We are in film festivals period, and tomorrow same, and even the day on October 14 , the 40 starts edition of the International Festival of Movie theater of Catalunya , more known as Festival of Sitges. The event will open it, one of the movies most expected from the period, “El Orfanato”, of Juan Antonio Bayona , and as you know the movie that Oscar will represent to us in the of Hollywood.
This movie will be out of competition, but Official Section Fantàstic will pass the , that will be provided with the presence of “Los CronocrÝmenes”, of Nacho Vigalondo ; “El King of Monta±a”, of Gonzalo López-Gallego ; “El Last Justo”, of Manuel Carballo ; “+ l’int èrieur”, of Julien Maury and Alexander Bustillo“; “Danniponjin”, of Hitoshi Matsumoto ; “First Snow”, of Mark Fergus ; “Fronti ère (s) ”, of Xavier Gens ; “LaáHabitaci¾n of Fermat”, of Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña ; “Joshua (The Son of the Evil) ”, of George Ratliff ; “The Nines”, of John August ; “TheáSingal” of David Bruckner , Dan Bush and Jacob Gentry ; “Teeht”, of Mitchell Lichtenstein ; and “Tres Minutos”, of Diego Lublinski .
In this edition one has thought of recovering the production movies Catalan and Spaniard , and this point is one of the lines that mark the Official Section with the Festival of Sitges 2007. Also, fantastic genre one wants to emphasize the orientation of your program towards the in the pure state.
Fear has given itself, in turn, a big importance to the reflex of the through the camerawoman, that it will be possible to see in full-lenght films like “Rec”, about that we have already spoken this week to you in Things of the Movies, “Diary of the Dead”, “Redacted” or “American Zombie”. Also they stand out in the programming, proposals of independent movies , originated from other festivals as Sundance or Tribeca, author’s movies and new leguanjes . This new characteristic will be able to be observed in “Nines”, “First Snow”, “Joshua (The Son of the Evil) ”.
Since it is habitual in this festival, the movies will be the maximum protagonist and it will be possible to enjoy the seventh art until high hours of the dawn. In the meetings Runner will emphasize the projection of the digital copy of “Blade: Final The Cut” or the complete version of “Grindhouse”, about that also we have spoken from this blog. In this case, the Festival of Sitges will be provided with the presence of two of your protagonists how it is Zöe Bell and Sydney Tamiia Poitier .
In 40 edition of the Festival of Sitges will celebrate, also, the annual 25 of “Blade Runner”. Syd Mead celebrates it , Douglas Trumbull and Rutger Hauer , that in turn the will receive I Reward the Machine of the Weather , they will be present at the event. Also, from Hauer they will receive the same award William Friedkin , Syd Mead , Robert Englund , Alex Proyas and Jesus Franco .
The Maria Honorífica will go this year to stop to hands of the director Larry Fessenden and the Big Award of the Festival will be directed to George A. Rosemary .
The Sworn Official Fantàstic Zöe Bell will form it , Mirito Torreiro , Martin Weisz , Rugero Deodato and Michael Rooker . Also, during the celebration of the contest several meetings will take place between the public and guests, through lectures (teaching method) and conferences that will be carried out on having finished the projections.
The movie in charge of to close the Film festival of Sitges will be “1408″, of Mikael Hasfstrom , about that also we have spoken to you a few months ago in this blog.
