No clever titles this trip. It’s gonna be a long one. The drive up was nice, excepting the insane Big Dig traffic in Boston. Taking 89 up through Vermont is a win from an aesthetic standpoint; it was a bit late for much of a view of the islands, but on the way back S. and I expect to be able to bask in natural beauty. Customs happened. This year, our maps were accurate and we found our Montreal domicile without trouble. ...
Really, the festival is pretty much what I’m thinking about right now. The links here go to IMDB, rather than the Fantasia site (like the ones in the last post). Saturday Three Mighty Men: bad Turkish 70s flicks are really hot on the festival circuit right now, and I kinda wish I was kidding, but I kinda don’t because if I was kidding I wouldn’t have the chance to see this one. This is also the only movie I’ll see at this year’s festival with a masked wrestler, unless someone else holds a surprise for me. ...
It looks like this: Three Mighty Men (original) All-Out Nine: Field of Nightmares Hell (original) Shinobi (original) Arthouse Ultraman Vampire Cop Ricky Samurai Commando 1549 (original) Train Man (original) Junk (original) Wilderness (original) Red Shoes (original) Isolation Synesthesia (original) The Gravedancers (original) The Kovak Box (original) Storm Pusher 3 (original) The Echo Subject Two (original) The Descendant Reincarnation (original) DJ XL5 Zappin’ Party Cavalcade Ressonances (original) Evil Aliens (original) The Order of One (original) Five Deadly Venoms (original) Aziris Nuna (original) The Great Yokai War Executive Koala (original) Arcanum My Dead Girlfriend (original) Kebab Connection (original) Commentary perhaps later.
It looks like this: Three Mighty Men All-Out Nine: Field of Nightmares Hell Shinobi Arthouse Ultraman Vampire Cop Ricky Samurai Commando 1549 Train Man Junk Wilderness Red Shoes Isolation Synesthesia The Gravedancers The Kovak Box Storm Pusher 3 The Echo Subject Two The Descendant Reincarnation DJ XL5 Zappin’ Party Cavalcade Ressonances Evil Aliens The Order of One Five Deadly Venoms Aziris Nuna The Great Yokai War Executive Koala Arcanum My Dead Girlfriend Kebab Connection
The Fantasia schedule (original) is up!
Take one on a possible Fantasia schedule. Times are rough and not completely accurate. The 5:20 Sunday slot is probably a rest slot, since my tolerance for goofy doesn’t necessarily extend to bad Turkish movies… although damn. Tempting. Note that I’m also assuming a Thursday arrival, since I’m thinking about that, but the two Thursday movies aren’t essential. 7/21 7:30 El Lobo (original) 9:30 Ghost House 7/22 5:00 All Babes Want To Kill Me (original) ...
Blah. To my infinite annoyance (and resigned acceptance), I find that I am unable to attend FanTasia this year in the manner I had hoped. We have a product launch the second week of the festival, and I can neither be out the week before that launch or the week after. I may be able to make a long weekend of it again. I’m a touch dejected just now. We’ll see what the schedule looks like.
I am fantastically excited: Fangoria has the first peek (original) at the FanTasia film festival lineup. As I’d hoped, Night Watch and Kitamura’s Godzilla: Final Wars will be there. Night Watch is the Russian conspiracy modern fantasy epic which has a ton of buzz, and Kitamura is of course the director of the insanely spirited Versus. Those were the movies I’d really wanted to see. Lots of other cool stuff, too. Lion’s Gate has a small slew of J-horror sequels, which I’ll see if it’s convenient, and the horror anthology film Three… Extremes by Miike, Fruit Chan, and Chan-wook Park. I’ll see that for shock value. Lots of zombie movies. Hm, and Paul Spurrier’s “P” — made in Thailand by a British director, looks interesting, gives me some creepy vibes. I love fusion and I want to see that one badly. ...
Here’s the plan: FanTasia 2005 (original) takes place from July 7th to July 24th of this year. I’m going for either one or two weeks of that period; haven’t decided which yet, won’t decide until the schedule is out, which will be sometime in June. I’ll be renting a furnished one-bedroom near the venues, and anyone who I know and don’t mind sharing space with is welcome to come crash there for any or all of my visit. I figure it’s my God-given duty to inflict weird and fantastic movies on people, see. ...
The Boston Film Festival has a terrible interface. You select which movie you want info on from a pulldown menu, which is bad; the movie pages don’t have information on which dates the movies are playing, which is lame; and the pages for each individual date don’t have links to the movie description pages. Buh. The film list (original) helps a little but not enough. Anyhow, it all starts tonight, and I would be remiss if I did not point out a few movies.