Over Your Dead Body
Dear Fern,
Familiar faces. Indeed, it is so very good to see yours, one year later. The steadfastness of friends through this world and in this industry is for me always a surprise, and always touching, especially in light of the mutability of life and cinema.
Familiar faces...Ventura's: that's another story. Seeing this man, this actor, this figure in Horse Money was like happily visiting an aging relative only to discover that across the span of missed time you can see the creeping effects of dementia. (“Blood drips on the floor but you don’t see the razor,” a widow in the film mourning, angrily remarks.) Standing tall as ever and poised with attempted self-control, nonetheless you see Ventura's long fingers tremble, in the darkness a nosferatu wandering a prison-hospital of memories and sins, psychic and bodily pain. The expressionist shroud in which he wanders confounds time,...
Dear Fern,
Familiar faces. Indeed, it is so very good to see yours, one year later. The steadfastness of friends through this world and in this industry is for me always a surprise, and always touching, especially in light of the mutability of life and cinema.
Familiar faces...Ventura's: that's another story. Seeing this man, this actor, this figure in Horse Money was like happily visiting an aging relative only to discover that across the span of missed time you can see the creeping effects of dementia. (“Blood drips on the floor but you don’t see the razor,” a widow in the film mourning, angrily remarks.) Standing tall as ever and poised with attempted self-control, nonetheless you see Ventura's long fingers tremble, in the darkness a nosferatu wandering a prison-hospital of memories and sins, psychic and bodily pain. The expressionist shroud in which he wanders confounds time,...
- 9/8/2014
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Now available on Blu-ray and DVD through Anchor Bay Entertainment's 'Manga' brand, the anime feature "First Squad : The Moment of Truth" is a collaboration between Japan's Studio 4°C and Russia's Molot Entertainment.
"First Sqaud" is directed by Studio 4°C director, animator Yoshiharu Asino, co-written and produced by Michael Spritz, Alexey Klimov and Eiko Tanaka, featuring character development by Hirofumi Nakata and music by Japanese composer DJ Krush :
"...set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front, the main characters are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities. Drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army, they are opposed by a German officer, who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century 'Order of the Sacred Cross', aka the 'Teutonic Knights'.
"Most of the teenage crew die, except for 'Nadia', who is...
"First Sqaud" is directed by Studio 4°C director, animator Yoshiharu Asino, co-written and produced by Michael Spritz, Alexey Klimov and Eiko Tanaka, featuring character development by Hirofumi Nakata and music by Japanese composer DJ Krush :
"...set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front, the main characters are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities. Drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army, they are opposed by a German officer, who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century 'Order of the Sacred Cross', aka the 'Teutonic Knights'.
"Most of the teenage crew die, except for 'Nadia', who is...
- 1/21/2012
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Year: 2009
Directors: Yoshiharu Ashino
Writers: Aljosha Klimov & Misha Sprits
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Linus de Paoli
Rating: 6 out of 10
I was looking forward to seeing this unusual co-production from Russia, Japan and Canada! Everything about this project sounds like a lot of fun. It has a wild soundtrack by DJ Krush, beautiful artwork by 4C (the company that also did the animation for “Tekkonkinkreet” and “The Animatrix”) and a crazy story with occult Nazis and Russian soldiers. What more can you ask for? It had its international premiere as part of the big Manga Night on the Piazza Grande, that started off with Yoshiyuki Tomino’s “Mobil Suit Gundam 1” from 1981. After 2 ½ hours of old school animation, I was pretty anxious to finally see Yoshiharu Ashino’s debut as a director.
The story is simple, though it consists of many elements: World War 2 has reached its peak and Russia...
Directors: Yoshiharu Ashino
Writers: Aljosha Klimov & Misha Sprits
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Linus de Paoli
Rating: 6 out of 10
I was looking forward to seeing this unusual co-production from Russia, Japan and Canada! Everything about this project sounds like a lot of fun. It has a wild soundtrack by DJ Krush, beautiful artwork by 4C (the company that also did the animation for “Tekkonkinkreet” and “The Animatrix”) and a crazy story with occult Nazis and Russian soldiers. What more can you ask for? It had its international premiere as part of the big Manga Night on the Piazza Grande, that started off with Yoshiyuki Tomino’s “Mobil Suit Gundam 1” from 1981. After 2 ½ hours of old school animation, I was pretty anxious to finally see Yoshiharu Ashino’s debut as a director.
The story is simple, though it consists of many elements: World War 2 has reached its peak and Russia...
- 8/13/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Blue Foundation is a project Tobias originally started up with his brother. With the help of friends Kirstine Stubbe Teglbjaerg (vocalist for "Eyes on Fire") and Tatsuki Oshima for the first album, Tobias has found inspiration in enlisting assistance from various favorite musicians in his additional two records. The underground song, “Eyes on Fire,” was an unlikely overnight success and has, to date, garnered nearly nine million hits on their MySpace page. Tobias gave me some intimate information about the origination of "Eyes on Fire," revealing that it was not written for the soundtrack, rather has more humble beginnings: It really seems like the song was written for the movie, but it had not. It was written a year before in a cold, dark December night in Copenhagen in a very old and trashy house where I used to have my studio by Kirstine and me. I think the music and lyrics speak for itself,...
- 7/14/2009
- by Twilight Moonlighter
- t5m.com
We have been tracking the progress of First Squad - the animation project created by Russian artists Misha Shprits and Aljoscha Klimov and animated in Japan by the acclaimed Studio 4C - for a good long time now and, on the eve of the film arriving at the market in Cannes we have an exclusive first look at the brand new trailer for the film. Loosely based on a series of Soviet-era propoganda adventure novels, First Squad fuses known history - the battles are accurate - with speculation about the paranormal units active within both Germany and Russia throughout WWII in a story of a young psychic girl who must enlist the spirits of her dead friends to battle the ghosts of long-dead crusaders enlisted to the Nazi cause.
It is 1942. The Red Army is putting up a violent and effective resistance against the German invaders. 14 year-old Nadya is a medium.
It is 1942. The Red Army is putting up a violent and effective resistance against the German invaders. 14 year-old Nadya is a medium.
- 4/29/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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