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Canada's second most important film festival after TIFF is starting today with a killer line-up.
The Link: Cheat Sheets and Vengeful Villainesses at The Fantasia Film Festival
An array of films of varying genres, cultures, and styles are at your fingertips if you just know where to look.
The Fantasia International Film Festival—easily the world’s biggest genre film festival—is on its 21st edition this year, and with it comes a collection of some highly anticipated movies. ( full article)
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Fantasia to close with international premiere of 'A Taxi Driver'
21st edition of Montreal genre festival to also screen Atomic Blonde, Good Time and world premiere of 4K restoration of Suspiria.
Fantasia International Film Festival has unveiled its full programme for its 21st edition, which runs from July 13-August 2 in Montreal.
This year’s edition will close with the international premiere of South Korean historical drama A Taxi Driver, starring Snowpiercer’s Song Kang-ho, with director Jang Hoon in attendance.
Fantasia will also host the North American premiere of Cannes Competition title Good Time, starring Robert Pattinson, and a special screening of David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde with Charlize Theron in the festival’s Action! section.
Its Action! section will also feature two films starring Scott Adkins - Boyka: Undisputed and Savage Dog - who will be in attendance at this year’s festival, as well as the North American premiere of the restored 3D version of James Cameron’s classic Terminator 2: Judgment Day. For the first time ever, the Action! section will be competitive in 2017.
This year’s festival will also be hosting the world premiere of Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard’s Radius, a film which was presented in Fantasia’s Frontières International Co-Production Market, and the world premiere of Synapse Films’ 4K restoration of Dario Argento’s Suspiria.
Other titles screening at Fantasia include Geremy Jasper’s Director’s Fortnight closer Patti Cake$, Sion Sono’s Shinjuku Swan II, Takashi Miike’s The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio, Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott’s Sundance title Bushwick, Alexandre Philippe’s 78/52, Lowell Dean’s Another Wolfcop, Simon Rumley’s Fashionista and Dick Maas’ Prey.
Two films produced by James Franco will also be receiving their world premieres in a double-bill screening: Jenna Cavelle’s Blood Heist and Melanie Aitkenhead’s Blood Ride, starring The Walking Dead’s Pollyanna McIntosh.
Fantasia will also be presenting Mexican luchador film icon Mil Máscaras and Turkish actor and film-maker Cüneyt Arkın, as well as hosting a multimedia presentation from bestselling author Grady Hendrix and a sneak peek at TV series Untold Horror.
As previously announced, this year’s festival will open with Cannes title The Villainess.
For the full line-up of more than 150 films and 300 shorts, visit Fantasia’s official website.
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'The Villainess,' Takashi Miike's 'Jojo's Bizarre Adventure' to Open Fantasia Festival
The first titles unveiled for the Montreal film fest include Luc Besson's 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,' starring Rihanna and Dane DeHaan.
The Fantasia International Film Festival, North America’s largest genre film festival, on Wednesday released the first wave of titles for its upcoming 21st edition.
The festival will open with North American premieres for Korean director Jung Byung-gil's The Villainess and Takashi Miike's Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
The festival will open with North American premieres for Korean director Jung Byung-gil's The Villainess and Takashi Miike's Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
The Villainess, which bowed in Cannes, stars Kim Ok-bin as a trained assassin blackmailed into working for the government. And Miike's live-action version of bes-tselling manga Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, to debut in Neuchatel, is the first co-production between Warner Bros. Japan and Toho, the Japanese company behind the iconic Godzilla franchise.
Fantasia will also feature a special screening of Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, based on the French comic series and starring Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen and Rihanna. The fest will host world premieres for Ted Geoghegan’s sophomore feature Mohawk, starring Kaniehtiio Horn; and Steve Mitchell's King Cohen, a documentary about indie filmmaker Larry Cohen, with appearances by Martin Scorsese, John Landis, J.J. Abrams and Joe Dante.
Also getting first looks in Montreal are Ryan Prows' Lowlife; Gela Babluani's Money's Money, starring Benoit Magimel and Olivier Rabourdin; and Brazilian writer-director Gabriela Amaral Almeida's Friendly Beast.
Elsewhere, there's an international premiere for You Only Live Once, the feature debut of Spanish stunt coordinator Federico Cueva, which stars Peter Lanzani, Gerard Depardieu and Hugo Silva; and a North American premiere for Oscar-winning French director Stefan Ruzowitzky's Cold Hell.
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HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Fantasia Fest: Charlize Theron's 'Atomic Blonde,' Robert Pattinson's 'Good Time' Join Lineup
The Fantasia Film Festival will close its 21st edition with an international bow for Jang Hoon's A Taxi Driver, starring Song Kang-Ho (Snowpiercer), it was announced Wednesday.
North America's largest genre film festival last month announced it will open with North American premieres for Korean director Jung Byung-gil's The Villainess and Takashi Miike's Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
Also Wednesday, Fantasia said it will give North American premieres to the Safdie brothers' Cannes competition title Good Time, starring Robert Pattinson, and Antonio Negret's Overdrive, starring Scott Eastwood and produced by Taken director Pierre Morel and Christopher Tuffin.
Fantasia also has booked a special screening for the Charlize Theron- and James McAvoy-starring action-heavy spy flick Atomic Blonde from director David Leitch ahead of a July 28 theatrical release. And the festival will be the site of world premieres for Jenna Cavelle's Blood Heist and Melanie Aitkenhead's Blood Ride, both of which co-star James Franco.
Also headed to Montreal for a North American premiere is veteran Polish auteur Agnieszka Holland's true-crime film Spoor, another Berlin competition title, and Arshad Khan's Abu, a documentary about a gay son reconciling with his devout Muslim father. And there will be international bows for Sion Sono's Shinjuku Swan 2; Karen Skloss' The Honor Farm, which debuted at SXSW; and Tony T. Datis' Le Manoir, the feature-film debut for the music video director of Katy Perry's "Wide Awake" and Skrillex's "Bangarang."
The Fantasia Film Festival is set to run July 13-Aug. 2 in Montreal.
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