Ghibli at Sitges 2008!!!

OMG!!! After the great deception when I saw the entire Sitges 2008 film program with the two great asian absences:

• Ponyo on the Cliff, by Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli), and

• Achilles and the Tortoise, by Takeshi Kitano ---the third and final part of his autodestruction-as-an-artist trilogy, after Takeshis' and Glory to the Filmmaker!---

i can confirm that finally, one of them, the Ghibli one, is featured in Sitges 2008!!! :)

I have already bought the tickets for one of the unique two sessions, tomorrow Saturday 11th at 17:15, as "surprise session 1" (damn filth program, the Ghibli movie was really a secret!!). But I'm glad, I will be able to see it :)

So, the neural massacre part 2 (that means, Sitges 2008 XD) will be composed by 26 movies, not 25 as said in the previous post :P I hope that the Kitano movie will be able featured soon by Casa Asia, or in BAFF 2009 as the last chance :S

Stay tuned to this Lair of Freak Shadows, poor mortals; I will publish soon the Sitges 2008 chronicles, together with the BAFF 2008 one :P And I can tell you now that they won't be short posts ---as usual XDDDD---. read more...

The neural massace, part 2: Sitges 2008!!

Hello everybody!! Finally, after a little period of rest, meditation, and obviously, passing the time with my beauty jewel ---even, by almost accomplishing at the same time five marvelous months of happiness---, there are some news in the Lair of Shadows!!! I have achieved the degree of Computer Science together with a Master in Computing, specialized in Computer Graphics. And I got an 'A' for my thesis' qualification :D:D:D:D

So, although I haven't got more than 3 holiday days, I will ber able to enjoy an important event: those who have been visiting this blog since the beginning, all of you already know my hobby: I'm a fanatic of peculiar movies (gore, horror, anime, sci-fi...), mainly those coming from Asia; and then, the Sitges Film Festival has come back again in 2008 with its 41th edition, from 2 to 12 of October!!! And, before publishing the chronicles of the last BAFF edition (in the last May, when my life was improved till unknown boundaries with the help of my recently discovered jewel :P), I will put online the films I will see in this festival ---however, the BAFF chronicles are already written in catalan, I only have to translate them to english, but I've been busy these last months due to my Master Thesis---.

For the moment, there are 25 movies with the dubtous honor of being seen by my eyes XD From Asia, but also from USA and UK and France ---this last one is being acclaimed of the most important country within Europe in terms of gore and horror movies since the great 'A l'interieur', featured on the last Sitges Festival Edition (see here)---, there are interesting movies as the last masterpiece of Mamoru Oshii, the great epic movies about Genghis Khan or the China's Dark Ages, the David Lynch's daughter first movie, or even the free-versioned animated version of the recently mentioned 'A l'interieur', entitled 'from inside', or the interesting movie about a space navy, used as asylum; besides, a greek movie about a curiousr looping-time. But I don't want to wait more; let's the movie list, ordered by Day and Session:

October 3rd, Friday

• Ichi (Fumihiko Sori; Japan, 2008)
• Terra (Asistotemis Tsirbas; USA; 2007)
• Eden Log (Franck Vestiel; France, 2007)
• Crows Zero (Takashi Miike; Japan, 2007)

October 4th, Saturday

• Freedom (Shuhei Morita; Japan, 2007)
• Surveillance (Jennifer Lynch; USA/Germany/Canada, 2008)

October 5th, Sunday

• Sky Crawlers (Mamoru Oshii; Japan, 2008)
• Ghost vs Alien (Takashi Shimizu, Keisuke Toyoshima; Japan, 2007)
• Chocolate (Prachya Pinkaev; Thailand, 2007)
• Evangelion 1.0: you are (not) alone (Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki; Japan, 2007)

October 6th, Monday

• Tale 52 (Alexis Alexiou; Greece, 2008)
• Hansel & Gretel (Yim Phil-sung; South Corea, 2007)

October 7th, Tuesday

• Our Town (Jung Kil-young; South Corea, 2008)
• From Inside (John Bergin; USA, 2008)
• The Warlords (Peter Chan; Hong Kong/China, 2007)
• Martyrs (Pascal Laugier; France/Canada, 2008)

October 8th, Wednesday

• Mongol (Sergei Bodrov; Russia/Germany/Kazakhstan/Mongolia, 2007)
• Dante 01 (Marc Caro; France, 2007)
• The Chaser (Na Hong-Jin; South Corea, 2008)

October 9th, Thursday

• Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess (Shinji Higuchi; Japan, 2008)
• Genius Party! (VV.AA.; Japan, 2008)

October 10th, Friday

• The Burrowers (JT Petty; USA, 2008)
  
• Idiots and Angels (Bill Plympton; USA; 2008)
  
• 20th Century Boys (Yukihiko Tsutsumi; Japan, 2008)
• Tokyo! (Michel Gondry, Léos Carax, Bong Joon-ho; France/Japan/South Corea, 2008)

And that's all, it will be horrible in terms of free-time but I'm sure of enjoying the time will be in Sitges, another time. The only thing I'm lamenting is the price of this journey: more than 180€ in tickets, and I haven't taken in account the food and the trains... but it's only once per year, and it will be my holidays this year... yahoooooooooooo!!

Stay tuned, poor mortals... I promise to publish the BAFF chronicles, and a little brief of every movie seen in this edition of Sitges, as well as done for the last edition. See you soon!!!! :)
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