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The ambitious and immersive animated film Ruben Brandt, Collector centers on the titular character (Iván Kamarás), a psychotherapist who has mental issues of his own. To rid himself of his nightmares, Ruben enlists several of his patients to steal 13 paintings from several of the world’s most renowned museums.

Directed by Hungarian animator Milorad Krstic, Ruben [...]

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Take a look at the new animated crime feature drama, "Ruben Brandt, Collector", written and directed by Milorad Krstic, starring Iván Kamarás, Gabriella Hámori and Zalán Makranczi, now playing:

"...a psychotherapist suffers violent nightmares inspired by legendary works of art. Four of his patients, expert thieves, offer to steal the works, since he believes that once he owns them, the nightmares will disappear. 

"He becomes a wanted criminal know as 'The Collector'. Who will dare to catch him and his gang?..."

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A sizable group of Specialty films are heading into theaters over the Presidents Day weekend as distributors bring out new work beyond the glare of Awards Season. IFC Films is opening Tim Sutton’s Donnybrook with Jamie Bell, Frank Grillo and Margaret Qualley in theaters Friday, followed by on-demand platforms on February 22. Sony Pictures Classics is heading out with animated feature, Ruben Brandt, Collector. The company had become aware of the Hungarian feature after reading a review of the film out of last summer’s Locarno Film Festival. The Orchard picked up Colombia’s entry for Foreign Language Oscar consideration, Birds Of Passage by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, out of last year’s Cannes Film Festival where it opened Directors Fortnight. The title bowed Wednesday in New York and opens L.A. Friday. Also opening this weekend are Freestyle Digital Media’s The Maestro and Screen Media’s dog ‘rom-com,...

Milorad Krstic’s alluring, acrobatic animated feature “Ruben Brandt, Collector” tells the story of a thief with an unlikely motivation: He steals art because he has nightmares about art. And since he has nightmares about the most famous paintings in the world, he has to acquire those specific paintings, in the process becoming a world-renowned villain.

It’s a sexy, exciting tale that’s equally inspired by classical and pop art. The visual influences are found in museums, with characters and backgrounds lifted from Manet and Picasso, but the storytelling style is straight out of Mario Bava’s “Danger Diabolik,” with a cinematic philosophy more akin to Brian De Palma’s Hitchcockian pastiches.

Like Brandt himself, Krstic seems eager to possess every work of art that inspires him and to put them all on display. The question the film never quite answers is, Does that collection of influences stand on its own,...

"We are dealing with a 'collector' here, and not a serial thief." Sony Pictures Classics has debuted a new official trailer for an animated film from Hungary titled Ruben Brandt, Collector, or originally Ruben Brandt, a gyűjtő in Hungarian. It's about a famous psychotherapist who suffers from violent nightmares he has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Four of his patients, expert thieves, offer to steal the works, since he believes that once he owns them, the nightmares will disappear. He becomes a wanted criminal know as "The Collector". Who will dare to catch him and his gang? What a concept. And the animation style in this is unique, much different than what we usually see. Ruben Brandt, Collector features the voices (Hungarian) of Iván Kamarás, Gabriella Hámori, Zalán Makranczi, and Csaba Márton. The character design is super funky, but also kinda hard to look away from.

“Possess your problems to conquer them.” That’s the credo psychotherapist Ruben Brandt preaches to his criminally-inclined clients in this stylish, fast-paced, English-language animated thriller for adults. But when Brandt’s patients help him to apply his own advice, he becomes “Ruben Brandt, Collector,” ringleader of a gang responsible for the theft of 13 of the world’s most famous paintings. In this entertaining romp, his fiction feature debut, multi-hyphenate Milorad Krstić literally puts the ”art” in “arthouse,” using 2D and 3D animation techniques to depict the tropes of film noir and action-adventure, all the while paying clever homage to the worlds of film and fine art. Further festival play is a given, with niche distribution a solid bet for most territories.

Brandt (Iván Kamarás) is the offspring of an East German émigré whose knowledge of subliminal programming with 16mm film was exploited by the CIA — and used to experiment on his own son.

Stars: Bryan Larkin, Iván Kamarás, Michael McKell, Velibor Topic, Laurence Possa, Ben Lambert, Alec Utgoff, Vivien Taylor, Vince Docherty, Gareth Morrison | Written by Rae Brunton | Directed by Kieran Parker

A team of fearless Russian Spetsnaz unearth details of the shocking research being taken out by the Nazis. Before they’re able to report on this discovery, the Spetsnaz are savagely captured by the Nazis and detained at an underground facility. It’s revealed that the Nazis are scientifically developing an invincible army of undead soldiers to unleash upon the unsuspecting Allies. If the Spetsnaz are to survive this ordeal, and subsequently the war, they must fight their way through a series of gladiatorial battles with the experimental undead to escape the brutal facility before the Nazis can perfect their research and send their zombie army across Europe.

The follow-up to 2012′s Outpost: Black Sun, Rise of the Spetsnaz comes once again from Rae Brunton,...

The zombie warfare continues from Outpost (2008) and Outpost: Black Sun (2012) to Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz. Viewers of the second film, Outpost: Black Sun, might be surprised to hear of a second sequel. After all, the bunker housing zombie Nazi commandos was completely destroyed at the end of the film. However, a couple characters did survive. Now, the action shifts from German shocktroopers to the Spetsnaz, Russia' elite paramilitary group. This third story promises to explore the origins of the zombie epidemic. Now, the first poster for the film is available with some early cast and crew details also showing. Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz is currently filming. More story details to come. Director: Kieran Parker. Writer: Rae Brunton. Cast: Bryan Larkin, Iván Kamarás and Michael McKell. *Outpost: Black Sun has released in Germany with a North American release date unknown. Source: Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz at the Film...

See the trailer, poster and images from A Love Affair of Sorts, starring Lili Bordán, David Guy Levy, Iván Kamarás and Jonathan Beckerman. The drama is directed by David Guy Levy and opens via Paladin Film on June 24th in New York and Los Angeles. Blurring the edges between reality and fiction, and in an era where we all live in public to a certain extent, A Love Affair Of Sorts is a modern twist on a love affair in the digital age. The first feature film to be shot entirely on a flip camera, its narrative follows two lonely strangers in modern day Los Angeles, during the holiday season. The film begins with David (Director David Guy Levy), a painter, and Enci (Lili Bordán), a Hungarian nanny, who meet in a bookstore when he catches her shoplifting on his ever-present flip camera. As they start a tentative relationship, he...

See the trailer, poster and images from A Love Affair of Sorts, starring Lili Bordán, David Guy Levy, Iván Kamarás and Jonathan Beckerman. The drama is directed by David Guy Levy and opens via Paladin Film on June 24th in New York and Los Angeles. Blurring the edges between reality and fiction, and in an era where we all live in public to a certain extent, A Love Affair Of Sorts is a modern twist on a love affair in the digital age. The first feature film to be shot entirely on a flip camera, its narrative follows two lonely strangers in modern day Los Angeles, during the holiday season. The film begins with David (Director David Guy Levy), a painter, and Enci (Lili Bordán), a Hungarian nanny, who meet in a bookstore when he catches her shoplifting on his ever-present flip camera. As they start a tentative relationship, he...

See the trailer, poster and images from A Love Affair of Sorts, starring Lili Bordán, David Guy Levy, Iván Kamarás and Jonathan Beckerman. The drama is directed by David Guy Levy and opens via Paladin Film on June 24th in New York and Los Angeles. Blurring the edges between reality and fiction, and in an era where we all live in public to a certain extent, A Love Affair Of Sorts is a modern twist on a love affair in the digital age. The first feature film to be shot entirely on a flip camera, its narrative follows two lonely strangers in modern day Los Angeles, during the holiday season. The film begins with David (Director David Guy Levy), a painter, and Enci (Lili Bordán), a Hungarian nanny, who meet in a bookstore when he catches her shoplifting on his ever-present flip camera. As they start a tentative relationship, he...