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[Welcome To Twitch. Spreading the News On Strange Little Films From Around the World.] Man, but when it rains it pours and right now it's raining cheap box sets of great films from the western world in Korea. They just released Francois Ozon and Wim Wenders sets and now they've got one coming for Jim Jarmusch.
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[Filmmaking For The Poor] Jon Moritsugu Interview: Moritsugu's latest feature "Scumrock", shot on the shockingly amateur and inexpensive Hi-8 analog video format and starring, among others, musician Kyp Malone from the well respected indie band TV on the Radio, won Best Feature award at the 2003 New York Underground Film Festival and Best Feature award at the 2002 Chicago Underground Film Festival. His career is being celebrated locally and abroad.
[Crushed by Inertia] The Best Films of 2005: There are still some well-reviewed 2005 films that I have not managed to see, like Brokeback Mountain and Syriana and The New World. I really would like to watch those before publishing any kind definitive take on the Year in Movies...but I've got to run with this list while it's still timely.
[Splinister.com] upcoming rentals - Splinister Blog: it's Bill Murray - what else do I need to say? 6: 3-Iron Or Bin-Jip as it's known in its native Korean.
[Daily.greencine.com] GreenCine Daily: The advance word on the documentary, as if such rumors should ever be believed, is that it was a work of exploitation, a snuff film. It's been thirty years now that people have been talking about snuff films, in which a person (almost always a woman, usually a prostitute) is actually killed in front of the camera.
[Kaijushakedown.com] Kaiju Shakedown: US CRITICS UNSYMPATHETIC: His first big film was JSA, a movie that went on to be a Korean blockbuster but was so unpopular when it was being made that his production office was actually occupied and his crew held hostage by Korean Army vets who objected to the movie. When JSA went on to be a mammoth success he used that as a blank check to make SYMPATHY, a grim relentless probing at societal decay and movie violence that audiences stayed away from in droves.
[Filmmakermagazine.com] Filmmaker Magazine: Blog: Distilling influences ranging from Alain Resnais to Rick Linklater to Jim Jarmusch, Police Beat is an utterly gorgeous portrait of lovesickness set against the psychic turmoil that is post 9/11 American life. A Muslim-American police officer goes on bike patrol all over Seattle -- which is shot in anamorphic 35mm like some exotic new country by d.p.
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Posted at May 07, 2006 03:52 AM
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