Fantasia is back and we’re covering it! Our Favorite Festival is back with a whole lot of goodness. So, buckle up buttercup because Adam is about to discuss what’s some genre greatness that the Mad Geniuses at Fantasia have in store for you…
We’re not going to lie… we missed Fantasia in 2023. Multiple life events conspired against us that caused us not to be able to cover our favorite film festival. Not so in 2024. We’re locked and loaded. Ready to cover the Festival (remotely, thank you very much) with baded breath. Here are just a few of the films that we’re excited to watch in the coming weeks…
Cuckoo
This is a bit of a cheat because we’ve seen this one already. Man, o man would I love to be at the screening when this tears down the house. Dan Stevens continues is truly wonderful year as a German Scientist who finds his new subject in Hunter Schafer’s emotionally despondent American Teenager. Set in the mountains of Germany, director Tilman Singer has created a truly deranged horror film for our unsettling times.
Bookworm
A father-daughter camping trip gone fantastically awry… add Director Ant Timpson collaborating again with his Come to Daddy star Elijah Wood. Yeah, this one has us very curious because of Timpson’s sly comedic wit matched only by his true understanding of genre.
The Count of Monte-Cristo
If you haven’t seen Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s rousing two-film epic The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady do so immediately to prepare yourself for The Count of Monte-Cristo. Their next Dumas adaptation caused a stir at Cannes this year and is getting its International Premiere at Fantasia. de La Patellière and Delaporte’s uncanny ability to mix the modern within their adaptations of classic literature is sure to light up the theaters in Montreal.
Oddity
A Blind Medium solves the disappearance of her sister with the aid of a talking mannequin. SOLD! Feed our eyeballs with this delirious concept that could only possibly show up at a place like Fantasia.
A Legend
Jackie Chan. Stanley Tong. Together they’ve made some of the best Martial Arts movies ever (see: Police Story 3: Supercop, Rumble in the Bronx). They’re reteaming for a fourth time with this sly time-hopping adventure. Chan plays a mild-mannered Professor who finds trouble when his previous life as a Soldier in Ancient China comes back to haunt him. Having Chan and Tong together is like having your peanut butter back with your chocolate after a twenty-year hiatus.
Timestalker
Alice Lowe returns to the director’s chair for a time-jumping rom-com that sounds more like Terry Gilliam than Richard Curtis. Lowe plays a woman who jumps across time in search of the supposed love of her life. With a supporting cast that includes Nick Frost and the promise of her debut feature Prevenge already on the books, Timestalker could be the kind of rom-com for those who hate rom-coms.
THE UNKNOWN
No, it’s not a movie but rather the unknown of what we don’t know. Part of the thrill of a Film Festival. Especially, one like Fantasia is the blind walk into a screening or viewing of something. Some of the best films that I have seen out of Fantasia were taking a chance on something that wasn’t planned. It’s the thrill of sitting down and watching something basically sight unseen. That sense of discovery that fills your heart with the limitless possibilities of film as an art form.
The Fantasia Film Festival 2024 runs from July 19th through August 4th. Check back for our continuing coverage of the festival…
Fantasia is back and we’re covering it! Our Favorite Festival is back with a whole lot of goodness. So, buckle up buttercup because Adam is about to discuss what’s some genre greatness that the Mad Geniuses at Fantasia have in store for you…
We’re not going to lie… we missed Fantasia in 2023. Multiple life events conspired against us that caused us not to be able to cover our favorite film festival. Not so in 2024. We’re locked and loaded. Ready to cover the Festival (remotely, thank you very much) with baded breath. Here are just a few of the films that we’re excited to watch in the coming weeks…
Cuckoo
This is a bit of a cheat because we’ve seen this one already. Man, o man would I love to be at the screening when this tears down the house. Dan Stevens continues is truly wonderful year as a German Scientist who finds his new subject in Hunter Schafer’s emotionally despondent American Teenager. Set in the mountains of Germany, director Tilman Singer has created a truly deranged horror film for our unsettling times.
Bookworm
A father-daughter camping trip gone fantastically awry… add Director Ant Timpson collaborating again with his Come to Daddy star Elijah Wood. Yeah, this one has us very curious because of Timpson’s sly comedic wit matched only by his true understanding of genre.
The Count of Monte-Cristo
If you haven’t seen Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s rousing two-film epic The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady do so immediately to prepare yourself for The Count of Monte-Cristo. Their next Dumas adaptation caused a stir at Cannes this year and is getting its International Premiere at Fantasia. de La Patellière and Delaporte’s uncanny ability to mix the modern within their adaptations of classic literature is sure to light up the theaters in Montreal.
Oddity
A Blind Medium solves the disappearance of her sister with the aid of a talking mannequin. SOLD! Feed our eyeballs with this delirious concept that could only possibly show up at a place like Fantasia.
A Legend
Jackie Chan. Stanley Tong. Together they’ve made some of the best Martial Arts movies ever (see: Police Story 3: Supercop, Rumble in the Bronx). They’re reteaming for a fourth time with this sly time-hopping adventure. Chan plays a mild-mannered Professor who finds trouble when his previous life as a Soldier in Ancient China comes back to haunt him. Having Chan and Tong together is like having your peanut butter back with your chocolate after a twenty-year hiatus.
Timestalker
Alice Lowe returns to the director’s chair for a time-jumping rom-com that sounds more like Terry Gilliam than Richard Curtis. Lowe plays a woman who jumps across time in search of the supposed love of her life. With a supporting cast that includes Nick Frost and the promise of her debut feature Prevenge already on the books, Timestalker could be the kind of rom-com for those who hate rom-coms.
THE UNKNOWN
No, it’s not a movie but rather the unknown of what we don’t know. Part of the thrill of a Film Festival. Especially, one like Fantasia is the blind walk into a screening or viewing of something. Some of the best films that I have seen out of Fantasia were taking a chance on something that wasn’t planned. It’s the thrill of sitting down and watching something basically sight unseen. That sense of discovery that fills your heart with the limitless possibilities of film as an art form.
The Fantasia Film Festival 2024 runs from July 19th through August 4th. Check back for our continuing coverage of the festival…
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