“Tales of the Walking Dead” offers a mixed bag of standalone stories, but a talented cast and a few wild storytelling experiments don’t quite manage to breathe new life into the franchise. The six-episode anthology series, premiering August 14, is the third series to spin off from “The Walking Dead,” after “Fear the Walking Dead,” which recently wrapped its seventh season, and “Walking Dead: World Beyond,” a two-season series that concluded last year.
Where this show differs from its predecessors is in the scope of its storytelling: while occasional nods to the larger universe are present throughout all six of these self-contained stories, no previous knowledge of the universe is strictly necessary, and each story is small enough to resolve fully within the 45 minutes allotted. It would be an unorthodox introduction to the franchise, but it would work.
And indeed, if the prospect of returning to either of the two...
Where this show differs from its predecessors is in the scope of its storytelling: while occasional nods to the larger universe are present throughout all six of these self-contained stories, no previous knowledge of the universe is strictly necessary, and each story is small enough to resolve fully within the 45 minutes allotted. It would be an unorthodox introduction to the franchise, but it would work.
And indeed, if the prospect of returning to either of the two...
- 8/11/2022
- by Jessica Liese
- Variety Film + TV
Lars von Trier has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, Zentropa announced. The production company, which von Trier co-founded in 1992 with producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, said the director is in “good spirits and is being treated for his symptoms” while he continues to complete “The Kingdom Exodus,” the upcoming third and final season of his “The Kingdom” series.
Zentropa added that von Trier will take part in limited press events for the series when it’s released later this year. “The Kingdom Exodus” is world premiering at the Venice Film Festival. Mubi announced in July that it had secured distribution rights to the television season in North America, U.K. and Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India.
“The Kingdom Exodus” closes the controversial director’s TV series, which first premiered in 1994 on Danish public broadcaster Dr. The series follows the staff and patients of a neurosurgical ward in a Copenhagen hospital.
Zentropa added that von Trier will take part in limited press events for the series when it’s released later this year. “The Kingdom Exodus” is world premiering at the Venice Film Festival. Mubi announced in July that it had secured distribution rights to the television season in North America, U.K. and Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India.
“The Kingdom Exodus” closes the controversial director’s TV series, which first premiered in 1994 on Danish public broadcaster Dr. The series follows the staff and patients of a neurosurgical ward in a Copenhagen hospital.
- 8/8/2022
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week we pair wines with birthday cake for a trio of movies starring Dustin Hoffman.
Dustin Hoffman is now 85 years old. What birthday present do you give someone who has two Oscars and a large duffel bag full of other awards? A bigger duffel bag? We have all evoked Hoffman’s roles at one time or another, anytime we have said, “I’m walkin’ heah!,” “Are you trying to seduce me Mrs. Robinson?,” “Ten minutes to Wopner” or “No, it’s dangerous, it’s very dangerous.” More Novocaine, please.
It’s a shame that none of those quotes come from the movies we’re viewing this week, but I don’t choose ‘em, I just pair wine with ‘em. If I did get to choose, Ishtar would be in the lineup.
Dustin Hoffman is now 85 years old. What birthday present do you give someone who has two Oscars and a large duffel bag full of other awards? A bigger duffel bag? We have all evoked Hoffman’s roles at one time or another, anytime we have said, “I’m walkin’ heah!,” “Are you trying to seduce me Mrs. Robinson?,” “Ten minutes to Wopner” or “No, it’s dangerous, it’s very dangerous.” More Novocaine, please.
It’s a shame that none of those quotes come from the movies we’re viewing this week, but I don’t choose ‘em, I just pair wine with ‘em. If I did get to choose, Ishtar would be in the lineup.
- 8/8/2022
- by Randy Fuller
- Trailers from Hell
He’s fast on his feet, quick with a gun, and faster with the to-die-for beauties that only existed in the swinging ’60s. The superspy exploits of Oss 117 were too big for just one actor, so meet all three iterations of the man they called Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath . . . seriously.
Oss 117 Five Film Collection
Blu-ray
Oss 117 Is Unleashed; Oss 117: Panic in Bangkok; Oss 117: Mission For a Killer; Oss 117: Mission to Tokyo; Oss 117: Double Agent
Kl Studio Classics
1963-1968 / B&W and Color / 1:85 widescreen + 2:35 widescreen / 528 min. / Street Date September 26, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 59.95
Starring: Kerwin Matthews, Nadia Sanders, Irina Demick, Daniel Emilfork; Kerwin Matthews, Pier Angeli, Robert Hossein; Frederick Stafford, Mylène Demongeot, Perrette Pradier, Dominique Wilms, Raymond Pellegrin, Annie Anderson; Frederick Stafford, Marina Vlad, Jitsuko Yoshimura; John Gavin, Margaret Lee, Curd Jurgens, Luciana Paluzzi, Rosalba Neri, Robert Hossein, George Eastman.
Cinematography: Raymond Pierre Lemoigne...
Oss 117 Five Film Collection
Blu-ray
Oss 117 Is Unleashed; Oss 117: Panic in Bangkok; Oss 117: Mission For a Killer; Oss 117: Mission to Tokyo; Oss 117: Double Agent
Kl Studio Classics
1963-1968 / B&W and Color / 1:85 widescreen + 2:35 widescreen / 528 min. / Street Date September 26, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 59.95
Starring: Kerwin Matthews, Nadia Sanders, Irina Demick, Daniel Emilfork; Kerwin Matthews, Pier Angeli, Robert Hossein; Frederick Stafford, Mylène Demongeot, Perrette Pradier, Dominique Wilms, Raymond Pellegrin, Annie Anderson; Frederick Stafford, Marina Vlad, Jitsuko Yoshimura; John Gavin, Margaret Lee, Curd Jurgens, Luciana Paluzzi, Rosalba Neri, Robert Hossein, George Eastman.
Cinematography: Raymond Pierre Lemoigne...
- 9/16/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Minor Spoilers
Okja (2017) is the second film that costume designer Catherine George has worked on with director Bong Joon-ho. Their first together, Snowpiercer (2013), despite being lauded by critics (and featuring Chris Evans), only received a limited theatrcial run in the U.S. and no release at all in the UK. Unlike Okja, Snowpiercer is an out and out sci-fi fantasy set when most of the world’s population have been wiped out and those who remain live on perpetually moving train. Okja is still a fantasy, it revolves around a little girl Mija (An Seo Hyun) trying to save her giant ‘super pig’ from being harvested as Gm bacon, but is set within our recognisable reality. There are smart phones, cars we know, Instagram and Facebook. However the film has a deliberate otherworldly feel about it. Not quite in the future and not as locked as a parallel universe, but...
Okja (2017) is the second film that costume designer Catherine George has worked on with director Bong Joon-ho. Their first together, Snowpiercer (2013), despite being lauded by critics (and featuring Chris Evans), only received a limited theatrcial run in the U.S. and no release at all in the UK. Unlike Okja, Snowpiercer is an out and out sci-fi fantasy set when most of the world’s population have been wiped out and those who remain live on perpetually moving train. Okja is still a fantasy, it revolves around a little girl Mija (An Seo Hyun) trying to save her giant ‘super pig’ from being harvested as Gm bacon, but is set within our recognisable reality. There are smart phones, cars we know, Instagram and Facebook. However the film has a deliberate otherworldly feel about it. Not quite in the future and not as locked as a parallel universe, but...
- 7/14/2017
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Is it a movie? Or a Netflix streaming event? Why can't it be both? We're going to have to get used to the one-two punch in the new age of cinema, which now cedes the multiplex to blockbusters and often sends the creative minds of indie cinema scrambling to find a financing and a home. The Netflix logo stamped on Okja got booed at Cannes, not because it's a lousy movie (quite the opposite, in fact), but because the French are hating on Netflix for not opening South Korean filmmaker...
- 6/28/2017
- Rollingstone.com
A choppy mix of anti-corporate farce and Spielbergian fantasy, Bong Joon-Ho’s bilingual Okja veers wildly, but never stalls; if Bong, the South Korean writer-director behind The Host, Memories Of Murder, and Snowpiercer, never squares the film’s satirical means with its sentimental ends, he at least throws the weight of his considerable filmmaking talent behind both. At the center—sometimes literally, as she tends to squeeze everyone else out of the way—is Okja, a hippopotamic female “super-pig” raised from piglethood in the mountains of South Korea by little Mija (Ahn Seo-Hyun) and her grandpa Hee-Bong (Bong regular Byun Hee-Bong). They are among two dozen “traditional farmers” selected from around the world to raise super-pigs as part of a decade-long publicity stunt put together by the agri-business titan Mirando, culminating in a contest judged by campy TV animal expert Dr. Johnny (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a public unveiling at a...
- 6/27/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
The worst of the Cannes slate is often characterized by self-importance mixed with complete wrong-headedness. That’s certainly true of Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Loveless and reportedly even truer of Kornél Mundruczó’s Jupiter’s Moon, both of which are competing for the Palme d’Or this year. But that goes a long way to explaining why unpretentious genre fare can be such a refreshing prospect amidst the arthouse torpor. That’s a slot that, in the competition slate at least, Bong Joon-ho’s Okja should have filled—and for a while, it looks like it may fulfill that promise. Opening ca. 2007 New York with a garish infomercial for the Miranda Corporation, headed by CEO Lucy Mirando (a blonde-wigged Tilda Swinton with bright silver braces), the sequence is a fluid mix of exposition and sprightly satire. World hunger is the problem and Lucy Miranda has the solution: a 10-year competition where...
- 5/22/2017
- MUBI
A dystopian story about a genetically engineered beast with overt anti-capitalist connotations, Bong Joon-ho’s Okja represents a synthesis and an upgrade – in scale as well as quality – of the director’s previous outings The Host and Snowpiercer, confirming him as one of the finest contemporary craftsmen of intelligent, ambitious blockbusters.
Okja is set in a parallel, not-very-different present, where the giant agrochemical corporation Mirando has covertly engineered a new breed of “super-pigs” — ostensibly to solve the world’s hunger problems, but really just to sell cheap meat and make a shit-ton of cash. Gmo foods carry a stigma, however, so Mirando lie about the provenance of the super-pigs, claiming they were discovered on a Chilean farm. To divert the public’s attention, the company’s grotesque CEO, Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton), launches a massive promotional campaign in which farmers across the world will compete in raising the largest super-pig...
Okja is set in a parallel, not-very-different present, where the giant agrochemical corporation Mirando has covertly engineered a new breed of “super-pigs” — ostensibly to solve the world’s hunger problems, but really just to sell cheap meat and make a shit-ton of cash. Gmo foods carry a stigma, however, so Mirando lie about the provenance of the super-pigs, claiming they were discovered on a Chilean farm. To divert the public’s attention, the company’s grotesque CEO, Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton), launches a massive promotional campaign in which farmers across the world will compete in raising the largest super-pig...
- 5/21/2017
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
Author: Jo-Ann Titmarsh
Bong Joon Ho’s previous film Snowpiercer dealt with the dire consequences of a climate change experiment. His latest outing, Okja, also takes on issues of a global scale and another experiment. But whereas the first envisaged a post-apocalyptic ice age, this one shows a world still full of bucolic loveliness, at least on the surface.
Tilda Swinton was in Snowpiercer and she reappears here as Lucy Mirando, the new CEO of a huge corporation, having taken over the helm from her evil identical twin. Lucy the loser wants to come out from her sister’s shadow and distance herself from her, even wearing a brace in order to change her appearance. Poor Tilda really does get given some awful mouth-ware in Bong Joon Ho’s films. Lucy is all brightness – from her peroxide bob to her gleaming smile and shiny patent shoes. She wants this polish...
Bong Joon Ho’s previous film Snowpiercer dealt with the dire consequences of a climate change experiment. His latest outing, Okja, also takes on issues of a global scale and another experiment. But whereas the first envisaged a post-apocalyptic ice age, this one shows a world still full of bucolic loveliness, at least on the surface.
Tilda Swinton was in Snowpiercer and she reappears here as Lucy Mirando, the new CEO of a huge corporation, having taken over the helm from her evil identical twin. Lucy the loser wants to come out from her sister’s shadow and distance herself from her, even wearing a brace in order to change her appearance. Poor Tilda really does get given some awful mouth-ware in Bong Joon Ho’s films. Lucy is all brightness – from her peroxide bob to her gleaming smile and shiny patent shoes. She wants this polish...
- 5/19/2017
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We’re still a few months away from Bong Joon-ho‘s new monster movie Okja, but the Snowpiercer director has already revealed his next project. The feature will be titled Parasite, and although not a great deal is known yet, it will “revolve around a family going through a disturbance,” according to Asian Wiki. Led by his previous collaborator Song Kang-ho (The Host, Memories of Murder), production will kick off in January for what sounds to be a more horror-focused outing perhaps, judging from the title. It is expected to be released in 2018.
Segueing to Okja, Netflix has released a trio of new images, which feature Mija (An Seo Hyun), who has cared for the titular creature in the film, as well as Tilda Swinton‘s CEO character of Lucy Mirando, and then there’s Jake Gyllenhaal as zoologist and TV personality Dr. Johnny Wilcox. While we’re still not sure what to expect,...
Segueing to Okja, Netflix has released a trio of new images, which feature Mija (An Seo Hyun), who has cared for the titular creature in the film, as well as Tilda Swinton‘s CEO character of Lucy Mirando, and then there’s Jake Gyllenhaal as zoologist and TV personality Dr. Johnny Wilcox. While we’re still not sure what to expect,...
- 4/3/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Ahead of its premiere on Netflix on June 28th, Okja, the latest film from Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho, is teased in a set of new images featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Tilda Swinton, and An Seo Hyun.
Press Release: Netflix has unveiled a new set of images from Director Bong Joon Ho’s Okja. The Netflix original film stars Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Giancarlo Esposito, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins and newcomer An Seo Hyun.
Continuing her adventure to reclaim her best friend, young Mija (An Seo Hyun) simultaneously takes on big business and the big city - both for the first time - in the Netflix original film Okja, from genre-defying writer/director Bong Joon Ho.
Zoologist, TV personality and face of the Mirando Corporation, Dr. Johnny Wilcox (Jake Gyllenhaal) in the Netflix original film Okja, from genre-defying writer/director Bong Joon Ho.
Enthusiastic CEO Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton) unveils...
Press Release: Netflix has unveiled a new set of images from Director Bong Joon Ho’s Okja. The Netflix original film stars Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Giancarlo Esposito, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins and newcomer An Seo Hyun.
Continuing her adventure to reclaim her best friend, young Mija (An Seo Hyun) simultaneously takes on big business and the big city - both for the first time - in the Netflix original film Okja, from genre-defying writer/director Bong Joon Ho.
Zoologist, TV personality and face of the Mirando Corporation, Dr. Johnny Wilcox (Jake Gyllenhaal) in the Netflix original film Okja, from genre-defying writer/director Bong Joon Ho.
Enthusiastic CEO Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton) unveils...
- 3/27/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
When the credits rolled on the fantastic Snowpiercer, my first thought was how visionary director Bong Joon Ho was going to follow that up. well, now we have the answer with the first trailer for Netflix original Okja, the story of the young Mija (An Seo Hyun) and her best friend, the massive, mysterious creature known as Okja. Living in idyllic isolation in the mountains of South Korea, their peace is shattered when the outside world, in the form of ruthless CEO Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton) and zoologist/t.v. personality Dr. Johnny Wilcox (Jake Gyllenhaal), rips Okja from his home, forcing Mija on a desperate mission to save her friend. Our first look at Okja doesn’t give much away, but there’s no denying this looks absolutely beautiful, poignant, and heart breaking. For me, this movie can’t come quick enough. Okja is released on Netflix worldwide on June 28th.
- 3/27/2017
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
A lot more people became Bong Joon-ho fans after “Snowpiercer” proved massively popular on VOD, but even more are about to discover him thanks to Netflix, which is set to debut the monster movie “Okja” this June.
The streaming giant has been quite secretive about the film over the last few months, debuting one first look photo and a brief teaser trailer, but today comes an official in-depth synopsis and a formal introduction to Jake Gyllenhaal’s character.
Read More: ‘Okja’ Teaser Trailer: Tilda Swinton Battles a Beast in Bong Joon-Ho’s Netflix Monster Movie
The new official synopsis from Netflix reads: “For 10 idyllic years, young Mija (An Seo Hyun) has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja—a massive animal and an even bigger friend—at her home in the mountains of South Korea. But that changes when the family-owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and transports her to New York,...
The streaming giant has been quite secretive about the film over the last few months, debuting one first look photo and a brief teaser trailer, but today comes an official in-depth synopsis and a formal introduction to Jake Gyllenhaal’s character.
Read More: ‘Okja’ Teaser Trailer: Tilda Swinton Battles a Beast in Bong Joon-Ho’s Netflix Monster Movie
The new official synopsis from Netflix reads: “For 10 idyllic years, young Mija (An Seo Hyun) has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja—a massive animal and an even bigger friend—at her home in the mountains of South Korea. But that changes when the family-owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and transports her to New York,...
- 3/27/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala has unveiled its lineup for the 2013 edition which will be held from June 7-11 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
The festival is organized by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, in addition to the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk). The festival has a National level competition for Documentaries (long and short), short fiction, animation, music videos and campus films. The Best Short Fiction (upto 69 mins) wins a cash prize of Rs. 50,000/ and a certificate. Best Animation wins a cash prize of Rs. 25,000/ and a certificate while the Best Music Video is also awarded a cash prize of Rs. 25,000/ and a certificate.
National Competition: Short Fiction
23 Winters
Dir: Rajesh S. Jala/30min/2013
Afternoon/Do Pahar
Dir: Shazia Shrivastava|Sharifa Roy/29min/2012
Alfie
Dir: Thomas Mathai/26min/2013
Behind the Wall/Bhinti Maage
Dir: Vishwesh Kolwalker/14min/2013
Bleeding
Dir: AromalT./21min/2012
For Hire
Dir: Varun Chawla...
The festival is organized by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, in addition to the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk). The festival has a National level competition for Documentaries (long and short), short fiction, animation, music videos and campus films. The Best Short Fiction (upto 69 mins) wins a cash prize of Rs. 50,000/ and a certificate. Best Animation wins a cash prize of Rs. 25,000/ and a certificate while the Best Music Video is also awarded a cash prize of Rs. 25,000/ and a certificate.
National Competition: Short Fiction
23 Winters
Dir: Rajesh S. Jala/30min/2013
Afternoon/Do Pahar
Dir: Shazia Shrivastava|Sharifa Roy/29min/2012
Alfie
Dir: Thomas Mathai/26min/2013
Behind the Wall/Bhinti Maage
Dir: Vishwesh Kolwalker/14min/2013
Bleeding
Dir: AromalT./21min/2012
For Hire
Dir: Varun Chawla...
- 5/14/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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