Montreal's FanTasia Festival
advertises itself as "North-America's premier genre film festival", and who can doubt it looking at the festival's hefty line-up showcasing the latest and best and wildest of Thai, Korean, Japanese genre cinema, and also adding some homegrown Quebecois efforts into the mix. Also spotlighted with special retrospectives are Spanish horror movie icon Paul Naschy and Hong Kong kung fu moguls the Shaw Brothers. The FanTasia Festival is credited with introducing international audiences to the imaginative excesses of Takeshi Miike and having the international premiere of Ringu, which sparked interest in the current cycle of Japanese horror. It seems like quite a show, and worth a trip if you're near by (I, unfortunately, am not... maybe next year).
pieces of tattered celluloid
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