We've had a lot of complaints about the amount of films we cover being unavailable to the general public. Well, be happy folks, because Pater Sparrow has released his Stanislaw Lem adaptation for general comsumption, for you to watch, for free. A bookstore suddenly full of books all titled "1" which contain everything that happens in one minute of human existence. [Continued ...]...
- 1/2/2013
- QuietEarth.us
The first bit of footage has appeared for "The Obvious secrets of Aura Hodor" and it is as ethereal and impressionistic as you might have imagined. None of the zany characters shown on the film's Facebook page are pictured, but then again it's just a teaser.
The forthcoming webseries introduces Hermina Fátyol as Aura Hodor. It's created by Pater Sparrow, director of 2009's Stienslaw Lem adaptation, 1,and produced by his same team, Iván Angelusz & Péter Reich.
Check out the strange teaser for the now shortened "Aura" below.
The forthcoming webseries introduces Hermina Fátyol as Aura Hodor. It's created by Pater Sparrow, director of 2009's Stienslaw Lem adaptation, 1,and produced by his same team, Iván Angelusz & Péter Reich.
Check out the strange teaser for the now shortened "Aura" below.
- 4/12/2011
- QuietEarth.us
Hungary's Pater Sparrow drew a great deal of attention with his feature adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's 1 not so long ago and it would appear that he will do the same with his upcoming Aura.Created, co-written and directed by Sparrow, Aura is an upcoming webseries and while details are being kept largely hidden Sparrow has just released the first trailer. And if you think you see traces of Guy Maddin and David Lynch in there, well, you're not alone.Check out the teaser below for a first taste of what Sparrow is cooking up....
- 4/11/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Here's what we know: Obvious secrets of Aura Hodor is an upcoming webseries introducing Hermina Fátyol as Aura Hodor. It's created by Pater Sparrow, director of 2009's Stienslaw Lem adaptation, 1, and produced by his same team, Iván Angelusz & Péter Reich.
First episodes are to air quite soon - we've read end of January - so we'll be keeping our eyes on the production's Facebook page.
Badly translated quotes from Sparrow:
"Aura should be understood as a comic book movie without a comic book: episodes are 2-3 minute and talk about a situation in cubes of képregénypanel. With a view also reflected in the structure of comics in the series, you can connect to it at any time, because the episodes themselves are insular."
The photography will be "black-and-white, heavily experimental". Hermina Veil (Alice Wolf and the Seven, High Voltage) plays the heroine named Aura, who directed the drafting of "this is primarily an observer,...
First episodes are to air quite soon - we've read end of January - so we'll be keeping our eyes on the production's Facebook page.
Badly translated quotes from Sparrow:
"Aura should be understood as a comic book movie without a comic book: episodes are 2-3 minute and talk about a situation in cubes of képregénypanel. With a view also reflected in the structure of comics in the series, you can connect to it at any time, because the episodes themselves are insular."
The photography will be "black-and-white, heavily experimental". Hermina Veil (Alice Wolf and the Seven, High Voltage) plays the heroine named Aura, who directed the drafting of "this is primarily an observer,...
- 1/27/2011
- QuietEarth.us
Based on the short story/essay One Human Minute by Stanislaw Lem, 1 is a Hungarian film adaptation by director Pater Sparrow who has created a baffling, mesmerizing and beautiful film.
1 opens with a series of clips of strange found footage depicting a variety of events from mankind’s history. It then cuts to a bookstore closing for the night where suddenly all the books are seemingly magically replaced by the same book. The book is large and white and bears the title ’1′. Inside are pages and pages of statistical data that boils down everything about the current human existence into raw mathematical data.
Tasked with investigating the ‘theft’ of the original books and the appearance of these ’1′ books and their spread across the world is the mysterious Reality Defense Institute who institutionalize the people who witnessed the bookshop event and try and find out what is going on. Leading the investigation is Phil Pitch,...
1 opens with a series of clips of strange found footage depicting a variety of events from mankind’s history. It then cuts to a bookstore closing for the night where suddenly all the books are seemingly magically replaced by the same book. The book is large and white and bears the title ’1′. Inside are pages and pages of statistical data that boils down everything about the current human existence into raw mathematical data.
Tasked with investigating the ‘theft’ of the original books and the appearance of these ’1′ books and their spread across the world is the mysterious Reality Defense Institute who institutionalize the people who witnessed the bookshop event and try and find out what is going on. Leading the investigation is Phil Pitch,...
- 7/29/2010
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Several press releases went out today featuring some huge news coming out of Canada's Fantasia Film Festival including the first batch of films that will be populating this massive three-week long event. Pull up your chair, kids! You're gonna be here for a while!
Dig on the wealth of information below from today's releases and look for more announcements and of course full coverage soon!
Spotlight: Between Death And The Devil
Recent times and crimes have seen extraordinary levels of disillusionment with organized religion, particularly with the Catholic Church, and genre cinema has mirrored this anger with startling impact. In the face of this, we’ve put together this troubling spotlight focused on the abuse of faith, the horrors of ideology and the corruption of Godliness. Several of these films will absolutely stagger you.
Black Death (UK) Dir: Christopher Smith – North American premiere. Hosted by Director Christopher Smith
With the Black Death sweeping across England,...
Dig on the wealth of information below from today's releases and look for more announcements and of course full coverage soon!
Spotlight: Between Death And The Devil
Recent times and crimes have seen extraordinary levels of disillusionment with organized religion, particularly with the Catholic Church, and genre cinema has mirrored this anger with startling impact. In the face of this, we’ve put together this troubling spotlight focused on the abuse of faith, the horrors of ideology and the corruption of Godliness. Several of these films will absolutely stagger you.
Black Death (UK) Dir: Christopher Smith – North American premiere. Hosted by Director Christopher Smith
With the Black Death sweeping across England,...
- 6/29/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
You want the best of genre film from Canada, the Us and around the globe? Fantasia is the place.
Montreal, June 29, 2010 - For its fourteenth edition, the Fantasia Film Festival is proud to present over 50 titles from Asia. Once again, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China are widely represented, demonstrating the great quality and diversity of their industries. And, as always, the programming team is also dedicated to exposing several hidden gems hailing from emerging national cinemas. Through these, audiences can discover new visions and new sensibilities. Therefore, the public will be privy to works hailing from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and - a first for the festival - Indonesia. The filmic multicultural feast prepared by the 2010 Fantasia Film Festival promises to satisfy film lovers of all kinds.
Fantasia's 2010 occidental lineup of World Cinema is once again on fire with an astounding kaleidoscope of styles and sensibilities.
Montreal, June 29, 2010 - For its fourteenth edition, the Fantasia Film Festival is proud to present over 50 titles from Asia. Once again, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China are widely represented, demonstrating the great quality and diversity of their industries. And, as always, the programming team is also dedicated to exposing several hidden gems hailing from emerging national cinemas. Through these, audiences can discover new visions and new sensibilities. Therefore, the public will be privy to works hailing from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and - a first for the festival - Indonesia. The filmic multicultural feast prepared by the 2010 Fantasia Film Festival promises to satisfy film lovers of all kinds.
Fantasia's 2010 occidental lineup of World Cinema is once again on fire with an astounding kaleidoscope of styles and sensibilities.
- 6/29/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Year: 2009
Directors: Pater Sparrow
Writers: Stanislaw Lem / Judit Góczán / Pater Sparrow
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 6 out of 10
[Editor's note: for some counter arguments you can read Rick's review]
Based on a short story by Stanislaw Lem, 1 is a loose reworking of the Pandora's Box myth, dangerous knowledge unleashed through curiosity only to overpower the world. It's a grand sweep of an idea that should make an exciting and cerebral film. Unfortunately 1 falls foul of some problems common of short story adaptations, while there are questions about the central subject matter too.
Pandora's Box is in this case a book, simply entitled 1, copies of which have overnight replaced the entire stock of a famous rare bookshop. It's a puzzling event that the bookshop owner and his assistant Maya are confounded by, while a mute employee and an eccentric elderly customer emerge as possible suspects. The police are called and a gruff detective takes over the case, imprisoning...
Directors: Pater Sparrow
Writers: Stanislaw Lem / Judit Góczán / Pater Sparrow
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 6 out of 10
[Editor's note: for some counter arguments you can read Rick's review]
Based on a short story by Stanislaw Lem, 1 is a loose reworking of the Pandora's Box myth, dangerous knowledge unleashed through curiosity only to overpower the world. It's a grand sweep of an idea that should make an exciting and cerebral film. Unfortunately 1 falls foul of some problems common of short story adaptations, while there are questions about the central subject matter too.
Pandora's Box is in this case a book, simply entitled 1, copies of which have overnight replaced the entire stock of a famous rare bookshop. It's a puzzling event that the bookshop owner and his assistant Maya are confounded by, while a mute employee and an eccentric elderly customer emerge as possible suspects. The police are called and a gruff detective takes over the case, imprisoning...
- 5/13/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Yes we announced the partial lineup a ittle while back, and now we have the exclusive full lineup to share, and boy, is it a doozy. The festival runs April 28th to May 3rd so get your tickets now!
Opening night film: Splice by Vincenzo Natali.
Cosing night film: Cargo (which we loved, review)
TiMER (UK Premier)
Hunter Prey (International Premier) (teaser)
2033 (UK Premier) (Another film we loved, review)
1 The Stanislaw Lem adaptation (UK Premier) (Yes, we loved this too review)
Transmission (A Ballardian telecom malfunction, UK Premier) (review)
Drones
Eraser Children (International Premier, finally I get to see this tonight!) (trailer)
Radio Free Albemuth (Sneak Preview of this Philip K. Dick adaptation! We should have a trailer soon)
Earthling (International Premier) (review)
Depositarios (International Premier, more Mexican scifi) (teaser)
Plug & Pray (UK Premier, documentary)
8th Wonderland (UK Premier)
and much more! You can head over to the festival website for more details and tickets,...
Opening night film: Splice by Vincenzo Natali.
Cosing night film: Cargo (which we loved, review)
TiMER (UK Premier)
Hunter Prey (International Premier) (teaser)
2033 (UK Premier) (Another film we loved, review)
1 The Stanislaw Lem adaptation (UK Premier) (Yes, we loved this too review)
Transmission (A Ballardian telecom malfunction, UK Premier) (review)
Drones
Eraser Children (International Premier, finally I get to see this tonight!) (trailer)
Radio Free Albemuth (Sneak Preview of this Philip K. Dick adaptation! We should have a trailer soon)
Earthling (International Premier) (review)
Depositarios (International Premier, more Mexican scifi) (teaser)
Plug & Pray (UK Premier, documentary)
8th Wonderland (UK Premier)
and much more! You can head over to the festival website for more details and tickets,...
- 3/26/2010
- QuietEarth.us
One of the most intriguing science fiction projects of last year was Pater Sparrow's 1 (review). An ambitious, satirical and maddeningly cerebral adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's seminal Polish essay, 1 is up there with the best scifi works about the nature of reality ever made and I hope many of you out there will get a chance to see it for yourselves.
For those wanting to know what Sparrow's got up his sleeve for us next we've got some sweet news. We've just received information from a very reliable source that Sparrow will be adapting Boris Vian's "Heartsnatcher" ("L'Arrache-Coeur").
The last novel Vian completed before his death in 1959, "Heartsnatcher" is a dark story which takes place in an unknown, original and wonderful environment on an island where a society lives by its bizarre conventions. Old people are auctioned off like slaves, villagers stone the vicar to produce rain and...
For those wanting to know what Sparrow's got up his sleeve for us next we've got some sweet news. We've just received information from a very reliable source that Sparrow will be adapting Boris Vian's "Heartsnatcher" ("L'Arrache-Coeur").
The last novel Vian completed before his death in 1959, "Heartsnatcher" is a dark story which takes place in an unknown, original and wonderful environment on an island where a society lives by its bizarre conventions. Old people are auctioned off like slaves, villagers stone the vicar to produce rain and...
- 3/10/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The 16th annual Bradford International Film Festival, which will run March 18-28, is a total celebration of all forms of cinema, from classic films to modern world cinema to a tribute to Cinerama and more. But, most excitingly, is a bombastic collection of some of the best, most exciting underground films being made today.
From Bad Lit’s perspective, the most thrilling screening of the entire 10-day affair is the new film by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead, Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts. In the U.S., Whitehead is a “lost” filmmaker from the underground’s heyday in the ’60s, being left out of most histories of the underground movement. Whitehead directed several influential films, including Wholly Communion and The Fall, before dropping out of filmmaking in the mid-’70s.
Film historian Jack Sargeant wrote extensively about and interviewed Whitehead for his wonderful book on Beat cinema, Naked Lens.
From Bad Lit’s perspective, the most thrilling screening of the entire 10-day affair is the new film by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead, Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts. In the U.S., Whitehead is a “lost” filmmaker from the underground’s heyday in the ’60s, being left out of most histories of the underground movement. Whitehead directed several influential films, including Wholly Communion and The Fall, before dropping out of filmmaking in the mid-’70s.
Film historian Jack Sargeant wrote extensively about and interviewed Whitehead for his wonderful book on Beat cinema, Naked Lens.
- 3/5/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
That's right, it's almost time again for the Sci-fi London film festival and we just got a heads up on part of the lineup which is quite a doozy. What's playing?
8th Wonderland
Depositarious A Mexican scifi I've been keeping my eye on but haven't found anything yet.
1 Pater Sparrow's Stanislaw Lem adaptation which we all loved. (review)
Adas (Transmission) What if all the telecom in the world went dead? We loved this one too. (review)
Earthling (trailer)
2033 Another Mexican scifi, we loved this one as well. (review)
Eraser Children It didn't play last year, but it will this year! (trailer)
Radio Free Albemuth The Philip K. Dick adaptation we're all waiting on. Hopefully we'll have a trailer soon.
And for the Polish Season:
The House of Transfiguration
Test Pilot Pirxa
Golem (I loved this one)
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
And some extras:
Love Story 2050...
8th Wonderland
Depositarious A Mexican scifi I've been keeping my eye on but haven't found anything yet.
1 Pater Sparrow's Stanislaw Lem adaptation which we all loved. (review)
Adas (Transmission) What if all the telecom in the world went dead? We loved this one too. (review)
Earthling (trailer)
2033 Another Mexican scifi, we loved this one as well. (review)
Eraser Children It didn't play last year, but it will this year! (trailer)
Radio Free Albemuth The Philip K. Dick adaptation we're all waiting on. Hopefully we'll have a trailer soon.
And for the Polish Season:
The House of Transfiguration
Test Pilot Pirxa
Golem (I loved this one)
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
And some extras:
Love Story 2050...
- 3/4/2010
- QuietEarth.us
[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review. 1 was screened as part of the Lincoln Film Society's recent contemporary Hungarian cinema program.]
More interesting than enjoyable, but at times more frustrating than interesting, Pater Sparrow's adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's One Human Minute is packed to the gills with ideas, but fails to develop any of them in a satisfying manner.
The story is simple. The entire inventory of a rare bookshop is mysteriously replaced with a statistical tome documenting sixty seconds worth of life on earth. Is it a publicity stunt? An act of terrorism? The Reality Defense Institute wants to know, so the bookshop staff and the philosophy spouting guru who happened to be in the store at the time are carted off for psychological testing. With the minimum of exposition out of the way, Sparrow is free to explore a myriad of tangential ideas with less focus than a stoned philosophy major.
Which isn't even the biggest problem with the film. At times Sparrow achieves a somber rumination...
More interesting than enjoyable, but at times more frustrating than interesting, Pater Sparrow's adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's One Human Minute is packed to the gills with ideas, but fails to develop any of them in a satisfying manner.
The story is simple. The entire inventory of a rare bookshop is mysteriously replaced with a statistical tome documenting sixty seconds worth of life on earth. Is it a publicity stunt? An act of terrorism? The Reality Defense Institute wants to know, so the bookshop staff and the philosophy spouting guru who happened to be in the store at the time are carted off for psychological testing. With the minimum of exposition out of the way, Sparrow is free to explore a myriad of tangential ideas with less focus than a stoned philosophy major.
Which isn't even the biggest problem with the film. At times Sparrow achieves a somber rumination...
- 2/16/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Currently in development at the amazing Laokoon Film Group - the production company behind two of the best films of the year, Pater Sparrow's 1 and the Ballardian techno-apocalypse drama Transmission - is another arthouse genre blender called The Necromancer.
The best way to introduce you to the The Necromancer is probably to describe as Nightwatch with ghosts instead of vampires - except that that would not be doing it justice at all. Involving a secret tribe of dimension watchers, Nazis experiments, ancient prophecies, a "chosen one," and an epic battle between good and evil, The Necromancer sounds complex indeed.
Synopsis:
In 1944, Hitler’s occultist group, the Thule Society, issued a special order to its secret military unit. They were to locate and liquidate the older members of the 13th Tribe and remove their children to an isolated, special laboratory.
There, the children would be subjected to paranormal, occult experiments,...
The best way to introduce you to the The Necromancer is probably to describe as Nightwatch with ghosts instead of vampires - except that that would not be doing it justice at all. Involving a secret tribe of dimension watchers, Nazis experiments, ancient prophecies, a "chosen one," and an epic battle between good and evil, The Necromancer sounds complex indeed.
Synopsis:
In 1944, Hitler’s occultist group, the Thule Society, issued a special order to its secret military unit. They were to locate and liquidate the older members of the 13th Tribe and remove their children to an isolated, special laboratory.
There, the children would be subjected to paranormal, occult experiments,...
- 10/21/2009
- QuietEarth.us
The 30th anniversary of Fangoria magazine will be honored at a special panel to be held at the 42nd edition of Spain’s prestigious Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, to be held October 1-12. Longtime Fango editor Tony Timpone will be attending, joined by British correspondents Alan Jones, Calum Waddell and Axelle Carolyn, as well as Italian correspondent Roberto D’Onofrio. The Fango salute will take place on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 5 p.m. in the Tramuntana Room at the Meliá Hotel.
“For the last 30 years, Fangoria has been the cornerstone of the Sitges program’s diet,” says festival director Angel Sala, “the number-one source of information to feed the bowels of the beast. Fango has been the written witness of the horror scene around the world for over three decades. Sitges can only bow and pay due respect with a celebration for the fans.”
“The panel will be...
“For the last 30 years, Fangoria has been the cornerstone of the Sitges program’s diet,” says festival director Angel Sala, “the number-one source of information to feed the bowels of the beast. Fango has been the written witness of the horror scene around the world for over three decades. Sitges can only bow and pay due respect with a celebration for the fans.”
“The panel will be...
- 9/25/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Fangoria.com)
- Fangoria
The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia announces its complete program. There are still a few surprises to be confirmed, like the closing gala, but they have already put together the final list of films that will be screened at Sitges 09. Below you’ll find the titles of each film and their sections as well as links for the films that we have already reviewed here on Sound On Sight. Opening Film [Rec]2. Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró. 2009. Official FANTÀSTIC In Competition Section Accident. Soi Cheang. 2009. Accidents Happen. Andrew Lancaster. 2009. The Children. Tom Shankland. 2008. [1] Cold Souls. Sophie Bartes. 2009. The Countess. Julie Delpy. 2009. Les Derniers Jours Du Monde. Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu. 2009. Dogtooth (Kynodontas). Yorgos Lanthimos. 2009. Dorian Gray. Oliver Parker. 2009. Enter The Void. Gaspar Noé. 2009. Grace. Paul Solet. 2009. [2] Heartless. Philip Ridley. 2009. Hierro. Gabe Ibáñez. 2009. La Horde. Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher. 2009. Ingrid. Eduard Cortés. 2009. Kinatay. Brillante Mendoza. 2009. Metropia. Tarik Saleh. 2009. Moon.
- 9/19/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The full lineup has been announced, and among the load of genre fare that's been running the fest circuit are the world premiers of:
Vincenzo Natali's latest, Splice, which we're all excited about.
Simon Fellows twisted adaptation Malice in Wonderland (trailer)
Along some of our personal favorites:
Black Dynamite (friggin awesome)
Swiss scifi flick Cargo (trailer)
Pater Sparrow's incredible Stanislaw Lem adaptation 1 (review)
The Mo Brothers Indonesian slasher Macabre (review)
Atm (get it?) horror-comedy The Human Centipede (review)
Full list after the break.
Opening Film
[Rec]2. Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró. 2009.
Official FANTÀSTIC In Competition Section
Accident. Soi Cheang. 2009.
Accidents Happen. Andrew Lancaster. 2009.
The Children. Tom Shankland. 2008.
Cold Souls. Sophie Bartes. 2009.
The Countess. Julie Delpy. 2009.
Les Derniers Jours Du Monde. Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu. 2009.
Dogtooth (Kynodontas). Yorgos Lanthimos. 2009.
Dorian Gray. Oliver Parker. 2009.
Enter The Void. Gaspar Noé. 2009.
Grace. Paul Solet. 2009.
Heartless. Philip Ridley. 2009.
Hierro. Gabe Ibáñez. 2009.
La Horde. Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher.
Vincenzo Natali's latest, Splice, which we're all excited about.
Simon Fellows twisted adaptation Malice in Wonderland (trailer)
Along some of our personal favorites:
Black Dynamite (friggin awesome)
Swiss scifi flick Cargo (trailer)
Pater Sparrow's incredible Stanislaw Lem adaptation 1 (review)
The Mo Brothers Indonesian slasher Macabre (review)
Atm (get it?) horror-comedy The Human Centipede (review)
Full list after the break.
Opening Film
[Rec]2. Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró. 2009.
Official FANTÀSTIC In Competition Section
Accident. Soi Cheang. 2009.
Accidents Happen. Andrew Lancaster. 2009.
The Children. Tom Shankland. 2008.
Cold Souls. Sophie Bartes. 2009.
The Countess. Julie Delpy. 2009.
Les Derniers Jours Du Monde. Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu. 2009.
Dogtooth (Kynodontas). Yorgos Lanthimos. 2009.
Dorian Gray. Oliver Parker. 2009.
Enter The Void. Gaspar Noé. 2009.
Grace. Paul Solet. 2009.
Heartless. Philip Ridley. 2009.
Hierro. Gabe Ibáñez. 2009.
La Horde. Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher.
- 9/12/2009
- QuietEarth.us
The greatest genre film festival in the world has just announced it's partial 2009 lineup and so far it's a doozy.
The festival's "Discovery" section has always been its signature and this year is no exception with three Quiet Earth favorites topping the list. Pater Sparrow's hypnotic Steinslaw Lem adaption, 1 (review) is playing (which we actually knew but weren't allowed to report) along with micro-budget zombie stunner Colin (review), and the experimental French film Amer.
Full list after the break!
The in-competition Nv Ficció Section:
- Independencia by Raya Martin
- Nymph by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
- Morphia by Sergei Balabanov
- The Forbidden Door by Joko Anwar
- Bronson by Nicolas Refn
- White Lightnin' by Dominic Murphy
- The House of the Devil by Ti West
- Pontypool by Bruce MacDonald
- Van Diemen's land by Jonathan Auf Der Heide
The Nv No Ficció Section:
- Son & Moon. Diario...
The festival's "Discovery" section has always been its signature and this year is no exception with three Quiet Earth favorites topping the list. Pater Sparrow's hypnotic Steinslaw Lem adaption, 1 (review) is playing (which we actually knew but weren't allowed to report) along with micro-budget zombie stunner Colin (review), and the experimental French film Amer.
Full list after the break!
The in-competition Nv Ficció Section:
- Independencia by Raya Martin
- Nymph by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
- Morphia by Sergei Balabanov
- The Forbidden Door by Joko Anwar
- Bronson by Nicolas Refn
- White Lightnin' by Dominic Murphy
- The House of the Devil by Ti West
- Pontypool by Bruce MacDonald
- Van Diemen's land by Jonathan Auf Der Heide
The Nv No Ficció Section:
- Son & Moon. Diario...
- 9/1/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Year: 2009
Directors: Pater Sparrow
Writers: Stanislaw Lem / Judit Góczán / Pater Sparrow
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 9 out of 10
[Editor's note: There be spoilers ahead. And this is one of the most brilliant films I've ever seen.]
Voiceover: “This book is no joke. We could be outraged by it and see it as slander that insults the whole of mankind. However, we might seek comfort from the fact that no one could make it into a film.” And so begins 1, a stunningly brilliant satire of damn near everything that makes us human, and a mind-wrenching examination of the nature of reality in a perceptual world.
It’s wicked.
First, some background. This very clever movie is based on an essay by the late, great Polish Sf writer, Stanislaw Lem. Part of his prodigious output included dabbles in the rare genre of fictional books, and this is taken from a collection called One Human Minute, which contains three reviews, with the title piece a review of...
Directors: Pater Sparrow
Writers: Stanislaw Lem / Judit Góczán / Pater Sparrow
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 9 out of 10
[Editor's note: There be spoilers ahead. And this is one of the most brilliant films I've ever seen.]
Voiceover: “This book is no joke. We could be outraged by it and see it as slander that insults the whole of mankind. However, we might seek comfort from the fact that no one could make it into a film.” And so begins 1, a stunningly brilliant satire of damn near everything that makes us human, and a mind-wrenching examination of the nature of reality in a perceptual world.
It’s wicked.
First, some background. This very clever movie is based on an essay by the late, great Polish Sf writer, Stanislaw Lem. Part of his prodigious output included dabbles in the rare genre of fictional books, and this is taken from a collection called One Human Minute, which contains three reviews, with the title piece a review of...
- 8/24/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Yes! We initially reported on this one back in June and I've been eagerly awaiting it ever since! The premise sounds so fascinating that I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. What is it you ask? All tv and telecom inexplicably stops working, and only a few people are left in the city. The film looks like a quiet drama piece, a statement on our current state of affairs. It's playing as part of the upcoming Hungarian Film Week along with Pater Sparrow's 1, and yes, it looks like Hungary is well on it's way to becoming a powerhouse in film.
The story is a tragicomic, absurd film set in a world where all the screens and means of telecommunication have inexplicably stopped working. Accustomed to spending hours in front of their screens, the characters suffer withdrawal symptoms.
or
When the pictures were gone, life stopped. A...
The story is a tragicomic, absurd film set in a world where all the screens and means of telecommunication have inexplicably stopped working. Accustomed to spending hours in front of their screens, the characters suffer withdrawal symptoms.
or
When the pictures were gone, life stopped. A...
- 1/31/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Oh, it’s going to be a good year for fans of serious science fiction with adaptations of not one but two works by iconic author Stanislaw Lem - the man who penned Solaris. First out of the gate will be Pater Sparrow’s Hungarian adaptation of Lem’s 1. We first caught wind of this back in October and have been keeping an eye on the official website ever since. And today we were rewarded when the site finally fully launched - including English an English subtitled teaser and trailer for the film.
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary...
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary...
- 1/29/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Yes, we've been following this beautifully insane looking Stanislaw Lem adaptation for some time now and just a few hours ago a new trailer dropped, this time with English subtitles. Unfortunately it's on youtube, so it isn't the greatest of qualities but we're trying to get the original video so we can do a bit of an upgrade. For anyone who's missed this insane sounding story, imagine a bookstore suddenly full of books all titled "1" which contain everything that happens in one minute of human existence.. then throw in a bunch of beautiful photography and paranormal research weirdness.
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop...
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop...
- 1/26/2009
- QuietEarth.us
We first wrote about Hungarian director Pater Sparrow’s upcoming adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s 1 back in October, rather enthused about the fact that we’d finally be seeing Lem - a legitimate science fiction icon - on the big screen once again. It’s become a bit of a Lem party since then, with a number of adaptations now in the works - the highest profile coming from Waltz With Bashir director Ari Folman - but today we’re back to where we started with the arrival of the first trailer of Sparrow’s film.
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are...
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are...
- 1/6/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Finally! The trailer for Lem's "1" is available and it does not disappoint, and while it doesn't have English subtitles yet, we've been told they will be coming soon. The story revolves around a bookstore where every book disappears and is replaced with a copy books simply titled "1" that comprise 1 minute of everything in human existence.
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (Rdi Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies (political, scientific, religious and artistic). Plagued by doubts, the...
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (Rdi Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies (political, scientific, religious and artistic). Plagued by doubts, the...
- 1/5/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Stanislaw Lem is a true legend of international science fiction, one of the giants of the printed page and, with the exception of the brilliant Solaris very little of his work has made it to the screen, and the large majority of that which has has gotten only to the small screen with various Eastern European television productions of his work. But Lem is returning to the big screen with a film titled simply 1 from director Pater Sparrow. The film is based on Lem’s story One Human Minute, which plays out thusly:
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary...
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary...
- 10/14/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Zoltán Verebes goes by the pseudonym Pater Sparrow who was famous for his short films in Hungary and went on to study at the London Film School. This is his first feature which is currently in post-production. Based on the work One Human Minute by world famous Polish scifi author Stanislaw Lem, the story unfolds somewhere in the 21st century.
"A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (Rdi Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies (political, scientific, religious and artistic). Plagued by doubts,...
"A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (Rdi Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies (political, scientific, religious and artistic). Plagued by doubts,...
- 10/13/2008
- QuietEarth.us
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