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

Grace – Our Sitges Preview

grace-posterA remake of his earlier short film, Paul Solet’s GRACE made a fairly big splash at this year’s Sundance. The trailer certainly looks disturbing enough to be interesting, let’s hope it’s shown early enough in the day that we don’t have to sleep ‘Eric and Ernie-style’ for fear of nightmares.

Check out more and the trailer here

Goemon – Our Sitges Preview

goemonKazuaki Kiriya. A dab hand with the visuals but it would help if we had the slightest clue what his films were about. At least that was the case with his last effort, 2004’s CASSHERN, but has he given us a story we can follow in GOEMON? Read on to find out…