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  • Inseparable To Play At The Terracotta Festival

    Inseparable To Play At The Terracotta Festival

    The Terracotta Festival is proud to hold the European premiere of the Chinese movie Inseparable directed by Dayyan Eng, featuring Daniel Wu and Kevin Spacey.

    Inseparable tells the story of hopeless 30 year old Li (Wu), who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a strange American ex-pat, Chuck(Kevin Spacey in excellent comic form). They first meet when Chuck foils Li’s attempt at suicide, claiming to be his neighbour. He takes Li under his wing, gradually helping with his troubles at work, with life in general and his relationship woes with his wife, Pang (Gong), an investigative reporter who suffers from extreme mood swings. But is Chuck really who he says he is? And why do Li and Chuck “patrol the streets” like superheros late in to the night…?

    What clearly comes out of the Terracotta Festival line-up this year is the further increase in cross-border collaborations and a perfect example is this black comedy that sees Kevin Spacey as the first Hollywood star to appear in an all-China financed production.

    The film official release in China is due on May 2012.

  • Mitsuko Delivers A Lush Trailer

    Mitsuko Delivers A Lush Trailer

    Mitsuko is in her ninth month of pregnancy. Her parents (serial failed entrepreneurs) think that she’s in California with the baby’s GI father, and she’s happy to leave them in ignorance. But she’s actually back in Tokyo, broke and friendless. So she has her flat cleared, gets into a taxi she can’t pay for, and follows a cloud back to the little working-class alley where she grew up. The place is pretty run-down and depressed these days, but Mitsuko’s can-do, bull-in-a-china-shop attitude soon shakes everyone up. There’s much to be done. The little diner needs more customers, the alley’s elderly woman owner needs carers, the tongue-tied man who could never propose to the widow in the coffee-shop needs a push… So much to do, so little time before Mitsuko goes into labour. Yuya Ishii follows Sawako Decides with another breathless comic drama about a girl asserting herself when all around her are floundering.

  • The Somnambulists Looks Amazing

    The Somnambulists Looks Amazing

    The Somnambulists, the latest film from Scottish filmmaker Richard Jobson, surrounds 15 testimonies from British servicemen and women who were involved in the Iraq conflict in Basra. The film uses a cast of relatively unknown actors and is an imagined response to real-life eye-witness accounts from commanding officers, bomb disposal experts and medics.  We get insights into their camaraderie as well as their fears, their sense of loss and vulnerability. They create a ghostly presence as they talk about these experiences in a near documentary style and after each testimony the camera glides into the lives that might have been and the people they left behind.

    Check out the clip below.

  • 7 Movie Quotes To Get You Through Exams

    7 Movie Quotes To Get You Through Exams

    Here’s one…

    “My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.” (Animal House)

    Think you bombed that chemistry exam?  Worried about what Mum and Dad will think?  Don’t fret; just follow the advice of the ever-so-wise Bluto from Animal House, who tells his fraternity brother, Flounder, to “start drinking heavily” after they wreck his brother’s car. Of course, you should probably wait to start drinking heavily until after all of your finals are over.

    The rest are here.

  • Dragon Eyes Trailer

    Dragon Eyes Trailer

    Dragon Eyes stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Cung Le and Peter Weller.  Directed by John Hyams.  Written by Tim Tori.

    Welcome to St. Jude, a town where rival gangs rule the streets, where the chief of police is a cold-blooded killer, and where citizens have learned to keep their heads down. Then comes out-of-towner Ryan Hong. His vintage car attracts attention. His unbelievable marital arts skills cause a sensation. Sensing a human weapon, the rival gangs bid for Hong’s allegiance. But Hong is committed to honoring an old promise to a mentor he met in prison: that he will “do good” wherever possible. With a lethal combination of street smarts and martial arts, Hong vows to lift St. Jude’s citizens out of fear… even if he must turn into a one-man army to do it.