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From directors Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña (The Wolf House), and executive producer Ari Aster (Midsomma) comes the short black and white film The Bones. The fourteen-minute-long film is a fictitious account of the world’s first stop-motion animated film dated in 1901 and excavated in 2021 as Chile drafts a new Constitution, the footage documents a ritual performed by a girl who appears to use human corpses. Emerging in the ritual are Diego Portales and Jaime Guzmán, central figures in the construction of authoritarian and oligarchic Chile. The Bones is available exclusively on MUBI on December 8, 2021.
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The award-winning horror-thriller Rendez-Vous from writer-director Pablos Olmos Arrayales is out now on Digital and On Demand, from Level 33 Entertainment. . Filmed in one single take with no cuts, Rendez-Vous is an original Mexican thriller about a couple who meet online with one night, one chance to fall in love. When Lili and Eduardo meet up after connecting online, their first date takes an unexpected and terrifying turn as the evening progresses. In the English subtitled film, “Lili and Eduardo meet for the first time after connecting on a dating app. Eduardo arrives late but with a good reason in a place like Mexico City: he was mugged, and they took his phone so he couldn’t text her to say he was running late. While at first everything seems to be going fine, when Lili finds Eduardo’s phone in his jacket, things take an unexpected and terrifying turn for the worse.” Antonio Alcántara, Helena Puig, Markin López, Axel Zapién,
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The unique, award-winning sci-fi thriller Monochrome: The Chromism, the first film of a new franchise, is set to arrive this Fall. From writer-director Kodi Zene and producer Lozen Fükem, the film centers on Isaac Ward (Joshua Bangle), the first person to turn “hue” in this black and white world. After being shot in a downtown crossfire, he is found bleeding “red”. As Isaac’s body also begins to streak with color, other outbreaks develop across the globe. Isaac now struggles to survive while society tears itself apart to try to capture and comprehend these new unexplainable “hues”. Leaving countries at odds, at war and Isaac is determined to find answers. Cat Merritt, Devin Leigh, Ryan Barnes, Andre Pelzer, and Shashana Pearson also star. Monochrome: The Chromism lands On Demand on Friday, October 16, 2020, from Tempest Studios.
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When we think of Japanese Horror (J Horror) we think of movies like Ju-on (‘The Grudge’) Ringu (‘The Ring’) and classics like Kwaidan but those we’re dealing with the supernatural, things that some will feel they have a zero and donuts chance of encountering or telling themselves “It’s just a movie.” But an experimental film in 1926 took everything a step further by touching on the subconscious fear of the audience, reality itself. The film, A Page of Madness was directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa and released in Japan in 1926 and was feared lost after WWII till Kinugasa rediscovered the film in 1971 in a storehouse that he hid it in. The silent film has received a lot of mix reviews, a lot of the negative ones are based on the fact that they literally don’t know what’s going on. Unlike most western silent films movie buffs are used to, Japanese silent films did not have intertitles, we now call
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From directors Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña (The Wolf House), and executive producer Ari Aster (Midsomma) comes the short black and white film The Bones. The fourteen-minute-long film is a fictitious account of the world’s first stop-motion animated film dated in 1901 and excavated in 2021 as Chile drafts a new Constitution, the footage documents a ritual performed by a girl who appears to use human corpses. Emerging in the ritual are Diego Portales and Jaime Guzmán, central figures in the construction of authoritarian and oligarchic Chile. The Bones is available exclusively on MUBI on December 8, 2021.
Continue reading →
ForeignIndieMoviesNewsThrillerTrailers
The award-winning horror-thriller Rendez-Vous from writer-director Pablos Olmos Arrayales is out now on Digital and On Demand, from Level 33 Entertainment. . Filmed in one single take with no cuts, Rendez-Vous is an original Mexican thriller about a couple who meet online with one night, one chance to fall in love. When Lili and Eduardo meet up after connecting online, their first date takes an unexpected and terrifying turn as the evening progresses. In the English subtitled film, “Lili and Eduardo meet for the first time after connecting on a dating app. Eduardo arrives late but with a good reason in a place like Mexico City: he was mugged, and they took his phone so he couldn’t text her to say he was running late. While at first everything seems to be going fine, when Lili finds Eduardo’s phone in his jacket, things take an unexpected and terrifying turn for the worse.” Antonio Alcántara, Helena Puig, Markin López, Axel Zapién,
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The unique, award-winning sci-fi thriller Monochrome: The Chromism, the first film of a new franchise, is set to arrive this Fall. From writer-director Kodi Zene and producer Lozen Fükem, the film centers on Isaac Ward (Joshua Bangle), the first person to turn “hue” in this black and white world. After being shot in a downtown crossfire, he is found bleeding “red”. As Isaac’s body also begins to streak with color, other outbreaks develop across the globe. Isaac now struggles to survive while society tears itself apart to try to capture and comprehend these new unexplainable “hues”. Leaving countries at odds, at war and Isaac is determined to find answers. Cat Merritt, Devin Leigh, Ryan Barnes, Andre Pelzer, and Shashana Pearson also star. Monochrome: The Chromism lands On Demand on Friday, October 16, 2020, from Tempest Studios.
Continue reading →
ForeignIndieMoviesReviews
When we think of Japanese Horror (J Horror) we think of movies like Ju-on (‘The Grudge’) Ringu (‘The Ring’) and classics like Kwaidan but those we’re dealing with the supernatural, things that some will feel they have a zero and donuts chance of encountering or telling themselves “It’s just a movie.” But an experimental film in 1926 took everything a step further by touching on the subconscious fear of the audience, reality itself. The film, A Page of Madness was directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa and released in Japan in 1926 and was feared lost after WWII till Kinugasa rediscovered the film in 1971 in a storehouse that he hid it in. The silent film has received a lot of mix reviews, a lot of the negative ones are based on the fact that they literally don’t know what’s going on. Unlike most western silent films movie buffs are used to, Japanese silent films did not have intertitles, we now call
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