had enough to get us on the ferry ride across the Channel and the train trip from Calais into Paris.  We stayed three days two nights as vagrants wandering the streets of Paris, sleeping under the Eiffel Tower or in a subway station or in the nearest McDo, each of us taking shifts ordering a coffee so we wouldn’t get kicked out while the others grabbed a few winks. »

- Marco Duran

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Indie Trailer Sunday: Pawel Borowski's Polish Thriller 'Zero'

27 September 2009 6:05 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Continuing our new Indie Trailer Sunday tradition, today's new trailer is for a Polish thriller called Zero. It's the latest film from Polish filmmaker Pawel Borowski (of the short I Love You previously). Zero is 24 hours in the lives of a few people in a city and is a complete loop. I don't fully understand the concept, but I have a feeling it might be like an extension of Gaspar Noé's Irreversible, where the film takes the narrative and twists it in a more artistic and weird way. That said, this trailer is absolutely brilliant, and thanks to Twitch, you can check it out below. Although it doesn't have subtitles, it's still really awesome to watch. Watch the trailer for Pawel Borowski's Zero: [flv:http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/zero-polish-trailer-full.flv http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/zero-polish-trailer-full.jpg 598 256] The film's narrative principle follows the character who spoke the last word in the dialogue. It's the story of numerous characters and of whose fate »

- Alex Billington

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Tiff 09: Two clips for Gaspar Noé’s Enter The Void (Soudain Le Vide)

21 September 2009 12:27 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Those familiar with Gaspar Noé's previous feature, 2002's Irréversible, have reason to be wary of Enter the Void, his latest rumination of the cruelty of life. Famous for the ten-minute stationary camera scene of Monica Bellucci's anal rape, Noé explores the more stomach-turning head-trip elements of that film in even more disturbing grandeur. Noé continues to use cinema as a tool to challenge and aggravate. Experimenting with new technology that seamlessly enhances his visual style, he delivers a boundary-pushing experience that is sure to be talked about for years to come. http://www.soudainlevide.com. »

- Ricky

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Calvaire/Vinyan director gives us More

17 September 2009 12:11 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Belgian director Fabrice du Welz (pictured), whose credits include Calvaire: The Ordeal and this year’s Vinyan, got in touch with info on his recently announced third feature, tentatively titled More. The new project will mark his U.S. debut, as he’ll be helming the film in New York City next  spring with star Brady Corbet Of Funny Games.

“I can’t reveal much,” du Welz tells us, “but I can tell you that More is based on a real event and it happens in the New York art world.” His excitement about tackling that setting is what drew him to make a film in America for the first time, and he adds, “It’s a high-concept film with great character potential, dilemmas and situations and extreme, twisted scenes. I’ve met with producers and Brady Corbet, and spent time in New York City. All those elements make »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Samuel Zimmerman)

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Martyn’s Top Ten Disturbing Films

17 September 2009 4:40 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

It is rarely highlighted what a strange habit and practice cinema-going is. Off we go to sit in a darkened room, usually with complete strangers, and watch something akin to a dream unfold before us. After all, Hollywood in particular, has been known as “The Dream Factory”. Why restrict it to Hollywood? Cinema = dreams. And as the subconscious plays havoc; dreams can turn into nightmares.

Audiences can laugh, cry and scream together. Each person maybe processing information in a variety of differing ways, yet, filmmakers employ a bag of tricks to invoke particular responses, at particular times.

Film experiences have a habit of becoming cherished, personal memories. It can achieve an ambiguous effect. Millions were astounded by Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, just as they were terrified by Jaws, seventeen years earlier. Alfred Hitchcock devised the infamous shower sequence in Psycho relying on suggestion, chocolate sauce, rapid editing and shrieking »

- Martyn Conterio

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Carriers (Film Review)

4 September 2009 8:58 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Despite what the title and poster campaign suggest, the fear that Carriers attempts to inspire is not of attack by people infected by a virulent virus, but of catching that virus oneself, and how others respond to that circumstance. That makes this less a postapocalyptic horror film than a postapocalyptic drama in which icky corpses and almost-corpses turn up every so often, but the greatest threat comes from those who are healthy—for the moment, anyway.

Eschewing any sort of prologue explaining the hows and whys of the disease that has ravaged the United States, the movie (which is being given only a token theatrical release by Paramount Vantage) opens with four young survivors driving across the Southwestern desert. Brian (Star Trek’s Chris Pine) and Danny (Lou Taylor Pucci) are brothers, Bobby (Piper Perabo) is Brian’s main squeeze and Kate (Emily VanCamp), as both she and Danny make clear early on, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)

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Tiff titles for Vanguard, Discovery and Special Presentations

23 July 2009 6:36 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Curioser and Curioser.. First off, the world premier of road trip comedy Bunny & The Bull which we reported on a Long time ago. Next is Gaspar Noé's Cannes premierer Enter the Void which didn't fare too well.. I'm betting this is a new edit. The winner of the grand jury prize at Cannes, Un Prophete will have a special screening. Hugo Weaving's gritty Aussie thriller Last Ride (we'll have a review up soon, got a screener!) is also playing along with another flick from down under we've been clocking, Beautiful Kate. Let's not forget the world premier of Yoichi Sai's ninja flick Kamui.. plus so many more!

Full listing of films added by section after the break.

Vanguard

Accident Soi Cheang, Hong Kong, China

North American Premiere

Gripping and smartly constructed, this unconventional crime thriller/psychological drama, revolves around assassins who commit murder by making perfectly staged crimes look like unfortunate accidents. »

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Bunny and the Bull, Enter the Void and The Dirty Saints added to Tiff's Vanguard

23 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Four world premieres, including Paul King's highly anticipated debut film Bunny and the Bull (see pic) are among the batch of nine titles added to Tiff's Vanguard section. Three items from Cannes added to the section include: Lou Ye's Spring Fever, the final version of Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void (still looking for a distribution deal) and The Misfortunates -- don't be alarmed if you see a bunch of naked people riding bicycles in Toronto, it's a campaign for Felix Van Groeningen's film. Here are is the listing of nine: Accident Soi Cheang, Hong Kong, China North American Premiere Gripping and smartly constructed, this unconventional crime thriller/psychological drama, revolves around assassins who commit murder by making perfectly staged crimes look like unfortunate accidents. Produced by Johnnie To. The Ape Jesper Ganslandt, Sweden World Premiere A descent into hell, Jesper Ganslandt’s disturbing and suspenseful second feature »

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Scrambled Timelines

13 July 2009 11:27 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Shuffling around a story's timeline can make an ordinary tale profound, a potentially exploitative scene moral, a troubling event less so. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at films that have scrambled their own chronology, from Gaspar Noé's infamous "Irréversible" to this week's new release "(500) Days of Summer."

Download: MP3, 37:21 minutes, 34.2 Mb

Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [Xml] »

- Alison Willmore

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I Heart Horror: Scores

8 July 2009 1:37 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

Hello fiends!  Miss me?  Awww&#8230;stop it now.  I&#8217;m back this week to talk about film scores in the genre I love.  They are iconic.  This is a known fact.  Even people that aren&#8217;t familiar with the genre as much as film geeks are know when they are hearing the music that was designed to creep them out.  I recall a couple of years back on my normal weekly visits to Best Buy, I would go to the keyboard section and play Carpenter&#8217;s simplistic, but effective, theme from &#8216;Halloween&#8217;.  Most people knew what film it was from and would comment on how it creeped them out.  Hell, sometimes I would get a story out of it from a random stranger.  With the horror genre, the score and themes of a film are a character.   It can set the mood or just have a catchy melody or just »

- Andy

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60.6 Million Reasons Michael Bay Will Continue To Make Movies

25 June 2009 10:30 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »

Despite inspiring film criticism to new metaphor heights in describing the depths to which mainstream Hollywood movies have plunged -- tossing out everything short of comparing it to "the subway tunnel rape scene in Irreversible, where Michael Bay's vision is the rapist, Monica Bellucci is us, and her violated rectum is the current state of American cinema" -- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has proven itself to be utterly review-proof, shattering Wednesday box office records by pulling in an astonishing, Gnp-of-a-small-country-esque $60.6 million. (The last record-holder was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, whose $44.2 million seems but a blob of Hippogriff poop by comparison.) »

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