Although this mashup of Reservoir Dogs and A Clockwork Orange comes across like some kind of dubbed martial arts movie it is still pretty well executed:
From the monthly archives:
October 2006
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I recently interviewed actor Tobin Bell (who plays Jigsaw in the Saw films) about Saw 3.
Have a listen below
> Official site for Saw 3
> Back of Your Mind - A Saw Fansite
> Dread Central on the news that the series is over
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This week on the podcast we review cinema releases All The King’s Men, A Good Year and speak to Tobin Bell, the star of Saw 3.
On DVD we our pick of the week is Hard Candy and in the news we take a look at what’s been happening at the London Film Festival.
Our website of the week is the All Movie Guide.
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It would seem the marketing folk at Lionsgate are down with the kids when it comes to promoting Saw 3. They have created one just for YouTube.
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BBC News has an interesting article on the people duped in the Borat movie. It talks to some of those interviewed by Sacha Baron Cohen’s spoof character:
Spoof Kazakh reporter Borat - aka Ali G comedian Sacha Baron Cohen - is expected to score a box office hit by offending and humiliating real Americans in a new movie.Â
When a gangly foreign reporter with broken English, bushy moustache and crumpled suit turned up at artist Linda Stein’s New York studio, she thought she was helping spread the word about women’s rights.
Ms Stein, with two other members of Veteran Feminists of America, agreed to be filmed for what they thought was a documentary to help third world women. But then the reporter started talking about his wife’s farm work (”she pulls the plough”), women walking three steps behind men (”it used to be 10 steps, my country is advancing”) and asking how to contact Pamela Anderson.
“I thought I was talking to an uneducated man, maybe from a tribal community,” Ms Stein says. “I mean, that’s how it seemed to me. In our earnestness, we were trying to help women around the world.”
It also discusses how some the interviews were arranged:
Most of Borat’s victims were ensnared in a similar way. They would be contacted by a woman calling herself Chelsea Barnard from a fictional film company, One America Productions.
They would be told about the foreign correspondent making a film about life in the US, with the pitch tailored to each person’s specialist subject.
Then on the day of the interview, they would be presented with a release form at the last minute, be paid in cash and, finally, Borat would amble in, beginning with some serious subjects before starting his provocative routine.
> The BBC News article on Borat
> Borat on MySpace
> Find out more on the Borat movie at Wikipedia
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Outside the Odeon West End in Leicester Square after a screening of The US vs John Lennon at the 50th London Film Festival.
This documentary about Lennon’s political activism and his struggles with the Nixon administration also screens tomorrow at 1pm.
It opens here on December 8th.
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Here is the trailer for The Good German. Directed by Steven Soderbergh it stars George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Tobey Maguire and is a murder mystery set in Berlin at the end of World War II.
It opens in the US on Friday 8th December and in the UK on Friday 9th March.
> IMDb entry for The Good German
> More on the film at Wikipedia
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Before YouTube and Google Video, there was iFilm. The slow loading times and annoying ads drove me away but the new beta version looks much better. (Link via The Download Squad)
For example this clip of German actor Klaus Kinski going nuts at a press conference loads pretty quickly:
> The new iFilm
> Comparison of different video services at Wikipedia
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