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  • 18 Apr

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    M-SPIFF Review: The White Tiger

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    Director: Karen Shakhnazarov (Vanished Empire, Ward No. 6)
    Screenplay: Aleksandr Borodyanskiy, Karen Shakhnazarov
    Novel: Ilya Boyashov
    Producers: Galina Shadur, Karen Shakhnazarov
    Starring: Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov, Gerasim Arkhipov, Aleksandr Vakhov
    MPAA Rating: NR
    Running time: 104 min.
    Country of Origin: Russia

    (4/5)

     
    Fans of minimal war films will likely be right at home with Karen Shakhnazarov’s battle tank movie. Though clearly on a smaller budget, Shakhnazarov knows exactly where every ruble needs to go and where it doesn’t. So you’re not going to see huge, epic tank battles reminiscent of something like Patton. Rather, this is a personal vendetta film in which a Russian soldier with amnesia needs to destroy the mysterious Nazi tank that appears to be impenetrable and possibly even supernatural in nature.

    After being burned alive but miraculously surviving, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with the destruction of this somewhat mystical enemy with no face. With the help of the Russian high command and a new super tank built for being up to the task, Naydenov hides in swamps and forests and fox holes with his state-of-the-art weapon of war just lying in wait for his opponent. Bested each time, even after the war has officially been won, Naydenov continues his search for the tank that disfigured him leading to an exciting and harrowing (almost western-like genre) stand off in an abandoned village between the two tanks.
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  • 17 Nov

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    Now Playing at the Row Three Rep: The Nazi Occupation Triple Bill

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    [Row Three programming if we owned a Rep Cinema]

    The Nazi Occupation Triple Bill

    Rome Open City – 5pm
    The Last Metro – 7pm
    Army of Shadows – 9:30pm

    Europe in the earlier half of the 1940s was thick with uncertainty, fear, and violence, gripped by the ever-spreading menace of Nazi Germany. The cities and countries that fell before it – not least of all portions of Italy and France – were forced to confront the new, stifling conditions of occupation. The civilians who chose to stay carried on as best they could while others rose to new challenges in their tireless efforts to evade, thwart, and defeat the invaders. This time of soldiers, spies, traitors, and heroes has become the stuff of many great films that span a gamut of genres from action to romance to tragic drama. The three films chosen for this triple bill come from some of Europe’s most renowned arthouse legends, each of whom produced their own distinct and personal chronicle of life under Nazi occupation. Through strikingly different cinematic styles and perspectives, viewers will be led along a winding path of tense situations, deep emotions, and ethical conflicts brought about by this dramatic chapter of history.
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  • 25 Oct

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    Flyway Film Fest Dispatch #5: Documentarian Howard Reich

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    One of the most intriguing films to come to Pepin this year is the documentary Prisoner of Her Past. Chicago Tribune Jazz critic Howard Reich sits down with us to talk about how and why his mother of 69 years one day decided to flee her Chicago home in the middle of the night insisting to police later that people were trying to kill her. After an evaluation we learn that Sonia actually has a rare form of delusion: Late Onset Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

    During World War II, it turns out that as a ten year-old child, Sonia was forced to go on the run and into hiding through the German occupation of her country and witnessed unspeakable atrocities. These tragic events are now rearing their ugly head all these years later within Sonia’s psyche. After writing an article about the ordeal for the Chicago Tribune, he’s decided to investigate further and document the entire personal journey on film that takes him across the globe and chance encounters with other war survivors and people who actually knew his mother as a child. It’s an absolutely fascinating journey of discovery that’s both heart warming and heart wrenching at the same time.

    Howard was gracious enough to sit down with us and discuss how he went about making the film and his discoveries and feelings as he progressed through this trek over the past few months/years.

     

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    LINKS:
    Prisoner of Her Past Official film site
    Purchase the DVD
    Sonia’s story in Book form written by Howard himself
    Howard’s Blog documenting screenings and events since the making of the film

     

  • 14 May

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    New “Iron Sky” Trailer

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    Doesn’t it feel like we’ve been waiting for this movie for years now? Yes it does. And the reason is because we’ve been waiting for it for years. I first learned of moon Nazis when we posted a link over to Twitchfilm that had some neat concept art and still imagery. Then not two weeks later a trailer was released. That was over two years ago. Then last year some more grumblings of the film about came when the marketing department for the film sluggishly went a little further with a motion poster. Here we are a year later and yet another trailer is released – still without any sense of plot, characters or dialogue. Sigh.

    But nevertheless it is pretty damn awesome!

     

     
    It’s weird that all of this marketing and footage has been floating around for at least two years now and according to the web site, principal photography hasn’t even started yet! The movie will begin shooting this summer with a premier release in August of 2011. The company is still looking for funding however and if you have an extra fifty quid lying around, maybe you can join the war effort.

    Seriously. This looks like loads of wicked fun. Hopefully for my August birthday I’ll be able to gather a group of friends and watch Earth cower in fear of an intergalactic Nazi invasion!

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  • 25 Feb

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    Cinecast Episode 156 – Metaphorical Make-Up Sex

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    SPOILERS ALERT!
     
    Shutter Island has been a big topic of discussion around here and the whole of the movie-based internet sites over the past week and we’re obliged to continue that discussion as Matt Gamble joins in for a full on spoiler discussion of the movie – including hashing out the continuity errors once and for all! We also saw plenty of other great cinema since last week including a revisiting of Mulholland Drive and escaping back to the original versions of both The Collector and The Crazies. Kurt managed to catch up with the new version of the latter film while Andrew made time for the Oscar nominated (acting) The Last Station as well as the German mountaineering picture, North Face. So lots to get into here as well as some new DVD releases and other tic bits of awesome. It was a great show and we hope you enjoy the listen.

    As always, feel free to leave your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!

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  • 28 Oct

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    Review: Død snø

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    Director: Tommy Wirkola
    Writers: Stig Frode Henriksen, Tommy Wirkola
    Producers: Terje Stroemstad, Tomas Evjen
    Starring: Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner, Lasse Valdal, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Jeppe Laursen, Jenny Skavlan
    MPAA Rating: R
    Running time: 91 min.

    (3.5/5)

     

    The market is becoming overly saturated with zombie movies. As much as I love the sub-genre, I have to admit that even I am getting sick of it (just look at my review for the pandering, Zombieland). Once in a while though you get a movie that ups the ante just enough to make the experience quite enjoyable. I realize this isn’t the first time we’ve seen the Nazi undead, but this is the first one I know of that really makes it fun to sit through – assuming of course you’re not the squeamish type.

    The movie starts as a fairly typical looking slasher style movie: a group of med students on vacation head into the wilderness (in this case a snowy mountain range in Norway) for a drunken weekend in a desolate cabin where no one can hear them scream. A creepy old man shows up out of nowhere to basically tell them (and the audience) to watch out for the “evil in these hills” (in this case, the souls of dead Nazis); then disappears without a trace. The kids of course then proceed to partake in various, stupid activities that one should never partake in whilst in the middle of a horror film (like have sex in a darkened outhouse in the middle of the night). Just when all hope is lost and the film seems like it is going to be typical, boring slasher thriller, the kills begin to emerge. And they keep coming and then just get better and better and better.
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  • 25 Aug

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    Cinecast Episode 136 – We have a Bingo!

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    Episode 136:
    Jay Cheel (Film Junk/The Documentary Blog) joins the boys today for a good dissection (and an inordinate amount of time spent) on the cinema of our old friend Quentin Tarantino and his latest flick, Inglourious Basterds. Note *MAJOR SPOILERS* in the 80 minute discussion. Toronto After Dark wrap-ups with talk of Nazi Zombies (Dead Snow), Romanian vampires (Strigoi) and blood sucking babies (Grace). And Jay digs through the multitude of hours spent watching BluRay to talk documentaries, grindhouse and a little Jacques Tati. DVD picks, ‘sleepy’ Gamble, Acid spurting ‘Zompires’ (‘Vombies?’), and a Political-Romantic-Comedy-Rockumentary (Kurt’s new favourite ‘genre’ (in big air-quotes), consisting of only one indie Japanese film!) on this epic length show… and there might even be the patented Jay Cheel sing-a-long bit.

    Thanks for listening!

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  • 04 Jun

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    Cinecast Episode 124 – Go To Hell

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    Episode 124:
    What a great weekend at the movies! Kurt and Andrew revel in this fact and really get into a positive discussion over some great films. DVD picks are fun and whoops, this thing turns into nearly 3 hours after a fairly lengthy tangent on the intricacies of lending out DVDs. Nice.
    Thanks for listening!

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  • 22 Jan

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    Teaser Clips from Nazi Zombie-fest, “Dead Snow”

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    Before we get to the clips, and there several of them, take a look at some of the artwork. I really, REALLY like it. Aside from the apprehension of displaying a swastika, some of these posters I would actually consider hanging on my wall at home (particularly that middle one).

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    thanks to collider [via filmstalker] for the clips and ShocktilYouDrop for the poster images.

    UPDATE: Another poster surfaces thanks to Movie Poster Addict. Just click on the image for the big sucker…

    In order to not bog down the post (and make commenting difficult), We’ve placed all of the clips over on this page for perusing. Enjoy!

    I did stick just the trailer below though…
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  • 14 Jan

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    New Dead Snow Poster

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    We mentioned it one other time here, so not much to say about it other than that right now. But thought everyone should see the new poster for the upcoming ass-kicking brilliance of Dead Snow.

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    Dead Snow poster

    Thanks RushPrint! [via Cinematical]

  • 05 Dec

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    Friday Horror Trailer #2: Dead Snow

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    Unlike the post below on Friday the 13th, which I am not looking forward to, this little gem out of Norway had me giddy this morning when I was emailed of this awesomeness by Kurt. Død snø is all about teenagers getting whacked. But they’re being whacked by Nazi Zombies in the snowy mountains. That’s really all I need to hear to get excited. But after viewing this trailer I’m even more jazzed about this little indie zombie picture. Sure we’ve seen zombies and Nazis before, but these guys look fantastic and again awesome. Don’t take my word for it though, check out the trailer below. Again, thanks to Kurt for the heads up!