Deux films de vampires. Tirés de romans, en salle la même semaine, produits aux antipodes. En Suède pour Let the Right One In. Aux États-Unis pour Twilight. Le premier tient du pari artistique, le second, du calcul commercial. Les deux réinventent à leur façon le mythe de la créature de la nuit popularisée par Bram Stoker. Sans crucifix, tresse d'ail, cercueil matelassé et longues canines. Plus important encore, les deux longs métrages ont en commun d'unir un mortel et un vampire, dans l'acceptation mutuelle de cette association insolite et contre nature. Ces vampires sont nos amis. Santé! a href=http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/11/22/217835.htmlSuite/a

Le destin de certaines oeuvres musicales est incompréhensible. Depuis près de 100 ans, l'opéra Le Vampire de Heinrich Marschner a presque disparu des scènes. L'ouvrage a été ressuscité conjointement par l'Opéra de Rennes et l'Opera Competition Festival à Szeget en Hongrie, une manifestation d'un nouveau genre, relayée par la chaîne de télévision Mezzo dans 39 pays pour 16 millions de foyers abonnés. a href=http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/11/22/217820.htmlSuite/a

The long wait is finally over, and one of this fall's most talked-about films hits theaters this weekend. Twilight reviews have been all over the board -- with some folks hating the fact that it's a watered-down, lovey-dovey vampire flick, while others feel its fans should be perfectly happy with it. Here are some comments from our readers so far:

"I'm am thoroughly outraged I wasted my money and time last night watching it. If I wasn't with my friends (and had my own car with me) I would have just left after the first 10 minutes. Very bad movie translation for what is a wonderful book." -- Melissa

"Instead of being let down, I got much, MUCH more than I expected. I absolutely loved the movie. It was awesome! I felt that it still held true to the book, without screaming Smeyer in your face." -- Tricia

"Robert Pattison is definitely a front-running contender for "most awkward acting of the year award." His acting made me cringe away in a stiffled laughter throughout the movie." -- Kelly

"Considering this is an attempt to cram a thick book raging with details onto the screen, I give it props. I was impressed!" -- Aly

After all the hoopla, we want to hear from you fans and non-fans: How was Twilight? How could it have been better? And what would you change about the sequel? Sound off below ...

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  Vous ne connaissez pas encore Kristen Stewart ? Pas de panique, d'ici février 2009, on n'entendra parler que d'elle puisqu'elle sera à l'affiche du film Twilight, un film de vampire très attendu. Pour passer le temps, voici quelques photos de l'actrice.

div class="image"a href="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/big_show.php?/avaxhome/10/d0/0009d010.gif" target="_blank"img src="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/10/d0/0009d010_medium.gif" id="external_img_643088"//a/divbr/ div class="center"bRachel Caine. The Morganville Vampires, Book 1-4/bbr/ ISBN: 0451219945; 0451220897; 0451222385; 0451224639 | 2006 - 2008 edition | 4 books | PDF | 1.73 MB /div

div class="image"a href="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/big_show.php?/avaxhome/08/d0/0009d008.jpeg" target="_blank"img src="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/08/d0/0009d008_medium.jpeg" id="external_img_643080"//a/divbr/ div class="center"bKerrelyn Sparks. All I Want for Christmas Is a Vampire (Love at Stake, Book 5)/bbr/ ISBN 006111846X | Avon (October 28, 2008) | PDF | 384 pages | 1.1 MB/divbr/ This Christmas isn't so merry for Toni. Her best friend's been locked up in a mental hospital ever since she told the police she was attacked by vampires, and the only way for Toni to get her out is to prove that bloodsuckers really do exist. So she's taken a job as a bodyguard for the Undead, but she gets more than she bargained for, especially when she meets Ian MacPhie, a Scottish rascal looking for Ms. Right. br/ Although Ian's nearly five centuries old, he looks and acts like a twenty-seven-year-old hunk. How can a dead man be so damn sexy? Could Mr. Wrong be Mr. Right? One forbidden kiss could lead to an eternity of passion—and all it takes is one moment under the mistletoe...

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Who doesn't love a good pop quiz? Vampires, that's who! (Actually the answer was "students," but stay with me here.) So as a way to welcome the highly-anticipated vamp-themed Twilight into plasmaplexes, we thought it would be transfusing to introduce a nifty new gizmo. For us, anyway: A movie quiz. Click on in and dazzle to a dozen vexing questions about Cinema de Vampire. And then feel free to share your thoughts on everything from Nosferatu to the Twilight kids and every ghoul in between.

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div class="image"a href="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/big_show.php?/avaxhome/e0/cf/0009cfe0.jpeg" target="_blank"img src="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/e0/cf/0009cfe0_medium.jpeg" id="external_img_643040"//a/divbr/ div class="center"bHeroes [03x09] It's Coming/bbr/ MP3, 48000Hz 132 kb/s | XviD 1.1.2 Final, 1014 kbps | English | 42:02.33 | 624x352 | 348 MB/divbr/ Heroes is a serial saga about people all over the world discovering that they have superpowers and trying to deal with how this change affects their lives. The relatable superheroes include Peter Petrelli, a 30-year-old male nurse who believes can fly, Diego Medina, a 28-year-old junkie who has the ability to paint images of the future when he is high, Niki Sanders, a 33-year-old Las Vegas showgirl who can do incredible things with mirrors, Hiro Makamura, a 24-year-old Japanese comic-book geek who literally makes time stand still, D.L. Hawkins, a 31-year-old inmate who can transport himself through walls, and Claire Bennet, 17-year-old cheerleader who defies death at every turn. Not only are they discovering what having superpowers means to them but also the larger picture of where their superpowers come from. Eventually their superpowers draw them together when they try to evade the series' antagonist who wants to harness their super-DNA for himself. The series will star Greg Grunberg (Alias), Leonard Roberts (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Milo Ventimiglia (Gilmore Girls), and Hayden Panettiere (Ally McBeal, Guiding Light). Tim Kring (Crossing Jordan, Chicago Hope) is the series' creator.

Welcome back to another edition of Insert Caption -- the game vampires and their totally awesome human girlfriends love to play together on date night! Last week we asked you to give us your best captions for a wacky photo from the flick Sukiyaki Western Django, which is currently out on DVD. With only one person to award the grand prize, our crack team of caption judges spent hours (screw that, days!) searching for the right mix of humor, heart and heroics. Here, then, is our winner -- congratulations to you, sir!




1. "Despite producing some of the most innovative music of the 1980's, Japanese Country-Style Gangsta Hip-Hop was short-lived." -- Kurt P.

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This week, well, we're celebrating a film that needs no introduction. It opens in theaters today, it was adapted from a very popular book, it stars one of the hottest guys in the history of the galaxy (Pattinson? Try Hottinson!) ... and it has something to do with vampires. Yup, it's time to sharpen those teeth and take a real nice bite out of the photo below from the film Twilight. Here's where it gets tasty: One very lucky grand prize winner will hop, skip, walk and dance away with one Autographed Twilight poster, one Movie tie-in paperback, one Movie Companion book and one Twilight Soundtrack. All I know is one lucky fan is about to win the Twilight lottery. Sound off below ...



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No doubt this weekend will yank tons of girls (and some boys) away from their Facebook pages and into the sometimes comfortable surroundings of a darkened movie theater for a screening (or three) of the new film Twilight. And because you parents out there would love to make this weekend a special one for your Twilight-obsessed children, Cinematical is here with some help (babysitting is extra -- talk to Weinberg and Snider after this post). Cinematical reader Nicole sent us a note and a link to her tasty-looking Vampire Cookies recipe, which, according to her, started off as something to make for Halloween and then were a huge hit for a Twilight-themed party she threw this week. (Okay, I just stopped typing in order to throw that picture into the post and now I can't stop staring at it. Damn those look pretty tasty.)

Yeah, so those are the cookies above, and I especially like how they have two tiny holes in each, with red jam (it's just jam!) leaking out. Very cool. Head on over to Nicole's site, Baking Bites, for the recipe and additional photos, and let us know how they come out.

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Look, I know the drill. If any element of the Twilight movie varies even slightly from the way you pictured it in your head, then it is the worst film ever made and you hate it and Catherine Hardwicke has ruined your childhood. Or, alternatively, you've built up so much anticipation for the movie that you're going to love love LOVE it no matter what, even if it's bad, you don't care, you refuse to listen to any criticisms LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU. I know how it goes.

The book's most devoted fans are seeing the film anyway, so I guess I'm talking to everyone else -- those who haven't read the book, or who (like me) read it, mostly enjoyed it, then didn't give it another thought. Is the Twilight movie of any use to those people? Or, as a friend asked me, does it work purely as a vampire movie?

Oh, heavens, no. Noooooo. This is not a vampire movie. This is a somber teen romance that happens to have some vampires in it. Little attempt is made to establish the mythology of the bloodsuckers, and the supernatural elements are downplayed -- a wise move, since the special effects, when they are necessary, are at about the level you'd expect from a movie that is more focused on romance than sci-fi action.

All of which is in keeping with the tone of Stephenie Meyer's book, which is eight parts romance and two parts action/fantasy. That's why it's been such a phenomenal success with women, and why the male-dominated geek industry -- the Nerderati, if you will -- has been so skeptical of that success. "What?" they scoff. "A super-popular vampire book that we, as men, AREN'T interested in? Inconceivable! It must be terrible, and its popularity is probably being over-reported!"

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psmallemPhotos by stronga href="http://www.noahm.com/" target="_blank"Ahmed Klink/a/strong/em/smallbr /br /Two-thousand eight has in some ways been the year of the weekend-- the stronga href="http://www.vampireweekend.com/" target="_blank"Vampire Weekend/a/strong, that is. Last night, however, found the breakout band giving back, taking the stage at NYC's stronga href="http://www.roselandballroom.com/" target="_blank"Roseland Ballroom/a/strong for the "Focus for Change" benefit for human rights advocates stronga href="http://www.witness.org/" target="_blank"WITNESS/a/strong. And not just Vampire Weekend: WITNESS co-founder stronga href="http://www.petergabriel.com/" target="_blank"Peter Gabriel/a/strong, too, who acted as host and emcee yesterday evening. Alas, VW and PG didn't team for any "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" action-- a missed opportunity if there ever was one-- but at least significant funds were raised for a very worthy cause.br /br /Vampire Weekend have a short tour lined up for December and stronga href="/article/news/147545-vampire-weekend-issue-new-single-chat-with-times" target="_blank"a speaking engagement of sorts/a/strong circled on their recently-acquired 2009 "Prep School Hottiez" calendar for January 10. Speaking of prep school hottiez, stronga href="/article/news/147524-tv-eye-november-17-23" target="_blank"don't forget/a/strong: the Vamp Weekend boys play "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" tonight (November 21), and their stronga href="/article/news/147545-vampire-weekend-issue-new-single-chat-with-times" target="_blank""The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" single/a/strong is due physically on December 9.br /br /strongVampire Weekendbr //strongimg src="/sites/default/files/VW.jpg" border="0" /br /br /img src="/sites/default/files/VW9.jpg" border="0" /br /br /img src="/sites/default/files/vwsplit1.jpg" border="0" /br /br /img src="/sites/default/files/VW6.jpg" border="0" /br /br /img src="/sites/default/files/VW3.jpg" border="0" /br /br /img src="/sites/default/files/vwsplit2.jpg" border="0" /br /br /img src="/sites/default/files/VW8.jpg" border="0" /br /br /strongPeter Gabriel/strongbr /img src="/sites/default/files/Pete.jpg" border="0" /br /br /img src="/sites/default/files/Pete4.jpg" border="0" /br /br /img src="/sites/default/files/Pete5.jpg" border="0" /br //ppa href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/147639" target="_blank"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/7VqMd9oPAEFX-MsNyCStv0C8QNI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/7VqMd9oPAEFX-MsNyCStv0C8QNI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/pJKSg6g3PTw" height="1" width="1"/

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p a href=/plume/xmedia/fantasy/news/autres_films/marked.jpgimg style=float:right; alt=marked src=/plume/xmedia/fantasy/news/autres_films/thumb/marked.jpg //a Beaucoup de gens aiment les histoires de vampires et l'engouement pour le beau Édouard de citeFascination/cite de Stephenie Meyer le prouve. Mais est-ce que vous seriez prêt à découvrir une nouvelle série sur les vampires ?br / C'est le pari que font 2 producteurs en venant d'acquérir les droits pour adapter au cinéma citeHouse of Night/cite, une saga de romans écrits par P.C. Cast et Kristen Cast. L'intrigue générale parle de vampires, il y a 4 volumes, chacun des titres n'est composé que d'un ou deux mots... difficile de ne pas faire le parrallèle avec les romans de Stephenie Meyer ! emTwilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn/em d'un côté, emMarked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed/em de l'autre.br / Dans cette série, les emvampires/em sont des individus qui possèdent une anomalie génétique qui se manifeste à la fin de l'adolescence. Une fois qu'elle est apparue, les vampires sont marqués et envoyés dans la emHouse of Night/em pour recevoir une formation et les conseils nécessaires pour devenir un vampire adulte. Par contre, une fois devenu adulte, le vampire est entièrement accepté dans la société , et n'est pas forcé de se cacher comme la famille de Édouard dans citeFascination/cite.br / Qui va faire de l'ombre à qui ? Réponse prochainement. /p

Dracula seems to be vanquished, but there's still the treasure of Vlad the Impaler to unlock. There's the three keys, but do the bats hold another clue to the final riddle of the evil denizen of Transylvania. From Dracula - The Vampire Strikes Back, a panto version of the vampire story by Thos Ribbits and Tim Saward (original amateur production, Leytonstone, October 2003). more at http://pantomusicals.co.uk

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Découvrez la bande annonce de Twilight avec Kristen Stewart. Synopsis Isabella Swan, 17 ans, déménage à Forks, petite ville pluvieuse dans l'Etat de Washington, pour vivre avec son père. Elle s'attend à ce que sa nouvelle vie soit aussi ennuyeuse que la ville elle-même. Or, au lycée, elle est terriblement intriguée par le comportement d'une étrange fratrie, deux filles et trois garçons. Bella tombe follement amoureuse de l'un d'eux, Edward Cullen. Une relation sensuelle et dangereuse commence alors entre les deux jeunes gens : lorsque Isabella comprend que Edward est un vampire, il est déjà trop tard. Date de sortie : 07 Janvier 2009 La bande annonce dans la suite...

Retrouvez Karin et ses amis dans le second volume de Chibi Vampire, le shônen de Yuna Kagesaki, maintenant disponible aux éditions Pika.  L’histoire : Karin n'est pas une lycéenne comme les autres. En effet elle appartient à une longue lignée de vampires, un lourd secret qu’elle ne peut partager avec personne…

Earlier we brought you my review of Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight, beyond the break you can check out David Harley's thoughts on the film, which is about a high school girl named Bella falls in love with a vampire. The new couple leads a rival vampire clan to pursue them and attempt to force her to decide if she, too, wishes to become one of the undead. The film opens in theaters tonight at midnight and is expected to take in close to $70m this weekend. Don't forget to write your own review and tell other B-D readers what you thought!

This evening we've added our official review for Summit Entertainment's Twilight, the hotly anticipated adaptation to Stephenie Meyer's teen vampire drama. "This entire adaptation was carried through by my wonderful Catherine Hardwicke, who took a shiny little turd and transformed it into a watchable, slightly enjoyable film." You can read the full review, with minor spoilers, by clicking the title above. Don't forget to write your own review and tell other B-D readers what you thought! The film is about a high school girl named Bella falls in love with a vampire. The new couple leads a rival vampire clan to pursue them and attempt to force her to decide if she, too, wishes to become one of the undead.

Remarkably faithful to the spirit of its source material, the film version of Twilight crams most of the key episodes from Stephenie Meyer's novel into its breathless, 122-minute running time. Under the direction of Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen), Twilight gallops along handsomely, showcasing the cloudy, misty beauty of its gorgeous Pacific Northwest forest locations; you can practically smell the pine trees and feel the crunch of fallen leaves beneath your feet. Using voice-over narration sparingly, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg trots out all the major (and most of the minor) characters from the book, recounting the story in abbreviated fashion while demonstrating respect for Meyer's novel and its huge, faithful audience.

Twilight may not add up to much more than the sum of its parts, but those parts can be mighty entertaining, especially when handsome Edward (Robert Pattinson, oozing uncertain charm) is whooshing through the woods with plucky Bella (Kristen Stewart, self-assured and determined) on his back. Still, the romance at the heart of the book has been shorn of some of its heart in the translation to the big screen, sacrificed on the altar of a broader demographic. Readers of the book could feel somewhat shortchanged by the relentless emphasis on forward momentum rather than romantic fantasy; the flip side is that newcomers can enjoy the whirlwind pace and the brooding, ominous atmosphere, and everyone can revel in the spectacle of flying vampires playing a pinball version of sandlot baseball.

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