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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Six

1 hour ago | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »

The Last Airbender

Opens: July 2nd 2010

Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.

Analysis: Its been quite the decade for M. Night Shyamalan who started it as a household name with labels of a moodern-day Hitchcock thanks to the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Today he's considered more of a one-trick pony and in some cases a punchline due to rampant stories of egomania run wild and a series of much derided onscreen flops like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening".

Thus 'Airbender' marks a potential return to form for the helmer. An adaptation of his hit cartoon series »

- Garth Franklin

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Amelie director’s new film: Micmacs trailer

3 December 2009 8:48 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

After a five year absence Jean-Pierre Jeunet is to make a return to directing with the film Micmancs A Tire-Larigot. Hoping to expand upon his impressive oeuvre, which also contains Amelie and A Very Long Engagement, Jeunet’s latest tale features a character named Basil who seeks revenge when he is shot in the head. The source of his ire, however, is not a gang, or a lone assassin but rather the weapons manufacturers responsible for making the bullets. The film stars French comedian Dany Boon.

The UK trailer has just been released and can be found here. All the Jeunet trademarks – the yellow and green hues, the whimsical soundtrack and oddball characters – are present and correct suggesting his streak as France’s most universally popular director will go unchallenged.

Related posts:Second ‘Toy Story 3′ Trailer OnlineTrailer for Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lovely Bones’ debuts onlineRed band trailer for ‘Jennifer »

- Kieron

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs UK Movie Trailer

2 December 2009 5:20 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

I'm an enormous fan of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (I even kind of liked parts of Alien: Resurrection. Kind of). So when I saw the teaser for his newest film, Micmacs A Tire-Larigot (or Micmacs to us Yanks), I was pretty psyched. The man hasn't made a movie since 2004's A Very Long Engagement, and even that film felt like watered-down Jeunet, showing only hints of the outlandish visuals, ultra-quirky characters, and greenish-orangish palette that are his trademark. Today sees the debut of the first UK trailer for Jeunet's Micmacs courtesy of Empire, and based on the trailer, it looks like the Jeunet we saw in films such as Delicatessen and La Cite des Enfants Perdus is back in full form. The film tells the story of Bazil (Dany Boon) who is accidentally shot in the head. Rather than take the injury lying down, he resolves to take revenge on the »

- David Chen

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Ang Lee May Adapt Life of Pi

3 November 2009 2:48 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

After the box office disappointment of his last movie, Taking Woodstock, director Ang Lee is apparently looking to adapt an award-winning novel from Canada next. Averaging one feature every two years since The Hulk in 2003, Lee said that his next project "is two years ahead," but he told Digital Spy that he has a story in mind.

I think I'm going to do Life of Pi. A little boy adrift at sea with a tiger. It's a hard one to crack.

Written by Yann Martel and originally published in 2001, Life of Pi tells the story of Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, a young Indian boy stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a Bengal tiger named "Richard Parker." The British edition of Life of Pi won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the year after its release, and M. Night Shyamalan (The Happening »

- BrentJS Sprecher

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Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Awards 2009

27 October 2009 10:25 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

2009 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Awards 2009 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival: Oct. 16-25, 2009   A major box-office hit in its native Norway, Stian Kristiansen’s The Man Who Loved Yngve chronicles the (homo)sexual awakening of a small-town male teenager after another male teen starts attending his school.   Jury Awards Best Feature Film: The Man Who Loved Yngve, directed by Stian Kristiansen Feature Film Honorable Mention: I Can’t Think Straight, directed by Shamim Sarif Best Documentary Film: Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement, directed by Gréta Olafsdóttir and Susan Muska Best Short Film: Diana, directed by Aleem Khan Short Film Honourable Mention: Claiming the Title, directed by Jonathan Joiner and Robert H. Martin Most Innovative Short: The Apple, directed by Emilie Jouvet   Audience Awards Best [...] »

- Anna Robinson

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Driven to Distraction video blog (Ep. 21): Chicks with Flicks

13 October 2009 6:01 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

Dennis is at the Fairfax cinema with Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker, producers and co-directors of a powerful new documentary called Training Rules. The film looks at homophobia in women's sports, particularly the Penn State women's basketball program, where coach Rene Portland had a well publicized and unapologetic "no lesbians" policy for 27 years. As Dennis says, Coach Portland makes for the best screen villain since Cruella DeVille.

You can find out more about this film at TrainingRules.com

Later, Dennis speaks with Ibby Carothers about Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement. This film won the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at this year's Outfest, and vividly presents the life of a lesbian couple that finally marries after 42 years as a couple.

Edie & Thea will air on Sundance this winter, and you can find out more about the film via Facebook page.

Check out the latest edition of Dennis Hensley »

- dennis

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50 Essential Foreign Films 2000-2008 (Part 1) - Spotlight on French Cinema

2 September 2009 4:17 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Films on the cutting edge. That's how I would describe the 50 movies on this list. While some moviegoers may find it an 'alien' experience to refer to sub-titles in understanding what's happening on the big screen, a good number of audiences are totally enjoying the different and often surprising take by many foreign filmmakers, nothwithstanding the language barrier.

Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

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André Téchiné, Catherine Breillat, Julian Schnabel, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Christophe Barratier, Jacques Audiard, Cedric Clapisch, Francois Ozon... they are, »

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50 Essential Foreign Films 2000-2008 (Part 1) - Spotlight on French Cinema

2 September 2009 4:17 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Films on the cutting edge. That's how I would describe the 50 movies on this list. While some moviegoers may find it an 'alien' experience to refer to sub-titles in understanding what's happening on the big screen, a good number of audiences are totally enjoying the different and often surprising take by many foreign filmmakers, nothwithstanding the language barrier.

Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

André Téchiné, Catherine Breillat, Julian Schnabel, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Christophe Barratier, Jacques Audiard, Cedric Clapisch, Francois Ozon... they are, »

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50 Essential Foreign Films 2000-2008 (Part 1) - Spotlight on French Cinema

2 September 2009 4:17 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Films on the cutting edge. That's how I would describe the 50 movies on this list. While some moviegoers may find it an 'alien' experience to refer to sub-titles in understanding what's happening on the big screen, a good number of audiences are totally enjoying the different and often surprising take by many foreign filmmakers, nothwithstanding the language barrier.

Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

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André Téchiné, Catherine Breillat, Julian Schnabel, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Christophe Barratier, Jacques Audiard, Cedric Clapisch, Francois Ozon... they are, »

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New Half Blood Prince Photos

17 April 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

Warner Brothers just sent us a slew of new photos for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince! Check them out below. In “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” Lord Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and Wizard worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. Two-time Oscar nominee Bruno Delbonnel (“A Very Long Engagement,” “Amelie”) will serv »

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First Looks at Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 'Micmacs a tire-larigot'

15 March 2009 2:21 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Photo: B. Calvo - Tapioca Films-Epithete Films Jean-Pierre Jeunet is best known to most as the director of Amelie, others add Delicatessen to the mix and then others remember his last film A Very Long Engagement, and believe it or not that was five years ago. Oh, some may also remember Alien: Resurrection, not sure where most of you fall on that one. Well, the wait for the next Jeunet feature is not too far off as his next film Micmacs a tire-larigot is set to hit French theaters on October 29, and hopefully not too long after here in the States with Warner Bros. currently holding distribution rights. The film is described as a satirical comedy looking at the world of weapons merchants and is said to be in the same vein as Amelie and Delicatessen. I have found a variety of plotlines around the Internet, but they are either extremely simplified or in French. »

- Brad Brevet

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Delicatessen And Amelie Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Returns With Micmacs A Tire Larigot!

14 March 2009 10:23 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

We ran some still sfrom Jean Pierre Jeunet’s upcoming film a little while back but, as it turned out, those had not yet been cleared for release and we were quickly asked to take them down.  But now a new block of stills and behind the scenes shots have been released and so we’re bumping this back up.]

Not so long ago the word was that French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet would be directing a big screen adaptation of acclaimed novel The Life Of Pi a decision that seemed sound on all sides - he’s definitely got the needed outlook and skills to pull it off - but at the same time rather bland and safe and boring.  And so there was no weeping in the House of Twitch when word surfaced that Jeunet was withdrawing from that project - the official reason was given as budgetary concerns »

- Todd Brown

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Kamikaze Girls On Region 2 (UK) DVD 26th January 2009

22 January 2009 5:19 AM, PST | Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news »

Japanese director Tetsuya Nakashima (Memories Of Matsuko) has rapidly earned himself a reputation as a hugely talented and idiosyncratic auteur whose genre-busting films have been favourably compared to the work of directors such as Tim Burton (Charlie And The Chocolate Factory; Big Fish), Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge; Romeo And Juliet) and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (A Very Long Engagement; Amelie). Now, the pop culture phenomenon that has taken Japan by storm, Nakashima's Kamikaze Girls, comes to DVD courtesy of Third Window Films.

Based on the bestselling novel-turned-manga by cult author Novala Takemoto, Kamikaze Girls concerns 17-year-old Momoko (Kyoko Fukada), a self-absorbed dreamer and ‘Lolita' fashion obsessive whose love of all things Rococo sees her fantasizing about fleeing her backcountry home and living life in 18th Century Versailles.

While selling off her father's supplies of bootleg designer fashion goods in order to fund her expensive obsession, Momoko unexpectedly meets the rebellious Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya »

- Leigh

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