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Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston and Mia Wasikowska topline Jim Jarmusch's film about a vampire couple who has been together throughout the ages.read more

Back in mid April Twitch was proud to present the first images from Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead, noting at the time that the sheer level of blood present boded well for fans of the original Nazi zombie comedy. Well, now we come bearing word that this early promise has been realized. The producers of the film were present in the Cannes film market with the first five minutes of the picture and we were fortunate enough to get a look.The film will be shot in both English and Norwegian. In the sequel the story follows the sole survivor of a Nazi zombie attack who battles an even larger army of Zombies with the help of a professional gang of American zombie... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]

It was back in November of 2011 that Twitch first caught wind of an animated adaptation of Tad Williams' fantasy novel Tailchaser's Song. Spearheaded by US indie outfit Animetropolis and Japan's IDA (creators of the stellar Cat Shit One), the project has slowly been making its way through development and now we have word that Sam Worthington's Australia based Full Clip Productions has joined the effort while Rise Of The Guardians director Peter Ramsay has signed up as an executive producer. Oh ... and there's also now the first official poster art for the film, which you can see above. Check the full press release below. CANNES -- FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2013 -- Animetropolis, IDA and EFG-Renascence Productions are pleased to unveil the producing team... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]

I would like those 897 hours of my life back, please. In case you want to spend a little more time with it, I tweeted while watching it with Amrita and then collected those thoughts on Storify here. Warning: in case you couldn't tell from the first sentence of this post, we are not nice.

San Francisco is over grown....

The unhealed wounds of post-apartheid South Africa get a brutal but superficial once-over in Jerome Salle's savagely violent cop thriller.

Inspired by the upcoming release of "Fast & Furious 6," the latest installment in the blockbuster action franchise, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has announced it will create a sequel to Operation Fast & Furious, its 2009 botched gun-trafficking sting operation.

I haven't been able to find a partner for Red Carpet Convo discussions this holiday weekend *sniffle* so instead I thought I'd share some red carpet lineups with jury prizes and brief notes now that the awards are coming in. Are you with me? First up is the Un Certain Regard jury which was led by Danish director Thomas Vinterberg who came to fame with the great Festen (Celebration) in 1998 and has been enjoying similarly ecstatic praise for his recent picture The Hunt which could be Denmark's Oscar entry this year. On his jury were actresses Zhang Ziyi, Ludivine Sagnier, Head of Brazil's Festival Ilda Santiago and producer Enrique Gonzalez Macho. Here's Ziyi... ! Which is your favorite? And when was the last time you saw Ziyi onscreen? It seems like it's been forever for me so I'm eager for The Grandmaster which is a totally unofficial 2046 reunion (see also: Tony Leung & Wong Kar Wai)? UN CERTAIN REGARD PRIZES The Missing Picture (Cambodia)Rithy Pan's picture about the horrors of the Pol Pot regime -- I'm crazy about the poster! -- won the Un Certain Regard prize Omar (Israel)Hany Abu-Assad, who was Oscar nominated for Paradise Now, won the jury prize (i.e. second place) for this movie which returns to the same brutal setting of the Palestine-Israel conflict and focuses on three friends caught up in the cycle of violence. Fruitvale Station (USA)Ryan Coogler's Sundance winner about the police killing of an innocent Bay Area man (Michael B Jordan) took the "Future Award". A Future with Oscar maybe... Stranger by the Lake (France)This controversial murder mystery from Alain Guiraudie -- already infamous for its nudity and gay sex -- took home the directing prize. The film takes place entirely outdoors in a gay cruising area. Strand Releasing will distribute in the States at some point. The Cage of Gold (Mexico)Diego Quemada-Diez, a camera operator of films you've seen like 21 Grams and The Constant Gardener, has graduated to directing. His ensemble cast of non-professional teens playing illegal migrants were given the Talent Award On their choices, Vinterberg says: One of the finest achievements in filmmaking is to create unforgettable moments – moments that stay with us – as a collective memory – as a collective mirror of our existence. Clay figures, extreme beauty, violence, homosexual blow jobs, systematic humiliation of the human kind, Léa Seydoux’s legs, great Brando imitations are just some of the unique images that will follow us for a while. Well... all of those things do sound memorable even if we don't have much context for them just yet. And so so we close with Ziyi's fellow juror Ludivine Sagnier, an actress j'adore and who we've interviewed right here. When was the last time you saw Ludivine onscreen?

Another demanding and deeply rewarding investigation into the Holocaust from documentarian Claude Lanzmann.

A multi talented artist who works as a filmmaker, musician and designer - he helped create the title sequence for the Guillermo Del Toro produced Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark - Australia's Christopher Frey turns heads with the absolutely gorgeous short film Explosions. Light on narrative but rich on mood and emotion consider this a snapshot of a personal apocalypse. Watch the film below.... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]