Fantasia Experience

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425265125864291492011-12-14T18:59:59.992-08:00Fantasia ExperienceA geek. 50 movies in the Fantasia Festival. The diary.Fábiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578489640616450266noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-642526512586429149.post-13382070220613846692008-07-19T11:36:00.000-07:002008-12-02T01:41:01.808-08:00Day 3 - Part 2

Le Grand Chef (Yun-su Jeon)Nintendo DS has awesome games where instead of being a half-orc pirate or a space mariner you’re simply a lawyer, a doctor or a cook. And that’s the reason why I thought an Asian movie about Chefs can be great fun. They know how to make the most mundane activities exciting and surprising.In Le Grand Chef, we have two cooks competing in a national contest. What can you

Fábiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578489640616450266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-642526512586429149.post-88039282784418740002008-07-17T15:15:00.000-07:002008-07-18T08:00:09.699-07:00Day 3 - Part I

A busy Saturday, curiously filled with movies in Spanish. I start with my first horror movie in Fantasia, the Peliculas para no dormir. The complete project has 6 one-hour movies made for the Spanish TV, and Fantasia showed two of them on the big screen:La habitacion del niño (Alex de la Iglesia)A haunted house story, or something quite like it. We see a couple with a baby moving into a spooky

Fábiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578489640616450266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-642526512586429149.post-78240690868791422622008-07-16T13:31:00.000-07:002008-07-17T15:30:29.846-07:00Day 2

Machine Girl (Noboru Igushi)A schoolgirl loses one of the arms, but is rewarded with a prosthetics machine gun and seeks revenge on her foes.Just by reading the line above you probably don’t need to know anything else to decide if this flick is for you. Anyways, let me help with more detail:It’s bloody. Very bloody. The machine gun makes one hell of a mess, with bullets literally destroying the

Fábiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578489640616450266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-642526512586429149.post-78271463127854247812008-07-14T23:44:00.000-07:002008-07-16T08:08:34.369-07:00Day 1

Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike)So Fantasia starts for me with Takashi Miike. I know how warped he can be, and how that can go quite bad or fricking awesome. This time he came up with a western, but using Japanese actors speaking a broken English in a very exaggerated interpretation. It is a parody, and if we are to believe Miike's vision, the Japanese see the American westerns as a pretty

Fábiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578489640616450266noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-642526512586429149.post-75390546580680141952008-07-14T05:29:00.000-07:002008-07-14T05:50:21.060-07:00Intro

That's the result of 2 days using a customized spreadsheet to help me come up with a schedule contemplating the most movies around the more mundane life. 50 tickets and an unflattering angle.The posts here describe the daily moviegoing ritual and brief movie reviews. I am not interested in writing full reviews with synopsis and actors lists, it is easy enough to refer to the Fantasia Site, IMDB,

Fábiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578489640616450266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-642526512586429149.post-50667101464241335302008-07-07T23:54:00.001-07:002008-07-08T00:03:48.227-07:00Starting

This is a diary of 2 weeks of my life. I have been writing this diary in Portuguese, but I realized it was only fair to share this experience with the people surrounding me as I live this experience.I decided to spend a load of time watching crazy asian movies, horror movies, animations and all the good stuff in the Fantasia menu. For those of you that don't know, it's the ultimate genre movie

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