Easton’s Article Written and Directed by Tim Connery USA, 2012 Fantasia imdb website Leave it to a time traveller to arrive late for a party! Easton’s Article arrives at the Fantasia Film Festival a year after films it would have been natural companion pieces with, like Fantasia 2011 films Brawler, Bellflower and Another Earth, films that used a …
For Love’s Sake aka Ai to makoto aka The Legend of Love & Sincerity Written by Takayuki Takuma, Ikki Kajiwara, Takumi Nagayasu, Directed by Takashi Miike Japan, 2012 Fantasia imdb This year, Fantasia pulled out all the stops to kick off the Festival with a bang – several bangs. They unveiled a new interactive screen that displays …
Since Sound on Sight was founded, we have always been one of the biggest fans of the Fantasia International Film Festival. With every year we provide even more coverage, updating daily with new articles, reviews and as many podcasts as humanly possible. This year in collaboration with CUTV, we will also be including video coverage …
One of the big announcements of this year’s Fantasia is that for the first time Fantasia will be presenting the Fantasia Industry Rendez-Vous which includes a film market for the films being presented during the festival to help those filmmakers sell their films for distribution, as well as a series of conferences that are free …
I’ve been lucky enough to attend the Fantasia film Festival since the very first year and make no mistake about it, Fantasia has always been a highlight of every summer since. This year is no exception. With another impressive and diverse line-up, any movie crazed die hard genre fans such as myself are left with …
For even the most seasoned festival goer, the Fantasia Film Festival presents a daunting challenge. With over 160 films playing, it is impossible to see everything and compromise is not an option but a necessity. For the cinematic adventurer, however, Fantasia is a gold-mine: bringing to the forefront some of the strangest, smallest and craziest …
Since I explained at ridiculous length how to make your Fantasia list, I thought it would only be fair to share mine. My general goal for Fantasia 2012 is to see 40 films and write about 20. (The scary thing is that in seeing 40 feature films I will only be seeing 25% of the …
It is that time of year again. Mid-to-late July means two things if one is a film fan either living or visiting the city of Montréal. The blockbuster season is in full swing, although that can be applied to just about any city in the universe, and the Fantasia film festival is mere days away. …
For those that are confused (which would obviously include me) the column that has the url: http://www.popoptiq.com/fantasia-2012-mike-ryans-five-most-anticipated-films/ is actually my column on the five films that I am most upset to be MISSING. This is my column on five seven films that I am most looking forward to: 1) Takashi Miike (For Love’s Sake and …
One thing that has become clear as Ricky, Edgar, Justine and myself work through the 396 page Fantasia program book (seriously this thing is massive) is that to pick your list of films to watch at Fantasia, you need a system. As it happens, I have been going to Fantasia since the festival started in …
While Ricky, Edgar, Justine and myself work on our pieces about the films that we are most looking forward at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival, I thought that I would talk about the experience that every film-goer to Fantasia experiences: the films that for one reason or another you have to miss. Sometimes it is …
How big is this year’s Fantasia Film Festival? Funny you should ask… Years Fantasia has been around: 17 Number of Fantasia Festivals: 16 Year we had no Fantasia (Annus Horribilis): 2002 IQ of the Management of Imperial Cinema in 2002 and 2003: Impossible to measure. Years Fantasia has been at Concordia: 10 Percentage of Journalists …
The Fantasia Film Festival held their press conference today to unveil their 2012 line-up and honestly we are still processing the information dump. Mitch Davis said during the press conference that the only way to properly describe the festival would be “to tie you to chairs, force feed you caffeine and sugar and talk to …
On June 9th at the Bloor Cinema, you can catch a three-pronged program of ghastly shorts entitled The Night Shift. Part of the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival (running from the 5th to the 10th) and co-presented by Fantasia, it showcases the latest and gnarliest in international work, from Toronto to Estonia. The full program …
Though it took sixty years for Disney to make a follow-up to the 1940 classic Fantasia, it’s only taken Josh, Gabe, and Michael a month to discuss it on the podcast. This week, your three intrepid hosts join forces for the first time without guests to take a look at Fantasia 2000. What are their …
Fantasia 2000 Directed by Don Hahn, Pixote Hunt, Hendel Butoy, Eric Goldberg, James Algar, Francis Glebas, and Paul and Gaetan Brazzi Starring Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Penn and Teller, Angela Lansbury Achieving balance is one of the great high-wire acts of family films. Some filmmakers attempt to make universal pieces of entertainment, to appeal to …
It’s a momentous week at Mousterpiece Cinema headquarters, as your three hosts–Josh, Mike, and Gabe–come together for the first time! And they’re joined by a very special guest, Kate Kulzick from The Televerse podcast at Sound on Sight. What’s the special occasion? This week, your hosts and their guest tackle one of the biggest classics …
Fantasia Directed by Samuel Armstrong; James Algar; Bill Roberts and Paul Satterfield; Ben Sharpsteen and David Hand; Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, and Ford Beebe; T. Hee and Norm Ferguson; & Wilfred Jackson Starring Deems Taylor A few weeks ago, I read a great article by Drew McWeeny of HitFix wherein, while describing how his two …
The Theatre Bizarre Directed by Richard Stanley, Buddy Giovinazzo, Douglas Buck, Karim Hussain, David Gregory, Tom Savini and Jeremy Kasten USA/France, 2011 A horror anthology in seven parts, The Theatre Bizarre is a throwback to the tradition of the port-manteaux films of the `60s and `70s. The main exponent of this type of film then …
Visit the official Fantasia Film Fest website Well we are officially through the third and final week of the Fantasia Film Festival, so I figured we should do a quick look back at all the reviews we have posted in the past seven days. In seven days our crew has managed to post over …
The Woman Directed by Lucky McKee Written by Lucky McKee and Jack Ketchum USA, 108 min. Opening with a phantasmagorical montage of the beginning of life, The Woman first emerges. She moves with a primal grace and an impossible focus propelling her forward in the dark wilderness. A montage of super-impositions and rapid cuts present …
Brawler Directed by Chris Sivertson Written by Chris Sivertson, based on a story by Nathan Grubbs USA, 2011 Fantasia imdb “As a kid, I had a record with the story of Cain and Abel on it. I used to play that record all the time – it really creeped me out.” – Chris Sivertson Brawler …
The Whisperer in Darkness Directed by Sean Branney Written by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman, based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft USA, 2011 Fantasia imdb The Whisperer in Darkness is an extraordinarily well-crafted film and it completely achieves its objectives. Oddly, the film’s greatest strength is also its greatest weakness. The Whisperer in Darkness …