Fantasia Fest Starts This Week

Fantasia Fest starts  this week and the world is better for it.

Yes this years annual survey of insanity from across the globe hits theaters in Montreal and the interwebs starting Thursday.  As you can see the fest is doing a combination of in person and virtual screening.

With apologies to the festival, where I normally wax poetic about the fest for several paragraphs this year I am way way behind in watching and writing up the films I am seeing so instead going to give you some lists of films. 

First up a list of films we have previously reviewed 

 ULTRASOUND
AGNES
WE ARE ALL GOING TO THEWORLDS FAIR
CRYPTOZOO
JUNKHEAD
MOTHER SCHMUCKERS
PRISONERS OF GHOSTLAND
CATCH THE FAIR ONE
COMING HOME IN THE DARK
WILD MEN
PROGRESSIVE TOUCH
WARPED FOREST
TAIPEI SUICIDE STORY
THE FEAST

Because there is an overlap with NYAFF  I want to say that the following film reviews will be dual branded because they are playing both festivals. Because I saw them through the good graces of NYAFF I am posting the reviews according to their schedule  thus seeming to put me in conflict with Fantasia embargoes (I am but I'm not)

UNDER THE OPEN SKY 
HAND ROLLED CIGARETTE
ONE SECOND CHAMPION
FIGHTER
SWEETIE YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT
MIDNIGHT
OFFICE ROYALE
TIONG BAHRU SOCIAL CLUB
RAGING FIRE

And lastly here is films I highly recommend

CATCH THE FAIR ONE
FIGHTER
JUNKHEAD
KRATT
TIME
ULTRASOUND
UNDER THE OPEN SKY
TAIPEI SUICIDE STORY
BABY MONEY

I will be running an interview with the director and star of CATCH THE FAIR ONE this week. It was done for Tribeca but was only recently transcribed.

That's it for me I have a ton of films to watch

For tickets and more information go here