As you’ve probably realised by now, we are obsessed with all things Oldboy. I found this on my daily work-avoidance web trawl and thought I’d put it up in case we’re being followed by any other hammer-fight obsessed geeks.
Please click on the link HERE , thanks to our friends over at Ain’t It Cool
Enjoy.
The cast appears to consist of teenagers held together with band-aids and a small army of smartly dressed skinheads. Will this be enough to drag Shaun away from his sobresada? Read on to find out.
If you’re here for our opinion, “go see this film”, if you’re here for a preview of the film, read on.
It’s not the best picture of us ever, but we’re still incredibly proud of meeting the master himself a few years ago.
Click on the link here to see a video of him discussing his new film ‘Thirst’ which is showing at Sitges this year.
It’s only 61 days and 14 hours until this year’s Festival Internacional De Cinema Fantastic De Catalunya (that’s the Sitges Film Festival to you and me) and already the excitement is reaching fever pitch – flights have been booked, the accomodation is reserved and the beers are on the bar.
With that in mind, we’re aiming to bring you as much information as early as possible. A few details are already available on the site here and we aim to keep you updated with trailers and information as they arrive.
As the date for entries has now passed, we’re hopeful that more information is going to be available soon, although going on past years, we’ll usually find out more some time around the middle of September.
Today’s trailer is the hotly-anticipated [REC] 2 which we expect will probably open the festival. Tickets will probably be at a premium and if the first installment is anything to go by, we’d better take spare underwear.
I like to think of Team CorridorStyle as a big bear.
While we here at CS could never claim to be the most active of Bloggers, even we experience a state of reduced activity and metabolic depression during the metaphorical winter that closes in between Sitges film festivals. However, as the permafrost acting of Nicolas Cage gives way to the first green-screen shoots of Korean cinema’s latest offerings, strange guttural sounds soon begin to emanate from somewhere deep within the Corridors of Style.
For the last few years Spring has heralded the start of our Festival preparations, and this year has been no different – until now.
Having recently moved to this new home for our cinematic musings we’ve decided now would be a good time to let others in on our pre-festival rummaging and ferreting. Why should we do all the hard work and you reap all the rewards? Because we’re Nice Guy Eddie here at CS – That’s why.
Between now and October 2nd we’ll be sharing our thoughts and findings as we scheme our schemes and hatch our hatches for what’s sure to be another full-on program of Movies and Mahous.
Even if you’re not planning to make it to the festival this year why not live the experience vicariously through us by following our Tweets or by hooking up to our Blog RSS.
I’m going to be self-indulgent.
On reading this interview with Eric Bana over at The Onion’s A.V Club, I was reminded of my first glimpse of Bana.
On a trip to Oz a few years back a friend in Perth pulled one out of the hat by treating me to a hitherto unknown Bana back-to-back with THE CASTLE and CHOPPER. I was mightily impressed by both and, as is now customary with films I like, particularly comedies I like, I scooted on over to IMDB and THE CASTLE’s “memorable Quotes” section to remind myself why.
Dale Kerrigan: Dad reckons fishing is 10% brains and 95% muscle, the rest is just good luck.
Eric gets two thumbs up here at CorridorStyle so, if you like his comedic turn in the latest Apatow offering FUNNY PEOPLE, we recommend storming THE CASTLE for more Bana beauties.
CS
For those of you who marveled at our 2008 Sitges Film Festival Blog (we know who you are) you will have noticed that we like a bit of Abel Ferrara (see Day 2 entry). We’re not sure which bit specifically but we now know that all of his bits become infinitely more entertaining when they’re loosely held together by liquor.
What unbridled joy we experienced then at the DVD rerelease yesterday of one of Abel’s finest – BAD LIEUTENANT.
For those of you of a similar generation to myself, your strongest (perhaps only) memory of the film released 17 years ago may either be a) an unfortunate incident involving a nun or b), an unfortunate incident involving Harvey letting us see how God intended him to be.
However, 17 years is a long time and I’ll hold my hand up and admit that the film’s major draw for me at the time was it’s taboo status thanks, in no small part (no pun intended Harvey), to the above controversial scenes. So, after our recent Sitges brush with the great man, now would seem like a good time to give the film a view with new eyes. This review over at our friends at The Onion’s A.V club would suggest I need to look beyond the controversy , and search for the film’s true soul.
I feel I should also make reference to the A.V club’s footnote regarding the DVD’s release coinciding with the forthcoming Werner Herzog-Nicolas Cage remake Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans. From earlier comments we’ve made it will be clear that Team CorridorStyle is not Cage’s biggest fan, and we’ve already offered him outside for a fight (still waiting Nic) over his involvement with the sacrilege that would be an OLDBOY remake. Couple that together with Herzog’s involvement here (ok Werner, we quite liked RESCUE DAWN but what the hell was THE WILD BLUE YONDER all about?) and I smell a shit-storm brewing.
CS
Ok. We fess up. We’re never exactly first out of the gate with news here at CS but you could say that’s because we’re built for comfort, not speed. Forgive us then for the tardy appearance of this piece on our favourite film flavour – Korean Kimchi.
Cruise through the pages of our Sitges section and you’ll quickly realise we’ve somewhat of an infatuation with Korean cinema, albeit on an admittedly narrow horizon. So, for our small, but no doubt ever growing band of faithful Blog-bait, we thought now would be a good time to enlighten you on the who’s who of Korean cinema’s go-to men. In no time at all names such as Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho will be skipping off the tip of your tongue to the stifled gasps and admiring looks of the secretaries gathered religiously at your feet around the water cooler.
Once you’ve read this piece over at our friends at Filminfocus.com (the website of Universal Pictures’ Focus Films) give yourself an extra gold star if you spotted their one glaring omission (well done if you guessed the debut director of last year’s stunning film THE CHASER, Na Hong-jin)
CS
Somehow in the last six days I managed to polish off five seasons of the HBO show ‘Entourage’.
If you’re already a fan, get excited because season 6 has just started on ITV3 in the UK. If it’s something you’ve never watched, get ready ‘cos you’re in for a treat.
It’s the story of an up and coming young star and his entourage of childhood friends and the highlight for me is his foul-mouthed agent, Ari Gold. Check out some of his quotes here: http://www.arigoldquotes.com/
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