The Sitges Film Festival – one of the coolest fests in the world that is fast approaching – has just unveiled its 2010 poster; as you can see below, they’re paying homage to Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. As far as festival posters go, it’s damned unnerving, and I want to hang it on my wall. (Provided it doens’t scare me at night.)
In another anniversary news, the Festival will also be remembering the 25th anniversary of BACK TO THE FUTURE by Robert Zemeckis, offer a special tribute to the deceased Paul Naschy with the screening of the documentary EL HOMBRE QUE WIO LLORAR A FRANKENSTEIN, and will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s immortal PSYCHO.
While the official line-up has yet to be announced, Sitges has released a preview of what’s in store in Spain this October:
The OFFICIAL FANTÀSTIC SELECTION, in and out of competition, will be following several different lines: the vampire myth craze; new themes and new ways of conceiving the genre with an unconventional air; cinema with explicit violence and a certain dose of cruelty and, finally, the most surprising auteur films that are opening up new means of expression.
Following these line we’ll be presenting films like OUTRAGE, the return of Takeshi Kitano to gangster and yakuza cinema ten years after Brother; A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP, by the famous Chinese director Yimou Zhang who has done a remake of Blood Simple by the Cohen brothers in an imaginary tone; THE NEW DAUGHTER, Spanish director Luiso Berdejo’s incursion into Hollywood starring Kevin Costner; A SERBIAN FILM (Srdjan Spasojevic), a controversial, extreme movie that will be considered the Festival shocker; EASY MONEY (Daniel Espinosa), a film that’s taking Sweden by storm, based on the noir novel by Jen Lapidus, the new sensation after the Millenium trilogy; DREAM HOME (Pang Ho-cheung), the most radical Asian movie in recent years; THE TURKISH KOSMOS (Reha Erdem); THE LAST EXORCISM (Daniel Stamm), one of the most awaited films by fans that was all the rage at the latest Berlin and Cannes festivals, produced by and starring Eli Roth; KABOOM (Gregg Araki), a tasteful, North American indie film that combines comedy and horror; RUBBER (Quentin Dupieux), about a killer tire; Mexican WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (Jorge Michel Grau) and the Uruguayan THE SILENT HOUSE (Gustavo Hernández), both opening doors for Latin American cinema; and two that were previously announced: the undisputed winner of the recent Cannes Film Festival UNCLE BOONME WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES, by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, will have its Spanish premiere in Sitges, and LET ME IN (Matt Reeves), a remake of the highly successful Let the right one in, will be opening this selection.
A ton of interesting and highly-anticipated flicks – and that’s just the tip of the iceburg, we can assume.
For all 2010 Sitges information, head over to its official site. The fest runs from OCTOBER 7 – 17.
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