I can finally see the finish line, more previews are below:
Sitges film festival Honorary Awards announced
Is it really only three more sleeps until the festival kicks off? Well, before I get back to packing my underwear I thought it worth mentioning that the organisers have announced the recipients of this year’s honorary awards and when they’ll be bagging them. Queue drum roll…….
Gran Premi Honorífic
Vincent Cassel – Saturday 9 Auditori 18h
Maria Honorífica
Josep Maixenchs – Thursday 7 Auditori 19:30h
Caroline Munro – Saturday 9 Auditori 1h at night
Sid Haig – Monday 11 Auditori 1h at night
Julio Coll (received by his daughter) – Tuesday 12 Auditori 20:30h
Julie & Roger Corman – Wednesday 13 Auditori 22:30h
Màquina del Temps
Tom Savini – Thursday 7 Auditori 19:30h
Mick Garris – Sunday 10 Auditori 18h
Richard Kelly – Monday 11 Auditori 18:45h
Joe Dante – Friday 15 Auditori 18h
Rebecca de Mornay – Sabado 16 Auditori 19:30h
Kim Ji-woon – Saturday 16 Auditori 22:30h
Premi Nosferatu
Eugenio Martín – Sunday 10 Auditori 16:15h
And it’s good to see that as part of the festival’s parallel events program the “Sitges Forum” will include presentations and master classes from the likes of JOE DANTE, ROGER CORMAN, and RICHARD KELLY.
I have a great body, and I get it by doing reps.
It’s so close I can taste it, here are the final previews for the Official Fantastic Section:
Anyone here with an AB blood type, raise your hand.
Continuing with the earlier post’s theme of using a film quote as a title, I’ve decided to use quotes from films we’ve seen at the festival as a title for these previews. First prize for naming it gets a free beer off us in El Cable, this one should be easy.
Latest previews are:
Would You Like To Come To A Party In My Pants?
Sorry, I couldn’t think of a clever title for this post and I watched Anchorman last night and for some reason this quote stuck in my head.
More previews below:
Breaking News…..
Breaking news straight off the videprinter….our festival sources have confirmed that Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly will be appearing at the festival this year.
My guess would be that he’ll probably end up collecting an award of some kind, hopefully he’ll also announce that he’s ready to make a good film again after the awful ‘Southland Tales’ and slightly better but still poor ‘The Box’.
And The Flicks Just Keep On Coming….
Well, it seemed a great idea at the time to try to do a preview for every single film. However, putting that into practice when you are trying to make your first million in IT Sales and are also of a seriously lazy disposition has proved to be quite a task.
However, like Clint Eastwood pulling on his chaps for the last time in Unforgiven, I’m getting back on the horse and hitting you with six reviews and more to come:
Sitges Program PDF available online
A sad but true fact is that we get embarrassingly excited when we first catch sight of the new festival program booklet. We hold onto it tightly throughout the festival and sleep soundly at night with it tucked under our pillow.
For those of you with the latest whizz-bang gadgetry you can download a PDF of the booklet by GOING HERE and clicking on the “PDF programme” link on the right of the page.
Official Fantastic Selection opens with Let me in
Should England serve us up another kick in the nether regions on Wednesday (a concern for Spain too until last night) we can at least draw some comfort from the fact that the organisers in Sitges have begun opening the drip feed of information for films featuring at this year’s festival.
A somewhat controversial choice here at CS sees the Official Fantastic Selection opening with LET ME IN.
Having been blown away by the original Swedish version LET THE RIGHT ONE IN at Sitges in 2008 we were dismayed at the announcement soon after that Hollywood thought Tomas Alfredson’s film was sooooo good that they couldn’t wait to remake it for him, no doubt correcting his mistakes and giving the film that X factor it was obviously missing………….hmmm!
We’ll try to remain open minded and give LET ME IN the benefit of the doubt, however, I imagine we’ll ultimately find something better to watch while this remake is screened. Now if only we could find someone who could remake the 1986 World Cup quarter final so that the hand of Peter Shilton actually gets to the ball before the hand of God
Sitges 2009 – Our Festival Review
Well we just about kept you up to date with our festival daily Blog (it was technically delivered daily, it just happened to be 4 or 5 days late) and those of you who made it to Sitges will have no doubt formed your own thoughts and opinions on the success or otherwise of this years event.
For the record, here’s how we think things turned out with OUR 2009 FESTIVAL REVIEW
It’s a long wait until the 43rd edition of Sitges so, in the meantime, we’ll revert to posting our general thoughts on all things cinematic, musical, artistic or pretty much anything we damn well please. Pop in from time to time or follow us via Twitter or RSS . We’re never the most prolific of posters but when we do, we’d like to think that it’s from the heart.
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