ISSN 1712-9559
Keyword : Fantasia
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An analysis of the 2009 Fantasia International Film Festival, with an emphasis on the nature of genre cinema.
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A report on the 2009 Fantasia International Film Festival. Analyses of films dealing with urban squalor, contrasted with films shot with an aesthetic invoking 'im/purity' (white mise en scene, blinding light, saturated lighting, overexposure, etc.)
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A report on the 2008 edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival.
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An impressionist look back at some of the defining moments of Fantasia 2008.
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A thematic and formal analysis of the environmental thread across a group of mainly low budget, independent horror films that showed at Fantasia 2007.
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An essay on the Soviet Science Fiction films which played at the 2007 Fantasia International Film Festival.
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In-depth review of the Fantasia International Film Festival's first DVD release, a compilation of outstanding shorts shown at the festival over the past several years.
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An interview with director, cast and select production people of the refreshingly original indie horror film, Shallow Ground.
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A report on Fantasia Film Festival 2006, discussing issues related to form-content, style for style's sake, and short films featuring man eating cats.
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An interview with the director of Strange Circus and The Suicide Club, Sion Sono.
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A report on the 10th Year Anniversary of Fantasia, focusing on films featuring particularly nasty male pyschos.
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An in-depth report on the Fantasia International film festival, with a focus on the Thai films, the shorts, and some impressive US films.
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Writer Randolph Jordan weaves through a thematic pattern of pregnancy/death/rebirth which left its mark on FanTasia 2005.
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Montreal's animator/filmmaker Rick Trembles interviews the living legend of fantastic cinema, stop-motion animator extraordinaire, Ray Harryhausen.
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An interview with the director of the indie reality-based melodrama (in the good sense) Firecracker.
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An interview with director Tomoko Matsunashi on her film The Way of the Director.
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An in-depth interview with Brazil's horror master Jose Mojica Marins.
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As I said in my most recent Fantasia International Film festival report, the director of “Bottled Fool”, Hiroki Yamaguchi, is a good bet to become the next big thing out of Japan. After making a prize winning short in 1999 at the age of 21 (“Shinya Zoki”/“Midnight Viscera”) he soon completed his first feature film in the same year, “Hateshinai tameiki” (1999).
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On the occasion of Fuon (The Crying Wind, Japan, 2004, 106 mins.) showing in competition at the 2004 Festival des Films du Monde (World Film Festival), in Montreal, the director of the film, Higashi Yoichi, along with principal actor, Uema Muneo, and Yamagami Tetsujiro, the film’s producer were interviewed by Peter Rist for Offscreen.
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Part-two of Fantasia Festival report.
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