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AFI La 09: Review of absurdist stop-motion gem A Town Called Panic
8 November 2009 3:30 PM, PST
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Year: 2009
Directors: Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar
Writers: Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar
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Review by: Hal MacDermot
Rating: 9 out of 10
A Town called Panic is an anarchic, absurdist stop-motion animation surrealistic gem, and it’s Belgian. I laughed my head off. It’s Aubier and Patar’s first feature length movie and is a development of their cult TV animation from 2001. The original French title is "Panique au Village," which actually means "panic in the village,” and makes more sense than the English translation. Panique au Village made the Cannes official selection this year- the first stop-motion animation ever to do so.
Panic is a good antidote to all those boring saw-your-head-off corporate emotion Toy Story-type animations. It is full of unpredictability and subversion, in contrast to the work of Pixar animation, which definitely has the ability to entertain quite a few people (many Quiet Earth fans
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Film Review: Paranormal Activity
2 November 2009 2:21 AM, PST
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A box of soap powder falling off a shelf in your laundry in the middle of the night may not seem like the most terrifying thing to ever happen. But, for ghost enthusiast and general scared little kid Oren Peli, it was the night that sparked the idea that would lead him to fund a $15,000 dollar horror film called Paranormal Activity. A $15,000 horror film which has since become the most profitable independent film ever made... and just to make sure he could truly exorcise the demons, he shot it over one week in his own house.
The film was originally screened in a handful of festivals way back in 2007 and was independently distributed on DVD by the film makers. One of those DVDs reportedly made its way into the hands of perhaps the most terrified wide eyed little boy, the geek master himself, Steven Spielberg. He shakily returned the film
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- Neil Innes
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tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT
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If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
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But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump!
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT
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If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
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But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump!
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT
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If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
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But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump!
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT
| The Movie Fanatic
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If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
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But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump!
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT
| The Movie Fanatic
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»
If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
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But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump!
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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The Enigma of Horror Vérité
24 October 2009 10:06 PM, PDT
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The notion of a film using a vérité style and false claims of “it really happened” is nothing new to the horror genre. In 1974, Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, made use of a now famous John Larroquette narration, a group of amateur actors and a gritty shooting style to make mid-70s drive-in movie-goers question the reality of what they had just seen. 1980 brought horror fans the still controversial Cannibal Holocaust, a film that not only invented the now popular “found footage” horror film, but still even today manages to make some of its viewers question if what they are watching is in actuality, “snuff”.
The trend continued into the 1990s with films like the morbidly comical Man Bites Dog (1992), the widely overlooked and heavily flawed The Last Broadcast (1998) and of course the hugely profitable and arguably overrated The Blair Witch Project (1999); a film whose success, though
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (The Horror Professor)
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Evilution and Basement Jack snag DVD deal
1 June 2009 8:35 AM, PDT
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Filmmaker/Fango scribe Brian O’Toole dropped us a line to let us know that Evilution and Basement Jack, the first two features he produced with Eric Peter-Kaiser under their Black Gate Entertainment banner for Island Gateway Films, have landed a DVD deal. You’ll be able to check out Evilution in September and Jack in October.
The movies will be released by up-and-coming outfit Brink DVD as the first in a planned slate of genre releases. “Brink has a simple strategy: We only acquire films that kill the other genre pictures in both spirit and practice,” says Brink vice president of acquisitions and development John Silverstone. “Death sells! And I couldn’t think of two better gore-soaked features than Evilution and Basement Jack to kick off this new venture.”
In Evilution (pictured below), scripted by O’Toole and directed by Chris Conlee, an Army scientist steals an alien specimen
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
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