Random Scribbling Upon The Blog Page #1

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Scream IV (2011)

It appears that a fourth Scream film, directed by Wes Craven, is going to happen. Frankly I can’t help but roll my eyes.

Link to the IMDB page

Giallo (2009)

Part of my daily routine includes looking at certain websites when I’m online, and one of them is the site for the British Board of Film Classification. The BBFC, where films and other material have to be sent to get a certificate rating before it can get a release in Britain, have a useful website which regularly updates its classifications. The advantage to this is that you can look at what is going to get a cinema or DVD release, which in this case meant that I discovered that the latest film by the Italian horror director Dario Argento Giallo, a murder mystery starring Adrian Brody, is finally getting a DVD release in the UK. Already infamous from its various screenings at festivals, I do realise that if this lives up to the terrible reviews I hope it will turn out to be a film so bad its good instead of painful, although if I actually like it as a good film that would be fantastic. Being released during a period, from this year to the next, where Argento’s back catalogue is being re-released in brand spanking new editions (Suspiria (1977), Deep Red (1975), and for next year Tenebre (1982) are just a few examples), it is either a fitting coincidence or on purpose. It will certainly raise even more interest in Dario Argento from all of these releases along with the huge amount that already exists.

Link to BBFC page

Uncle Boomie Comes To the UK

Continuing in some part with searching BBFC.com, I did also notice that the winner of the main prize at this year’s Cannes Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) has finally been submitted for a UK cinema release and will be coming here soon. Admittedly, my ability to watch non-mainstream films at the cinema has been almost non-existent, but that I will be able to watch it in some form this year or so is a relief. What interests me further is that the company who are releasing it is New Wave Films, an interesting group that suddenly appeared around 2008/2009 and have been picking up choice art house films for release. I am always glad for more distribution companies, especially if they have different tastes from the others in what films they will release, although I must confess I have had issues with the subtitles on the few discs of theirs I watched. The subtitles themselves are completely alright, but the problem is that the subtitles had to be turned on, leading to me having to check whether they’re on or not before starting the film. On one film, Three Monkeys from Turkey and the first of their foreign language releases I watched, I had to stop-start the film a couple of times as a result of sorting out the subtitles, which was immensely annoying. If this is the case with all the foreign language releases of theirs, it is a tiny annoyance I wish was altered.

There may be one film however where this won’t  a problem, as they have scheduled on  their website a release of Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme (2010) for Spring 2011. As a film that not only has its own provided subtitles but has subtitles that don’t actually translate the dialogue into English completely, but continues Godard’s obsessions with phrases and words, from what the reviews have said, I will hopefully not have to turn them on as they’re already there.

Link to BBFC page for Uncle Boomie

Link to New Wave Film’s Film Socialisme page