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"Dominiquie Vandenberg is a modern-day warrior poet whose fight choreography is like a ballet that he mixes with images from a brutal past. A natural talent that was born in blood." - Martin Scorsese Once described as Jean-Claude Van Damme envisioned by Hieronymus Bosch, Dominiquie Vandenberg has lead quite the life, he's been a world class martial arts champion, an elite member of the French Foreign Legion, he's honed his martial arts skills on the mats, on the street, in the ring, in the cage and on the door, while his Film & TV credits include everything from Mortal Kombat, Gangs of New York, Beowulf, Pitfighter , The Perfect Sleep and more. His most recent project is Legion Maxx directed by Jesse V Johnson (Triple...

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The 84th annual Academy Awards takes place on Sunday, February 26; and for millions of elderly Americans, that means just one thing: The perfect sleep aid is finally here.

But here's a little secret. The Oscars are actually a great show for young people as well, and not just because you have a much better chance of staying awake for the whole ceremony.

The Oscars, intended for young people? It may be hard to believe, but that's only because you haven't yet read our nine reasons you should watch this year's Oscars -- even if you're not eligible for senior citizen discounts just yet.

See Next Year's Stars Now. Last year, nobody had ever heard of Best Actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence. Now she's about to star in the biggest movie in the year, "The Hunger Games." So which of this year's less established nominees will end up going on to star...

No One Knows About Persian Cats; Fish Story

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Music movies have to be one of the trickiest genres to tackle. Anything current can seem dated almost immediately; actors tend to show themselves up as non-musicians, and true-life rock tales are mostly based on the complete lies the music industry depends on to make their performers seem special. You have to look at something like the documentary Anvil! to see anything approaching honesty. Two films this week, taking wildly different approaches, end up better than just about any other rock movies of recent years. No One Knows About Persian Cats is an Iranian film about the travails of a band in a culture that not only has no infrastructure for weedy indie bands to thrive but is also actively against such unrestrained freedom of expression. It's a fascinating checklist of things we all take completely for granted here,...

The Perfect Sleep may sound intriguing, as its IMDb description boasts of the promise of a stylish, modern-day film noir. But unfortunately, this film is nothing that you haven't seen before, though it really, really wants to be.

At the beginning, we are introduced to The Narrator (otherwise known as the Mad Monk, as we later find out), who, as his name suggests, dictates the story to us. To me, narrators in films usually seem superfluous, and rarely are they warranted or even necessary; quite frankly, a lot of the time the device is a mere cop-out, and such is precisely the case with this film. The narration is warranted, but certainly not justified; it exists solely to divulge a whole heap of background information that would simply be impossible to reveal otherwise. But isn't it a sign of good filmmaking when you don't have to resort to such cheap devices?...

Here is the list of DVD releases for this week. Be sure to check out our podcast special on the Friday the 13th series. Just click on the link below. Friday the 13th (2009) (DVD, Blu-ray) [1] Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail The Cell 2 (DVD, Blu-ray) Hydra Killing Ariel The Perfect Sleep Born Body Armour Dough Boys Cherry Blossoms Operation Valkyrie The Strange One What Goes Up Robbin’ In Da Hood Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter: Deluxe Edition [2] Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning: Deluxe Edition [3] Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives: Deluxe Edition [4] The Seventh Seal: Criterion Collection (DVD, Blu-ray) Bergman Island: Criterion Collection The Diary of Anne Frank: 50th Anniversary Edition (DVD, Blu-ray) Scott Walker: 30 Century Man Morning Light (DVD, Blu-ray) Family Guy: Vol. 7 Everwood: The Complete Second Season Saving Grace: Season Two Burn Notice: Season Two (DVD, Blu-ray...

The Perfect Sleep’s official synopsis bills it as the world of Dashiell Hammett populated by the characters of Dostoevsky, mixed in with martial arts. Tall order. Naturally, I assumed that the prevailing portion of the three would be the Hammett, given the noir-tinged visuals. Imagine my surprise, both in bemusement and amusement, that the Dostoevsky reigns in this independent production. The Perfect Sleep is existential and dense, with a sharp moral core and family schisms recalling The Brothers Karamazov.

Anton Pardoe is both the writer and the brooding star of the film, a Sam Spade type fella known to us only by his nickname The Mad Monk. He returns to a timeless city (old clothes, old cars, but new guns and gadgets) after a long exile, to help his object of affection Porphyria (a voluptuous and affecting Roselyn Sanchez), no doubt named so for the pain she causes the men who fight over her.

Trailer for Jeremy Alter's The Perfect Sleep which is set "against the backdrop of a noirish dreamscape, a tortured man returns to the city he swore he would never return to, in order to save the woman he has always loved yet can never have"

The screeplay is by Anton Pardoe who also stars along with Roselyn Sanchez (Without a Trace), Patrick Bauchau (Chrysalis, Carnivàle), Peter J. Lucas (Inland Empire)

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The first time I saw "The Perfect Sleep," it was just Gary Oldman and I sitting together to watch it.  I knew his reaction to the film was terse and perhaps even abrupt, but I had no idea he and Bono and Bas Rutten all felt this strongly about it:     Now, come on... to be fair... "The Perfect Sleep" is a lovely update of the style of film noir, as filtered through a jet black sense of humor and a martial arts junkie's wet dreams.  And Jeremy Alter?  The director of the film?  Not just a good guy but...

This may very well be the one and only time that you’ll find a highly acclaimed actor, a mixed martial artist and one of the world’s biggest rock stars all in one place and agreeing on one thing. But it’s happened. Gary Oldman, Bas Rutten and Bono have all seen Jeremy Alter’s The Perfect Sleep and they all agree: it’s crap.

Heh ... this is one clever bit of viral marketing and I find it more than a little amusing that someone was actually able to get all three of these guys to do it. Check it out below the break where you’ll find the video along with the (very definitely not crap) trailer.

In director Jeremy Alter’s film, “The Perfect Sleep,” a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left ten years before - back when they dubbed him The Mad Monk for his disregard for his own life and his intense devotion to one woman, Porphyria; a beautiful, luminescent woman; the girl he grew up with; the love of his life; the one thing he has ever …...

In director Jeremy Alter’s film, “The Perfect Sleep,” a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left ten years before - back when they dubbed him The Mad Monk for his disregard for his own life and his intense devotion to one woman, Porphyria; a beautiful, luminescent woman; the girl he grew up with; the love of his life; the one thing he has ever …...

One year ago, I posted the trailer for a really cool looking indie film called The Perfect Sleep. It's a hard boiled noir mystery that features plenty of action and martial arts in it. I hyped it up when it was still touring the festival circuit, but then didn't really hear about it again until recently when the director Jeremy Alter got in touch to let me know that they finally have distribution.

Not only that, they also have a new site up and a new trailer. I urge you guys to take a looksie.

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Synopsis:

Think of the hard-boiled world of film noir: the world of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, a world of femme fatales, a world of shadows. Now imagine this world populated with characters from tragic Russian novels like those by Dostoevsky: tormented figures suffering through harsh circumstance.

Ambitiously described as Dashiell Hammett meets Dostoevsky, The Perfect Sleep follows an assassin who returns to a city after a decade to risk his life for a dame. (It's the supersexy Roselyn Sanchez, so... understandable.) The intriguing noir indie stars Anton Pardoe (who also wrote it) and features familiar faces like Sanchez, Michael Pare, and Patrick Bauchau. The stylish film premieres at the Sunset Laemmle Theatre in Los Angeles on March 13th, before expanding to other cities. Find out more at the snazzy official site, and check out the trailer below!

Year: 2009

Directors: Jeremy Alter

Writers: Anton Pardoe

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: agentorange

Rating: 5.8 out of 10

It's strange to think that we live in a world where such a great American genre like Film Noir is dead. Not buried yet mind you, just dead. Some of the genre's iconography still exists here and there, like in the visual aesthetics of modern thrillers, but true Film Noir can't seem to exist on its own anymore without some kind of post-modern crutch to prop it up and give it relevance. It seems to Need the high school hallways of Rian Johnson's Brick, the animated landscape of D. Jud Jones' Film Noir, or the over-the-top parody of The Spirit to exist anymore. I find it interesting that a criticism that's often thrown at modern Film Noirs that try to play it straight is that they're too "cliched." Well duh, that's...

Unified Pictures has just sent the trailer for their upcoming action/thriller "The Perfect Sleep," starring Roselyn Sanchez (Rush Hour 2, The Game Plan) and Anton Pardoe. Click on the link below to check it out. Plot: Set against the backdrop of a noirish dreamscape, a tortured man (Pardoe) returns to the city he swore he would never return to, in order to save the woman (Sanchez) he has always loved yet can never have. "The Perfect Sleep" is Jeremy Alter's directorial debut. Last we heard of Alter, he was producing David Lynch's "Inland Empire" and was one of the helmers (including Brett Ratner and Len Wiseman) attached to direct the "Escape from New York" remake. Alter's "Sleep" is getting a limited release and will first appear at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in West Hollywood next Friday (March 13th), before spreading to NY the following week. If anyone lives in...

Film noir can be painful when it's done poorly, but overall, there really doesn't seem to be enough of it out there. Sometimes, you get something as straight-faced and reverent as Brick, and at others, you get goofy-but-affectionate riffs on the genre like Assassination of a High School President and South of Heaven.

So it's nice to hear something about The Missing Person out of Sundance or, in today's case, a title called The Perfect Sleep. Twitch, as reliable a geek barometer as any, has shared the trailer with us, and I suspect that we're looking at a stylish return to that "straight-faced and reverent" thing I was just bringing up. A nameless man (screenwriter Anton Pardoe) looking to fight his way through thugs and assassins alike to get back to that one dame (Roselyn Sanchez, and who can blame him?) -- can you get more noir than that?

Sleep...

We’ve got a swarm of noir fans here at Twitch and this post goes out to all of you. Got a love for femmes fatales and tougher than nails anti-heroes? The starting on March 13th, get yourself to the Sunset Laemmle Theatre in Los Angeles. Why? Because that’s when Jeremy Alter’s The Perfect Sleep begins its limited theatrical run before heading to New York, Chicago, Dallas, and Portland.

In a timeless city, a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left ten years before – back when they dubbed him The Mad Monk for his disregard for his own life and his intense devotion to one woman, Porphyria; a beautiful, luminescent woman; the girl he grew up with; the love of his life; the one thing he has ever wanted; the one thing he can never have.

There is no discernible reason...

Los Angeles-based Unified Pictures has struck a two-picture U.S. theatrical distribution deal with Cinema Epoch for the revenge film "The Perfect Sleep," directed by Jeremy Alter and starring Roselyn Sanchez, and the romantic dramedy "Bob Funk," directed by Craig Carlisle and starring Rachel Leigh Cook.

Both films will be released in theaters this spring. Magnolia Home Entertainment will handle home video distribution.

"Funk" stars Cook, Michael Leydon Campbell, Amy Ryan, Grace Zabriskie, Eddie Jemison and Stephen Root. The film is produced by Unified's Ben Ruffman and Keith Kjarval.

It revolves around the quick-witted and sardonic title character who is fired from his job by his mother. In an attempt to regain his job and his life, he agrees to quit drinking, go to therapy and report to a new boss who just happens to be the girl he has fallen for.

"Sleep," directed by Alter from a script by Anton Pardoe,...

Independent production and distribution house Unified Pictures said Tuesday it has set up an in-house international sales arm that will package, develop and produce films as well as finance and distribute projects for worldwide sales.

"This is a natural growth initiative for us," company founder and president Keith Kjarval said.

Kjarval has recruited as a consultant industry vet Ann Dubinet, who will handle the international sales arm's debut at the European Film Market in Berlin.

Unified's offerings in Berlin include the "revenge noir" film The Perfect Sleep, starring Roselyn Sanchez; the dramedy Bob Funk, starring Rachael Lee Cook; and the thriller XII, starring Mercedes McNab.

Unified Pictures is set to produce the modern-day Capra-esque tale 55 Holly Star. Michael A. Nickles, who penned the script, will direct.

The story centers on a down-on-his-luck man who, in a desperate search to decipher the dying words of his grandfather, turns his life upside down.

Production is scheduled to begin next year, with Unified founder Keith Kjarval producing.

"This is a story that has excited us for some time with its unique and fresh slant on a familiar romantic theme," Kjarval said.

The company, which recently completed principal photography on the Rachael Leigh Cook romantic comedy Bob Funk, also is producing the CG-animated Noah's Ark, written by Philip LaZebnik (The Prince of Egypt, Pocahontas) and the psychological thriller Beneath the Shadows.

Unified is in postproduction on the revenge action/drama The Perfect Sleep and the psychological thriller XII.

Unified Pictures has cast Roselyn Sanchez, Patrick Bauchau, Tony Amendola, Isaac Singleton, Peter Lucas and newcomer Anton Pardoe in the indie feature The Perfect Sleep. Set in modern times, the neo-noir feature follows a group of characters imprisoned by their past, moving toward an uncertain future. Producing and directing Perfect Sleep is first-timer Jeremy Alter, who directed the award-winning short film The Godson.