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:
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 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’.
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:
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.
We find ourselves in pretty much this same position every year. A little over a week to go until the festival kicks off and all hell lets loose as the organisers open the program floodgates.
We’ve already posted our initial thoughts on some of the films appearing in the program so here’s the information we’re currently scratching our heads over to decide on the remainder. All the better if it helps you pick a winner.
RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE
No mention yet as to whether Brigadoon is back in the beach tent or the Miramar building but here’s what the festival has lined up for us.
Make sure you don’t trip over any decaying corpses on your way as this year’s zombie walk kicks off Saturday 9th 20.30hrs
Time to jump to it people as the organisers have NOW ANNOUNCED their full program of films for this year’s Fantastic Festival.
More importantly, the full PROGRAM OF SCREENING TIMES has also been published so it’s time to figure out just how the hell we’re going to squeeze 5 films a day in between 6 bottles of red wine. Or should that be the other way around?
Over the next few days we’ll be posting our PREVIEWS FOR THE REMAINING FILMS, thus fulfilling our servitude to you, dear reader, as providers of a one-stop shop for everything you ever wanted to know about the films screening at this year’s festival.
Having released the full line up for the OFFICIAL SELECTION last week the organisers have now completed the one-two punch by landing the lineup for the NOVES VISIONS section. Time to get (even more) excited.
NOVES VISIONS – FICCIÓ SECTION
Exploration of new territories in narration, placing emphasis on both thematic and formal aspects of films that are a vision of the present as well as a disturbing premonition of times to come.
HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE (Adam Wingard, USA)
CHATROOM (Hideo Nakata, UK)
DISPONGO DE BARCOS (Juan Cavestany, Spain)
EARTHLING (Clay Liford, USA)
EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE (Christoffer Boe, Denmark)
FINISTERRAE (Out of comp. Sergio Caballero, Spain)
ISOLATION (Stephen T. Kay, EUA)
LO MÁS IMPORTANTE DE LA VIDA ES NO
HABER MUERTO (Olivier Pictet, Pablo Martín Torrado, Marc Recuenco. Spain, Switzerland)
MIYOKO (Yoshifumi Tsubota, Japan)
POSSESSED (Lee Yong-ju, South Corea)
RED, WHITE & BLUE (Simon Rumley, UK)
R U THERE (David Verbeek. Netherlands, Taiwan)
SIMON WERNER A DISPARU… (Fabrice Gobert, France)
SOUND OF NOISE (Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson. France, Sweden, Denmark)
THE WILD HUNT (Alexandre Franchi, Canada)
NOVES VISIONS – DARK FICCIÓ SECTION
New this year, a selection of auteur films committed to explaining the darkest side of the human being and of other beings that aren’t so human, but from positions that are somewhat distant from conventional genre.
LA BOCCA DEL LUPO (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
CATFISH (Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, USA)
COLONY (Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell, Ireland)
FREAKONOMICS (Eugene Jarecki, Heidi Ewing, Morgan Spurlock, Rachel Grady, Seth Gordon and Alex Gibney. USA)
INTO ETERNITY (Michael Madsen, Denmark)
LIFE 2.0 (Jason Spingarn-Koff, USA)
THE PEOPLE vs GEORGE LUCAS (Alexandre O. Philippe. UK, USA)
VAMPIRES (Vincent Lannoo, Belgium)
NOVES VISIONS – DISCOVERY SECTION
The Festival makes it clear that it is constantly committed to works from production crews that are fans of what we know as “guerrilla cinema”, with leading filmmakers who pose daring formal and conceptual approaches from an absolute and accepted independence.
8TH WONDERLAND (Nicolas Alberny and Jean Mach, France)
FIN (Luis Sampieri, Spain)
IN THE WOODS (Angelos Frantzis, Greece)
INVISIBLE EYES (Olivier Cohen. UK, France)
LA NIT QUE VA MORIR L’ELVIS (Oriol Ferrer, Spain)
TONY (Gerard Johnson, UK)
There’s more than one famous JC with a connection to carpentry but there’s only one JC when it comes to the Sitges film festival. But have the early reviews given us wood?
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