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Happy new year! Hope you spent a merry Kwanzaa eggnogging yourself into oblivion. 2010 marks Screen Machine’s second year in operation and what better way for a website to celebrate such an occasion than with a list! Here are the Top 20 Films of 2009 as chosen by the Screen Machine staff. Chosen from films that were released in Melbourne cinemas in 2009 or were given a festival screening here, we’ve tried to create a list that is more intriguing…

I think with Mother, his fourth feature length work, Bong Joon-ho cements his place as my favourite working director of any nationality. I’ve seen him compared (on the basis of his two previous works; The Host, and Memories of Murder) with Spielberg and Hitchcock, and unlike most such analogies this description manages to be both utterly foolish and somewhat apt. It’s easy to scramble for such names when discussing Bong’s work for two reasons. First, because despite defying most generic…

David Bowie’s son has directed a sci-fi art film (with a trailer) à la Solaris. This makes complete sense.
Michel Gondry is self-releasing a second compilation of his videos via his website on April 14.
Jim Jarmsuch confirmed that Melville influence on his upcoming The Limits of Control that we identified earlier, plus a bunch of other cool references.
Did you know that the guy from My Chemical Romance wrote comics? And that they’re being made into films? Do you even care?

Filmmaking team Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s last film Half Nelson was kind of a rip-off of David Gordon Green’s short film Physical Pinball but at least it showed they have good taste. They’re making a couple more films including baseball film Sugar which has a trailer and poster.
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno got the kiss of death from the MPAA rating body. This means we’ll probably have to wait until the Special Edition DVD for all the butt-sex footage.
I’m not…

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho is writing a script for Transperceneige, an adaptation of a French novel about a train loaded with the survivors of a devestating Ice Age. From Korea.net:
This train has enraptured me. I believe everyone has a fantasy about trains giving off chugs and puffs, and landscapes viewed from the window.
What you can see from the window in this story, however, is only the world icebound, with minus 80 degrees outside. Survivors live in the train, but…

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Can someone make sure that this film has distribution in Australia?
[Apple trailer is here.]