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Exclusive: Canada’s CBC is stocking its streaming service with dramas from Scandinavia and the UK.

CBC Gem will launch British comedy-drama Cheaters, Scandi co-pro comedy All and Eva and Danish drama Families Like Ours in coming weeks. All and Eva will lead off on Friday, November 1, followed by Cheaters amon November 8 and Families Like Ours on November 22.

All and Eva, from Warner Bros. International Television Sweden for Viaplay, is a six-part series in which a woman’s journey to discover her sperm donor and their unexpected relationship, despite his ignorance of his impending fatherhood. Viaplay Content Distribution shops it internationally.

It is created, written and directed by Johanna Runevard and stars Tuva Novotny, Joachim Fjelstrup, Sanna Sundqvist and Bengt Braskered.

The show has been gaining...

Police investigate a ticking time bomb which turns out to be a metronome. That witty scene is the perfect set up for this low-budget, off-kilter comedy from Swedish directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärneabout about a band of “terrorist” musicians who express themselves via kidnapping and bank robberies and the tone deaf, music-hating cop determined to track them down. One of the more obscure films we’ve featured here, but definitely worth looking up.

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Seven films selected for scheme, which awards projects a $24,000 development fund.

Nordisk Film & TV Fond has confirmed the seven genre film projects selected for its popular Nordic Genre Boost scheme.

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Selections include the second feature from When Animals Dream (pictured) director Jonas Arnby of Denmark; the third feature from Finnish director Ulrika Bengts (The Disciple) and the directorial debut feature of Swedish producer Olivier Guerpillon, whose producing credits include Sound of Noise.

A total of 61 projects applied for the third and final round of Nordic Genre Boost development support.

Each project receives a $24,000 (NOK200,00) development grant, and access to two residential workshops: one held in collaboration with Night Visions International Festival in Helsinki (April 5-9), and a second during New Nordic Films’ Co-Production and Finance Market in Haugesund (Aug 22-25).

Guest tutors at the workshops include Jinga Films’ Julian Richards, Xyz Films’ Todd Brown, Lindsay Peters...

Any regular reader knows that Fantastic Fest is boatloads of fun, chock full of great films. And many of those films are short films.Last year, I had such a blast with the slew of shorts programming I attended I can't help but expect this year's lineup will be just as good, if not better. Yes, I guarantee, you'll find a new favorite or two among these titles. They may include... my personal favorite Ryan Spindell with The Babysitter Murders, Man Without Direction from the filmmakers behind Sound Of Noise, and Portal To Hell, starring the late great Rowdy Roddy Piper. Then there's the time travel body horror romance Fuckkkyouuu, and the Sundance winning World of Tomorrow. Take a gander at the full lineup below. Fantastic...

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Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die! continues at Trailers from Hell, with filmmaker Brian Trenchard-Smith taking on the Swedish musical comedy "Sound of Noise," from 2010. Police investigate a ticking time bomb which turns out to be a metronome. That witty scene is the perfect set up for this low-budget, off-kilter comedy from Swedish directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarneabout about a band of "terrorist" musicians who express themselves via kidnapping and bank robberies and the tone deaf, music-hating cop determined to track them down. One of the more obscure films we’ve featured here, but definitely worth looking up.

Police investigate a ticking time bomb which turns out to be a metronome. That witty scene is the perfect set up for this low-budget, off-kilter comedy from Swedish directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärneabout about a band of “terrorist” musicians who express themselves via kidnapping and bank robberies and the tone deaf, music-hating cop determined to track them down. One of the more obscure films we’ve featured here, but definitely worth looking up.

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The question of what is and what isn’t art has plagued mankind since, well, since we first came up with ‘art’ in the first place. For as long as we have had establishments, we have had dissidents banging at the gates trying to tear down said establishments (sometimes those establishments are long-standing values and forms, sometimes they are actual, literal gates). Every artistic medium goes through different periods and motions, evolving and changing based on the next generation’s perceptions of what came before.

That’s what makes punk art of any form, be it musical, visual, film, or something different altogether, so interesting. It represents the wholesale rejection of All establishments and virtues, and the results can be exhilarating and appalling in equal measure.

Many filmmakers have turned their eye to this topic, and used the medium of film to capture that punk energy. These are films that...

If ever there was a film built for Twitch, Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson's Sound of Noise is definitely one. I don't throw that kind of praise around willy-nilly, in fact, the last film I gave such high marks was my number one film of 2011, Alex de la Iglesia's The Last Circus. Yes, Sound of Noise is that good. The combination of completely mental action and intricately designed musical set pieces is truly amazing to watch and gives a niche all its own.Unlike The Last Circus, which was relatively plot-heavy, Sound of Noise is entirely dependent upon action. There is some skeletal plot about a policeman, Amadeus, who was born tone deaf and a crew of six percussionists looking to wreak havoc...

Welcome back to This Week In DVD! Lots of fantastic (and not so fantastic) titles hitting shelves today including one of the year’s best comedies, an Academy Award winner for Best Film, a near-hilariously bad Korean monster movie, Drafthouse Films’ newest release and more. As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Sound of Noise Amadeus Warnebring is a detective with a not-so-secret disdain for music thanks to a family that displayed immense and near constant talent for the art, but when a group of musical terrorists begin threatening the city with impromptu performances he’s tasked with overcoming his issues to catch the culprits and prevent the musical apocalypse. You really shouldn’t need more than that synopsis to encourage you to seek this movie out, but I’ll add that this Swedish film is a rare original and filled with laughs and honestly enjoyable music. Check...

In the Swedish film, Sound of Noise, directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, six rogue, experimental musicians coordinate four guerilla performances throughout their city in an attempt to free its inhabitants from the stodgy tyranny of classical music. These six drummers hijack four different locations, performing avant-garde movements from their revolutionary score, “Music for One City and Six Drummers.” In each location, the group of criminal composers utilize everyday objects—a heart monitor, a shredding machine and even power lines, for example—in order to create a musical performance like no other. They break a few laws along the way....

It's time to stop recuperating from SXSW and venture back into the world of Austin moviegoing. Fortunately, plenty of options are available. The Austin Jewish Film Festival starts tomorrow night -- read Chale's preview for details. And one of my favorite movies is screening at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz this week: catch Harold and Maude nightly Saturday through Tuesday. Or you could head over to the Blue Starlite Drive-In on Saturday night for a double feature of Back to the Future and The Goonies.

This is also a good week for indie film-watching. Boston-to-Austin filmmaker Andrew Bujalski will be at Alamo Ritz on Sunday night for a 10th anniversary screening of his film Funny Ha Ha. And on Tuesday night, the Texas Independent Film Network hosts a "beer and bbq" documentary double-feature at Violet Crown Cinema: Chris Elley's Barbecue: A Texas Love Story (narrated by Ann Richards) and Mike Woolf's Something's Brewin' in Shiner.

Amadeus Warnebring (Bengt Nilsson) is the unfortunate tone-deaf offspring of a concert pianist and a famous conductor. His grandfather was a world-famous musician, and his younger brother is a childhood prodigy who began playing violin at four and wrote his first symphony at 12.

But Amadeus, a police inspector and head of the anti-terrorism division, has absolutely zero musical ability and in fact hates music. It is therefore sad irony when he must chase down a group of terrorist musical protestors who hate traditional music as much as he does. While they act out a citywide performance art piece like a miniature flash mob, he draws ever closer, and the scope of each piece gets bigger.

Sound of Noise, like its characters, refuses conventional description. It is quirky, fun, surprising, and charming, but it suffers from an emotionally detached ending that neither fully satisfies nor entirely disappoints. The use of everyday...

Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, James Kirk, Luke Skywalker. Bleep those guys; as an interplanetary adventurer, John Carter has 'em all beat by at least ten years. Bringing the star of Edgar Rice Burroughs' series of Barsoom novels to the screen has been a long-sought-after passion project for a number of filmmakers, including Bob Clampett, Ray Harryhausen, John McTiernan, and Robert Rodriguez, but it was Andrew Stanton -- previously known for his work at Pixar, including directing Finding Nemo and Wall-e -- who finally got the chance, with Disney as his generous backer. Now his big-budget, live-action debut (laced with a healthy portion of computer-generated characters) John Carter, based on the debut tale A Princess of Mars, has come to the big screen, with Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, and Willem Dafoe starring. beabetterbooktalker.com's Andrea Lipinski joins Cinefantastique's Lawrence French and Dan Persons to to soak in the magnificent vistas...

“This is a gig!” screams a gang of masked assailants as they enter a busy Swedish bank. The customers are pushed and prodded, forced into a corner, hiding behind their ruffled suits as the perpetrators begin to activate the shredders, printing cash and destroying it in front of them, an activity that involves the ruffling of dollars, the tapping of keyboards, the clang of coins against glass, and yes, maybe some added percussive activities. It’s music, and it’s only one of many “attacks” from this ambitious group.

A terrorist group by definition, these musicians, who won’t sing or dance, instead perform acts of disruption, seeking no material gain aside from bringing the sound of chaos to everyone’s doorstep. To them, the enemy is convention, and while they arrange their attacks as “movements,” each with its own separate attack point, their weapon of choice are endless looping drums.

Entering multiplexes this weekend we have the first real blockbuster of the year in John Carter, but it won't be easy for Disney, as they have to compete directly with the incredibly successful animated film The Lorax in its second week. Elsewhere, horror fans can watch found footage in real time with the remake of Silent House, while the Eddie Murphy comedy A Thousand Words could be a dark horse at the box office despite an almost complete lack of marketing. In select theatres, Ewan McGregor stars in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, several Bridesmaids cast members re-unite for Friends with Kids, and Christian Slater battles evil spirits in Playback. What will you be watching this weekend? John Carter Silent House A Thousand Words Friends with Kids (limited) Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (limited) Playback (limited) Jiro Dreams of Sushi (limited) Footnote (limited) Sound of Noise (limited) The Decoy Bride...

[With its limited U.S. theatrical release set to begin tomorrow, we revisit my review from Fantastic Fest 2010, where it deservedly won the Best Picture award.] How can something so simple be so joyful? Maybe that's the key. Like Jackie Chan, the six drummers in Sound of Noise believe in using everyday objects to make mayhem. As one of them says in a recruiting pitch, "it's dangerous, it's illegal, and it will change the world." If that quote's not quite accurate, it still captures the spirit of the Swedish-language film, directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson. They made a short film nine years ago, Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers, in which six people enter a stranger's apartment and make music...

“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably.

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We’ve come to March and still no posters to really write home about. The season of blockbuster tent poles and their litany of character posters begins, proving once more that a studio can never throw too much marketing cash behind a film already over budget to the point it has no shot of breaking even.

There are a lot of independent releases on the slate along with some names from 2011 festivals, so don’t think it’s a month solely for big Hollywood studios. The sad reality,...

Who out there likes bank robbers who sing and dance? If you answered yes, then you’re in luck, and the new Swedish film “Sound of Noise” might be right up your alley. It’s hard to explain, but there is a band of rogue musicians who rob banks and take over operating rooms while staging elaborate musical numbers as some sort of public performance art. I can’t escape the thought that this is something that collective Swedish hardcore band Refused would have attempted to stage at some point. The whole scenario has that gleefully anarchistic bent that they were so fond of. Here is a synopsis: Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically, he hates music. His life is thrown into chaos when a band of crazy musicians decides to perform a musical apocalypse using the city as their orchestra…...

Magnolia Pictures gives audiences their first look (and listen) at The Sound of Noise, the new film directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson. The winner of the Best Picture award at the 2010 Fantastic Fest film festival in Austin, Texas, Simonsson and Nilsson’s film follows a group of musicians who hold a city hostage while they perform unconventional pieces using found objects. Photos And Video: Cannes Film Festival 2011 Following its premiere during the International Critic’s Week of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, Wild Bunch Distribution released The Sound of Noise in France at the end of 2010.

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As the tagline suggests, here is a film that is the first of its kind. Imported from Sweden, Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson’s Sound of Noise is a musical heist dramedy wherein a group of musicians cause havoc in a city. It’s been a long journey for the indie film, shot way back in 2008 and premiering at Cannes Film Festival in 2010.

It showed at Fantastic Fest here in the states the same year, where it won the top prize at that fest. After getting acquired by Magnolia, it will finally see a release here next month. It looks like complete madness in a great way and I love the mix of genres and it looks to have a fitting semi-serious tone. Check out the trailer below via Apple.

Synopsis:

Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically,...

The first musical cop movie! Or "Bonnie and Clyde on drums", which sounds pretty damn cool. Magnolia Pictures has debuted the official trailer via Apple for Sound of Noise, a film written and directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson. This Swedish crime musical features percussion set pieces throughout and it looks like a cinematic spectacle, I'm honestly a bit sad I missed this at Fantastic Fest (in late 2010), where it won Best Picture. But thankfully it'll be in theaters very soon! The cast includes: Bengt Nilsson, Sanna Persson Halapi, Magnus Borjeson and Johannes Bjork. Check out the fun full trailer below. Watch the official Us trailer for Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjarne Nilsson's Sound of Noise: You can also download the Sound of Noise official trailer in High Definition over on Apple Follows police officer Amadeus Warnebring, tone-deaf scion of a musical family, as he attempts to track...

Great news for fans of Scandinavian Cinema and good movies in general as Magnolia Pictures has announced that it will be releasing awesome Swedish comedy Sound Of Noise in Us theatres on 9 March. The film, directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson, is a fantastically inventive and life-affirming story that follows the crusade of a hipster gang of "musical terrorists" as they wreak havoc on the people of Stockholm, and the tone-deaf police officer, Amadeus Warnebring (Bengt Nilsson) who is determined to bring them to justice. I saw the film way back in September 2010, where it played Fantastic Fest to a rapturous reception, walking away with the Fantastic Film Award for Best Picture. For a while it looked like Sound Of Noise was...

Today has been a pretty fantastic day for me in regard to movie-related news. First, I received an incredibly hard to find DVD of one of my favorite films of 2010, Sound of Noise, complete with English subs. Next I got to schedule an evening with friends with the express purpose of exposing them to the joy that is Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive (and maybe a little drinking, too). Then I found out I’ll be seeing my most anticipated SXSW film two weeks before SXSW. These are all things you couldn’t care less about. But some news just broke that is sure to please thousands of movie lovers… Austin’s famed Alamo Drafthouse Theaters are branching out to the West coast and opening a theater in San Francisco. There’s no time table yet, and it probably won’t even open it’s doors until late 2013 at the earliest, but...

Here's the latest Austin film news:

Austin is getting a new festival -- not a film fest but a television festival, something new and a bit different. The Atx Festival will take place June 1-3 this year. The fest organizers are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to raise start-up funds, and some of the giving levels will earn you discounted badges for the festival.One of my favorite films from Fantastic Fest 2010, Sound of Noise, is finally getting theatrical release in the U.S. soon thanks to Magnolia Pictures. The quirky movie about "musical terrorism" opens in limited release on March 9. No word yet about an Austin release date, but I hope they open it here at least a week later because, you know, SXSW. Read my review from Cinematical and you might understand why I'm excited and impatient.Sundance ended this weekend but I still want to point you...

Remember the moment in Delicatessen when the couple are sitting on a bed with rusty squeaking springs; they rock back and forth as the bed emits a kind of music, and the sound travels and is complimented by dozens of other sounds permeating around the whole building in that classic Jeunet way. Sound of Noise takes the idea of household objects creating beautiful music and applies it to an entire city, as six drummers become what can only be describes as musical terrorists who band together to rid the world of .boring shitty music.. It.s a completely charming black comedy from start to finish with some seriously kick-ass music and plenty of bizarre and memorable characters.

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One quick note on today's ratings before you have a look, the rating for The Presence may actually be for Lionsgate's The Possession, which was previously titled Dibbuk Box. The studio has been messing around with the title for that film and this one is a Lionsgate feature, but not one I had heard of. Other than that, here are the new MPAA ratings from Bulletin No: 2183.

Chromeskull: Laid To Rest 2 Rated R For strong bloody violence, language and some nudity. Glee The 3D Concert Movie Rated PG For thematic elements, brief language and some sensuality. Release Date: August 12, 2011 The Hagstone Demon Rated R For sexual content, nudity, violence and language. Kill Katie Malone Rated R For language and some horror images. Main Street Rated PG For mild thematic elements, brief language and smoking. Release Date: September 9, 2011 The Pardon Rated PG-13 For thematic material including disturbing violent imagery, nudity and sexual situations,...

It's pretty embarrassing that I live in New York City and haven't been to a Rooftop Films event yet, since their whole thing is showing awesome indie movies -- many of them New York premieres -- in awesome outdoor venues (in my defense, I'm incredibly lazy). I met the guys who founded and run Rooftop at South by Southwest this year, and they're smart, passionate, and cool. They even funnel one dollar from every ticket sold to Rooftop screenings to a grant they dispense to filmmakers they like in order to help them fund future projects (SXSW selection "The City Dark," for example, was made with Rooftop funds).

For their fifteenth summer film series, Rooftop's pulled out all the stops. Highlights include the NYC premieres of Fantastic Fest favorite "Sound of Noise" (with a live performance by the film's "musical terrorists" [!!!]) and "Bellflower," one of my favorite films of the year so far,...

Sound Of Noise Review [Sfiff]

It's difficult to label what the group that the film Sound of Noise follows does. I guess it could be called art. Or music. But it's closer to terrorism at first glance. Not so much the kind with religious endorsement. While dangerous, no one dies and no one blows themselves up on a bus. But it does invite a fair amount of chaos and there's a humorous element to it as well. Amadeus (Bengt Nelsson) is a tone deaf police officer. He's the child of very successful classical musicians, and his little brother Oscar is a world famous conductor. Amadeus hates music. One day he's called on to the scene of a crashed and abandoned van that is ticking, next to an embassy. A bomb is the feared reality, but it turns out to only be a metronome. Next, Amadeus is called to a hospital, where...

The Quest directed by Gautam Ghose and Anurag Kashyap’s That Girl in Yellow Boots will be screened at the 25th Annual FilmFest DC. The festival will run from April 7- 17, 2011.

Two screenings of The Quest will be held on April 15 and April 16. Director Goutam Ghose will be present for Q&A following the screenings. The film is based on Sunil Ganguly’s novel and captures the life of of Lalan Faqir, a 19th-century spiritual leader, poet, and baul.

That Girl in Yellow Boots will be screened on April 9 and April 14. The film stars Kalki Koechlin as Ruth, a masseuse who in search for her father encounters Mumbai’s underbelly.

The International Film Festival of Washington DC celebrates its 25th year with its 2011 edition. French farce Potiche will be the opening film of the festival while Swedish comedy Sound of Noise will close the festival. The focus of this year...

Leeds Young People's Film Festival, Leeds

Either kids are growing up faster or adults are becoming more infantile, but it's getting harder for festivals like this to make the distinction. The fancy dress all-dayers devoted to Harry Potter and anime are now the stuff of adult fantasy conventions, while opening animation Rio is voiced by the likes of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway. Then there are mature "kids'" films like Let Me In, and a history of horror presented by Charlie Higson. Elsewhere, there are lots of hands-on workshops for youngsters, plus the results of the national young film-makers' awards.

Various venues, Mon to 8 Apr, leedsyoungfilm.com

Batman All Night, London

With the Dark Knight set to rise again next year, what better way to get up to speed than a long, dark, er, night? There's sadly no room for the 1966 Adam West Batman movie here – camp classic though it...

HeyUGuys brings you the latest in World Cinema film trailers in association with Film Dates UK.

Each week we’ll be showcasing some of most anticipated foreign releases as well as highlighting a few hidden gems which may have fallen off your radar. It’s no surprise that Hollywood has turned to World Cinema for inspiration in recent years with the number of remakes getting more and more popular.

Whilst it remains to be seen how many of these remakes go on to succeed or stay true to their original story counterparts, we decided it was high-time we turned the spotlight onto the next wave of foreign films to grace our screens.

This week we have a whopping 14 new trailers for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Tehroun Téhéran UK Cinema Release Date: Thursday 17th February 2011

Synopsis: Ibrahim left his family to try his luck in Tehran. But in this asphalt jungle...

And a drum roll, please, because here are the winners from the 2010 Sitges Festival.

Oficial FANTÀSTIC COMPETICIÓ Sitges 43

Jurat / Jurado / Jury

Francesco Barilli, Jaume Collet-Serra, Colin Geddes, Jan Harlan & Elena Manrique

Millor Curtmetratge / Mejor Cortometraje / Best Short Film

The Legend Of Beaver Damm de Jérôme Sable

Menció Especial pel seu original homenatge a una indiscutible obra mestra del cinema fantàstic / Mención Especial por su original homenaje a una indiscutible obra maestra del cine fantástico / Special Mention for its original tribute to one of the undisputed masterworks of the fantastic cinema

Vicenta de Sam Millor

Disseny de Producció / Mejor Diseño de Producción / Best Production Design

Yuji Hayashida per Thirteen Assassins

Millors Efectes de Maquillatge / Mejores Efectos de Maquillaje / Best Make Up FX

Vitaya Deerattakul & Andrew Lin per Dream Home

Millors Efectes Especials / Mejores Efectos Especiales / Best Special Effects

Gareth Edwards per Monsters

Millor Banda Sonora Original / Mejor Banda Sonora Original / Best Original Soundtrack

Seppuku Paradigm,...

Reviewed at Fantastic Fest 2010.

For a fresh take on the heist movie, just add music. The inventive Swedish comedy "Sound of Noise" (directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson) is about a band of musical malcontents who break into a hospital, a bank ("This is a gig! We're only here for the music!" they yell) and other public places to play compositions using the surroundings as their instruments. Led by Sanna (Sanna Persson), the sextet attempt to perform a piece called "Music for One City and Six Drummers" that composer Magnus (Magnus Börjeson) describes, in a mild understatement, as "conceptual."

But in a town where the major musical excitement surrounds a Haydn concert and speakers on the street pipe in saccharine muzak, a little sonic terrorism doesn't seem entirely out of the question. It's "Sound of Noise"'s central lark that instead of this rebellion arriving via the usual path of rock and roll,...

Mama said there’d be days like this at a film festival. Days where you go to the movies multiple times but nothing really explodes off the screen. The three movies I caught on Saturday were all entertaining in their own way. Some even had audiences grooving to the sweet beats of the city or the sweet beatdowns of Shanghai. None of them, though, stood out from the crowd the way films on day one and day two did. But, in true Fantastic Fest 2010 fashion, day three had a you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it cherry on top that made it all worth while. Hit the jump to see a video of that moment and also read about Johannes Stärne Nilsson and Ola Simonsson’s Sound of Noise, Wai-keung Lau’s Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen and Amber Benson and Adam Busch’s Drones.

Sound Of Noise

Sound of Noise is...

How can something so simple be so joyful? Maybe that's the key. Like Jackie Chan, the six drummers in Sound Of Noise believe in using everyday objects to make mayhem. As one of them says in a recruiting pitch, "it's dangerous, it's illegal, and it will change the world."

If that quote's not quite accurate, it still captures the spirit of the Swedish-language film, directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson. They made a short film nine years ago, Music For One Apartment And Six Drummers, in which six people enter a stranger's apartment and make music out of whatever they find in each room. (Sample: toothbrushes, cleansing agents, towels, toilet seats, light switches, and so forth.) The short is played before the film, which, as good as it was, immediately raised the question of how a feature-length version would play.

Sound Of Noise expands the idea exponentially. Magnus...

The 2010 edition of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival has just announced their complete Noves Visions program. The program where the festival places the young, edgy material, this is the big discovery program of the festival. Here's the announcement!

Noves Visions, The Most Indie

And Daring Section At Sitges 2010

The 43rd Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, that will take place 7 to 17 October, presents its lineup for the Noves Visions section:

Noves Visions - FICCIÓ Section

Exploration of new territories in narration, placing emphasis on both thematic and formal aspects of films that are a vision of the present as well as a disturbing premonition of times to come.

A Horrible Way To Die (Adam Wingard, USA)

Chatroom (Hideo Nakata, UK)

Dispongo De Barcos (Juan Cavestany, Spain)

Earthling (Clay Liford, USA)

Everything Will Be Fine (Christoffer Boe, Denmark)

Finisterrae (Out of competition. Sergio Caballero, Spain)

Isolation (Stephen T. Kay,...

Three titles that should receive a lot of attention in this year's fest are: Jorge Michel Grau's contempo cannibal film to break out We Are What We Are (see pic), and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson's Sound of Noise – a high risk film because it mixes genres together like someone grabbing whole bunch of leftovers from the fridge. - The kings of the Croisette – Wild Bunch have got titles coming out of all orifices that they just supplied the fest with the last minute addition of Ken Loach's Route Irish. Earlier in the year they had one of the best comedies of the year in Four Lions play in Sundance (which has yet to be picked up for the North American market) and the steamy Rome in Room should fog up the Market Screenings. Three titles that should receive a lot of attention in this year's fest are:...

The kings of the Croisette – Wild Bunch have got titles coming out of all orifices that they just supplied the fest with the last minute addition of Ken Loach's Route Irish. Earlier in the year they had one of the best comedies of the year in Four Lions play in Sundance (which has yet to be picked up for the North American market) and the steamy Rome in Room should fog up the Market Screenings. Three titles that should receive a lot of attention in this year's fest are: Jorge Michel Grau's contempo cannibal film to break out We Are What We Are (see pic), and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson's Sound of Noise – a high risk film because it mixes genres together like someone grabbing whole bunch of leftovers from the fridge. Already causing a stir is the social commentary docu film by agitator Sabina Guzzanti – Italian politicians beware.

Cannes Critics week announced its slate for 2010. Opening the section this year are Michel Leclerc’s Le Nom des gens, Marc Fitoussi’s Copacabana and Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber, all from France.

Founded in 1962 by the Union of French Film Critics, the Critics Week is the oldest of the Cannes festival sidebars. Each year, a panel of international critics select around a dozen shorts and features from first and second-time filmmakers to compete in this section. The complete lineup is:

Feature film competition :

Armadillo, dir Janus Metz (Denmark)

Bedevilled, dir Jang Cheol So (South Korea)

Belle Epine, dir Rebecca Zlotowski (France)

Bi, Don’t Be Afraid !, dir Phan Dang Di (Vietnam, France, Germany)

The Myth Of An American Sleepover, dir David Robert Mitchell (Us)

Sandcastle, dir Boo Junfeng (Singapore)

Sound Of Noise, dir Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjarne Nilsson (Sweden, France)

Short film competition:

Berik, dir Daniel Joseph Borgman (Denmark...

• France-based Wild Bunch are the masters of their domain – we can forget about the horrible way Che fell victim to a bad market by remembering the success story of The Wrestler. They come to Cannes as usual with a ton of items in competition and a slate of films that gives buyers way too many options. I'll be checking out Cristian Mungiu's Tales From the Golden Age, Gabe Ibanez's Hierro, Looking for Eric by Ken Loach, the probably banned from filmmaking in China again director Lou Ye's Spring Fever, the already controversial (will it be ready on time?) Enter the Void by Gasper Noe and I will hope to fit in Marina De Van's thriller Don't Look Back and Un Certain Regard selected No One Knows About Persan Cats from Iranian filmmaker Bahmann Ghobadi. Wild Bunch also have some savoury titles in post production which I expect

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