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June 13th 2008 00:10
John Doe's Sydney Film Festival Runners Up
To read John Doe's Sydney Film Festival essentials click HERE
“First things fuckin’ last”, apologies for the lack of posts over the last week, John Doe’s computer decided to blow up. That’s not a figure of speech by the way. Sparks flew out its ass, smoke rose above the shell and a foul smell decorated the air of his lair.
Though this post is almost redundant due to the Sydney Film Festival being half over JD still feels like sharing the rest of the events scheduled for the festival that serve as a siren song for this cinemaniac. Oh, to have the spare time and money to see them all!
Without further delay, here are the runners up for the 2008 SFF:
Knock, Knock
Let The Right One In (Swedish)
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Screening: June 6 - 9pm and June 14 - 8pm
A Swedish vampire flick, in and of itself this is enticing for those who are looking for a genre piece that defies conventions. Oscar is a 12 year old outcast bullied and alone. One day he meets a nice young girl who has her own idiosyncrasies, namely being a prepubescent blood sucker. Young love, tearing flesh and growing pains ensue.
Click HERE to read the review by Bryn on Horrophile
Chow down on the trailer for Let The Right One In
The brouge in Bruuge
In Bruges (UK)
Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Colin Farrell, Ralph Fiennes, Brendan Gleeson
Screening: June 14 6.30pm & June 15 10am
JD has had high hopes for Colin Farrell ever since his charismatic triumph of will in Tigerland. Failing to live up to the early promise now In Bruges looks like a fun gangster flick that makes an effort to surprise.
Trailer for In Bruges, lock n load.
The coilours of self inflicted life
Fantastic Parasuicides – Fantastic Ja-Sal-So-Dong (Korean)
Director Park Soo-Young, Cho Chang-ho, Kim Sung-ho
Starring: Han yeo-Reum, Kim Nam-jin
Screening: June 15 - 8.45pm and June 17 - 8.45pm
A trio of talented Korean Directors have gotten together to deliver this segregated and inventive drama that focuses on three characters failed attempts at suicide and how it affects their perspective on life.
Fantastic Parasuicides Trailer
Illustrated Terror
Fear(s) of the Dark
Directors: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Calliou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard MCGuire
Screening: June 15 - 7.45pm and June 20 - 9.30pm
Bryn over on Horrorphile saw this one early and has a great review that those interested should read…worded far better than I could ever do in a brief synopsis.
Glimpse the Fear(s) of the Dark Trailer
Grief from loss takes many forms.
Grace is Gone
Screening: June 15 6.30pm
The star of Grace is Gone John Cusack, has never been afraid to push his thespian skills into varied genres. Just see Max for evidence of his often unnoticed virtuosity. In this drama he plays a husband and father who learns that his wife has been killed in the Iraq war so attempting to escape grief heads out on a road trip with his two children.
The trailer for Grace is Gone
Compensated Love
Battle in Heaven (Spanish)
Director Carlos Reygadas
Screening: June 7 - 4.30pm
Did you see that poster? If not the trailer seels why JD must see this film!
Did you see that poster? If not the trailer tempts the cockles, this is why JD must see this film! The story sounds edgy and complex. A nymphomaniac, a baby kidnapped for ransom and an abductor who must live with what he had done. These are the central characters who must navigate guilt, lust and religion on the path to impossible redemption.
Trailer for Battle in Heaven
Hidden Oriental Treasure
[A Page of Madness - Japanese Silent Film
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Screening: June 22 - 4.30pm
A rarity, a curio a silent film from the 1920’s that was decades ahead of its time. Think The Cabinet of Dr Calgari and your getting warm.
First 7 minutes of A Page of Madness
Ghandi Slums It
The Wackness (US)
Director – Jonathon Levine
Starring Ben Kingsley
Screening: June 13 - 7pm & June 14 - 9.10pm
Mermaid (Russia)
Director:Anna Melikian
Screening: June 10 9.30pm & June 12 9pm
Here are a few of the many attractive documentaries screening over the next week and a half.
Documentaries
The Soul of Vinyl Revolution
Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story
Screening: June 21 - 7pm
Get down with the Stax Record sound Trailer
Hail the taxi to the warped morality and ideals of the US in Iraq
Taxi to the Darkside
Documentary
Screening: June 16 - 8.30pm and June 22 - 2.40pm
Trailer for the Cab ride to hell
First 8 minutes of the documentary Taxi to the Darkside
The Primordial ooze of literary change
The Cool School
Screening: June 20 - 10am
Trailer for Cool School
Fear and Loathing within a mind
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S Thomson
Screening: June 20 – 7.15pm
Watch the trailer and find out why Gonzo is more than just a character on the Muppet Show[/B]
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Comment by James Rickard
unlucky_ fishermen.com
Angling Fish
BTW--About a month ago I bought a reconditioned business desktop for only $189. It runs XP, 512 memory and an 80 gig hard drive. I got it from Tiger Direct.com. I'm not sure if they would ship to Australia or not. They have GREAT support--the cyber guys at work turned me on to them. For the price, it bears checking out!
Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
Battle in Heaven looks like it fulfills many of my nutritional requirements.
Im thinking of buying a laptop now, at the moment Im using my wife's machine. The worst thing about the malfunction is all my spare time has been spent trying to fix it so I haven't got to see any of teh films at the festival since the gala opening.
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
Thats depressing, the trailer, poster and synopsis all ignited my fervour, maybe I will wait for DVD on Battle in Heaven.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
Pop Culturist
Would love to see some U-Tube footage of the
"Sparks that flew out its ass, smoke rose above the shell and a foul smell decorated the air of his lair" though.
That surely would warrant a gong.
Stay well old boy - hope the search for fruit higher on the tree is going well.
MNG
Comment by Cibbuano
20/20 Filmsight
Science News
Hunt Famous
Orble Post of the Day
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Techbreak
Comment by KylieW
Celebrity Obsession
I'm also a Colin Farrell fan (well when he's not doing absolutely shitty flicks anyway), so wouldn't mind checking that one out too.
Hopefully there's to be no more smoke pouring out of your pc from now on!