Heartless to show at Sitges

heartlessWe’ve only just picked this up and there’s nothing official yet on the Sitges website but it would appear that Philip Ridley’s HEARTLESS will be showing at the festival.

A little ashamed to say that, of Ridley’s previous work, I’ve only seen THE KRAYS but Todd Brown over at Twitch Films and Mark Kermode (of all people) at the Beeb have piqued my interest to catch this one.

I was impressed with Jim Sturgess in ACROSS THE UNIVERSE and only recently got around to watching IN BRUGES where Clemence Poesy was certainly easy on the eye and handled herself comfortably across from Colin Farrell

From a link over at IMDB it would appear that Todd Brown has also churned out a review of HEARTLESS from the FRIGHTFEST screening but the link’s presently not working. Come on Todd, don’t hold out on us.

Coppola To Attend Sitges?

TEL00080007092aThis is totally unconfirmed but I think there’s a chance that the great Francis Ford Coppola will be attending Sitges this year. This is based on Tweets that I saw over the weekend, however I think they were in Catalan and unfortunately my Catalan is about as good as my Mandarin Chinese.

It would kind of make sense as I believe he’s visited Sitges a couple of times but from what I can see it wasn’t necessarily to the festival, it was to visit a restaurant called Al Fresco which had been recommended to him whilst he was visiting Barcelona.  Also, his film ‘Youth Without Youth’ is showing in the Seven Chances section and he’s also got a new film out soon called ‘Tetro’ which could potentially be shown as a surprise session?

Let us know if you’ve heard anything.

Sitges Rumours Part Two

la_horde_mb02We’re also hearing that French Zombie film LA HORDE is likely to be playing at Sitges this year.

Initially I really liked the look of this as the trailer made it look like SNATCH meets 28 DAYS LATER and also reports were coming in from sites such as TWITCHFILM giving it glowing reports.

However, reading the tweets coming in from this weekend’s FRIGHTFEST, it seemed to get a fairly unanimous thumbs down so now I’m not too sure.

Click HERE to see the IMDB entry, trailer is down below. Let us know if you’ve seen it and what you thought.