by Chris MaGee
Well, the cat has been let out of the bag for this year’s Festival de Cine de Sitges, the largest genre film festival in the world. The first round of films the 41st offering of the fest have been announced in a press release and so far the programmers have done a nice job of picking a real assortment of Japanese and Japan related films.
As part of their Oficial Fantàstic Selection programme festival attendees will be able to catch Takashi Miike’s “Crows Zero” and Michael Gondrym Bong Joon Ho and Leos Carax’s “Tokyo!” while the Orient Express programme will feature Minoru Kawasaki’s “Monster X Strikes Back: Attack on the G8 Summit” starring Takeshi Kitano. The most intriguing of the Japanese related films though is the headliner of the Midnight X-Treme programme, Russian director Andrey Iskanov’s four hour black and white WW2 gore orgy “Philosophy of a Knife”. Based on true events that took place during the war the film follows the experiments of Unit 731, a special scientific unit that conducted grisly experiments on live human subjects. Not sure if I would be interested in sitting through four hous of something like this, but the history behind it is truly fascinating in the making-your-stomach-turn kind of way.
The 41st Annual Festival de Cine de Sitges is set to run in Sitges, Spain from October 2nd to 12th.
Well, the cat has been let out of the bag for this year’s Festival de Cine de Sitges, the largest genre film festival in the world. The first round of films the 41st offering of the fest have been announced in a press release and so far the programmers have done a nice job of picking a real assortment of Japanese and Japan related films.
As part of their Oficial Fantàstic Selection programme festival attendees will be able to catch Takashi Miike’s “Crows Zero” and Michael Gondrym Bong Joon Ho and Leos Carax’s “Tokyo!” while the Orient Express programme will feature Minoru Kawasaki’s “Monster X Strikes Back: Attack on the G8 Summit” starring Takeshi Kitano. The most intriguing of the Japanese related films though is the headliner of the Midnight X-Treme programme, Russian director Andrey Iskanov’s four hour black and white WW2 gore orgy “Philosophy of a Knife”. Based on true events that took place during the war the film follows the experiments of Unit 731, a special scientific unit that conducted grisly experiments on live human subjects. Not sure if I would be interested in sitting through four hous of something like this, but the history behind it is truly fascinating in the making-your-stomach-turn kind of way.
The 41st Annual Festival de Cine de Sitges is set to run in Sitges, Spain from October 2nd to 12th.
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