Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
French VFX and Animation: Pierre Buffin's vfx house attracts Hollywood studios -- In an ever-competitive vfx market, Buf is one of the rare companies in France to be regularly tapped by Hollywood studios to create high-end work for tentpoles, such as "The Matrix" trilogy, "Spider-Man" franchise and "The Dark Night."
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
In foreign DVD news, Artificial Eye has announced Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank for 25 January. After a May delay, M6 Vidéo in France has set 12 November as the new date for their Édition Prestige of Marcel Carné's Les visiteurs du soir , which is set to include a documentary by Marc Caro on "le cinéma fantastique français." As expected, no English subtitles...
Dallas Observer | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
If I wake up after a dreamless night, I usually don't worry about plummeting to a premature death. I brush my teeth and start my day. Not so for mad scientist Krank of The City of Lost Children , who kidnaps little ones and feeds on their dreams to sustain his own life. It's a crazy Fre...
Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
After seeing that lovely title sequence from the Coen Brothers' "Intolerable Cruelty" recently, I've been stumbling across a couple of other distinctive opening titles. So it's high time that something be done about it...Of course, there are already several sites that focus on this, so I'll just post about them randomly when I find enough of them.Desk Set (1957 - Walter Lang) - I was pretty...
Empire News (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
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(Cool) Shite on the Tube (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
On remote space station for the rehabilitation of the criminally insane, a mysterious new arrival begins to exhibit God-like powers, throwing all the inhabitants into chaos, prisoner and guard alike.
Resonance FM Podcasts (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Electric Sheep podcast: Figures in a landscape Interviews originally broadcast 01/05/09 in an edited version as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on www.resonancefm.com Alex Fitch talks to the directors of two new films which take the starting point of a character walking through a landscape and twist it into unexpected directions. Alex talks to [...]
Resonance FM Podcasts (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Panel Borders: Ed Pinsent and Fast Fiction Originally broadcast 23/04/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Continuing comic book publishing month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to Ed Pinsent, the second editor of the 1980s small press anthology and market stall Fast Fiction, (following Phil Elliott and Paul Gravett respectively) which was a [...]
eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 04/24/2009
Peter SobczynskiNormally, the headline for this column tries to make some reference, punning or otherwise, to one of the titles listed below. This week’s selection, on the other hand, has absolutely nothing to do with anything--it is merely a reference to the new song by Mandy Moore, a tune so catchy that it deserves to be the big hit of Summer 2009. Then again, since a shift in locale this week...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 04/23/2009
Murky and brooding, Marc Caro's Dante 01 is a sci-fi phantasmagoria that wouldn't look out of place in a Clive Barker
Resonance FM Podcasts (Free subscription) | 04/18/2009
Panel Borders: Comic Boom! Originally broadcast 16/04/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Continuing comic book publishing month on Panel Borders: Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott talk to Mark Waid, the editor-in-chief of Boom! Studios, a relatively new American comic book company that is attracting new creators, veterans of the medium and Hollywood screenwriters [...]
FEARnet: News & Reviews (Free subscription) | 04/17/2009
Oui, Oui FEARnettian French Film Lovers! We've got a "French Revolution" a la DVD giveaway that's packed with bloody, terrifying revolt and revenge! This week,...
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Introducing Yuka Yamaguchi Yuka Yamaguchi I found this image[1] by Japanese artist Yuka Yamaguchi yesterday. Artwork which features innards of bodies are a personal favourite, I first realized this after discovering Ferdinand Springer’s Ecorché I[2] some years ago. I can’t tell off hand who else belongs in this category from an artistic point of view, but from a [...]
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 01/24/2009
This is going to be the last post on this topic but there are still a few things to say. There have been a couple of interesting points made on the exclusion of 2008 biggest film, The Dark Knight. And...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 01/23/2009
Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may have shot themselves in the foot with their selection of top Oscar nominees on Thursday, the Chicago ...
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