Sitges News – Timer To Premiere At Sitges

emma-caulfield-timer-movie-poster-mq-01-506c0This is something that I picked up off twitter earlier today but is unconfirmed and not officially announced by the Sitges Film Festival yet.

Apparently, Timer is getting it’s European premiere at this year’s festival. From the look of the trailer it doesn’t exactly look like a standard Sitges film, but we’re a sucker for a good rom-com and may well give it a try.

Check out the trailer at the official site below:

http://www.timerthemovie.com/

Inception…

Watching this trailer got me almost as excited as when I got my Adidas Zephyr football boots in Christmas ’83……almost.

It took me a while, but I’ve been a fan of pretty much everything DiCaprio’s done since Titanic, the high point being The Departed. To me this looks like a total home run: Written and Directed By Christopher Nolan and a stellar cast including DiCaprio, Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page amongst others. There’s not much information about the story, but who cares – it’s got a great fight in a corridor!

You can read the full information on this film here, for your watching pleasure the trailer is below:

Sitges News – Malcolm McDowell To Receive Grand Honorary Award

orange mŽcaniqueLooks like we’ll be sharing a milk with Alex this year…..

Malcolm McDowell to receive the Grand Honorary Award at the opening, which will moved up to October 1st

“Better known for his role as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange (1971), Malcom McDowell was also outstanding in the controversial Caligula (1979), in the 1982 remake of Cat People, and also in the adaptation of horror figure Michael Meyers directed by Rob Zombie, playing the child psychologist in Halloween (presented in Sitges two years ago) and the long-awaited H2: Halloween II, among others.

The Grand Honorary Award, in recognition of his career, will be given to him at the Sitges 09 opening gala, which will take place on October 1st.

The Festival is moving its opening up to October 1st, with the Spanish premiere of[REC]2, adding an extra day to the program at this year’s edition, which ends on Monday, October 12th with the mythical movie marathon. In addition to [REC]2 the Festival has already confirmed other films like Moon (Duncan Jones), Grace (Paul Solet), Kinatay (Brillante Mendoza), Thirst ( Park Chan-wook), Yatterman andCrows II (Takashi Miike), Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra), The Countess (Julie Delpy),The Final Destination in 3D (David R. Ellis), among many others.”

Willing and Abel

So it would appear that Abel Ferrara never passes up the chance to tell an assembled audience what HE want’s them to hear.

While we were dusting off our Sitges files in preparation for this year’s festival (October 2nd) we fondly recalled last year’s encounter with Ferrara where, during the Q&A following the screening of his film CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS, he was a little feisty regarding a number of issues currently taking the froth of his cinematic pint . Perhaps just a touch of the old Dutch Courage we thought at the time.

However, having read this piece over at SPOUTBLOG, I’m now thinking Abel is just a little weary of the world he now movies in and is therefore keen to grasp every opportunity to champion the good ‘ol days he’s loved and lost.

CS