At this morning’s press conference Angel mentioned there would be some 150 films screened at this year’s festival so we need to make a decision on whether we watch every single one of them……….or whether we skip a few and allow ourselves some tourist-time and get elbows deep in cerveza and tapas at Sitges’ most zombie friendly bar EL CABLE……..
To help us to decide whether to watch a film or get drunk we’re compiling a list of the films showing at this year’s festival
As if we weren’t already drooling sufficiently in anticipation of the festival’s full program announcement this week, the organisers have seen fit to sound an additional Pavlovian bell in the form of The Official Fantastic Selection line-up. And it does look juicy.
Roth, Rodriguez, Gilliam, Wan……. Sitges continues to present cinema’s big hitters within the most diverse festival program around. Now if only the organisers could come up with a way to stay awake 24/7 we’d be laughing.
And a quick heads up to our friends over at the “The Taking” film. Here’s a taster of one we’re hoping to catch at the festival.
Animation is not exactly our strong suit and tends to occupy only a small corner of our festival program. Anything with a unique visual style or narrative has typically caught our attention in previous years and examples such as RENAISSANCE, PRINCESS, AACHI & SSIPAK, ATHF, PANIQUE AU VILLAGE stick in the memory for just those reasons.
Last year we were excited to see Korea enter the fray with THE KING OF PIGS which certainly stood out visually and promised the sort of dark, disturbing story line we’ve come to expect from Yeon Hang-so’s live action compatriots. While PIGS ultimately fell short of our expectations it’s good to see the director back again this year with the similarly stylised THE FAKE.
We’ve not really bought into the rebirth of 3D but it’s certainly been embraced by the festival and put to good use by Asia’s animation power houses as evidenced this year with big hitters SPACE PIRATE CAPTAIN HARLOCK & 009 RE: CYBORG.
With the addition of the highly anticipated latest EVANGELION installment and the ambitious RIO 2096, the organisers look to be pulling together another impressive animation program, while aiming to cement the festival’s increasing significance on the world stage by also hosting “the animation world’s first professional summit”.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock heads a spectacular animation selection at Sitges 2013
If Edgar Wright wasn’t such a slouch he could have had the final installment of the trilogy wrapped up in time for last year’s festival when it would have been wholly more appropriate.
However, Edgar’s a bit of a big cheese around Sitges having charmed the festival back in 2007 so we’ll cut him some slack and just be thankful that the organizers have snagged THE WORLD’S END for this year’s program.
In other news, having enjoyed Jim Mickle’s STAKE LAND at the 2010 festival it will be interesting to see how he handles the remake of WE ARE WHAT WE ARE which we saw the same year but found a little hard to swallow (ahem!)
“A line-up that will witness the re-birth of evil and its many faces”.
The organisers have now released a first look at this year’s film program and, to be honest, we didn’t really have to read beyond the bits where ONLY GOD FOGIVES and UPSTREAM COLOR were mentioned. Count us in!
First look at the line-up for the 46th edition of the Sitges Film Festival
There’s the usual bumper collection from Asia too so all’s well with the world. This is where we begin to digest & regurgitate the festival program in an attempt to compile our own list of must-see films. We’ll keep you posted as to how we’re getting on so check back once in a while.
Not content with staging the coolest film festival on the planet the organisers have decided to also hold the coolest press conferences. To hell with a technically crisp media centre! Let’s just announce this year’s line-up preview from the bowels of the Moritz Brewery in Barcelona and then get tits deep in Cerveza!
We like how you roll Angel.
Rather amateurishly we’re unable to attend Wednesday’s conference but we’ll be sure to bring you all the line-up news as soon as Angel’s finished ordering the drinks.
It’s unlikely to be the complete film list this far in advance of the festival but Angel will no doubt have plenty to raise our glasses to.
The big news from Cannes is that one of the Top Men at the Sitges Film Festival, Mike Hostench, has sold a script for his film Asmodexia to new Spanish Low-Budget Horror company MS entertainment.
You can read a little more over at BLOODY DISGUSTING, I think it may well be too soon to expect a screening at this year’s festival, but who knows? Maybe we’ll get to see an early cut as a surprise midnight screening.
And here it is, it appears to be referencing Rosemary’s Baby but there’s no word yet as to if that will be a running theme for the festival or not. It’s six short months today that the 2013 Sitges Film Festival opens it’s doors and here at Corridorstyle we can almost taste the Albondigas…
Keep checking back here for updates, speculation and film previews.
“Hey! Over Here. What is this thing?”
“I don’t know. I can’t quite make it out. Help me clear some of the sand off of it”
“It looks……It looks like some kind of Blog. It looks like a Sitges Film festival Blog.”
“What’s the date of the last entry?”
“October 22nd 2011? That……that can’t be right can it?”
“Oh my God. We’re back. We’re home. All the time, it was… We finally really did it”
“You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
It’s surely unhealthy to be this excited this far in advance but the Organizers of The Sitges Film Festival have today announced the theme for 2012 and it doesn’t bode well for mankind.
Which apocalyptic classics will be revived from the past, and which Earth-shattering premiers will feature from the near-future? The countdown begins now.
Yes, yes. We know how a festival blog should work. Up to the minute, breaking news snippets and exclusive Q&A sessions with hitherto undiscovered directors. Hot off the press Tweets from the back row of the Auditori proclaiming how “Awesome” the opening credits were for the latest Korean must-see movie “EXCUSE ME BUT YOU APPEAR TO HAVE MY CLAW HAMMER STUCK IN YOUR CRANIUM”
Our blog, on the other hand, is far from being hot off the press, contains no exclusive interviews and would only include the word “Twitter” if that happened to be a locally brewed Catalan beverage we’d recently discovered. However, it is our blog, and you can now find it here.
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