If there are two names that get people flapping and flaming their lips more than most, that'd be renaissance man extraordinaire James Franco and mostly author Chuck Palahniuk. And now since Franco has optioned the rights to Palahniuk's novel Rant, you'll be able to get all your earnest fan boying or bashing out in just one helluva breath.The news broke over at Lit Reactor, by Twitch's own Joshua Chaplinsky who acts as Lt's managing editor. The source? Palahniuk himself. Here's Cp's statement:As of last night we've finalized a deal for James Franco to option my novel Rant. Details about the casting, shooting and a proposed release date will be forthcoming. Hurray. After the opportunity to work with Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Sam Rockwell, I...
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- 9/11/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Till Kleinert's Der Samurai was definitely one of the best and weirdest films I watched during Fantaspoa 2014. Since our own Joshua Chaplinsky wrote a great review for it, I decided to complement our coverage by talking with the German director. It was a long conversation of almost 40 minutes, which certainly proves two things: Kleinert is a great and kind guy and Fantaspoa a very unique festival. Note: Spoilers throughout. Twitch: How has your experience been at Fantaspoa? Till Kleinert: What can I say? It has been an amazing experience. Not much sleep. Free food, free drinks all the time. It has been a blast. I have seen a lot of films that otherwise I might not have. For example, Saint Bernard by Gabe Bartalos, who...
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- 5/20/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Big Bad Wolves, Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado's follow up to their break-out Rabies, has been a festival darling since its Tribeca premiere last spring, equally delighting and grossing out audiences in its transgressive take on the serial killer subgenre, and most recently getting a Tarantino stamp of approval as his favorite film of the year. Our own Joshua Chaplinsky had this to say at Tribeca: There is a good deal of humor to help balance out the harsher realities of the subject matter, but it isn't until the cop, the victim's father, and the suspect are holed up in a dingy basement that I realized just how funny Big Bad Wolves was.Magnet snatched up the U.S. rights and will be releasing it in theaters...
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- 12/10/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Marina de Van's poem of telekinesis and terror Dark Touch took home the H.R. Giger Narcisse Award when all was said and done at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival this past Saturday. Twitch's Joshua Chaplinsky's feelings were decidedly mixed when he reviewed it in April, noting: [de Van] certainly knows how to make a good looking film, and is adept at setting up an atmosphere of dread and delivering visceral bursts of violence. But after you hook the audience with a visually arresting setup you have to follow it up with this pesky thing called a story, and this one just didn't work for me.The film also took the Mad Movies award for "Maddest" film, and the Youth Award to boot. You'll just have to...
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- 7/15/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Looks like the city of light just got a little darker. The trailer for Antonio Campos' follow-up to Afterschool, Simon Killer, has arrived, and while it literally pulses with energy, it's not the happy kind. The story goes like this: The titular character (Brady Corbet) journeys in Paris in order to get over a break up, hooks up with a beautiful young prostitute and proceeds to ruin a number of lives. According to our own Joshua Chaplinsky, "It takes the tired "white kid goes to Europe, finds love and/or cultural enlightenment" premise and turns it on its head. It then stomps that head into the pavement."...
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- 2/23/2013
- Screen Anarchy
In 2012, the Twitch family has grown even more global. With a line-up of contributors that stretches right around the planet, we've had the means to see a huge proportion of the new films that have emerged in the past 12 months from some of the world's most far-flung regions - and we want to tell you all about them! Whether they be the ones we love, the ones we hate, or all those that fall somewhere in between, we want to share. So enjoy the Twitch Writer's Look Back At The Year!Joshua Chaplinsky - Contributing Writer 2012 belonged to one man and one man only: Matthew McConaughey. With four new films released this year, we truly are going through a McConaissance. We're not talking the...
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- 1/4/2013
- Screen Anarchy
In 2012, the Twitch family has grown even more global. With a line-up of contributors that stretches right around the planet, we've had the means to see a huge proportion of the new films that have emerged in the past 12 months from some of the world's most far-flung regions - and we want to tell you all about them! Whether they be the ones we love, the ones we hate, or all those that fall somewhere in between, we want to share. So enjoy Twitch's Best Fests of 2012!Todd Brown - Founder and editor Fantastic Fest I've gotta go with Fantastic Fest purely because I got directors drunk and then made them write about their own movies.Joshua Chaplinsky - Contributing WriterFantastic FestI've toured around the...
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- 1/2/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Boys and girls, here we are, the opening day of the 50th New York Film Festival. If you venture out to Lincoln Center tonight, expect bedlam as Ang Lee's 3D adaptation for the Life Of Pi has its world premiere, with eight -- yes, eight -- separate screenings, all currently with stand-by only tickets. And while our boys on the front lines didn't have a chance to catch that tale of a boy and tiger adrift at sea, they do have for you 14 capsule reviews, including their takes on the much-anticipated and talked about Holy Motors, Amour, Passion and Barbara. So here they are: Peter Gutierrez, Dustin Chang, Joshua Chaplinsky and Christopher Bourne with what's good, what's bad and what may be a bit...
- 9/28/2012
- Screen Anarchy
"'Even a Man Who is Pure in Heart': Filmic Horror, Popular Religion and the Spectral Underside of History," an essay that appeared in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture in 2005, piqued Michael Guillén's interest in its author, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, "a native Montrealer and 'monster kid' who teaches courses on genre cinema and monsters in the Humanities department of John Abbott College." So they met up a few weeks ago at the Fantasia International Film Festival and Michael's transcription of their conversation — touching on national identities, filmmakers who straddle the high and the low, "the knowledge systems of ordinary people" and more — is one of the week's best reads, which is why I wanted to point it out right at the top of this little roundup of horror-related items.
The splashiest of these will surely be Jason Zinoman's survey of "a diverse collection of filmmakers about the scariest movie they'd...
The splashiest of these will surely be Jason Zinoman's survey of "a diverse collection of filmmakers about the scariest movie they'd...
- 8/21/2011
- MUBI
When he's not busy scripting Hollywood blockbusters for the likes of Alex Proyas and Scott Derrickson, UK based screenwriter Stuart Hazeldine is wringing his hands menacingly and plotting his own directorial career. Allusions to cartoonish super-villainy aside, Hazeldine has crafted a diabolical debut in Exam, which sees a DVD release in the Us on Tuesday, November 16th through IFC. It is a taut meditation on survival and ambition that takes place entirely in one room in real time. I recently spoke with Stuart about once and future projects, the industry, and how a British filmmaker became one of Hollywood's most sought-after script doctors.
Joshua Chaplinsky: I know Exam was released On Demand back in July. Did it have a theatrical run stateside as well?
Stuart Hazeldine: No, not in the states. It's funny, because IFC picked it up before some good things happened- I got BAFTA nominated, we...
Joshua Chaplinsky: I know Exam was released On Demand back in July. Did it have a theatrical run stateside as well?
Stuart Hazeldine: No, not in the states. It's funny, because IFC picked it up before some good things happened- I got BAFTA nominated, we...
- 11/16/2010
- Screen Anarchy
[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review.]
The Electric Chair was screened Friday, October 15th at The 92Y Tribeca Screening Room in NYC. It will be available on DVD Tuesday, October 19th through Wild Eye Releasing.
What do you get when you Frankenstein scenic documentary footage of a desolate island with a filmed stand-up routine written for the stage? You get an avant-garde miasma of self-loathing and Jewish paranoia called The Electric Chair. Part King of Comedy part Death of a Salesman, director Mark Eisenstein's little (never?) seen black comedy is most note-worthy for being veteran character actor Victor Argo's sole starring role. In it he plays a shoe salesman turned comic working out his marital issues in front of an audience that includes his domineering mother and himself as a boy. On stage with him- an electric chair, which he is continually warned to stay away from.
An intriguing premise, but an intriguing premise...
The Electric Chair was screened Friday, October 15th at The 92Y Tribeca Screening Room in NYC. It will be available on DVD Tuesday, October 19th through Wild Eye Releasing.
What do you get when you Frankenstein scenic documentary footage of a desolate island with a filmed stand-up routine written for the stage? You get an avant-garde miasma of self-loathing and Jewish paranoia called The Electric Chair. Part King of Comedy part Death of a Salesman, director Mark Eisenstein's little (never?) seen black comedy is most note-worthy for being veteran character actor Victor Argo's sole starring role. In it he plays a shoe salesman turned comic working out his marital issues in front of an audience that includes his domineering mother and himself as a boy. On stage with him- an electric chair, which he is continually warned to stay away from.
An intriguing premise, but an intriguing premise...
- 10/17/2010
- Screen Anarchy
[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for taking the time to conduct and transcribe the following interview.]
At this point in his fledgling international career, the name Tom Six should be instantly familiar to most genre fans. Hell, even my mother is aware of The Human Centipede, and it repulses her to no end. Lucky for her, the purveyors of gastric horror has set the publicity machine in motion yet again, releasing the first teaser trailer for The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence, on this, the eve of the original's DVD release. The dastardly Dutchman was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to chat with me via Skype, all the way from Amsterdam, to discuss the cult of the centipede, successful sequels, and topping the indomitable Dr. Heiter.
Joshua Chaplinsky: Thanks for taking the time to speak with me today. I didn't realize this was a video chat. Can you see me?
Tom Six: I can't see you, but that's okay.
At this point in his fledgling international career, the name Tom Six should be instantly familiar to most genre fans. Hell, even my mother is aware of The Human Centipede, and it repulses her to no end. Lucky for her, the purveyors of gastric horror has set the publicity machine in motion yet again, releasing the first teaser trailer for The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence, on this, the eve of the original's DVD release. The dastardly Dutchman was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to chat with me via Skype, all the way from Amsterdam, to discuss the cult of the centipede, successful sequels, and topping the indomitable Dr. Heiter.
Joshua Chaplinsky: Thanks for taking the time to speak with me today. I didn't realize this was a video chat. Can you see me?
Tom Six: I can't see you, but that's okay.
- 9/30/2010
- Screen Anarchy
With last night's screening of Blades Of Blood and Gallants (which tied with Castaway On The Moon for the Audience Award), the 9th annual New York Asian Film Festival has come to a close.
We at Twitch have to thank co-founder, Grady Henrix for being our ambassador to the festival, providing us with everything a growing group of writers need to cover such a whirl wind event. An extra shout out to all the staff at Subway Cinema, Lincoln Film Society, IFC Center, and Japan Society for running a smooth show. And lastly thanks to the filmmakers and actors who were so gracious enough to sit down and talk with us about what they do so well.
So, with another year down, lets take a look back at some of our favorite films and highlights from the festivities.
I'll get the ball rolling...
Ben Umstead:
Cinema - in any and...
We at Twitch have to thank co-founder, Grady Henrix for being our ambassador to the festival, providing us with everything a growing group of writers need to cover such a whirl wind event. An extra shout out to all the staff at Subway Cinema, Lincoln Film Society, IFC Center, and Japan Society for running a smooth show. And lastly thanks to the filmmakers and actors who were so gracious enough to sit down and talk with us about what they do so well.
So, with another year down, lets take a look back at some of our favorite films and highlights from the festivities.
I'll get the ball rolling...
Ben Umstead:
Cinema - in any and...
- 7/9/2010
- Screen Anarchy
[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review.]
I don't think I've ever used the word "penis" so many times in a review before.
Directed by and starring acclaimed Japanese comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto, Symbol is a film with an interesting duality. On the one hand, it is an existentialist exploration of cause and effect on a grand scale, but it is also a low-brow comedy that is not afraid to resort to dick and fart jokes. The closest comparison I can come up with is two parts Luis Bunuel, a dash of Takashi Miike, and a sprinkling of Kevin Smith (to taste.) If it seems like I'm stretching to come up with a cinematic analog, it's because I am. Matsumoto's followup to Big Man Japan is a unique cinematic experience, and ponders life's big questions in a way no other film has before it.
It all begins with a nun barreling down Us-15 in a rusted-out pickup truck.
I don't think I've ever used the word "penis" so many times in a review before.
Directed by and starring acclaimed Japanese comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto, Symbol is a film with an interesting duality. On the one hand, it is an existentialist exploration of cause and effect on a grand scale, but it is also a low-brow comedy that is not afraid to resort to dick and fart jokes. The closest comparison I can come up with is two parts Luis Bunuel, a dash of Takashi Miike, and a sprinkling of Kevin Smith (to taste.) If it seems like I'm stretching to come up with a cinematic analog, it's because I am. Matsumoto's followup to Big Man Japan is a unique cinematic experience, and ponders life's big questions in a way no other film has before it.
It all begins with a nun barreling down Us-15 in a rusted-out pickup truck.
- 7/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
[Once again our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review.]
Golden Slumber fills my eyes, but what exactly is it I'm seeing? A man-on-the-run conspiracy thriller, mixing JFK and The Bourne Identity? Or a treatise on friendship lost, the repairing of bonds, and finding one's way "back home"? The film is showing as part of the New York Asian Film Festival, so it should come as no surprised that the answer to the question is... both. Yoshihiro Nakamura's followup to festival favorite, Fish Story, has been garnering mostly positive notices, but I'm going to be a party pooper and go against the grain on this one.
It sucks, because Golden Slumber has a fantastic hook. Mild-mannered Aoyagi reunites with an old school chum for what he thinks will be a fun-filled weekend of fishing and male bonding. Instead, he finds himself on the run from the law, wanted for the assassination of Japan's Prime Minister. (The scene where his...
Golden Slumber fills my eyes, but what exactly is it I'm seeing? A man-on-the-run conspiracy thriller, mixing JFK and The Bourne Identity? Or a treatise on friendship lost, the repairing of bonds, and finding one's way "back home"? The film is showing as part of the New York Asian Film Festival, so it should come as no surprised that the answer to the question is... both. Yoshihiro Nakamura's followup to festival favorite, Fish Story, has been garnering mostly positive notices, but I'm going to be a party pooper and go against the grain on this one.
It sucks, because Golden Slumber has a fantastic hook. Mild-mannered Aoyagi reunites with an old school chum for what he thinks will be a fun-filled weekend of fishing and male bonding. Instead, he finds himself on the run from the law, wanted for the assassination of Japan's Prime Minister. (The scene where his...
- 7/1/2010
- Screen Anarchy
[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review. Rant, disc issues and all.]
Rant alert:
I know piracy is a real problem, but I'm rapidly losing patience with the giant, garish watermarks being slapped on screeners these days. Especially on films with subtitles. It makes it feel like the entire screen is overcrowded with text, fighting for your attention, obfuscating the action. It is a huge distraction and a detriment to the overall viewing experience. It turns watching a decent movie into a real chore. Take that for what you will, in regards to what follows.
End rant.
Ok, on to the review.
Is it a coincidence that I happened to watch Chaw on June 20th, 35 years to the day after the release of Jaws? Let me put it this way- you can't spell "Chaw" without "aw," and if you put a J on it, you're only one letter away from "Jaws," so yeah, probably a coincidence. In fact, i didn't even make...
Rant alert:
I know piracy is a real problem, but I'm rapidly losing patience with the giant, garish watermarks being slapped on screeners these days. Especially on films with subtitles. It makes it feel like the entire screen is overcrowded with text, fighting for your attention, obfuscating the action. It is a huge distraction and a detriment to the overall viewing experience. It turns watching a decent movie into a real chore. Take that for what you will, in regards to what follows.
End rant.
Ok, on to the review.
Is it a coincidence that I happened to watch Chaw on June 20th, 35 years to the day after the release of Jaws? Let me put it this way- you can't spell "Chaw" without "aw," and if you put a J on it, you're only one letter away from "Jaws," so yeah, probably a coincidence. In fact, i didn't even make...
- 6/26/2010
- Screen Anarchy
[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review]
Ning Hao's Crazy Racer is not the film I thought it was going to be. Granted, I went in having only read a brief summary, but that summary painted a very specific picture in my mind. What I was expecting was a purely cycle-centric film, a Chinese version of Breaking Away hopped-up on speed. And based on the opening, it appeared that's what I was going to get. The credits sequence is kinetic, frenetic, and borderline epileptic as we witness Olympic cyclist Geng Hao suffer a crushing defeat in an important race. Then, to add catastrophe to bruised ego, he is thrown out of racing for life after he tests positive for amphetamines- amphetamines found in the male-enhancement product he is conned into shilling. All things considered, Geng Hao takes this relatively well, but his coach becomes so enraged by the expulsion that he suffers a major heart attack.
This...
Ning Hao's Crazy Racer is not the film I thought it was going to be. Granted, I went in having only read a brief summary, but that summary painted a very specific picture in my mind. What I was expecting was a purely cycle-centric film, a Chinese version of Breaking Away hopped-up on speed. And based on the opening, it appeared that's what I was going to get. The credits sequence is kinetic, frenetic, and borderline epileptic as we witness Olympic cyclist Geng Hao suffer a crushing defeat in an important race. Then, to add catastrophe to bruised ego, he is thrown out of racing for life after he tests positive for amphetamines- amphetamines found in the male-enhancement product he is conned into shilling. All things considered, Geng Hao takes this relatively well, but his coach becomes so enraged by the expulsion that he suffers a major heart attack.
This...
- 6/25/2010
- Screen Anarchy
[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinksy for the following review.]
György Pálfi, the man responsible for the subdued murder mystery Hukkle, and the grotesque, Eastern Bloc artistry of Taxidermia, returns with I Am Not Your Friend, a Soderberghian exercise in low budget improvisation.
The film follows a small group of strangers living in Budapest as they lie, cheat, breakup, makeup and deceive; their lives interweaving with one another like Paul Haggis' Crash. The level of coincidence on display in Friend rivals that film, but this is not meant as fodder for Haggis detractors. The tone of Palfi's film is darkly comic, and his choice of subject matter not nearly as heavy handed.
The Soderbergh comparison is a more appropriate one. Palfi has established himself as something of a chameleon, producing three very different films in his short career. But unlike similar Soderbergh creations (Bubble, The Girlfriend Experience,) I Am Not Your Friend cannot be faulted as emotionally distant, even...
György Pálfi, the man responsible for the subdued murder mystery Hukkle, and the grotesque, Eastern Bloc artistry of Taxidermia, returns with I Am Not Your Friend, a Soderberghian exercise in low budget improvisation.
The film follows a small group of strangers living in Budapest as they lie, cheat, breakup, makeup and deceive; their lives interweaving with one another like Paul Haggis' Crash. The level of coincidence on display in Friend rivals that film, but this is not meant as fodder for Haggis detractors. The tone of Palfi's film is darkly comic, and his choice of subject matter not nearly as heavy handed.
The Soderbergh comparison is a more appropriate one. Palfi has established himself as something of a chameleon, producing three very different films in his short career. But unlike similar Soderbergh creations (Bubble, The Girlfriend Experience,) I Am Not Your Friend cannot be faulted as emotionally distant, even...
- 4/30/2010
- Screen Anarchy
[ Once again, props go to Joshua Chaplinksy for this review ]
Four Years ago, a bizarre little film called Sheitan made me a fan of director Kim Chapiron for life. It starred Vincent Cassel as a demented hillbilly who makes a Faustian deal with the devil in what I consider to be one of the best horror films of the aughts. I missed its premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, but was lucky enough to discover it on DVD. This year, Chapiron returns to the fest with his highly anticipated (by me) followup, the hardcore juvie prison drama, Dog Pound.
Based on the 1979 Alan Clarke film, Scum, Dog Pound jacks its inspiration like a fresh pair of kicks and will fuck you up if you snitch. Updating the action to present day middle-America, the loose narrative follows three inmates in a juvenile detention center as they attempt to keep their heads down and their noses clean.
Easier said than done.
There...
Four Years ago, a bizarre little film called Sheitan made me a fan of director Kim Chapiron for life. It starred Vincent Cassel as a demented hillbilly who makes a Faustian deal with the devil in what I consider to be one of the best horror films of the aughts. I missed its premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, but was lucky enough to discover it on DVD. This year, Chapiron returns to the fest with his highly anticipated (by me) followup, the hardcore juvie prison drama, Dog Pound.
Based on the 1979 Alan Clarke film, Scum, Dog Pound jacks its inspiration like a fresh pair of kicks and will fuck you up if you snitch. Updating the action to present day middle-America, the loose narrative follows three inmates in a juvenile detention center as they attempt to keep their heads down and their noses clean.
Easier said than done.
There...
- 4/26/2010
- Screen Anarchy
[ Our Thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review ]
Omar A. Rodriguez Lopez is gonna need a bigger hat rack.
The prolific solo artist and fearless leader of Latin progsters, The Mars Volta, is now a bona fide filmmaker. Not just a film director, mind you, a film maker. Not since the heyday of Vincent Gallo have I seen one man take so many credits in a feature film. Producer, writer, director, actor, composer, craft service- all control R belong to Omar, in this his directorial "debut." I put debut in quotes because according to him he has made 3 films prior and at least one since, this is just the first to see the light of festival day.
So who or what is The Sentimental Engine Slayer? Other than sounding like the title of a Mars Volta b-side, my money is on Barlam. Played by Lopez, he is a sensitive young lad who likes to build model cars, and...
Omar A. Rodriguez Lopez is gonna need a bigger hat rack.
The prolific solo artist and fearless leader of Latin progsters, The Mars Volta, is now a bona fide filmmaker. Not just a film director, mind you, a film maker. Not since the heyday of Vincent Gallo have I seen one man take so many credits in a feature film. Producer, writer, director, actor, composer, craft service- all control R belong to Omar, in this his directorial "debut." I put debut in quotes because according to him he has made 3 films prior and at least one since, this is just the first to see the light of festival day.
So who or what is The Sentimental Engine Slayer? Other than sounding like the title of a Mars Volta b-side, my money is on Barlam. Played by Lopez, he is a sensitive young lad who likes to build model cars, and...
- 4/26/2010
- Screen Anarchy
[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review. 1 was screened as part of the Lincoln Film Society's recent contemporary Hungarian cinema program.]
More interesting than enjoyable, but at times more frustrating than interesting, Pater Sparrow's adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's One Human Minute is packed to the gills with ideas, but fails to develop any of them in a satisfying manner.
The story is simple. The entire inventory of a rare bookshop is mysteriously replaced with a statistical tome documenting sixty seconds worth of life on earth. Is it a publicity stunt? An act of terrorism? The Reality Defense Institute wants to know, so the bookshop staff and the philosophy spouting guru who happened to be in the store at the time are carted off for psychological testing. With the minimum of exposition out of the way, Sparrow is free to explore a myriad of tangential ideas with less focus than a stoned philosophy major.
Which isn't even the biggest problem with the film. At times Sparrow achieves a somber rumination...
More interesting than enjoyable, but at times more frustrating than interesting, Pater Sparrow's adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's One Human Minute is packed to the gills with ideas, but fails to develop any of them in a satisfying manner.
The story is simple. The entire inventory of a rare bookshop is mysteriously replaced with a statistical tome documenting sixty seconds worth of life on earth. Is it a publicity stunt? An act of terrorism? The Reality Defense Institute wants to know, so the bookshop staff and the philosophy spouting guru who happened to be in the store at the time are carted off for psychological testing. With the minimum of exposition out of the way, Sparrow is free to explore a myriad of tangential ideas with less focus than a stoned philosophy major.
Which isn't even the biggest problem with the film. At times Sparrow achieves a somber rumination...
- 2/16/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review.]
“She’ll come back. They always do.”
Or, she’ll be back, according to the subtitles on the screener, but that doesn’t seem like the ideal translation.
A former Tokyo call girl and an alcoholic ex-cop attempt to help a young woman escape her pimp and start a new life. Sounds very film noir, but aside from the pulpy nature of the setup and a brief, violent climax, it plays out more like a character drama.
“She’ll come back. They always do.”
Or, she’ll be back, according to the subtitles on the screener, but that doesn’t seem like the ideal translation.
A former Tokyo call girl and an alcoholic ex-cop attempt to help a young woman escape her pimp and start a new life. Sounds very film noir, but aside from the pulpy nature of the setup and a brief, violent climax, it plays out more like a character drama.
- 6/19/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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