Olivier's Blog Posts Tagged 'Bunraku' (58)

Toronto – A superhero, a samurai, gun runners, vampire hunters and hosers stalk the night during the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness programme. Programmed by Colin Geddes, this year’s line-up features premieres that deliver the thrills and chills that the devoted audience has come to expect and love from Midnight Madness.



“From the streets of Hong Kong to a post-apocalyptic, vampire-plagued United States, from a town…

"I played in Bunraku movie, directed by Guy Moshe, in the main roles were Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Kevin McKidd, Josh Hartnett, Ron Perlman. I was the odalisk.

I am currently business travelling in Spain. And had the sound inspiration to check out the local movie sites. To my great suprise I found out that Josh Hartnett's fantasy actioner - Bunraku- has a spanish distributor called TriPictures which also distributed in the past Josh's crime thriller…

Bunraku will be a very interesting film. Guy Moshe, who also directed, wrote what I thought was one of the strangest scripts I’d ever read, especially because the story takes place in an in-depth CGI universe. It’s very allegorical — a mixture of a samurai film and a western in a virtual origami universe where everything is made of folding paper, and there’s a lot of martial arts in it. My first…

The average audience member might not know production designer Alex McDowell by name, but they certainly have never forgotten his work on such films as Fight Club, Fear &…

In faraway Cambodia, beyond the confines of most Israelis, shocking incidents of child prostitution are taking place. This is the subject of Guy Moshe's first film, "Holly", which will make its Israeli premiere today at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.



"A few hours after I landed in Cambodia, I was offered the opportunity to sleep with an 11-year-old girl for five dollars,"…

I went to Romania to visit the set of Bunraku (TBD 2010) a while back. It was a fun trip and all the people working on the movie were really cool… that said, I have no idea what it’s going to look like. It’s a highly stylized revenge tale. Think Sin City crossed with a Stephen Chow film crossed with a Sergio Leone movie and you’re close, I think. There’s…

It seems Bunraku is showing today to selected audiences at the block of Orange (AMC Theatres) in California at 7:15 pm. People who will attend those previews of Bunraku have to sign a non disclosure agreement so they can't talk about the film publicly. This is pretty good news because it means that…