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Sitges News – Malcolm McDowell To Receive Grand Honorary Award

Looks 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.”

Moon – Our Sitges Preview

I’ve got to own up, I’ve already seen this film and will definitely be seeing it again in Sitges.

Read what else I thought here

Ne Te Retourne Pas – Our Sitges Preview

A tense thriller with two fit French birds in it, one of whom is married to Vincent Cassel (legend) and was Persephone in The Matrix.

You had me at two fit French birds…

Surrogates – Our Sitges Preview

The last time Bruce Willis teamed up with Ving Rhames, we all know what happened…things got medieval. Whilst I don’t think it’s time to bring out the gimp just yet, this does look quite interesting.

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Kynodontas – Our Sitges Preview

Those crazy cats over in Greece look like they’ve come out with another head-scratcher.

Can’t decide if it’s going to be good or bad, but the trailer’s got boobs in it!

Click here to read more.

Grace – Our Sitges Preview

A 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

Korean Klassics

Ok. We fess up. We’re never exactly first out of the gate with news here at CS but you could say that’s because we’re built for comfort, not speed. Forgive us then for the tardy appearance of this piece on our favourite film flavour – Korean Kimchi.

Cruise through the pages of our Sitges section and you’ll quickly realise we’ve somewhat of an infatuation with Korean cinema, albeit on an admittedly narrow horizon. So, for our small, but no doubt ever growing band of faithful Blog-bait, we thought now would be a good time to enlighten you on the who’s who of Korean cinema’s go-to men. In no time at all names such as Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho will be skipping off the tip of your tongue to the stifled gasps and admiring looks of the secretaries gathered religiously at your feet around the water cooler.

Once you’ve read this piece over at our friends at Filminfocus.com (the website of Universal Pictures’ Focus Films) give yourself an extra gold star if you spotted their one glaring omission (well done if you guessed the debut director of last year’s stunning film THE CHASER, Na Hong-jin)