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- Web Only: Skeletons in the closet have migrated to the cellar bomb shelter in Jordan Harrison's "Finn in the Underworld." An arresting theatrical ghost story built from such curiously matched elements as Cold War satire, child sexual abuse and horror-movie fillips -- only the latter sounding an occasional false note in Les Waters' Berkeley Rep premiere production -- this provocative and vivid piece should travel at least as far as author's widely staged 2004 "Kid-Simple." |
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- Web Only: 'Dreamer' rides into second -- "Doom" failed to bring much firepower to the box office, leading the way in another weekend that proved mediocre, despite four openers. Universal vidgame adaptation made $15.4 million on 3044 screens, on the low end of expectations. |
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- Web Only: Roger Moore, who starred seven times as James Bond, says "The English press has been ridiculously unkind" to the new James Bond, Daniel Craig. "And he hasn't even started to play the role!" |
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- Web Only: Offering "Harry Potter"-style juvenile fantasy on a less physically imposing but still effective scale, Danish kidpic "The Fakir" is Gothic-lite family entertainment. Fun package should appeal to programmers wherever children's market tolerates dubbing, and might tempt remake offers elsewhere. |
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- Web Only: Having a bossy turtle whose voice only you can hear as your best friend ain't so great in "Max and Josef: Double Trouble." First Swedish feature to blend CGI character animation with live action is a hectic but delightful family pic whose surface fantasy conceals complex -- even borderline-disturbing -- insight into one little boy's problems adjusting to a new baby sis. Only grownups will fully grasp that content, while kids will enjoy slapstick and imaginative aspects. |
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Gie (Oct 23 2005 23:23 GMT) - Web Only: Revolutionary as its subject may have been in the 1950s and '60s, biopic "Gie," about a real-life student leader during Indonesia's most turbulent era, is tediously conventional. Given the politically repressive atmosphere still prevalent in the country, pic was considered a brave accomplishment on July local release, though little of that courage will be apparent to international auds. |
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- Web Only: Composer busy with 'Rich,' 'Purple' -- Quincy Jones segues between Hollywood and the scoring and mixing stages of Par's "Get Rich or Die Tryin.'" And before he heads to B'way as a producer with Scott Sanders and Oprah Winfrey of "The Color Purple," he winged out Friday to Cambodia. |
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- Web Only: One of modern cinema's most exciting territories is contextualized, although not fully illuminated, in the edifying but coolly intellectual docu, "The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema." Experienced documaker, and contributor to French film monthly "Positif," Hubert Niogret takes a talking-heads approach to his subject then leavens the pie with a liberal use of clips. |
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- Web Only: Of interest primarily as an experiment in narrative style, "Through the Forest" is less a cinematic tone poem than a hermetically sealed oddity. Latest from maverick French helmer Jean Paul Civeyrac is intended as meditation on life and death, loss and transcendence, but self-conscious technique muffles emotional frissons. |
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- Web Only: Coast club is now owned by Schaeffer -- The Friars of Beverly Hills--is the new title of the club--which has no ties to the venerable Friars Club of New York. |
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- Web Only: Blades flash, costumes dazzle and the wide screen is generally bent out of shape in "Duelist," a South Korean martial artser that's determined to reinvent the genre every which way. Unfortunately, helmer Lee Myung-se, in his first movie since high-octane actioner "Nowhere to Hide" (1999), forgot to spend as much time on the script as the visuals. Result is a razzle-dazzler with a distinctly lateral approach to narrative and character, two of the genre's mainstays that any helmer ignores at peril. Distribution beyond cult ancillary looks iffy. |
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- Web Only: Grand Guignol, Japanese style, takes center stage in "Strange Circus," an out-there yarn that shocks, provokes but ultimately bores with its tasteless indulgences. Indie helmer Sion Sono goes for the jugular. Film will be most at home at midnight fest sidebars, or anywhere else where a trash aesthetic is embraced. |
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Big River (Oct 23 2005 23:23 GMT) - Web Only: Exquisite lensing fails to prevent "Big River," a Japanese directed, English-lingo, U.S.-based road movie, from being dammed by dead-end narrative tributaries. Film's sheer beauty may help position it at indie-flavored fests but the faux-naif tone will be too dull for more general auds. |
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- MSNBC Apocalypse, now? "It?s been 10 months of epic disaster. First there was the tsunami that killed some 250,000 people in Southeast Asia. Then came Hurricane Katrina with its devastating toll on the Gulf Coast, followed by an earthquake that took tens of thousands of lives in South Asia. |
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- Sunday 30th October 2005 (skalpel launch) Mountains In The Sky (live, Melb) Prince V Sir Robbo Luke Snarl Tickets: Free |
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- Sunday 6th November 2005 Comatone (live) Marquis Tickets: Free |
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- Sunday 13th November 2005 Pivot (live) Greenland Sharks (live, Canada) Tickets: Free |
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- Sunday 20th November 2005 Moving Ninja (live) Alien Digit (live, Canberra) Tickets: Free |
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- Monday 28th November 2005 - Wednesday 30th November 2005 fhgf gfhgfhgf hgf |
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- Film News: Site partnering with AFI -- "IMDB on steroids" is the way Tom Karsch, exec VP-general manager of TCM, describes the network's interactive movie database, which launches Jan. 1. |
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- Film News: Blanchett, O'Connor, Weaving, Pearce up for prizes -- Nominations for the 47th Australian Film Institute Awards saw a pod of expat Aussie thesps rewarded for returning to work in the domestic biz. |
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- Film News: Submissions required by Nov. 4 -- The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s deadline to receive submissions for the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards is Nov. 4. |
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- Film News: Company's in fertile Village -- Crescent Entertainment's $115 million investment in Village Roadshow Pictures has been completed, three months after it was announced |
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- Film News: 'Dreamer' rides into second -- "Doom" failed to bring much firepower to the box office, leading the way in another weekend that proved mediocre, despite four openers. Universal vidgame adaptation made $15.4 million on 3044 screens, on the low end of expectations. |
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- Film News: Exhibs, helmers dig against shifts in distribution -- ShowEast and Orlando were bracing for Hurricane Wilma, but it's the stormy debate over the ever-shrinking distribution window that's likely to cut a wide swath through this year's confab. |
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- Film News: 'Déjŕ vu' first pic to plan Big Easy shoot since Katrina -- When Tony Scott signed back on last week to helm the Touchstone/Jerry Bruckheimer pic "Deja Vu" after dropping out of the project just two weeks earlier, word came that the pic's return to New Orleans was the main factor that lured him back. |
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- Film News: U.S. exex, politicos fear vote may spark quotas on exports -- Sacre bleu! Just when Hollywood was starting to count on foreign box office to save its bottom line, France and 190 other countries have laid down another potential roadblock. |
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- Film News: Southern satire will be adapted and helmed by Dowse -- One of Hollywood's fabled unmade projects -- an adaptation of Terry Southern's cult novel "Blue Movie" -- is finally getting made ... by a British company in Bavaria. |
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- Film News: Sumer laffers give way to riskier award season fare -- Is Freddy Krueger going arty? During the 1980s and early '90s, New Line was defined by such genre franchises as "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Then the company began a series of '90s U-turns, including bigger budget hits and flops. |
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- Film News: Alums are virtual prod'n company -- Some Hollywood mafias are bound together by academic diplomas (Wesleyan, Brown, U. of Texas). Others by geography (there's a tight clique of Memphians, for those who didn't know) or by high-pressure work experiences (former Scott Rudin assistants, ex-Miramaxers). |
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- Film News: Kofic may also be uprooted from Seoul -- A recently announced plan to launch a major film market in Busan is only one element of a strategy to give the South Korean port city a leadership role in Asian film. |
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- Film News: Cinemark planning 160 new screens in next two years -- The box office downturn in Latin America is putting a slight crimp in an otherwise dynamic market, where key players have been expanding outside their natural borders and international circuits continue to invest. |
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- Film News: Pic added $26 million to o'seas take during frame -- UIP's "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" continued to scare up some serious coin on the international B.O. scene over the Oct. |
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- Film News: London Eye: Simon Franks, CEO of Redbus Film Distribution, has $29 million in his pocket and an axe to grind. |
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- Film News: Kudos aiming to be more professional, less politicized -- Is the Chinese film industry finally learning the art of self-promotion? The start of the fall awards season has brought with it an uncanny sense of unity among normally fractious elements of various Chinese film factions. |
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- Film News: Second weekend grosses fell just 14.6% -- Fyodor Bondarchuk's Afghan war drama "9th Company" marched into Russian B.O. record books Oct. |
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- Built on Mozilla, it adds social network components to web surfing |
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- Known as "Prussian Blue" -- a nod to their German heritage and bright blue eyes -- the girls from Bakersfield, ... |
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- Felwood, skv?lé místo. Poprvé jsem tam byl, kdy? jsem pot?eboval p? |
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- O marocké kuchyni aneb M?am, m?am, m?am. Doufám, ? |
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- "Podle mluv?ího ?eského rozhlasu Ladislava Pavlíka je mobilní telefon zp?sobilý p?ijímat rádiový signál. |
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- Nový web LinuxBizWorld.cz vznikl spojením server? LinuxWorld.cz a LinuxBiz.cz. |
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- Instance (dungeony) jsou týmovou prací. S nostalgiií jsem p?ed pár dny v Uldamanu vzpomínal na moji oblíbenou "sestavu" (Kheldir a Legolina, zejména). ... (autor: |
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- Inessential hits on one of the ugly truths about free software (which is separate from open source) - if a given niche in software goes free, you end up with 80% solutions: There are some email clients I personally like—Mailsmith and mutt, in particular—but I’m not the first person or the last to say that there is no Ultimate Email Client for OS X. |
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- Lawyers see charges this week in CIA-leak case "Fitzgerald is expected to give final notice to officials facing charges as early as Monday and may convene the grand jury on Tuesday, a day earlier than usual, to deliver a summary of the case and ask for approval of the possible indictments, legal sources said."... |
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- Great car, crap badge (Vauxhall) |
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- Beats an Accord, hands down |
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