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A retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England, Steamboy features an inventor prodigy named Ray Steam who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation. This young boy must use it to fight evil, redeem his family, and save London from destruction. The lush Victorian interiors and the elegance of the era’s mechanical design allows Otomo to create dazzling visual backgrounds and machines for this film. With more than 180,000 drawing and 400 CG cuts, Steamboy is sure to be one of the most elaborate animated features of 2004.

The Trailer

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The Clips

The Attack is On!

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Chased

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Is That You Father?

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Whatever Could This be?

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Miss Scarlett’s Delayed Visit

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Off in Space

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The Steam Tower Launches

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Steamboy Saves Miss Scarlett

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The Featurettes

Writer/Director Katsuhiro Ôtomo Talks About the Process of Creating a Masterpiece

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Writer/Director Katsuhiro Ôtomo Talks About Humanity vs. Technology

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Actor Alfred Molina Talks About the Battle Between Father and Son

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Actress Anna Paquin Talks About Acting Behind the Microphone

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Actor Patrick Stewart Talks About the Human Element in Japanese Animation

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One man has reincarnated the vampire myth again. Under the pseudonym Henry Gloom Jens Feldner (Stefan “Cheesy” Keseberg) writes a new pulp novel every week. The series is a surprise hit, a cult phenomenon. The author’s secret is easy. His vampires are more than just fantasy: they are real. He saw them!

Selin (Nicole Müller)Jens’s girl-friend Selin (Nicole Müller) is also interested in vampires. She is possessed by them. Her night job at a local photo lab is just a cover. In reality she tracks down vampires, to find a certain master. On her journey she kills every bloodsucker, who meets her blade. Jens has no idea. He would never suspect his girl-friend to be the notorious “Night Stalker”.

Arnold (Alex Kaese)A little later Selin is almost killed in a fight. Arnold (Alex Kaese), a brutal and strange character, who worships vampires like gods, saves her life. Everything seems fine again. But then Arnold discovers that Selin is the wanted vampire killer…

Night of the Vampire Hunter is the first film from Coffeebeans Entertainment, and there are trailers…

Trailer 1

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Trailer 2

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Yes was recently shown at the Berlin Film Festival and is due to be released in the US in June. And now the teaser trailer is up.

2004 Telluride Film Festival 2004 Toronto International Film Festival 2005 San Francisco International Film Festival Yes is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian) in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual. Sam Neill plays the betrayed and betraying politician husband and Shirley Henderson a philosophical cleaner who witnesses the trail of dirt and heartbreak the lovers leave behind them, as they embark on a journey that takes them from London and Belfast to Beirut and Havana.

Teaser Trailer

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Welcome to the Layer Cake

Layer Cake, a riveting thriller set in the drug underworld of the UK, marks the directorial debut of producer Mathew Vaughn (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) and stars Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris, Jamie Foreman, Sienna Miller and Michael Gambon.

Sleek, well dressed and polite, our unnamed hero (Daniel Craig) is a consummate professional. Treating cocaine and ecstasy like any other commodity, he has made a fortune for himself by keeping his hands clean and staying under the radar. Having made the decision to retire, his aim is to break free from the world of crime, drugs and violence and live a simple, quiet life with the money he has amassed.

But before this can happen, crime boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) wants two last favors from him. First, he must track down the missing, drug addict daughter of powerful criminal Eddie Temple (Michael Gambon). Second, he must negotiate the sale of a huge shipment of ecstacy with The Duke (Jamie Foreman), a loose cannon petty crook playing well out of his league.

What should be routine transaction is anything but and nothing goes according to plan. Instead, duplicity and hidden alliances become the order of the day, in a struggle for power that reaches from the crack dens of London to the highest ranks of British society. Quickly he learns he is part of a machine much greater than he imagined, and getting out won’t be quite as easy as getting in.

It’s already out in the UK, but Layer Cake gets its US release (NY and LA) on May 13th.

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This is the story of Lolita Cassard, a young woman of twenty years who has it in for the entire world because she doesn’t look like the girls in glossy magazines, who doesn’t look a thing like her young mother-in-law, and who would so much like to feel beautiful, at least in her father’s eyes, if only her father’s eyes could find her. But this is also the story of a man named Etienne Cassard, who doesn’t see other people much at all because he’s busy looking at himself, feeling older, a man who very likely wanted for love himself, who struggled long and hard to find his place in the world.

This is the story of a writer named Pierre Miller, who’s lost faith, who doubts he’ll ever meet with success, who meets with success and who meets Etienne Cassard. This is the story of a singing teacher, Sylvia Miller, who believes in her husband, at least in his talent, but who has doubts about her own and that of her pupil, Lolita - until she realizes she’s the daughter of Etienne Cassard, the author she admires so much.

This is the story of human beings who know exactly what they’d do if they were somebody else, but can’t handle being themselves very well, who are very simply struggling to find out who they are.

Look at me, which was written and directed by Agnès Jaoui, was the winner of the the best screenplay award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and opens in the US (New York and Los Angeles) on 1st April.

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The wonderful people at Tartan Video is releasing Monster Man in cinemas in the UK on March 11th… That’s today!

According to Tartan:

Low on budget but packed with ingenious bad taste and gory laughs, Michael Davis’s gross horror comedy comes on strong like Jeepers Creepers meets Duel on a Joyride. Two brainless students on a Deep South road trip - Adam (Eric Jungmann) and Harley (Justin Urich) annoy the pizza-faced ghoulish driver of a monster truck who just loves to bulldoze his human targets off the highway and cut off their limbs. The plot turns zanier, darker and more disgusting when they pick up hitchhiker Sarah (Aimee Brooks, Sorority House Massacre), piss the psycho off further and end up hiding in the sicko’s hovel where he’s just disemboweled his own brother…

The Trailer

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In the summer of 2003, acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog set out to make a documentary about Scotland’s infamous Loch Ness. The production ground to a halt after a boating accident just weeks into shooting. Charges of mismanagement and even criminally negligent behavior were leveled in multiple directions. In the ensuing legal fracas, a series of startling film clips made their way onto the Internet. The footage was purported to be the clearest ever taken of the elusive Loch Ness monster, but it was accompanied by claims of a hoax. The answer as to the origin and validity of these clips remains unclear. Shocking, controversial and strangely humorous, the film raises many questions about where reality ends and fiction begins. It is also the portrait of a great adventurer on his most bizarre and tragic quest.

The Clips

Experts Speak

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Herzog in French

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Katana meets Zack

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Location Hardships

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Vegetarian

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Virtual University

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Degration of Fibers

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Langston Whitfield (Samuel L. Jackson) is a Washington Post journalist, sent to South Africa to cover the Truth and Reconcilliation Comittee hearings. He is apprehensive about the trip as he is skeptical about the process of reconcilliation - feeling that it is just a way for the perpetrators to escape without punishment. Anna Malen (Juliette Binoche) is an Afrikaans poet covering the hearings for South African state radio and NPR in the US. Anna is enthusiastic about the process before them, having great reverence for her native African traditions, and great hopes to see her country healed. Thrown together as members of the International press corps, Langston and Anna meet and are instantly at odds over their opposing views of the hearings. But over time, their shared experience of listening to the moving and paonful testimony brings them ever closer.

Meanwhile, searching for a more sensational angle for his story, Langston tracks down Col. de Jager (Brendan Gleeson), the most notorious torturer in the SA Police, and tries to penetrate the mind of a monster. Unexpectedly, the experience forces him to confront his own demons and leads to the discovery of a devastating connection betwen Anna and the perpetrators of violence.

As Langston becomes increasingly drawn nto Anna’s world and her passion for the country of her birth, they are both led to question their sense of identity. Where do they each belong ? How responsible are they for what is done in the name of their respective countries?

In My Country opens in the US on March 11th.

Trailers

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According to the IMDB, the Sin City is;

A collection of interweaving stories all based in the corrupt, crime infested hell-hole that is Basin City. Heavily influenced by film-noir, the main storylines concern a hulking brute called Marv (Mickey Rourke), who is seeking the murderer of a beautiful woman who was killed while asleep in bed with him; an ex-photographer called Dwight (Clive Owen) who accidentally kills a hero cop and has to cover it up; and a soon-to-be-retiring policeman called Hartigan (Bruce Willis) who is incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. All based on the brilliant graphic novels “Sin City”, “The Big Fat Kill” and “That Yellow Bastard”, written and illustrated by Frank Miller.

… and it looks fantastic. But don’t take my word for it, go watch the trailer.

And once you’ve done that, go take a look at this poster gallery (found via FilmRot).

Update

The official web site is now up. As with far too many of these things, it’s flash based with lots of style and not much substance… but the desktop wallpapers are worth a look.

First Trailer

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Freak Out, “The best film about a camp vegetarian serial killer ever!” now has a trailer online.

Watch it, enjoy, and then go and read the interview with writer/director/producer Christian James.

The Trailer

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