Criterion Blu-ray in August: The Dardenne Brothers, Anderson, Haigh, Fejos, Roddam

Why Action Fans Must See ‘The Raid: Redemption’ Before the Remake

From IndieWire American action movies are almost entirely defined by cutaways, blaring music cues and grunts. “The Raid: Redemption,” a hyper-energetic Indonesian martial arts movie, delivers an effective rebuke to that meek norm. Bones break, blood flows and swift, excessively complicated fight choreography puts virtually everything released in North America since “The Bourne Ultimatum” to [...]

Abel Ferrara’s 4:44 Last Day on Earth — Apocalyptic Howler or Love Letter to NYC?

Via Movieline If you happen to live in a neighborhood with no Jehovah’s Witness ladies around to remind you that we’re living in the last days, wackadoodle director Abel Ferrara’s latest, 4:44 Last Day on Earth, is here to drive that truth home — or at least make you think about it just a little [...]

The 12 Best Movies of SXSW 2012

The Film School Rejects take a look at the 12 Best Movies of SXSW 2012 This year’s SXSW may be over, but it’s certainly not forgotten. Another week of barbeque, buddies, beer, and – oh yeah – movies down, and we’re still recovering, both in terms of remembering everything we saw and attempting to pry [...]

Criterion Blu-ray in August: The Dardenne Brothers, Anderson, Haigh, Fejos, Roddam

Via Blu-Ray.com After much speculation, the Criterion Collection has posted their full roster of Blu-ray releases for August 2012. Titles include the Dardenne Brothers’ Rosetta & La Promesse, Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, Paul Fejos’ Lonesome, and Franc Roddam’s Quadrophenia. Of those five films, only The Royal Tenenbaums is an existing Criterion [...]

Gaumont Secures Funding to Restore Classic Films

Via Blu-ray.com French distributors Gaumont have announced that they have secured funding to restore 270 films from their catalog during the next four years. The restorations will have a minimum quality of at least 2K. Amongst the films considered for restoration are such classics as Jean Renoir’s Toni (1935), Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Murderer Lives at [...]

The Making of Chinatown

Via Blu-ray.com Paramount Pictures’ Chinatown gets its Blu-ray premiere on April 3 in a newly remastered edition. Director Roman Polanski described Chinatown as “a traditional detective story with a new, modern shape.” It was the first film to be personally produced by Robert Evans, Paramount’s highly successful Executive Vice President in Charge of Worldwide Production. [...]

NBR Awards name ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ best film

Via Yahoo News Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty” continued to gather awards momentum as the National Board of Review named the Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama the best film of the year. The board is the second notable group to name “Zero Dark Thirty” best film, following the New York Film Critics Circle. The two [...]

David Gordon Green Sends ‘Orphan’ Isabelle Fuhrman to ‘Suspiria’

Via First Showing Though her big break came as the creepy tituar lead in the horror film Orphan, more casual movie goers might recognize Isabelle Fuhrman as one of the more villainous tributes in The Hunger Games. Now Variety reports the young actress is set to return to horror in the lead role of David [...]

Justin Lin Attached to Direct Film of ‘Lone Wolf and Cub’ Manga

From First Showing If you have even a cursory interest in Japanese manga, you’ve probably heard of Lone Wolf and Cub. Considered by many to be a landmark of the medium, Kazuo Koike’s 1970′s work has been adapted into films before and influenced everything from the work of Frank Miller to the film Shoot ‘Em [...]

Daniel Day-Lewis finds playing Lincoln a tall order

Via The Sun Times Honestly, Abe finally came to life for Daniel Day-Lewis when he arrived in the Land of Lincoln. Very quietly last year, the Oscar-winning actor slipped into town to hang out with the memory of the 16th president of the United States. “We made a trip to Springfield, Ill., right at the [...]

Exclusive Clip from Sleepless Night

From Cinemablend Described by many as “Die Hard in a nightclub,” the French film takes amazing advantage of its labyrinthine settings, putting fight scenes in all kinds of unexpected locations as our hero seeks out his son who’s been kidnapped by a ruthless drug lord in retaliation for a stash of drugs stolen by the [...]

Miriam Cutler Sheds Light On the Boys Club of Film Composing Industry Change

Via Film School Rejects After exploring the lack of ladies when it comes to the world of composing, I decided to go directly to the source and ask a composer who is currently (and actively) working in the business, and who also happens to be a woman. Miriam Cutler is best known for her work [...]

NBR Awards name ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ best film

Via Yahoo News Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty” continued to gather awards momentum as the National Board of Review named the Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama the best film of the year. The board is the second notable group to name “Zero Dark Thirty” best film, following the New York Film Critics Circle. The two [...]

Terrence Malick’s Romantic Drama Now Titled “To the Wonder”

Via Collider Before the lineup for this year’s Cannes Film Festival was announced, many were hoping that Terrence Malick’s romantic drama starring Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams (previously referred to as The Burial) would be among the films set to premiere. Given that he just released The Tree of Life last year, it would have [...]

Exclusive Clip from Sleepless Night

From Cinemablend Described by many as “Die Hard in a nightclub,” the French film takes amazing advantage of its labyrinthine settings, putting fight scenes in all kinds of unexpected locations as our hero seeks out his son who’s been kidnapped by a ruthless drug lord in retaliation for a stash of drugs stolen by the [...]