Welcome to HumanSide, the podcast that looks at the human side of pop culture. This episode offers an early peek at Chicago's own Music Box Theatre 70mm Film Festival, taking place February 19 to March 10. I also review a couple of surreal classics on Blu-ray from Scream Factory. Trust me, if you love weird movies, Sonny Boy and Blood and Lace deserve your attention. I also look at the Criterion Collection upgrade of one of my favorite noir films, Night and the City, by the great Jules Dassin. Lastly, HumanSide episode 2 offers an interview with director Heath Cozens about his often humorous but ultimately moving documentary Doglegs, which tells the story of disabled Japanese wrestlers grappling with able bodied opponents in a bid for societal and self-respect.You can listen to the...
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- 2/1/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Jeremy Saulnier’s feature claimed the prize as the Austin event came to a conclusion on Thursday.
Can Evrenol was named best director in the “Next Wave” Spotlight competition for his recent Toronto world premiere Baskin.
Full winners appear below:
Audience Award – presented by Maxwell Locke & Ritter
1st Place: Green Room, dir Jeremy Saulnier
2nd Place: Liza The Fox Fairy, dir Károly Ujj Mészáros
3rd Place: Stand By For Tape Back-Up, dir Ross Sutherland
“Next Wave” Spotlight Competition - Presented By Dell Precision
Best Picture: Der Bunker, dir Nikias Chryssos
Best Director: Can Evrenol for Baskin
Fantastic Features
Best Picture: The Club
Best Director: Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman for Anomalisa
Horror Features
Best Picture: Demon
Best Director: Joe Begos for The Mind’s Eye
Comedy Features
Best Picture: The Brand New Testament
Best Director: Anders Thomas Jensen for Men & Chicken
Documentary Features
Best Picture: Man Vs Snake
Best Director: Heath Cozens for Doglegs
Short Fuse: Horror...
Can Evrenol was named best director in the “Next Wave” Spotlight competition for his recent Toronto world premiere Baskin.
Full winners appear below:
Audience Award – presented by Maxwell Locke & Ritter
1st Place: Green Room, dir Jeremy Saulnier
2nd Place: Liza The Fox Fairy, dir Károly Ujj Mészáros
3rd Place: Stand By For Tape Back-Up, dir Ross Sutherland
“Next Wave” Spotlight Competition - Presented By Dell Precision
Best Picture: Der Bunker, dir Nikias Chryssos
Best Director: Can Evrenol for Baskin
Fantastic Features
Best Picture: The Club
Best Director: Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman for Anomalisa
Horror Features
Best Picture: Demon
Best Director: Joe Begos for The Mind’s Eye
Comedy Features
Best Picture: The Brand New Testament
Best Director: Anders Thomas Jensen for Men & Chicken
Documentary Features
Best Picture: Man Vs Snake
Best Director: Heath Cozens for Doglegs
Short Fuse: Horror...
- 10/1/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Doglegs is a documentary that examines the inner lives of some of Japan's strangest wrestlers. The name refers to an underground wrestling circuit that pits disabled and able-bodied performers against each other in the ring, often to horrifyingly uncomfortable ends. Wrestlers with mild to severe cerebral palsy, physically crippling depression, confinement to wheelchairs, and numerous other physical, mental, and emotional handicaps are welcomes to the squared circle to prove to the world that their worth exists beyond their conditions. Heath Cozens's documentary takes an amazingly dispassionate look at their world, and it leaves the viewer with much to consider."Sambo" Shintaro is a middle-aged man with cerebral palsy. He works in janitorial services and depends on others to help him navigate the world around him. However,...
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- 9/26/2015
- Screen Anarchy
One thing I love, that is apparent from this wave announcement, is that Fantastic Fest not only celebrates new genre cinema but relishes in repertory genre cinema! We have some awesome martial arts films and a 35mm screening of Evilspeak to coincide with Kier-La Jannise & Paul Corupe’s Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980’s. We are also getting the new horror anthology from V/H/S alumni (Producer Roxanne Benjamin, director David Bruckner and directing team Radio Silence) with Southbound! Read on fiends, read on.
Fantastic Fest announces its final wave of highly anticipated features and epic events for the annual celebration of all things genre. With signature smackdown Fantastic Debates and Comedy Central’s The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, this year’s Fantastic Fest promises more thrills than ever before as it rages through Austin from September 24 – October 1st. Joining Fantastic Fest for the first time, Charlie Kaufman...
Fantastic Fest announces its final wave of highly anticipated features and epic events for the annual celebration of all things genre. With signature smackdown Fantastic Debates and Comedy Central’s The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, this year’s Fantastic Fest promises more thrills than ever before as it rages through Austin from September 24 – October 1st. Joining Fantastic Fest for the first time, Charlie Kaufman...
- 9/9/2015
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Austin, TX – Wednesday, September 9, 2015 – Fantastic Fest announces its final wave of highly anticipated features and epic events for the annual celebration of all things genre. With signature smackdown Fantastic Debates and Comedy Central’s The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, this year’s Fantastic Fest promises more thrills than ever before as it rages through Austin from September 24 – October 1st. Joining Fantastic Fest for the first time, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson will be in attendance to share their wildly inventive world of stop motion animation Anomalisa, Cannes Grand Prix winner Son Of Saul is screening in glorious 35mm, the stunning adult fairytale from Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone Tale Of Tales will unfurl, Jerusalem Film Festival’s top prize winner Tikkun, and we welcome the World Premiere of the action-thriller Camino with Zoe Bell and Fantastic Fest veteran / mayor Nacho Vigalondo as a religious psychopath — a prospect that should fill...
- 9/9/2015
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
The final wave of Fantastic Fest 2015 has finally been announced and it features a crop of festival darlings along with Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s highly anticipated stop-motion animation film Anomalisa. The Cannes Grand Prix winner Son of Saul joins the list as well as the new film from director Matteo Garrone, Tale of Tales. PopOptiq will be present once again this year so be sure to check out our coverage in the upcoming weeks. Check out the full list below.
****
Anomalisa
United States, 2015
Regional Premiere, 90 min
Directors – Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
Charlie Kaufman’s newest story, a revolutionary and emotional stop-motion animation, follows an unhappy customer service guru looking for an escape from the monotony of his life.
The Assassin
Taiwan, 2015
Us Premiere, 104 min
Director – Hou Hsiao-hsien
After failing to dispatch a corrupt government official, an assassin is disciplined by her master with a mission to...
****
Anomalisa
United States, 2015
Regional Premiere, 90 min
Directors – Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
Charlie Kaufman’s newest story, a revolutionary and emotional stop-motion animation, follows an unhappy customer service guru looking for an escape from the monotony of his life.
The Assassin
Taiwan, 2015
Us Premiere, 104 min
Director – Hou Hsiao-hsien
After failing to dispatch a corrupt government official, an assassin is disciplined by her master with a mission to...
- 9/9/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Fantastic Fest announced its final wave of features and events for the annual celebration of all things genre.
Taking place in Austin, Texas, from September 24-October 1, the festival will include Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s Anomalisa and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin.
“I love the diversity and breadth of programming that the team delivered this year,” said Tim League, Fantastic Fest and Alamo Drafthouse founder.
“In particular I’d like to highlight Anomalisa, Tikkun and Son Of Saul. These utterly-unique, auteur-driven, genre-defying masterpieces are exactly the type of groundbreaking cinema I want to share with the discerning Fantastic Fest audience.”
The films are:
Anomalsia (Us), Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
The Assassin (Taiwan, pictured), Hou Hsiao-hsien
The Boy And The Beast (Japan), Mamoru Hosoda
Camino (Us), Josh C Waller
Come Drink With Me (Hong Kong), King Hu
Dag (Norway), Oystein Karlsen
Daniel’s World (Czech Republic), Veronika Lišková
The Devil’s Candy (Us), Sean Byrne...
Taking place in Austin, Texas, from September 24-October 1, the festival will include Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s Anomalisa and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin.
“I love the diversity and breadth of programming that the team delivered this year,” said Tim League, Fantastic Fest and Alamo Drafthouse founder.
“In particular I’d like to highlight Anomalisa, Tikkun and Son Of Saul. These utterly-unique, auteur-driven, genre-defying masterpieces are exactly the type of groundbreaking cinema I want to share with the discerning Fantastic Fest audience.”
The films are:
Anomalsia (Us), Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
The Assassin (Taiwan, pictured), Hou Hsiao-hsien
The Boy And The Beast (Japan), Mamoru Hosoda
Camino (Us), Josh C Waller
Come Drink With Me (Hong Kong), King Hu
Dag (Norway), Oystein Karlsen
Daniel’s World (Czech Republic), Veronika Lišková
The Devil’s Candy (Us), Sean Byrne...
- 9/9/2015
- ScreenDaily
How's this for an assurance of quality for prospective crowd funders? Not only is Heath Cozens' feature documentary Doglegs very nearly complete but it is already selected to premiere at the prestigious HotDocs festival in Toronto. But don't you need to be complete to premiere? Not really, actually ... while you need to be rather close to complete there's actually quite a significant difference between being ready to screen in a festival environment and being complete enough to deliver to a distributor and find your way to a mass audience, and bridging that gap can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Cozens is looking for eighteen grand to get over that hump.And why should you support him? Well, because the film looks absolutely fantastic, for...
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- 4/17/2015
- Screen Anarchy
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