Coming up next Thursday from July third to July 21, the twelth edition of North America biggest film genre fest; namely Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival. In all more than 90 films will be showcase alongside 200 shorts in all genres, format and coming from all over the world from chilly Danemark to hot and damp Thailand.

Will be features the latest from Chinese filmmakers Johnny To, Oxide Pang and Feng Xiaogang, of horror icon Stuart Gordon, as well as of Galio's greatest master Dario Argento (try to imagine MOTHER OF TEARS in a huge movie theater with a thousand strong crowd attending and SCREAMING, even if the movie suck it's going to be a movie experienece anyway)

Also after many years worth of try, one of kung-fu cinema greatest living actors has finally accepted an invitation and none other than Gordon Liu himself will attent to present Lau Kar Leung final movie shot at the Shaw studio DISCIPLE OF SHAOLIN. Oh goodie.

Here below is the weblink for Fantasia site complete with programs and schedule. I will naturally attend and write about it for the French site HK Cinemagic. As for the Mobius site I will send any english written weblinks I come across.

Fantasia Weblink http://fantasiafestival.com/2008/en/

Also here a piece on one the world most disreputable filmmaker, the Ed Wood of our time ; Ube Boll who presented two film last year and showcase one this year; TUNNELS RATS.

http://fantasiafestival.com/2008/fr/news/release.php?id=9

Yves Gendron

First links on the Fantasia Film festival


Hour (Anglais):Fantasia Overview
http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=15005

Fantasia Profil: Gordon Liu
http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=15006

Fantasia documentary on the edge;
http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=15007

Montreal Mirror (anglais)
Tokyo Gore Police and others Fantasia movie
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2008/070308/film1.html

Latest links to Fantasia

Hour (anglais):Halfway to exctasy
http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=15056

Interview with Frank Henenlotter
http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=15057

Exlusive critic de Dark Knight (anglais)
http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=15054

Exclusif critic de Hellboy II
http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=15059

Mirror: Thrill,kill cult (anglais)
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2008/071008/film1.html

Fantasia has added a second screening of Yoshihiro Nishimura's Tokyo Gore Police (Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu), on July 21st at 9:45 p.m.. Thanks to Nishimura himself for this information.

Fantasia: Tokyo Gore Police

GOMORRAHY.com: Tokyo Gore Police (w/ 2 promo reels, poster, flyer, stills, etc. - viewer discretion is advised)

NMPMMG

The Fantasia fest is over. In all I saw more than thirty movie including the Vietanmese kickass k-f actionner The REBEL, the outlanishly bloody and grotesque TOKYO GORE POLICE as well as the swedish teen vampire flick LET THE RIGHT ONE IN IMO the best film of the whole fest. I also saw DISCIPLE OF SHAOLIN and it's special guest Gordon Liu who came to pay us a visit. I could not do the interview as I planned but at least I could take a photo.

Here's bellow are the links a could gather on the fest;





Fantasia News.
http://fantasiafestival.com/2008/en/news/

Monster Slayer
http://www.voir.ca/publishing/article.aspx...7&article=59492

Hour:Monster's Balls
http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=15110

Double the Trouble: Alone Interviews
http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=15109

Man Behind the Monster Robert Englund interview
http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=15163

Montreal Mirror: Extreme theme Fanatsia Round-up;
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2008/071708/film3.html

Montreal's Mirror:Repo Man Theater of Pain
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2008/071708/film1.html

Paris Hilton in Repo Man: The Horror
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2008/071708/film2.html

I became one of Eihi Shiina victim's last Saturday when TOKYO GORE POLICE was showncase at a midnight screening to a hysterical crowd. :D

I'm in K-F fan heaven. Gordon Liu and I. and with a lovely lass to boot (Fantasia volunteer Geneviève)



TOKYO GORE POLICE's actress Eihi Shiina with beloved Fantasia mascot Daniel.



TOKYO GORE POLICE invited guest coming to greed the viewers after the midnight screening of their film. Needless to say they got some enthousiastic cheering.



Eihi Shiina in the geisha outfit she wore in the movie.



The guy in the underwear and robe is TOKYO director Yoshihiro Nishimura who was also the special effect designer for the cult classic SUICIDE CLUB. TOKYO is his directorial debut.



Yoshihiro and Eihi photographed with one of the viewer visiting actress Victoria Sanchez.

Yves

Thanks for sharing the pictures. I remember years ago Daniel didn't speak he just moved whatever needed moving and then the movie began. It was a fun festival again this year.