Joshua Oppenheimer's Latest Film Gave Him Nightmares

Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that.

'Unprecedented in the history of cinema', is how The Act of Killing’s producer, Werner Herzog (you might have heard of him) describes Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary about the Indonesian genocide of the ‘60s. Told from the present day point-of-view of the unpunished and politically dominant perpetrators as they saunter around a beautiful country, reenacting their techniques for mass murder, it is a bracing account that has been seized as a human rights tool in Indonesia and beyond. Yet even as it unearths truths previously hidden under fear and corruption, The Act of Killing is disinterested in vilifying its subjects, making the deepest revelations of the film profoundly humanistic. READ FULL STORY

Hey, I wonder what the leading European directors would look like if they dressed in chainz and grillz? And especially, I wonder what they would look like if they were crudely Photshopped and attributed quotes by someone who knew next to nothing about actually being a rapper? MAKE WAY, PEASANTS, FOR I HAVE ANSWERED YOUR REQUESTS. Pretty sure I should win a Nobel Peace Prize for this.

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Sure we liked Hugo, and The Departed was slick and entertaining and everything, but it would be pushing it to say that the great Martin Scorsese has made anything even close to his best work (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, etc.) in recent years. Not that we're jumping the gun here and saying Scorsese the artiste is officially 'back'; but this trailer, scored to Kanye West's "Black Skinhead", has got us salivating at the mouth just a little.

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Park Chan-wook's Dark and brooding English-language debut, Stoker, is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on July 1st, and we've got a few copies to give away. All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning a Blu-Ray is enter our competition below.

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Keep your peepers peeled for more Grolsch Film Works updates next week. Go to grolschfilmworks.com to see what’s happening right now.