Wolf Creek 2

Mick Taylor, Australia’s very own movie boogieman, returns to his outback hunting ground for a fresh round of giggling brutality and torture porn. The original Wolf Creek(2005) is on the all-time Top 100 local box office list and made a decent $A30m worldwide. Mick’s deeply sadistic return gets a wide 217-screen release and plenty of upfront publicity. Image Entertainment has acquired North American rights and US and UK release dates are expected soon.

The Darkside

Warwick Thornton's The Darkside (Australia, 2013) is about aboriginal  people retelling their ghost stories 4/10 2014BERf

DOUBLE FEATURE: East Germany through the Looking Glass

Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye Lenin ! (Germany, 2003) - A young man, Daniel Bruhl in star making performance, must hide the fact that East Germany has fallen from his mother because of her weak health in this great family drama. Premiered at 2003 Berlin Film Festival and nominated for ten 2003 German Film Award.

Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others (Germany, 2006) - Set in 1984 East Berlin, this flawlessly acted masterpiece about a love triangle between a Stasi agent and the subject of his surveillance, a writer and his girlfriend. Winner of 2007 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film. Nominated for eleven 2006 German Film Award.

DOUBLE FEATURE: Wong Kar Wai's Masterpieces - A Chinese Love Story

Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together (1997, Hong Kong) - Two men tries to save their troubled relationship stars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung. Tony Leung won 1997 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award and nominated for nine 1998 Hong Kong Film Award

Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love -a man and a woman fall in love after meeting each other because suspecting their spouses having extra marital affair set in early 60s Hong Kong stars Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung. Won Best Aator Award at 2000 Cannes Film Festival and Nominated for twelve 2001 Hong Kong Film Award

DOUBLE FEATURE: Herzog - In The Edge of Madness

Werner Herzog's Aguirre The Wrath of God (Germany, 1972) - Spanish explorer doomed expedition to South America searching for El Dorado stars Klaus Kinski. Nominated for three 1973 German Film Award.

Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo (Germany, 1982) - The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle. Won Best Director Award at 1982 CANNES Film Festival, 1982NYFF, 1982SANSic, 1982TEL, 2013LOCpg. 

DOUBLE FEATURE: Roland Joffe's 80s Masterpieces

The Killing Fields (1984) a powerful look at friendship between an American war photographer and his Cambodian interpreter in the bloody end of Cambodian War. Nominated for seven 1985 Academy Award.

The Mission (1986) a Spanish Jesuit leads the South American Indian tribe to fight the advancing Portuguese army in 18th Century South America starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons. Won Palm d'Or at 1986 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for seven 1987 Academy Award.

2013 Kinematic Junpo's Top 10

Kinema Junpo, Japan's oldest film magazine, has announced its 87th top ten lists, chosen by a committee of over 100 film critics and journalists.
Veteran director MORISAKI Azuma 森崎東's Pecoross' Mother and Her Days ペコロスの母に会いに行く (pictured) topped the list as the Best Japanese film, and Michael HANEKE's Amour (2012) was chosen as Best Foreign Film.
Based on OKANO Yuichi 岡野雄一's prize-winning comic book of the same name, Pecoross tells the story of a manga artist's relationship with his elderly mother. In the role of the mother, it is 89-year-old actress AKAGI Harue 赤木春恵's first leading role in a film after an extensive career in television.
Second-placed on the list, The Great Passage 舟を編む also earned a Best Actor prize for star MATSUDA Ryuhei 松田龍平 and a Best Director prize for ISHII Yuya 石井裕也. MAKI Yoko 真木よう子 was named Best Actress for her work in Like Father, Like Son そして父になる, The Ravine of Goodbye さよなら渓谷 and Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship すーちゃん　まいちゃん　さわ子さん (2012).
TANAKA Yuko 田中裕子 was named Best Supporting Actress for Backwater 共喰い and Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story はじまりのみち, while Lily FRANKY リリー・フランキー was named Best Supporting Actor for Like Father, Like Son and The Devil's Path 凶悪. Backwater also earned Best Script for ARAI Haruhiko 荒井晴彦. Alfonso CUARÓN won the Best Foreign Film Director prize for Gravity.
The Best Foreign Film list includes two Asian films: WEI Te-sheng 魏德聖's Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale 賽德克・巴萊 (2011) (fourth-placed) and WANG Bing 王兵's Three Sisters 三姐妹 (2012) (fifth-placed). KIM Ki-duk 김기덕 | 金基德's Pietà 피에타 (2012) was also named as runner-up.
MIKAMI Chie 三上智恵's documentary The Targeted Village 標的の村 was named Best Cultural Film (文化映画), a category usually reserved for non-narrative films. It was released by Tofoo Films LLC 東風 in August, the independent distributor that also handled Pecoross. International sales of Pecorosa are handled by GETA Films.
The awards will be given out during a ceremony set for 8 Feb in Tokyo.

KINEMA JUNPO'S TOP 10 DOMESTIC FILMS

1. Pecoross' Mother and Her Days
2. The Great Passage
3. The Devil's Path
4. The Tale of Princess Kaguya かぐや姫の物語
5. Backwater
6. Like Father, Like Son
7. The Wind Rises 風立ちぬ
8. The Ravine of Goodbye
9. Tamako in Moratorium もらとりあむタマ子
10. Flashback Memories 3D フラッシュバックメモリーズ ３Ｄ (2012)

Runner-up: Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend フィギュアなあなた

KINEMA JUNPO'S TOP 10 FOREIGN FILMS

1. Amour
2. Gravity
3. Hannah Arendt
4. Seediq Bale
5. Three Sisters
6. Holy Motors
7. The Life of Pi
8. The Master
9. Tabu
10. The Other Son

Runner-up: Pietà