Police investigate a ticking time bomb which turns out to be a metronome. That witty scene is the perfect set up for this low-budget, off-kilter comedy from Swedish directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärneabout about a band of “terrorist” musicians who express themselves via kidnapping and bank robberies and the tone deaf, music-hating cop determined to track them down. One of the more obscure films we’ve featured here, but definitely worth looking up.
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- 7/15/2020
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die! continues at Trailers from Hell, with filmmaker Brian Trenchard-Smith taking on the Swedish musical comedy "Sound of Noise," from 2010. Police investigate a ticking time bomb which turns out to be a metronome. That witty scene is the perfect set up for this low-budget, off-kilter comedy from Swedish directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarneabout about a band of "terrorist" musicians who express themselves via kidnapping and bank robberies and the tone deaf, music-hating cop determined to track them down. One of the more obscure films we’ve featured here, but definitely worth looking up.
- 3/7/2014
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
Police investigate a ticking time bomb which turns out to be a metronome. That witty scene is the perfect set up for this low-budget, off-kilter comedy from Swedish directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärneabout about a band of “terrorist” musicians who express themselves via kidnapping and bank robberies and the tone deaf, music-hating cop determined to track them down. One of the more obscure films we’ve featured here, but definitely worth looking up.
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- 3/7/2014
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
If ever there was a film built for Twitch, Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson's Sound of Noise is definitely one. I don't throw that kind of praise around willy-nilly, in fact, the last film I gave such high marks was my number one film of 2011, Alex de la Iglesia's The Last Circus. Yes, Sound of Noise is that good. The combination of completely mental action and intricately designed musical set pieces is truly amazing to watch and gives a niche all its own.Unlike The Last Circus, which was relatively plot-heavy, Sound of Noise is entirely dependent upon action. There is some skeletal plot about a policeman, Amadeus, who was born tone deaf and a crew of six percussionists looking to wreak havoc...
- 8/9/2012
- Screen Anarchy
In the Swedish film, Sound of Noise, directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, six rogue, experimental musicians coordinate four guerilla performances throughout their city in an attempt to free its inhabitants from the stodgy tyranny of classical music. These six drummers hijack four different locations, performing avant-garde movements from their revolutionary score, “Music for One City and Six Drummers.” In each location, the group of criminal composers utilize everyday objects—a heart monitor, a shredding machine and even power lines, for example—in order to create a musical performance like no other. They break a few laws along the way....
- 3/24/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
“This is a gig!” screams a gang of masked assailants as they enter a busy Swedish bank. The customers are pushed and prodded, forced into a corner, hiding behind their ruffled suits as the perpetrators begin to activate the shredders, printing cash and destroying it in front of them, an activity that involves the ruffling of dollars, the tapping of keyboards, the clang of coins against glass, and yes, maybe some added percussive activities. It’s music, and it’s only one of many “attacks” from this ambitious group.
A terrorist group by definition, these musicians, who won’t sing or dance, instead perform acts of disruption, seeking no material gain aside from bringing the sound of chaos to everyone’s doorstep. To them, the enemy is convention, and while they arrange their attacks as “movements,” each with its own separate attack point, their weapon of choice are endless looping drums.
A terrorist group by definition, these musicians, who won’t sing or dance, instead perform acts of disruption, seeking no material gain aside from bringing the sound of chaos to everyone’s doorstep. To them, the enemy is convention, and while they arrange their attacks as “movements,” each with its own separate attack point, their weapon of choice are endless looping drums.
- 3/9/2012
- by Gabe Toro
- The Playlist
[With its limited U.S. theatrical release set to begin tomorrow, we revisit my review from Fantastic Fest 2010, where it deservedly won the Best Picture award.] How can something so simple be so joyful? Maybe that's the key. Like Jackie Chan, the six drummers in Sound of Noise believe in using everyday objects to make mayhem. As one of them says in a recruiting pitch, "it's dangerous, it's illegal, and it will change the world." If that quote's not quite accurate, it still captures the spirit of the Swedish-language film, directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson. They made a short film nine years ago, Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers, in which six people enter a stranger's apartment and make music...
- 3/8/2012
- Screen Anarchy
A heist pic, a police procedural, a musical and comedy all rolled into -- you won't be surprised to learn this inventive blend of genres doesn't come from Hollywood, but instead is finding its way to U.S. theaters via Sweden.
Directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, "The Sound Of Noise" centers on Amadeus Warnebring, a police officer born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically, he hates music, but he finds his life is thrown into chaos when a band of crazy musicians decide to perform a musical apocalypse using the city as their orchestra. Reluctantly, Warnebring embarks on his first musical investigation. "The Sound Of Noise" has played festivals worldwide, and won a handful of awards including the Young Critics Awards at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010.
Now, it's finally making its way to theaters stateside. Magnolia Pictures will begin rolling...
Directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, "The Sound Of Noise" centers on Amadeus Warnebring, a police officer born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically, he hates music, but he finds his life is thrown into chaos when a band of crazy musicians decide to perform a musical apocalypse using the city as their orchestra. Reluctantly, Warnebring embarks on his first musical investigation. "The Sound Of Noise" has played festivals worldwide, and won a handful of awards including the Young Critics Awards at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010.
Now, it's finally making its way to theaters stateside. Magnolia Pictures will begin rolling...
- 3/5/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Magnolia Pictures gives audiences their first look (and listen) at The Sound of Noise, the new film directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson. The winner of the Best Picture award at the 2010 Fantastic Fest film festival in Austin, Texas, Simonsson and Nilsson’s film follows a group of musicians who hold a city hostage while they perform unconventional pieces using found objects. Photos And Video: Cannes Film Festival 2011 Following its premiere during the International Critic’s Week of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, Wild Bunch Distribution released The Sound of Noise in France at the end of 2010.
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- 2/20/2012
- by Todd Gilchrist
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As the tagline suggests, here is a film that is the first of its kind. Imported from Sweden, Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson’s Sound of Noise is a musical heist dramedy wherein a group of musicians cause havoc in a city. It’s been a long journey for the indie film, shot way back in 2008 and premiering at Cannes Film Festival in 2010.
It showed at Fantastic Fest here in the states the same year, where it won the top prize at that fest. After getting acquired by Magnolia, it will finally see a release here next month. It looks like complete madness in a great way and I love the mix of genres and it looks to have a fitting semi-serious tone. Check out the trailer below via Apple.
Synopsis:
Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically,...
It showed at Fantastic Fest here in the states the same year, where it won the top prize at that fest. After getting acquired by Magnolia, it will finally see a release here next month. It looks like complete madness in a great way and I love the mix of genres and it looks to have a fitting semi-serious tone. Check out the trailer below via Apple.
Synopsis:
Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically,...
- 2/20/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The first musical cop movie! Or "Bonnie and Clyde on drums", which sounds pretty damn cool. Magnolia Pictures has debuted the official trailer via Apple for Sound of Noise, a film written and directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson. This Swedish crime musical features percussion set pieces throughout and it looks like a cinematic spectacle, I'm honestly a bit sad I missed this at Fantastic Fest (in late 2010), where it won Best Picture. But thankfully it'll be in theaters very soon! The cast includes: Bengt Nilsson, Sanna Persson Halapi, Magnus Borjeson and Johannes Bjork. Check out the fun full trailer below. Watch the official Us trailer for Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjarne Nilsson's Sound of Noise: You can also download the Sound of Noise official trailer in High Definition over on Apple Follows police officer Amadeus Warnebring, tone-deaf scion of a musical family, as he attempts to track...
- 2/20/2012
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Great news for fans of Scandinavian Cinema and good movies in general as Magnolia Pictures has announced that it will be releasing awesome Swedish comedy Sound Of Noise in Us theatres on 9 March. The film, directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson, is a fantastically inventive and life-affirming story that follows the crusade of a hipster gang of "musical terrorists" as they wreak havoc on the people of Stockholm, and the tone-deaf police officer, Amadeus Warnebring (Bengt Nilsson) who is determined to bring them to justice. I saw the film way back in September 2010, where it played Fantastic Fest to a rapturous reception, walking away with the Fantastic Film Award for Best Picture. For a while it looked like Sound Of Noise was...
- 2/20/2012
- Screen Anarchy
It's pretty embarrassing that I live in New York City and haven't been to a Rooftop Films event yet, since their whole thing is showing awesome indie movies -- many of them New York premieres -- in awesome outdoor venues (in my defense, I'm incredibly lazy). I met the guys who founded and run Rooftop at South by Southwest this year, and they're smart, passionate, and cool. They even funnel one dollar from every ticket sold to Rooftop screenings to a grant they dispense to filmmakers they like in order to help them fund future projects (SXSW selection "The City Dark," for example, was made with Rooftop funds).
For their fifteenth summer film series, Rooftop's pulled out all the stops. Highlights include the NYC premieres of Fantastic Fest favorite "Sound of Noise" (with a live performance by the film's "musical terrorists" [!!!]) and "Bellflower," one of my favorite films of the year so far,...
For their fifteenth summer film series, Rooftop's pulled out all the stops. Highlights include the NYC premieres of Fantastic Fest favorite "Sound of Noise" (with a live performance by the film's "musical terrorists" [!!!]) and "Bellflower," one of my favorite films of the year so far,...
- 5/10/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Sound of Noise Trailer You know that commercial with the dog who smells bacon and sees bacon but looks at a package with the bacon like strips and yells out,...
- 11/26/2010
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
And a drum roll, please, because here are the winners from the 2010 Sitges Festival.
Oficial FANTÀSTIC COMPETICIÓ Sitges 43
Jurat / Jurado / Jury
Francesco Barilli, Jaume Collet-Serra, Colin Geddes, Jan Harlan & Elena Manrique
Millor Curtmetratge / Mejor Cortometraje / Best Short Film
The Legend Of Beaver Damm de Jérôme Sable
Menció Especial pel seu original homenatge a una indiscutible obra mestra del cinema fantàstic / Mención Especial por su original homenaje a una indiscutible obra maestra del cine fantástico / Special Mention for its original tribute to one of the undisputed masterworks of the fantastic cinema
Vicenta de Sam Millor
Disseny de Producció / Mejor Diseño de Producción / Best Production Design
Yuji Hayashida per Thirteen Assassins
Millors Efectes de Maquillatge / Mejores Efectos de Maquillaje / Best Make Up FX
Vitaya Deerattakul & Andrew Lin per Dream Home
Millors Efectes Especials / Mejores Efectos Especiales / Best Special Effects
Gareth Edwards per Monsters
Millor Banda Sonora Original / Mejor Banda Sonora Original / Best Original Soundtrack
Seppuku Paradigm,...
Oficial FANTÀSTIC COMPETICIÓ Sitges 43
Jurat / Jurado / Jury
Francesco Barilli, Jaume Collet-Serra, Colin Geddes, Jan Harlan & Elena Manrique
Millor Curtmetratge / Mejor Cortometraje / Best Short Film
The Legend Of Beaver Damm de Jérôme Sable
Menció Especial pel seu original homenatge a una indiscutible obra mestra del cinema fantàstic / Mención Especial por su original homenaje a una indiscutible obra maestra del cine fantástico / Special Mention for its original tribute to one of the undisputed masterworks of the fantastic cinema
Vicenta de Sam Millor
Disseny de Producció / Mejor Diseño de Producción / Best Production Design
Yuji Hayashida per Thirteen Assassins
Millors Efectes de Maquillatge / Mejores Efectos de Maquillaje / Best Make Up FX
Vitaya Deerattakul & Andrew Lin per Dream Home
Millors Efectes Especials / Mejores Efectos Especiales / Best Special Effects
Gareth Edwards per Monsters
Millor Banda Sonora Original / Mejor Banda Sonora Original / Best Original Soundtrack
Seppuku Paradigm,...
- 10/16/2010
- Screen Anarchy
After eight crazy days, Fantastic Fest 2010 is in the books. Here's an index to all of our coverage, reviews, features, interviews, videos, and podcasts.
Last Updated: 10/01/2010
Reviews
"Red," directed by Robert Schwentke
"Agnosia," directed by Eugenio Mira
"Bibliotheque Pascal," directed by Szabolcs Hajdu
"Corridor," directed by Johan Lundborg and Johan Storm
"Fatso," directed by Arild Fröhlich
"Fire of Conscience," directed by Dante Lam
"Ip Man 2," directed by Wilson Yip
"I Saw the Devil," directed by Kim Ji-woon
Kidnapped," directed by Miguel Angel Vivas
"Let Me In," directed by Matt Reeves
"The Man From Nowhere," directed by Lee Jung-beom
"Outrage," directed by Takeshi Kitano
"Red White and Blue," directed by Simon Rumley
"A Somewhat Gentle Man," directed by Hans Petter Moland
"Sound of Noise," directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Interviews
Mark Hartley, "Machete Maidens Unleashed"
Ryan Kwanten and Patrick Hughes, "Red Hill"
Andrew Lau, "Legend of the Fist"
Ryan Reynolds and Rodrigo Cortés,...
Last Updated: 10/01/2010
Reviews
"Red," directed by Robert Schwentke
"Agnosia," directed by Eugenio Mira
"Bibliotheque Pascal," directed by Szabolcs Hajdu
"Corridor," directed by Johan Lundborg and Johan Storm
"Fatso," directed by Arild Fröhlich
"Fire of Conscience," directed by Dante Lam
"Ip Man 2," directed by Wilson Yip
"I Saw the Devil," directed by Kim Ji-woon
Kidnapped," directed by Miguel Angel Vivas
"Let Me In," directed by Matt Reeves
"The Man From Nowhere," directed by Lee Jung-beom
"Outrage," directed by Takeshi Kitano
"Red White and Blue," directed by Simon Rumley
"A Somewhat Gentle Man," directed by Hans Petter Moland
"Sound of Noise," directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Interviews
Mark Hartley, "Machete Maidens Unleashed"
Ryan Kwanten and Patrick Hughes, "Red Hill"
Andrew Lau, "Legend of the Fist"
Ryan Reynolds and Rodrigo Cortés,...
- 10/1/2010
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Reviewed at Fantastic Fest 2010.
For a fresh take on the heist movie, just add music. The inventive Swedish comedy "Sound of Noise" (directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson) is about a band of musical malcontents who break into a hospital, a bank ("This is a gig! We're only here for the music!" they yell) and other public places to play compositions using the surroundings as their instruments. Led by Sanna (Sanna Persson), the sextet attempt to perform a piece called "Music for One City and Six Drummers" that composer Magnus (Magnus Börjeson) describes, in a mild understatement, as "conceptual."
But in a town where the major musical excitement surrounds a Haydn concert and speakers on the street pipe in saccharine muzak, a little sonic terrorism doesn't seem entirely out of the question. It's "Sound of Noise"'s central lark that instead of this rebellion arriving via the usual path of rock and roll,...
For a fresh take on the heist movie, just add music. The inventive Swedish comedy "Sound of Noise" (directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson) is about a band of musical malcontents who break into a hospital, a bank ("This is a gig! We're only here for the music!" they yell) and other public places to play compositions using the surroundings as their instruments. Led by Sanna (Sanna Persson), the sextet attempt to perform a piece called "Music for One City and Six Drummers" that composer Magnus (Magnus Börjeson) describes, in a mild understatement, as "conceptual."
But in a town where the major musical excitement surrounds a Haydn concert and speakers on the street pipe in saccharine muzak, a little sonic terrorism doesn't seem entirely out of the question. It's "Sound of Noise"'s central lark that instead of this rebellion arriving via the usual path of rock and roll,...
- 9/26/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
How can something so simple be so joyful? Maybe that's the key. Like Jackie Chan, the six drummers in Sound Of Noise believe in using everyday objects to make mayhem. As one of them says in a recruiting pitch, "it's dangerous, it's illegal, and it will change the world."
If that quote's not quite accurate, it still captures the spirit of the Swedish-language film, directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson. They made a short film nine years ago, Music For One Apartment And Six Drummers, in which six people enter a stranger's apartment and make music out of whatever they find in each room. (Sample: toothbrushes, cleansing agents, towels, toilet seats, light switches, and so forth.) The short is played before the film, which, as good as it was, immediately raised the question of how a feature-length version would play.
Sound Of Noise expands the idea exponentially. Magnus...
If that quote's not quite accurate, it still captures the spirit of the Swedish-language film, directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson. They made a short film nine years ago, Music For One Apartment And Six Drummers, in which six people enter a stranger's apartment and make music out of whatever they find in each room. (Sample: toothbrushes, cleansing agents, towels, toilet seats, light switches, and so forth.) The short is played before the film, which, as good as it was, immediately raised the question of how a feature-length version would play.
Sound Of Noise expands the idea exponentially. Magnus...
- 9/26/2010
- Screen Anarchy
The 2010 edition of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival has just announced their complete Noves Visions program. The program where the festival places the young, edgy material, this is the big discovery program of the festival. Here's the announcement!
Noves Visions, The Most Indie
And Daring Section At Sitges 2010
The 43rd Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, that will take place 7 to 17 October, presents its lineup for the Noves Visions section:
Noves Visions - FICCIÓ Section
Exploration of new territories in narration, placing emphasis on both thematic and formal aspects of films that are a vision of the present as well as a disturbing premonition of times to come.
A Horrible Way To Die (Adam Wingard, USA)
Chatroom (Hideo Nakata, UK)
Dispongo De Barcos (Juan Cavestany, Spain)
Earthling (Clay Liford, USA)
Everything Will Be Fine (Christoffer Boe, Denmark)
Finisterrae (Out of competition. Sergio Caballero, Spain)
Isolation (Stephen T. Kay,...
Noves Visions, The Most Indie
And Daring Section At Sitges 2010
The 43rd Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, that will take place 7 to 17 October, presents its lineup for the Noves Visions section:
Noves Visions - FICCIÓ Section
Exploration of new territories in narration, placing emphasis on both thematic and formal aspects of films that are a vision of the present as well as a disturbing premonition of times to come.
A Horrible Way To Die (Adam Wingard, USA)
Chatroom (Hideo Nakata, UK)
Dispongo De Barcos (Juan Cavestany, Spain)
Earthling (Clay Liford, USA)
Everything Will Be Fine (Christoffer Boe, Denmark)
Finisterrae (Out of competition. Sergio Caballero, Spain)
Isolation (Stephen T. Kay,...
- 9/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Fantastic Fest Logo 2010Fantastic Fest is moving into its sixth year and the 2010 event will take place in Austin, Texas September 23rd. This year's showings will include over fourty short films, each of which has been listed below. The horror short highlights include the creature feature "Culebra," the exorcist fueled "Deus Irae," the comical "The Legend of Beaver Dam," the dark "La Petit Mort" and undead characterizations in "Only Son." More details on the horror shorts are available below, along with the entire 2010 Fantastic Fest short film lineup.
"5 Minute Dating"
Canada
Director: Peter Hatch.
"A dating service where anyone can find their soul mate" (Fantastic).
"12 Years"
Germany
Director: Daniel Nocke.
"We're not the only species that needs to endure the wrenching pain of relationships gone sour" (Fantastic).
"The Astronomer's Sun"
Director: David Bunting.
"Lovely animated story about a boy and his bear and the secrets of the universe."
"Atomic Hubbub"
UK
Director: Stephen Irwin.
"5 Minute Dating"
Canada
Director: Peter Hatch.
"A dating service where anyone can find their soul mate" (Fantastic).
"12 Years"
Germany
Director: Daniel Nocke.
"We're not the only species that needs to endure the wrenching pain of relationships gone sour" (Fantastic).
"The Astronomer's Sun"
Director: David Bunting.
"Lovely animated story about a boy and his bear and the secrets of the universe."
"Atomic Hubbub"
UK
Director: Stephen Irwin.
- 9/3/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Hot diggity! Fantastic Fest is screening a whole lot of shorts and they're a whole lot of good. We've featured a number of these on Twitch in the past so get searching to turn up a fistful of happiness. Here's the full announcement!
Fantastic Fest 2010 Announces Full Short Films Slate
Over 40 Genre-Bending Shorts From Across The Globe
Set To Premiere At This Year's Festival
Austin, TX---Friday, September 3, 2010--- Fantastic Fest announces the full short films lineup, including over 40 genre-bending selections from around the world. The festival has amassed the ultimate array of cool, twisted, beautiful, mind-bending, horrifying and hilarious short films. The best short films can pack in more emotion, laughs adrenaline, creativity and flat-out insanity than a million big-budget blockbusters. Or they can show you something so ambitiously horrendous that you beg for mercy.
Fantastic Fest 2010 Short Film Lineup
5 Minute Dating
Canada, Director: Peter Hatch
A dating service...
Fantastic Fest 2010 Announces Full Short Films Slate
Over 40 Genre-Bending Shorts From Across The Globe
Set To Premiere At This Year's Festival
Austin, TX---Friday, September 3, 2010--- Fantastic Fest announces the full short films lineup, including over 40 genre-bending selections from around the world. The festival has amassed the ultimate array of cool, twisted, beautiful, mind-bending, horrifying and hilarious short films. The best short films can pack in more emotion, laughs adrenaline, creativity and flat-out insanity than a million big-budget blockbusters. Or they can show you something so ambitiously horrendous that you beg for mercy.
Fantastic Fest 2010 Short Film Lineup
5 Minute Dating
Canada, Director: Peter Hatch
A dating service...
- 9/3/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Fantastic Fest has announced its full 2010 short films lineup, including over 40 genre-bending selections from around the world. The festival has amassed the ultimate array of cool, twisted, beautiful, mind-bending, horrifying and hilarious short films. The best short films can pack in more emotion, laughs adrenaline, creativity and flat-out insanity than a million big-budget blockbusters. Or they can show you something so ambitiously horrendous that you beg for mercy.
Fantastic Fest 2010 Short Film Lineup
5 Minute Dating
Canada, Director: Peter Hatch
A dating service where anyone can find their soul mate.
12 Years
Germany, Director: Daniel Nocke
We’re not the only species that needs to endure the wrenching pain of relationships gone sour.
The Astronomer’s Sun
UK, Director: David Bunting
Lovely animated story about a boy and his bear and the secrets of the universe
Atomic Hubbub
UK, Director: Stephen Irwin
Here’s the newest way to enjoy mankind’s impending self-apocalypse.
Fantastic Fest 2010 Short Film Lineup
5 Minute Dating
Canada, Director: Peter Hatch
A dating service where anyone can find their soul mate.
12 Years
Germany, Director: Daniel Nocke
We’re not the only species that needs to endure the wrenching pain of relationships gone sour.
The Astronomer’s Sun
UK, Director: David Bunting
Lovely animated story about a boy and his bear and the secrets of the universe
Atomic Hubbub
UK, Director: Stephen Irwin
Here’s the newest way to enjoy mankind’s impending self-apocalypse.
- 9/3/2010
- by Lars Nilsen
- OriginalAlamo.com
As we end the Summer of 2010, we leave a series of box office bombs behind us, and look forward to an incredible film festival season this fall. With such film festivals as Toronto, New York, and Venice to look forward to, this year may still be saved for the cineastes of the world. One film festival in particular that may not be on your radar, but deserves to be placed alongside those others, is Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, taking place September 23-30.
Last month they announced their first wave of films (listed below), and this morning, they’ve announced their second wave, a total of 16 more films. It is an incredible line up of horror, martial arts, sci-fi, and other genre films. I’ve listed the films announced below, and while I won’t be able to make it to Austin next month to attend, I can tell you that if you are going,...
Last month they announced their first wave of films (listed below), and this morning, they’ve announced their second wave, a total of 16 more films. It is an incredible line up of horror, martial arts, sci-fi, and other genre films. I’ve listed the films announced below, and while I won’t be able to make it to Austin next month to attend, I can tell you that if you are going,...
- 8/27/2010
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
The Dead Movie Still 2010
Fantastic Fest 2010 is taking place in Austin, Texas beginning September 23 and this film festival lasts one week. This event hosts some of the finest in film, from horror to sci-fi and even some fantasy is thrown in. This year Fantastic Fest has announced the first thirteen films in the line-up and this year's event will show some of Asia's most horrifying, while offering a quaint tale of a "psychokinetic automobile tire" in Rubber (Fantastic). Have a look at the first wave of cinema for Fantastic Fest here and inside.
Bedevilled (2010)
Director: Cheol-soo Jang, South Korea, 115 minutes
"If you beat, brutalize, dehumanize and torment a country girl for her entire life, take note: when she reaches the breaking point, you’d best hide the farm implements" (Fantastic).
Corridor Movie Still
Corridor (2009)
Directors: Johan Lundborg and Johan Storm, Sweden, 80 min
"Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat,...
Fantastic Fest 2010 is taking place in Austin, Texas beginning September 23 and this film festival lasts one week. This event hosts some of the finest in film, from horror to sci-fi and even some fantasy is thrown in. This year Fantastic Fest has announced the first thirteen films in the line-up and this year's event will show some of Asia's most horrifying, while offering a quaint tale of a "psychokinetic automobile tire" in Rubber (Fantastic). Have a look at the first wave of cinema for Fantastic Fest here and inside.
Bedevilled (2010)
Director: Cheol-soo Jang, South Korea, 115 minutes
"If you beat, brutalize, dehumanize and torment a country girl for her entire life, take note: when she reaches the breaking point, you’d best hide the farm implements" (Fantastic).
Corridor Movie Still
Corridor (2009)
Directors: Johan Lundborg and Johan Storm, Sweden, 80 min
"Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat,...
- 7/21/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
We all love our horror film festivals and today Fantastic Fest 2010 announced the first wave line up including the film Rubber aka the crazy tire that rolls around and kills people! I have to see this movie!
From the Press Release:
Fantastic Fest 2010 Announces
First Wave Of Film Programming
World Renowned Film Festival Features Indie and Major Studio Releases
Austin, TX---Tuesday, July 20, 2010--- Fantastic Fest is proud to announce our first wave of programming for the sixth edition of Fantastic Fest, happening September 23-30 in Austin, Texas.
This batch of 13 feature films includes bloody revenge from Korea and Australia, South African and German zombies, Swedish musical terrorists, a renaissance of action heroes from Hong Kong, more disturbing images from Serbia, aging Yakuza from Japan and a psychokinetic automobile tire from France.
Fantastic Fest is scouring the globe for the very best in action, horror, science fiction, fantasy to the truly...
From the Press Release:
Fantastic Fest 2010 Announces
First Wave Of Film Programming
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Austin, TX---Tuesday, July 20, 2010--- Fantastic Fest is proud to announce our first wave of programming for the sixth edition of Fantastic Fest, happening September 23-30 in Austin, Texas.
This batch of 13 feature films includes bloody revenge from Korea and Australia, South African and German zombies, Swedish musical terrorists, a renaissance of action heroes from Hong Kong, more disturbing images from Serbia, aging Yakuza from Japan and a psychokinetic automobile tire from France.
Fantastic Fest is scouring the globe for the very best in action, horror, science fiction, fantasy to the truly...
- 7/20/2010
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
If you were among the hundreds of people who were shut out of screenings of the film Rubber at the Fantasia film fest (or the thousands of us who didn't even make it up to Canada in the first place), then quite possibly a trip to Austin, Texas, is in your future as the flick has just shown up on the first wave of programming for the sixth edition of Fantastic Fest, happening September 23rd-30th.
Thirteen films are listed in the first press release for the Fest, and we're including them all here, even if a few aren't strictly horror, just to give you an idea of how truly diverse Fantastic Fest is:
This batch includes bloody revenge from Korea and Australia, South African and German zombies, Swedish musical terrorists, a renaissance of action heroes from Hong Kong, more disturbing images from Serbia, aging Yakuza from Japan and a psychokinetic automobile tire from France.
Thirteen films are listed in the first press release for the Fest, and we're including them all here, even if a few aren't strictly horror, just to give you an idea of how truly diverse Fantastic Fest is:
This batch includes bloody revenge from Korea and Australia, South African and German zombies, Swedish musical terrorists, a renaissance of action heroes from Hong Kong, more disturbing images from Serbia, aging Yakuza from Japan and a psychokinetic automobile tire from France.
- 7/20/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: With the majority of the film community turning its collective attentions to San Diego for the brewing publicity storm that is Comic-Con, the good folks at Fantastic Fest in Austin have decided to steal a little thunder of their own by announcing the first wave of programming.
The sixth edition of Fantastic Fest, which describes itself as a film festival with the boring parts cut out, is scheduled for Sept. 23-30 in Austin, Texas. The fest will include:
Bedevilled (2010)
Director: Cheol-soo Jang, South Korea, 115 minutes
If you beat, brutalize, dehumanize and torment a country girl for her entire life, take note: when she reaches the breaking point, you’d best hide the farm implements.
Corridor (2009)
Directors: Johan Lundborg & Johan Storm, Sweden, 80 min
Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs,...
Hollywoodnews.com: With the majority of the film community turning its collective attentions to San Diego for the brewing publicity storm that is Comic-Con, the good folks at Fantastic Fest in Austin have decided to steal a little thunder of their own by announcing the first wave of programming.
The sixth edition of Fantastic Fest, which describes itself as a film festival with the boring parts cut out, is scheduled for Sept. 23-30 in Austin, Texas. The fest will include:
Bedevilled (2010)
Director: Cheol-soo Jang, South Korea, 115 minutes
If you beat, brutalize, dehumanize and torment a country girl for her entire life, take note: when she reaches the breaking point, you’d best hide the farm implements.
Corridor (2009)
Directors: Johan Lundborg & Johan Storm, Sweden, 80 min
Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs,...
- 7/20/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Austin, TX's Fantastic Fest, the country's largest genre film celebration and a self-described "film festival with the boring parts cut out," has announced the first part of this year's program. Highlights include haunted tire saga turned surprise Cannes hit "Rubber," zombie movies from Berlin ("Rammbock") and Africa ("The Dead") and Takeshi Kitano's return to the gangster flick "Outrage."
Here's the line-up so far (descriptions courtesy of the festival):
Bedevilled (2010)
Director: Cheol-soo Jang, South Korea, 115 minutes
If you beat, brutalize, dehumanize and torment a country girl for her entire life, take note: when she reaches the breaking point, you'd best hide the farm implements.
Corridor (2009)
Directors: Johan Lundborg & Johan Storm, Sweden, 80 min
Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs, his peace and quiet, his sanity and possibly even his life become jeopardized.
Here's the line-up so far (descriptions courtesy of the festival):
Bedevilled (2010)
Director: Cheol-soo Jang, South Korea, 115 minutes
If you beat, brutalize, dehumanize and torment a country girl for her entire life, take note: when she reaches the breaking point, you'd best hide the farm implements.
Corridor (2009)
Directors: Johan Lundborg & Johan Storm, Sweden, 80 min
Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs, his peace and quiet, his sanity and possibly even his life become jeopardized.
- 7/20/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
It's almost time again for Fantastic Fest and the first titles have been announced which includes a bunch of films we've chanpioned and are excited to see. This includes, but is not limited to:
Corridor A Swedish mystery thriller.
The Dead The zombie apocalypse in the desert! Yes!
and the one I'm most excited for is the German zombie flick Rammbock!
Full list after the break.
Bedevilled (2010)
Director: Cheol-soo Jang, South Korea, 115 minutes
If you beat, brutalize, dehumanize and torment a country girl for her entire life, take note: when she reaches the breaking point, you'd best hide the farm implements.
Corridor (2009)
Directors: Johan Lundborg & Johan Storm, Sweden, 80 min
Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs, his peace and quiet, his sanity and his possibly even his life become jeopardized.
The Dead...
Corridor A Swedish mystery thriller.
The Dead The zombie apocalypse in the desert! Yes!
and the one I'm most excited for is the German zombie flick Rammbock!
Full list after the break.
Bedevilled (2010)
Director: Cheol-soo Jang, South Korea, 115 minutes
If you beat, brutalize, dehumanize and torment a country girl for her entire life, take note: when she reaches the breaking point, you'd best hide the farm implements.
Corridor (2009)
Directors: Johan Lundborg & Johan Storm, Sweden, 80 min
Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs, his peace and quiet, his sanity and his possibly even his life become jeopardized.
The Dead...
- 7/20/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Well, after about two weeks, the Cannes Film Festival has just come to a close, and the jury has come in with what they think are the best of the best from this year’s festival.
Jury head Tim Burton and company have come in, and it appears as though they’ve picked some interesting choices. The Palme d’Or went to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s film Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives. The film beat out Xavier Beauvois’ Of God And Men, with the latter garnering the most buzz as a possible Best Foreign Film Oscar contender this year. Big names have taken home the top acting prizes, with Javier Bardem and Juliette Binoche taking home best actor and actress for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s polarizing Biutiful and Abbas Kiarostami’s beloved Certified Copy respectfully. The final big award was also quite a shocking pick, as Best Director...
Jury head Tim Burton and company have come in, and it appears as though they’ve picked some interesting choices. The Palme d’Or went to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s film Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives. The film beat out Xavier Beauvois’ Of God And Men, with the latter garnering the most buzz as a possible Best Foreign Film Oscar contender this year. Big names have taken home the top acting prizes, with Javier Bardem and Juliette Binoche taking home best actor and actress for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s polarizing Biutiful and Abbas Kiarostami’s beloved Certified Copy respectfully. The final big award was also quite a shocking pick, as Best Director...
- 5/25/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
There was enormous surprise Sunday evening at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival where the Palme d’Or was awarded to Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s captivating Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. This film was co-produced by the UK, France, Germany and Spain. At 39, the director confirms his original talent previously lauded at Cannes with the Un Certain Regard Prize in 2002 for Blissfully Yours and the Jury Prize in 2004 for Tropical Malady.
With triple success for France and honours for Italy and Spain, Europe is also well-represented in a prize list that was apparently the subject of intense discussions. The Grand Prize went to Of Gods and Men by French director Xavier Beauvois , while his compatriot Juliette Binoche scooped Best Actress for Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy. Mathieu Amalric completes the French haul with Best Director for On Tour (co-produced with Germany).
Best Actor was shared by Spain...
With triple success for France and honours for Italy and Spain, Europe is also well-represented in a prize list that was apparently the subject of intense discussions. The Grand Prize went to Of Gods and Men by French director Xavier Beauvois , while his compatriot Juliette Binoche scooped Best Actress for Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy. Mathieu Amalric completes the French haul with Best Director for On Tour (co-produced with Germany).
Best Actor was shared by Spain...
- 5/24/2010
- by Cineuropa
- DearCinema.com
It is going to be a strange year in Cannes, no doubt about it. Not only does the Critics Week lineup feature an angry psychic tire in Quentin Dupiuex's Rubber but it's also got a gang of musical terrorists in Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson's Sound of Noise.
Police detective Amadeus Warnebring was born into a family of illustrious musicians - which is deeply ironic, given that he loathes music with a passion.
His life is thrown into chaos when a band of crazy musicians decides to perform a musical apocalypse using the city as their orchestra...
Reluctantly, Warnebring embarks on his first musical investigation...
The first clip for this one has arrived online and it's a good time, indeed. All car chases would go a bit better, I think, if the drivers brought their own live musical accompaniment ...
Police detective Amadeus Warnebring was born into a family of illustrious musicians - which is deeply ironic, given that he loathes music with a passion.
His life is thrown into chaos when a band of crazy musicians decides to perform a musical apocalypse using the city as their orchestra...
Reluctantly, Warnebring embarks on his first musical investigation...
The first clip for this one has arrived online and it's a good time, indeed. All car chases would go a bit better, I think, if the drivers brought their own live musical accompaniment ...
- 5/6/2010
- Screen Anarchy
The artistic directors of both Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine de realisateurs) and Critics' Week (La Semaine de la critique) have stated they did not want to pick from Sundance titles. "We try to show films that don't pass through Sundance first", Critics Week’s Artistic Director Jean-Christophe Berjon said, “although U.S. indie entries are well represented this year." "I wanted to change things up and not take any Sundance films unless they were exceptional," said Frederic Boyer said in an interview. Considering how many Sundance titles went to the Berlinale, and that Cannes is 6 months later, singling out Sundance is somewhat odd. We in Us already know that Sundance has a certain sort of American film, and that other films are continually being made that might be just as good but not to the taste of Sundance programmers or simply not timed for the Sundance slot. That the two Cannes...
- 5/1/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Cannes Critics week announced its slate for 2010. Opening the section this year are Michel Leclerc’s Le Nom des gens, Marc Fitoussi’s Copacabana and Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber, all from France.
Founded in 1962 by the Union of French Film Critics, the Critics Week is the oldest of the Cannes festival sidebars. Each year, a panel of international critics select around a dozen shorts and features from first and second-time filmmakers to compete in this section. The complete lineup is:
Feature film competition :
Armadillo, dir Janus Metz (Denmark)
Bedevilled, dir Jang Cheol So (South Korea)
Belle Epine, dir Rebecca Zlotowski (France)
Bi, Don’t Be Afraid !, dir Phan Dang Di (Vietnam, France, Germany)
The Myth Of An American Sleepover, dir David Robert Mitchell (Us)
Sandcastle, dir Boo Junfeng (Singapore)
Sound Of Noise, dir Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjarne Nilsson (Sweden, France)
Short film competition:
Berik, dir Daniel Joseph Borgman (Denmark...
Founded in 1962 by the Union of French Film Critics, the Critics Week is the oldest of the Cannes festival sidebars. Each year, a panel of international critics select around a dozen shorts and features from first and second-time filmmakers to compete in this section. The complete lineup is:
Feature film competition :
Armadillo, dir Janus Metz (Denmark)
Bedevilled, dir Jang Cheol So (South Korea)
Belle Epine, dir Rebecca Zlotowski (France)
Bi, Don’t Be Afraid !, dir Phan Dang Di (Vietnam, France, Germany)
The Myth Of An American Sleepover, dir David Robert Mitchell (Us)
Sandcastle, dir Boo Junfeng (Singapore)
Sound Of Noise, dir Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjarne Nilsson (Sweden, France)
Short film competition:
Berik, dir Daniel Joseph Borgman (Denmark...
- 4/20/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Among the more interesting picks in the titles mentioned above, we have scribe Rebecca Zlotowski's directing debut with the pairing of some hot French thesps in Léa Seydoux and Anaïs Demoustier, there is David Robert Mitchell's SXSW entry that gets a second life via this section and another Swedish-French production is hitting the section this year, with what appears to be an awfully unique project from Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson. - Armadillo - Janus Metz (Denmark) Bedevilled - Cheol So Jang (South Korea)Belle épine - Rebecca Zlotowski (France) Bi, dung so ! - Phan Dang Di (Vietnam - France - Germany) The Myth of the American Sleepover - David Robert Mitchell (U.S.A.)Sandcastle - Boo Junfeng (Singapore) Sound of Noise - Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson (Sweden - France) A heavy focus on French films and a trio of Asian filmmakers...
- 4/20/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Following is the Critics Week lineup for the 63rd Festival de Cannes:
Competition
Feature films
“Armadillo,” Janus Metz (Denmark)
“Bedevilled,” Jang Cheol So (South Korea)
“Belle épine,” Rebecca Zlotowski (France)
“Bi, dung so!,” Phang Dang Di (Vietnam, France, Germany)
“The Myth of the American Sleepover,” David Robert Mitchell (U.S.)
“Sandcastle,” Boo Junfeng (Singapore)
“Sound of Noise,” Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson (Sweden, France)
Short films
“A distração de Ivan,” Cavi Borges & Gustavo Melo (Brazil)
“Berik,” Daniel Joseph Borgman (Denmark)
“The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Lion,” Alois Di Leo (U.K.)
“Deeper Than Yesterday,” Ariel Kleiman (Australia)
“Love Patate,” Gilles Cuvelier (France)
“Native Son,” Scott Graham (U.K.)
“Vasco,” Sébastien Laudenbach (France)
Special Screenings
Feature films
Opening Night
“Le Nom des gens,” Michel Leclerc (France)
Others
“Copacabana,” Marc Fitoussi (France, Belgium)
“Rubber,” Quentin Dupieux (France)
Short and medium length films
Closing Night
Tba
Others
“L’Amour-propre,” Nicolas Silhol...
Competition
Feature films
“Armadillo,” Janus Metz (Denmark)
“Bedevilled,” Jang Cheol So (South Korea)
“Belle épine,” Rebecca Zlotowski (France)
“Bi, dung so!,” Phang Dang Di (Vietnam, France, Germany)
“The Myth of the American Sleepover,” David Robert Mitchell (U.S.)
“Sandcastle,” Boo Junfeng (Singapore)
“Sound of Noise,” Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson (Sweden, France)
Short films
“A distração de Ivan,” Cavi Borges & Gustavo Melo (Brazil)
“Berik,” Daniel Joseph Borgman (Denmark)
“The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Lion,” Alois Di Leo (U.K.)
“Deeper Than Yesterday,” Ariel Kleiman (Australia)
“Love Patate,” Gilles Cuvelier (France)
“Native Son,” Scott Graham (U.K.)
“Vasco,” Sébastien Laudenbach (France)
Special Screenings
Feature films
Opening Night
“Le Nom des gens,” Michel Leclerc (France)
Others
“Copacabana,” Marc Fitoussi (France, Belgium)
“Rubber,” Quentin Dupieux (France)
Short and medium length films
Closing Night
Tba
Others
“L’Amour-propre,” Nicolas Silhol...
- 4/19/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Armadillo - Janus Metz (Denmark) Bedevilled - Cheol So Jang (South Korea)Belle épine - Rebecca Zlotowski (France) Bi, dung so ! - Phan Dang Di (Vietnam - France - Germany) The Myth of the American Sleepover - David Robert Mitchell (U.S.A.)Sandcastle - Boo Junfeng (Singapore) Sound of Noise - Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson (Sweden - France) A heavy focus on French films and a trio of Asian filmmakers are amongst the regions selected for this year's Semaine de la Critique (a.k.a Critics’ Week). Their initial release of a firm ten films selected may eventually include one more in the "Godfathers" screening (which see a chosen director with plenty of clout present a new film from a newbie filmmaker). As I previously mentioned here and here, Marc Fitoussi's Copacabana with Isabelle Huppert and Quentin Dupieux's unique road movie Rubber will receive Special screening...
- 4/19/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Paris -- The 48th annual International Critics Week will be a first-timers feast of comfort cinema with a hearty helping of French fare.
Critics Week artistic director Jean-Christophe Berjon announced the lineup Monday in Paris; all seven Competition titles will be up for the Camera d'Or, and six of the seven are world premieres.
"Our main goal is to reveal young filmmakers," Berjon said about the competition lineup. The sidebar will kick off May 13 with Out of Competition title "Le Nom des Gens," Michel Leclerc's political comedy starring Jacques Gamblin and Sara Forestier.
Two other French comedies will screen Out of Competition, including Quentin Dupieux's "Rubber," shot in English in the U.S., and Marc Fitoussi's "Copacabana." The latter stars last year's Festival de Cannes jury president, Isabelle Huppert, opposite her daughter, Lolita Chammah, in the story of a mother-daughter relationship that co-stars Aure Atika.
"It's not about the nationalities,...
Critics Week artistic director Jean-Christophe Berjon announced the lineup Monday in Paris; all seven Competition titles will be up for the Camera d'Or, and six of the seven are world premieres.
"Our main goal is to reveal young filmmakers," Berjon said about the competition lineup. The sidebar will kick off May 13 with Out of Competition title "Le Nom des Gens," Michel Leclerc's political comedy starring Jacques Gamblin and Sara Forestier.
Two other French comedies will screen Out of Competition, including Quentin Dupieux's "Rubber," shot in English in the U.S., and Marc Fitoussi's "Copacabana." The latter stars last year's Festival de Cannes jury president, Isabelle Huppert, opposite her daughter, Lolita Chammah, in the story of a mother-daughter relationship that co-stars Aure Atika.
"It's not about the nationalities,...
- 4/19/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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