Friday, 11 October 2013 (DATES:12/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/20/TOP) (Sitges.net)
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- Grand Piano ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review) No Score Yet…
Synopsis: A few years have gone by since pianist Tom Selznick retired following a disastrous concert. When Tom finally returns to the stage, he finds a message written on his music sheet: if you mess up one single note, you’ll die. Without moving his hands from his piano, the lead character must deal with this situation in the middle of a packed auditorium. A narrative and technical pirouette, with echoes of Rope and The Man Who Knew Too Much. And with Elijah Wood transformed into the new James Stewart.
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- Opening Film
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90′ |
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14:30 |
- Upstream Color ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
86% Average Rating: 8.1/10 Reviews Counted: 111 Fresh: 96 | Rotten: 15 – Movie Info:- A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Synopsis: A woman who has been kidnapped stumbles upon a man. The two of them realize that they seem to be the victims of the same experiment. They’ll both search for a place where they can reconstruct their lives. A brilliant success at the past Sundance Festival, Upstream Color is surprising because of its deeply suggestive atmosphere and its imaginative and complex narrative construction.
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- OF Competition
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96′ |
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16:30 |
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101′ |
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19:45 |
Gala Inauguració
- Sequence
- Grand Piano ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review) No Score Yet…
Synopsis: A few years have gone by since pianist Tom Selznick retired following a disastrous concert. When Tom finally returns to the stage, he finds a message written on his music sheet: if you mess up one single note, you’ll die. Without moving his hands from his piano, the lead character must deal with this situation in the middle of a packed auditorium. A narrative and technical pirouette, with echoes of Rope and The Man Who Knew Too Much. And with Elijah Wood transformed into the new James Stewart.
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- OF Competition Shorts
- Opening Film
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110′ |
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22:45 |
- The Zero Theorem ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
55% Average Rating: 5/10 Reviews Counted: 11 Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 5 – Movie Info:- A computer hacker’s goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him
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- Official Fantàstic Galas
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107′ |
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01:00 |
La nit + freak
- Mis peores amigos: Promedio rojo el regreso
- Bad Milo! ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- Duncan’s (Ken Marino) life is a real pain in the ass. Tormented by a manipulative, crooked boss (Patrick Warburton), a nagging mother (Mary Kay Place) with a boyfriend 1/3 her age, a deadbeat new age dad (Stephen Root), and a sweet, yet pressuring, wife (Gillian Jacobs), his mounting stress starts to trigger an insufferable gastrointestinal reaction. Out of ideas and at the end of his rope, Duncan seeks the help of a hypnotherapist (Peter Stormare), who helps him discover the root of his unusual stomach pain: a pintsized demon living in his intestine that, triggered by excessive anxiety, forces its way out and slaughters the people who have angered him. Out of fear that his intestinal gremlin may target its wrath on the wrong person, Duncan attempts to befriend it, naming it Milo and indulging it to keep its seemingly insatiable appetite at bay. (c)Magnolia
- Hell Baby ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
34% Average Rating: 4.4/10 Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 23 – Movie Info:- HELL BABY, a comedy scripted by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Night at The Museum, Reno 911!: Miami) marks their co-directing debut. Jack (Rob Corddry) and Vanessa (Leslie Bibb) are an expectant couple that moves into the most haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans — a house with a deadly demonic curse. Things soon spiral out of control for Jack and Vanessa, as well as their-not-so-helpful neighbor F’Resnel (Keegan-Michael Key), Vanessa’s friendly psychiatrist (Michael Ian Black), Vanessa’s Wiccan sister Marjorie (Riki Lindhome) and the detectives assigned to look into the rising body count (Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer). Only the Vatican’s elite exorcism team (Garant and Lennon) san save them — or can they? (c)Millenium
Presentació – Mis peores amigos: Promedio rojo el regreso Nicolás López
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
- Midnight X-Treme
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267′ |
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08:30 |
- Contracted ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet…
Synopsis: Following a bad night of alcohol and sex with a stranger, Samantha begins to suffer bizarre symptoms. Her vagina starts to bleed, then her eye, her skin sloughs off, her teeth turn black… And her mood grows more and more bitter. The doctor doesn’t have any clear answers and her mother, her girlfriend and her friends start to worry. A lo-fi infected movie with blood, sex and lesbian L.A. as a background.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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84′ |
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10:15 |
- Byzantium ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
60% Average Rating: 6.4/10 Reviews Counted: 98 Fresh: 59 | Rotten: 39 – Movie Info:- BYZANTIUM is director Neil Jordan’s (Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game) sexy and stylish fantasy thriller about mother and daughter vampires dealing with the pitfalls of eternal life. Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara (Gemma Arterton) meets lonely Noel (Daniel Mays), who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan, Hanna, Atonement) befriends Frank (Caleb Landry Jones) and tells him their lethal secret: They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence. Also starring Sam Riley and Jonny Lee Miller. (c)IFC
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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118′ |
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12:30 |
- The Colony ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
15% Average Rating: 3.8/10 Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 23 – Movie Info:- Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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90′ |
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14:30 |
- Antisocial ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet…
Synopsis: There is something worse than being a single woman on New Year’s: an epidemic with violent consequences breaking out on the same day. Prepared to celebrate New Year’s Eve at a house, five friends will suffer the spreading of the virus between these four walls. All they’ll have to find out what’s happening and contact their acquaintances will be computers and smartphones. A movie that’s halfway between horror, indie and a breaking contemporary depiction.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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89′ |
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16:15 |
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18:30 |
- Byzantium ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
60% Average Rating: 6.4/10 Reviews Counted: 98 Fresh: 59 | Rotten: 39 – Movie Info:- BYZANTIUM is director Neil Jordan’s (Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game) sexy and stylish fantasy thriller about mother and daughter vampires dealing with the pitfalls of eternal life. Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara (Gemma Arterton) meets lonely Noel (Daniel Mays), who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan, Hanna, Atonement) befriends Frank (Caleb Landry Jones) and tells him their lethal secret: They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence. Also starring Sam Riley and Jonny Lee Miller. (c)IFC
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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118′ |
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20:45 |
- The Colony ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
15% Average Rating: 3.8/10 Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 23 – Movie Info:- Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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90′ |
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22:45 |
- Sequence
- Grand Piano ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review) No Score Yet…
Synopsis: A few years have gone by since pianist Tom Selznick retired following a disastrous concert. When Tom finally returns to the stage, he finds a message written on his music sheet: if you mess up one single note, you’ll die. Without moving his hands from his piano, the lead character must deal with this situation in the middle of a packed auditorium. A narrative and technical pirouette, with echoes of Rope and The Man Who Knew Too Much. And with Elijah Wood transformed into the new James Stewart.
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- OF Competition Shorts
- Opening Film
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110′ |
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01:00 |
La nit + killer
- Torturous
- 100 Bloody Acres ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
87% Average Rating: 6.6/10 Reviews Counted: 30 Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 4 – Movie Info:- In 100 BLOODY ACRES, brothers Reg and Lindsay Morgan are struggling to keep their organic blood and bone fertilizer business in motion. Their secret "recipe" for success (using dead car crash victims in their product) was a huge boon to business, but lately supply has been gravely low. Months have passed since their last find, and an important new customer is now waiting on a delivery. When junior partner Reg (Damon Herriman of Justified) stumbles upon 3 travelers stranded on a remote country road, he cooks up a radical solution to their problem, and a way of finally gaining the respect of his bossy big brother (Angus Sampson). But when Reg starts to fall for Sophie, one of the intended victims, things get complicated… A bloody good time, the Cairnes’ brothers witty horror-comedy blends sly Australian humor, gory fun, and a clever storyline that gives "recycling" a whole new context. (c)DoppelgängerReleasing
- An American Terror ENGLISH
- Hatchet III ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
52% Average Rating: 4.5/10 Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 10 – Movie Info:- HATCHET III continues the tale of the now-iconic villain Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder). As a search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and carnage left behind from the first two films, Marybeth (Danielle Harris) hunts down the true secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left the ghost of Victor Crowley haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades. (c)DarkSkyFilms
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- Special Session Shorts
- Midnight X-Treme
- Midnight X-Treme
- Midnight X-Treme
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264′ |
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- Love Eternal ENGLISH Synopsis: Ian’s life has been marked by death. As a child, he saw his father die and also found the body of a classmate who had committed suicide. As an adult, and unable to understand human behavior, he will start to relate to the bodies of deceased people. An adaptation of a novel by Kei Oishi, Love Eternal originally and carefully deals with the prickly idea of contact between the living and the dead.
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
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94′ |
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10:30 |
- The Wait ENGLISH Synopsis: A strange telephone call causes Emma to believe that her mother, recently deceased, will soon return to the world of the living. Her sister Angela seems more skeptical, but they will both fall into a vital limbo, while a fire razes the mountains surrounding their home. An unclassifiable drama that displays what happens in our life when it gets so distorted that it becomes almost unreal.
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
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96′ |
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12:30 |
- Leaving Hotel Romantic ENGLISH Synopsis: A guest’s unexpected death leads the lives of two of the hotel’s employees and a detective towards a search for redemption and self-understanding. Well, in this hotel, everyone has something to hide, even the dead… Leaving Hotel Romantic was created by students and teachers from the Afilm International Film Workshops.
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- Brigadoon- Emergents
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85′ |
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14:15 |
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126′ |
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16:45 |
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106′ |
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18:45 |
- Goltzius & The Pelican Company ENGLISH Synopsis: Hendrick Goltzius asks the margrave of Alsace for patronage to print a volume of biblical stories illustrated with engravings. In exchange, the painter and his theater company will perform these stories for the amusement of the benefactor and his court. Faithful to his cultured, multicolored discourse, Peter Greenaway continues to produce a multidisciplinary conception of cinema that, even today, belongs only to him.
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
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128′ |
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21:15 |
- Love Eternal ENGLISH Synopsis: Ian’s life has been marked by death. As a child, he saw his father die and also found the body of a classmate who had committed suicide. As an adult, and unable to understand human behavior, he will start to relate to the bodies of deceased people. An adaptation of a novel by Kei Oishi, Love Eternal originally and carefully deals with the prickly idea of contact between the living and the dead.
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
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94′ |
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23:30 |
- The Wait ENGLISH Synopsis: A strange telephone call causes Emma to believe that her mother, recently deceased, will soon return to the world of the living. Her sister Angela seems more skeptical, but they will both fall into a vital limbo, while a fire razes the mountains surrounding their home. An unclassifiable drama that displays what happens in our life when it gets so distorted that it becomes almost unreal.
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
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96′ |
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01:30 |
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- Brigadoon- Emergents
- Mondo Macabro
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164′ |
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18:00 |
- Palace of the damned ENGLISH Synopsis: Rebecca arrives in China to make a documentary. One by one, the members of her film crew are horribly murdered, in what appears to be a curse somehow linked to an old well.
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- Brigadoon
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86′ |
Free |
00:00 |
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80′ |
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Saturday, 12 October 2013 (DATES:11/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/20/TOP) (Sitges.net)
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- Magic, Magic ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
65% Average Rating: 6/10 Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 6 – Movie Info:- A vacationing insomniac loses the ability to distinguish dreams from reality while traveling the Chilean countryside with a group of adventurers that includes her best friend and an enigmatic American in this downbeat saga. Though it came to the U.S. billed as a thriller or a horror picture, Chilean director Sebastian Silva’s Magic Magic is more aptly described as a dark psychological drama with tense overtones. Juno Temple stars as Alicia – an emotionally fragile young woman in her early 20s
with a murky history. She joins her cousin Sarah (Emily Browning), Sarah’s boyfriend Agustín (Agustín Silva), the couple’s eccentric friend Brink (Michael Cera) and Agustín’s sister Barbara (Catalina Sandina Moreno) for a retreat in the countryside, but from the beginning, things don’t go as planned. In the days that follow, more tension erupts between Alicia and the other members of the group, particularly Brink, who displays extreme anti-social tendencies and grows fond of malevolently pushing the girl’s buttons. After Sarah returns, all hell threatens to break loose: Alicia is accosted by a local dog that attempts to copulate with her leg; Brink and Agustín play a dangerous game that threatens to cause Alicia grave physical harm, and it becomes increasingly apparent, throughout, that Alicia is now teetering on the brink of a full-scale mental breakdown, which terrifies the others. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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- OF Competition
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97′ |
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10:30 |
- The Green Inferno ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
63% Average Rating: 6.1/10 Reviews Counted: 8 Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3 Synopsis: Eli Roth moves to the wild expanses where Herzog filmed Aguirre, the Wrath of God. There we see Justine and her idealistic friends, who arrive in Peru to prevent the destruction of a part of the jungle from disrupting a local tribe’s life. Up to here, it’s all good intentions, but these will run out when the tribe in question sets out to turn the visitors into their lunch. With its staunch realism, The Green Inferno is one of the bloodbaths of the year.
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- OF Competition
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103′ |
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12:30 |
- The Jungle ENGLISH Synopsis: A savage creature lurks in the Indonesian jungle. Larry and his brother Ben head an expedition that goes deep into nature to find and document what they believe to be a Javan leopard, an endangered animal that is terrorizing the local population. What they don’t know is that they’re about to discover a new predator species that doesn’t fear human beings, and that’s perfect at hunting and perfectly lethal. Now the terror is real.
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- Special Session
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84′ |
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14:30 |
Presentació – Blind Detective Johnnie To, Kei-chi To
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129′ |
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17:00 |
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115′ |
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19:15 |
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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68′ |
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20:45 |
- Magic, Magic ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
65% Average Rating: 6/10 Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 6 – Movie Info:- A vacationing insomniac loses the ability to distinguish dreams from reality while traveling the Chilean countryside with a group of adventurers that includes her best friend and an enigmatic American in this downbeat saga. Though it came to the U.S. billed as a thriller or a horror picture, Chilean director Sebastian Silva’s Magic Magic is more aptly described as a dark psychological drama with tense overtones. Juno Temple stars as Alicia – an emotionally fragile young woman in her early 20s
with a murky history. She joins her cousin Sarah (Emily Browning), Sarah’s boyfriend Agustín (Agustín Silva), the couple’s eccentric friend Brink (Michael Cera) and Agustín’s sister Barbara (Catalina Sandina Moreno) for a retreat in the countryside, but from the beginning, things don’t go as planned. In the days that follow, more tension erupts between Alicia and the other members of the group, particularly Brink, who displays extreme anti-social tendencies and grows fond of malevolently pushing the girl’s buttons. After Sarah returns, all hell threatens to break loose: Alicia is accosted by a local dog that attempts to copulate with her leg; Brink and Agustín play a dangerous game that threatens to cause Alicia grave physical harm, and it becomes increasingly apparent, throughout, that Alicia is now teetering on the brink of a full-scale mental breakdown, which terrifies the others. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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- OF Competition
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97′ |
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22:45 |
- The Green Inferno ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
63% Average Rating: 6.1/10 Reviews Counted: 8 Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3 Synopsis: Eli Roth moves to the wild expanses where Herzog filmed Aguirre, the Wrath of God. There we see Justine and her idealistic friends, who arrive in Peru to prevent the destruction of a part of the jungle from disrupting a local tribe’s life. Up to here, it’s all good intentions, but these will run out when the tribe in question sets out to turn the visitors into their lunch. With its staunch realism, The Green Inferno is one of the bloodbaths of the year.
Presentació – The Green Inferno Eli Roth, Nicolás López, Lorenza Izzo
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- OF Competition
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103′ |
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01:00 |
La nit + zombi
- Evaded
- La otra cena
- The Dead 2: India ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- Another darkly mysterious Continent becomes an inhospitable dead zone in ‘The Dead 2: India’. The highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning Ford Brothers’ critically acclaimed zombie road movie The Dead sees the cult franchise move to the hustle and bustle of India as the devastating outbreak takes hold. Set against the spectacular vistas and stunning scenery of Rajasthan, known as The Land of the Kings and one of the world’s first and oldest civilizations, ‘The Dead 2: India’ puts the Ford Brothers’ unique apocalyptic vision on a far bigger canvas in terms of breathtaking scope, thrilling action, death-defying stunts, emotional resonance and spine-tingling fright. (c)OfficialSite
- Battle of the Damned ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review) No Score Yet… Synopsis: Following a catastrophe, a facility becomes infected. Most of the people that where living there have mutated. Only a few have escaped; among them, Max, who will lead the battle against the infected. A series of broken down robots will join the party and become key for one of the two sides. Pure muscle and testosterone in a movie with Dolph Lundgren at his peak.
- Stalled ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- Two different worlds collide as a group of young rockers become unwilling guests of the quirky townsfolk of Hereabouts, Alabama, when their van breaks down. But in this case, first impressions could be deceiving. In fact, given time, opposites just may attract when the townspeople and the interlopers begin to get to know each other!
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- Special Session Shorts
- Special Session Shorts
- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
- Midnight X-Treme
- Midnight X-Treme
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286′ |
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08:30 |
- Upstream Color ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
86% Average Rating: 8.1/10 Reviews Counted: 111 Fresh: 96 | Rotten: 15 – Movie Info:- A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism.
Synopsis: A woman who has been kidnapped stumbles upon a man. The two of them realize that they seem to be the victims of the same experiment. They’ll both search for a place where they can reconstruct their lives. A brilliant success at the past Sundance Festival, Upstream Color is surprising because of its deeply suggestive atmosphere and its imaginative and complex narrative construction.
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- OF Competition
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96′ |
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10:45 |
- Pororo: The Racing Adventure (3D) ENGLISH Curious little penguin Pororo and his friends accidentally cause an airplane to make an emergency landing in their home of Pororo Village. On the airplane are some turtles being shipped to Northpia to deliver ice sleds, or racing ice cars. Nevertheless, Pororo and his friends believe that the turtles are racers, and the turtles end up giving the gang at Pororo Village some lessons and passing on the championship spirit. Written by CJ Entertainment
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- Sitges Family
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77′ |
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12:30 |
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14:30 |
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100′ |
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16:30 |
- The Zero Theorem ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
55% Average Rating: 5/10 Reviews Counted: 11 Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 5 – Movie Info:- A computer hacker’s goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him
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- Official Fantàstic Galas
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107′ |
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18:45 |
Presentació – Drug War (Retiro) Johnnie To
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107′ |
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21:00 |
- Antisocial ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Synopsis: There is something worse than being a single woman on New Year’s: an epidemic with violent consequences breaking out on the same day. Prepared to celebrate New Year’s Eve at a house, five friends will suffer the spreading of the virus between these four walls. All they’ll have to find out what’s happening and contact their acquaintances will be computers and smartphones. A movie that’s halfway between horror, indie and a breaking contemporary depiction.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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89′ |
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23:00 |
- Contracted ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Synopsis: Following a bad night of alcohol and sex with a stranger, Samantha begins to suffer bizarre symptoms. Her vagina starts to bleed, then her eye, her skin sloughs off, her teeth turn black… And her mood grows more and more bitter. The doctor doesn’t have any clear answers and her mother, her girlfriend and her friends start to worry. A lo-fi infected movie with blood, sex and lesbian L.A. as a background.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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84′ |
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01:00 |
La nit + freak
- Mis peores amigos: Promedio rojo el regreso
- Bad Milo! ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- Duncan’s (Ken Marino) life is a real pain in the ass. Tormented by a manipulative, crooked boss (Patrick Warburton), a nagging mother (Mary Kay Place) with a boyfriend 1/3 her age, a deadbeat new age dad (Stephen Root), and a sweet, yet pressuring, wife (Gillian Jacobs), his mounting stress starts to trigger an insufferable gastrointestinal reaction. Out of ideas and at the end of his rope, Duncan seeks the help of a hypnotherapist (Peter Stormare), who helps him discover the root of his unusual stomach pain: a pintsized demon living in his intestine that, triggered by excessive anxiety, forces its way out and slaughters the people who have angered him. Out of fear that his intestinal gremlin may target its wrath on the wrong person, Duncan attempts to befriend it, naming it Milo and indulging it to keep its seemingly insatiable appetite at bay. (c)Magnolia
- Hell Baby ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
34% Average Rating: 4.4/10 Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 23 – Movie Info:- HELL BABY, a comedy scripted by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Night at The Museum, Reno 911!: Miami) marks their co-directing debut. Jack (Rob Corddry) and Vanessa (Leslie Bibb) are an expectant couple that moves into the most haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans — a house with a deadly demonic curse. Things soon spiral out of control for Jack and Vanessa, as well as their-not-so-helpful neighbor F’Resnel (Keegan-Michael Key), Vanessa’s friendly psychiatrist (Michael Ian Black), Vanessa’s Wiccan sister Marjorie (Riki Lindhome) and the detectives assigned to look into the rising body count (Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer). Only the Vatican’s elite exorcism team (Garant and Lennon) san save them — or can they? (c)Millenium
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
- Midnight X-Treme
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267′ |
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- Proxy ENGLISH Synopsis: Esther is in the last few months of her pregnancy when she is attacked by a hooded assailant. As a consequence of the assault, the woman loses her baby and, traumatized, starts to attend a support group. There she meets Melanie, with whom she strikes up a strong friendship. Their relationship will become more and more turbid as time passes…
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
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120′ |
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10:45 |
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- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
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100′ |
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13:00 |
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98′ |
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17:00 |
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- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
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95′ |
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19:00 |
- Blackfish ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
98% Average Rating: 7.9/10 Reviews Counted: 94 Fresh: 92 | Rotten: 2 – Movie Info:- Blackfish unravels the complexities of this dichotomy, employing the story of notorious performing whale Tilikum, who-unlike any orca in the wild-has taken the lives of several people while in captivity. So what exactly went wrong? Shocking, never-before-seen footage and riveting interviews with trainers and experts manifest the orca’s extraordinary nature, the species’ cruel treatment in captivity over the last four decades, and the growing disillusionment of workers who were misled and endangered by the highly profitable sea-park industry. This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these highly intelligent and enormously sentient fellow mammals. (c)Magnolia
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- Noves Visions – No Ficció
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83′ |
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20:45 |
- Escape from Tomorrow ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
63% Average Rating: 6.8/10 Reviews Counted: 8 Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3 – Movie Info:- The most provocative film from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW should not exist, and yet it does. Like nothing you’ve ever seen, Randy Moore’s directorial debut is a bold and ingenious trip into the happiest place on earth. An epic battle begins when a middle-aged American husband and father of two learns that he has lost his job. Keeping the news from his nagging wife and wound-up children, he packs up the family and embarks on a full day of park hopping amid enchanted castles and fairytale princesses. Soon, the manufactured mirth of the fantasy land around him begins to haunt his subconscious. An idyllic family vacation quickly unravels into a surrealist nightmare of paranoid visions, bizarre encounters, and an obsessive pursuit of a pair of sexy teenage Parisians. Chillingly shot in black and white, ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW dissects the mythology of artificial perfection while subversively attacking our culture’s obsession with mass entertainment.(c)FilmBuff
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- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
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90′ |
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22:45 |
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126′ |
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Nous Zombis
- Halley
- Miss Zombie
- The Battery ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- Zombies. Baseball. Road Trip. Synopsis: The word is that we are in the presence of one of the best zombie movies in recent years. Two former baseball players have to cross a completely devastated New England. Their conflicting characters will make their trip even more complicated. A film that’s as close to genre as it is to indie, and which takes to the highway, halfway between road, buddy and horror movie. ?
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
- Noves Visions – Ficció
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- Birth of the living dead ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Infon Rob Kuhns’ feature documentary ‘Birth of the living dead’ goes beyond just being a tribute to director George Romero’s work, to explore a critical moment in the American experience and the notion that horror acts as a reflection of national anxiety. The film details how Romero gathered an unlikely team of real Pittsburgh citizens — police officers, iron workers, teachers, housewives and a roller-rink owner — to shoot in a revolutionary guerrilla style that became a cinematic landmark and one of the most visceral and influential horror films ever made.(c)FirstRun
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- Brigadoon
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- Shopping tour ENGLISH & finish – Synopsis: Some Russian tourists travel to visit neighboring Finland when they are attacked by a group of ferocious cannibals.
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19:00 |
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- Brigadoon
- Brigadoon
- Brigadoon
- Brigadoon
- Brigadoon
- Brigadoon
- Brigadoon
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- Zombie massacre ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- A top-secret bacteriological weapon developed by the U.S. Government to create an army of super soldiers triggers an epidemic that turns the citizens of a quiet town into mutated zombies. In an effort to conceal the outbreak, a team of mercenaries is assembled to infiltrate the infected city and detonate an atomic bomb – destroying the monsters and all the evidence along with them. No one has to know the truth… unless the mission fails
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- April apocalypse ENGLISH Synopsis: Artie is madly in love with April. Following a car accident, the boy comes to in the middle of a Zombie Apocalypse. His desire to save his loved one will make Artie a lethal machine who will massacre all the living dead that cross his path.
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- Brigadoon
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Presentació Little Secret Film de Calle 13. Projecte cinematogràfic que presenta Calle 13 |
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Sitges View: Bates Motel. Presentació de la sèrie Bates Motel, que investiga el passat de Norman Bates i el vincle amb la seva mare. |
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Sitges View: Hemlock Grove. Projecció dels dos primers capítols d’aquesta sèrie de vampirs i homes llop. El primer està dirigit per Eli Roth. |
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19:45 |
Presentació Little Secret Film de Calle 13. Projecte cinematogràfic que presenta Calle 13 |
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22:00 |
Cinebasura amb Canal+ i Xtra. Projecció de Secta siniestra (Ignacio F. Iquino, 1982). Amb els comentaris en directe des de la sala de Paco Fox i Viruete |
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Sunday, 13 October 2013 (DATES:11/12/14/15/16/17/18/19/20/TOP) (Sitges.net)
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- Mindscape ENGLISH A detective with the ability to enter peoples’ memories (Mark Strong) takes on the case of a brilliant but troubled and dangerous 16-year-old girl, Anna (Taissa Farmiga), to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
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- OF Competition
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- The World’s End ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
89% Average Rating: 7.4/10 Reviews Counted: 186 Fresh: 166 | Rotten: 20 – Movie Info:- The third installment of director Edgar Wright’s trilogy of comedies starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, following the successes "Shaun of the Dead" (2004) and "Hot Fuzz" (2007). In "The World’s End," 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by Gary King (Simon Pegg), a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub – The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries. (c) Focus Features
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- Official Fantàstic Galas
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- The Call ENGLISH When a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl’s life.
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- A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
15% Average Rating: 3.2/10 Reviews Counted: 52 Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 44 – Movie Info Set in a stylized Los Angeles, A playful comedy of lost love, friendship, revenge fantasies, and Brandy Alexanders. Charles (Charlie Sheen) is a successful graphic designer whose fame, money and charm have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. When his true love, a perplexing beauty named Ivana, suddenly breaks off their relationship, Charles’ life falls apart and he swirls into a downward spiral of doubt, confusion and reflection. With the support of his loyal intimates- Kirby (Jason Schwartzman), Saul (Bill Murray), and his sister, Izzy (Patricia Arquette) — he begins the hard road of self-evaluation to come to terms with a life without Ivana. The film begs the question: Is it possible to love and hate someone at the same time? (c)A24
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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- Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box ENGLISH Synopsis: Mariah Mundi is a young man whose life has been disrupted by the disappearance of his parents. Trying to track them down, he will discover a world hidden beneath Victorian London, full of surprises and dangers. This ambitious film adaptation of the saga written by G. P. Taylor is looking like a solid candidate to take over from Harry Potter and Twilight. As the movie says: “The new name for Adventure”.
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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- Patrick ENGLISH Synopsis: Mark Hartley wants to make it clear that seventies Australian cinema is his specialty. Following the documentary Not Quite Hollywood, now comes his remake of one of Australia’s most important horror movies. Patrick contains as many references to the original film as it does novelties. A boy is in a coma; when a beautiful young nurse arrives at the hospital, he’ll try to communicate with her.
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- Official Fantàstic Galas
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- Mindscape ENGLISH A detective with the ability to enter peoples’ memories (Mark Strong) takes on the case of a brilliant but troubled and dangerous 16-year-old girl, Anna (Taissa Farmiga), to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
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- OF Competition
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95′ |
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22:45 |
- The World’s End ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
89% Average Rating: 7.4/10 Reviews Counted: 186 Fresh: 166 | Rotten: 20 – Movie Info:- The third installment of director Edgar Wright’s trilogy of comedies starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, following the successes "Shaun of the Dead" (2004) and "Hot Fuzz" (2007). In "The World’s End," 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by Gary King (Simon Pegg), a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant
pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub – The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries. (c) Focus Features
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- Official Fantàstic Galas
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Marató Focus Àsia
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- Focus Àsia
- Focus Àsia
- Focus Àsia
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- El mago de Oz (3D) ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review) No Score Yet… Synopsis: Before the young main character of Where the Wild Things Are got lost on an island that more than anything was the representation of a state of mind, Victor Fleming had already directed this other movie about the awareness of a girl who has run away from her family home. Little Dorothy’s return home is full of dance and color. A monument to imagination and an absolute classic.
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- The Dead 2: India ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- Another darkly mysterious Continent becomes an inhospitable dead zone in ‘The Dead 2: India’. The highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning Ford Brothers’ critically acclaimed zombie road movie The Dead sees the cult franchise move to the hustle and bustle of India as the devastating outbreak takes hold. Set against the spectacular vistas and stunning scenery of Rajasthan, known as The Land of the Kings and one of the world’s first and oldest civilizations, ‘The Dead 2: India’ puts the Ford
Brothers’ unique apocalyptic vision on a far bigger canvas in terms of breathtaking scope, thrilling action, death-defying stunts, emotional resonance and spine-tingling fright. (c)OfficialSite
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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- Anima’t Shorts
- Official Fantàstic Galas
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- OF Competition Shorts
- OF Competition Shorts
- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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- Baskin
- The Green Inferno ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
63% Average Rating: 6.1/10 Reviews Counted: 8 Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3 Synopsis: Eli Roth moves to the wild expanses where Herzog filmed Aguirre, the Wrath of God. There we see Justine and her idealistic friends, who arrive in Peru to prevent the destruction of a part of the jungle from disrupting a local tribe’s life. Up to here, it’s all good intentions, but these will run out when the tribe in question sets out to turn the visitors into their lunch. With its staunch realism, The Green Inferno is one of the bloodbaths of the year.
Presentació – The Green Inferno (Retiro) Eli Roth, Nicolás López, Lorenza Izzo
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- OF Competition
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- Violet ENGLISH & Spanish Synopsis: Alex is a Spanish guy who lives in Santa Monica. One day he finds and old Polaroid photo of a girl that he falls madly in love with and he decides to look for her despite having no clue as to who she is or where she might be… Luiso Berdejo continues his American voyage with a mysterious and profoundly romantic film, working with photochemical materials (35mm, super-8, super-16), pursuing the grain of palpable images.
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- La tumba de Bruce Lee ENGLISH Synopsis: A couple travels to Seattle. She wants to strengthen her leadership skills by attending a coaching seminar. He, on the other hand, dreams of visiting the place where his hero, Bruce Lee, is buried. Once there, they’ll meet an exceptionally gifted gangster who’ll show them that they need more than a map to reach Bruce Lee’s tomb. Boosted via crowdfunding, this unclassifiable film joins the brilliant history of the new Spanish underground.
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- Brigadoon- Emergents
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- American Jesus ENGLISH Synopsis: In the United States, Christianity takes the most diverse shapes, leading to a multifaceted vision of faith that has even gone on to become a part of pop culture. American Jesus takes a journey through North America to meet different characters: pastors of the Apocalypse, defenders of creationism, Christian bikers… A mosaic that clears up the social and economic questions surrounding religious zeal.
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- Noves Visions – No Ficció
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- Violet ENGLISH & Spanish Synopsis: Alex is a Spanish guy who lives in Santa Monica. One day he finds and old Polaroid photo of a girl that he falls madly in love with and he decides to look for her despite having no clue as to who she is or where she might be… Luiso Berdejo continues his American voyage with a mysterious and profoundly romantic film, working with photochemical materials (35mm, super-8, super-16), pursuing the grain of palpable images.
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- Passion ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
34% Average Rating: 5.6/10 Reviews Counted: 56 Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 37 – Movie Info:- From screenwriter/director Brian De Palma (The Black Dahlia, The Untouchables, Scarface), PASSION stars leading-actress Rachel McAdams (Midnight in Paris, The Vow) and the talented Noomi Rapace (Prometheus, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo). Based on the 2010 French thriller Love Crime, PASSION tells the enthralling story of a deadly power struggle between two women in the dog-eat-dog world of international business.(c)eOne
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- Proxy ENGLISH Synopsis: Esther is in the last few months of her pregnancy when she is attacked by a hooded assailant. As a consequence of the assault, the woman loses her baby and, traumatized, starts to attend a support group. There she meets Melanie, with whom she strikes up a strong friendship. Their relationship will become more and more turbid as time passes…
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Nous Zombis
- The Battery ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- Zombies. Baseball. Road Trip. Synopsis: The word is that we are in the presence of one of the best zombie movies in recent years. Two former baseball players have to cross a completely devastated New England. Their conflicting characters will make their trip even more complicated. A film that’s as close to genre as it is to indie, and which takes to the highway, halfway between road, buddy and horror movie.
- Halley
- Miss Zombie
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
- Noves Visions – Ficció
- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
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- Brigadoon
- Brigadoon
- Brigadoon
- Brigadoon
- Brigadoon
- Brigadoon
- Brigadoon
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Taula rodona: De Bram Stoker a Glam Stalkers, el paper de les dones als films de terror. Presentació EWA Network |
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14:00 |
Presentació del Cluster Audiovisual al sector i la definició dels seus objectius |
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16:00 |
Sitges View: Game of Thrones. Presentació i projecció d’un episodi de la sèrie Game of Thrones |
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Sitges View: Fjallbacka Murders. Projecció del primer capítol d’aquesta sèrie, basada en la novel·la Los crímenes de Fjällbacka, de Camilla Läckberg |
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Monday, 14 October 2013 (DATES:11/12/13/15/16/17/18/19/20/TOP) (Sitges.net)
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- We Are What We Are ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
86% Average Rating: 7.1/10Reviews Counted: 35Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 5 – Movie Info:- The Parkers have always kept to themselves, and for good reason. Behind closed doors, patriarch Frank rules his family with a rigorous fervor, determined to keep his ancestral customs intact at any cost. As a torrential rainstorm moves into the area, tragedy strikes and his daughters Iris and Rose are forced to assume responsibilities that extend beyond those of a typical family. As the unrelenting downpour continues to flood their small town, the local authorities begin to uncover clues that bring them closer to the secret that the Parkers have held closely for so many years. — (C)EntertainmentOne
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- OF Competition
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- Coherence ENGLISH Synopsis: It was in Finland, in 1923. A comet’s passing left the inhabitants of a town completely disoriented, to the point that a woman called the police alerting them that the man in her home wasn’t her husband. Decades later, a group of friends recalls this case was they have dinner, toast and prepare to see another comet pass. Could the same story possible repeat itself?
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Presentació – Borgman Alex Van Warmerdam, Annet Malherbe
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- We Are What We Are ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
86% Average Rating: 7.1/10Reviews Counted: 35Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 5 – Movie Info:- The Parkers have always kept to themselves, and for good reason. Behind closed doors, patriarch Frank rules his family with a rigorous fervor, determined to keep his ancestral customs intact at any cost. As a torrential rainstorm moves into the area, tragedy strikes and his daughters Iris and Rose are forced to assume responsibilities that extend beyond those of a typical family. As the unrelenting downpour continues to flood their small town, the local authorities begin to uncover clues that
bring them closer to the secret that the Parkers have held closely for so many years. — (C)EntertainmentOne
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- OF Competition
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- A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
15% Average Rating: 3.2/10 Reviews Counted: 52 Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 44 – Movie Info Set in a stylized Los Angeles, A playful comedy of lost love, friendship, revenge fantasies, and Brandy Alexanders. Charles (Charlie Sheen) is a successful graphic designer whose fame, money and charm have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. When his true love, a perplexing beauty named Ivana, suddenly breaks off their relationship, Charles’ life falls apart and he swirls into a downward spiral of doubt, confusion and reflection. With the support of his loyal intimates- Kirby (Jason Schwartzman), Saul (Bill Murray), and his sister, Izzy (Patricia Arquette) — he begins the hard road of self-evaluation to come to terms with a life without Ivana. The film begs the question: Is it possible to love and hate someone at the same time? (c)A24
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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- Frankenstein’s Army ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
71% Average Rating: 5.6/10Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 5 – Movie Info:- FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY takes place toward the end of World War II, as Russian soldiers push into eastern Germany and stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Viktor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein’s work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades – a desperate Hitler’s last ghastly ploy to escape defeat. (c)DarkSky
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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- Persistence of Vision ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review) No Score Yet… Synopsis: After three decades of work, animation master Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) saw his most treasured project go unfinished. Director Kevin Schreck get entangled in a mission to recover this lost masterpiece. Cartoons made for the occasion, found footage and a series of interviews round out this documentary that’s indispensible for all animation lovers.
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- Anima’t
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- The World’s End ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
89% Average Rating: 7.4/10 Reviews Counted: 186 Fresh: 166 | Rotten: 20 – Movie Info:- The third installment of director Edgar Wright’s trilogy of comedies starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, following the successes "Shaun of the Dead" (2004) and "Hot Fuzz" (2007). In "The World’s End," 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by Gary King (Simon Pegg), a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant
pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub – The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries. (c) Focus Features
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- Official Fantàstic Galas
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- The Call ENGLISH When a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl’s life.
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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- Kiss of the Damned ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
63% Average Rating: 6.1/10 Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 10 – Movie Info:- Beautiful vampire Djuna (Josephine de La Baume) tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia), but eventually gives in to their passion. When her troublemaker sister Mimi (Roxane Mesquida) unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered… (c)magnolia
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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- OF Competition Shorts
- OF Competition Shorts
- Midnight X-Treme
- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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- For Those in Peril ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
100% Average Rating: 7.4/10 Reviews Counted: 8 Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 0 Synopsis: Aaron is the lone survivor of an accident at sea where five people die, including his older brother. Tagged by the community as the person actually responsible for the tragedy, the stigmatized Aaron will become more and more lost within himself until, carried away by pain and suffering, he will start to believe that his brother and his companions are still alive. A beautiful and sensorial tale of love and loss.
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
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- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
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- Milius ENGLISH Synopsis: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”. The man who wrote this mythic line is subjected to an exhaustive study here. Spielberg, Lucas, Eastwood or Scorsese are just a few of the famous interviewees in this documentary that covers the life and work of John Milius: from his childhood to present day, from the success of Dillinger to the frustrating Academy Awards defeat of Apocalypse Now.
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- Noves Visions – No Ficció
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Una altra Corea, un altre cinema
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
- Noves Visions – Ficció
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215′ |
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105′ |
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17:00 |
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Sitges Fòrum: “Los Inocentes”. Trobada amb l’equip del film “Los Inocentes” |
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- La tumba de Bruce Lee ENGLISH Synopsis: A couple travels to Seattle. She wants to strengthen her leadership skills by attending a coaching seminar. He, on the other hand, dreams of visiting the place where his hero, Bruce Lee, is buried. Once there, they’ll meet an exceptionally gifted gangster who’ll show them that they need more than a map to reach Bruce Lee’s tomb. Boosted via crowdfunding, this unclassifiable film joins the brilliant history of the new Spanish underground.
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- Brigadoon- Emergents
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Sitges View: The Walking Dead + Sleepy Hollow. Screening of first episode of the new season of The Walking Dead series simultaneously with its broadcast on TV. Then present the new series Sleepy Hollow (possibly in Catalan or Spanish). Projecció del primer capítol de la nova temporada de la sèrie The Walking Dead simultàniament amb la seva emissió per TV. Seguidament es presentarà la nova sèrie Sleepy Hollow. |
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013 (DATES:11/12/13/14/16/17/18/19/20/TOP) (Sitges.net)
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- Wrong Cops ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- Imagine a Los Angeles where crime is so low that a bored cop sells drugs and harasses a teenager to pass the time. Shot in stand-alone chapters as it is being financed, screened, and released, this film is gonzo filmmaking with a unique online strategy. Watch the first 45 minutes of craziness, and then dive into conversation with the cast and creative team.
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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82′ |
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10:15 |
- Only God Forgives ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
40% Average Rating: 5.1/10 Reviews Counted: 140 Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 84 – Movie Info:- Julian (Ryan Gosling), a respected figure in the criminal underworld of Bangkok, runs a Thai boxing club and smuggling ring with his brother Billy. Billy is suddenly murdered and their crime lord matriarch, Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas) arrives from London to bring back the body. When Jenna forces Julian to settle the score with his brother’s killers, Julian finds himself in the ultimate showdown. (c)Radius
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- OF Competition
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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- A Field in England ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
85% Average Rating: 7.6/10 Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 4 – Movie Info:- England : 1648 AD. A small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by two men: O’Neil and Cutler. O’Neil, an alchemist, forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field
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- Hooked Up ENGLISH Synopsis: Tonio and Peter, two young Americans, travel to Barcelona to party and, above all, to score with women. During their very first night out partying, they meet some girls that they go home with. There, things will take an unexpected turn. With no possibility of escape, they must face their worse nightmares. This surprising production, backed by Jaume Collet-Serra, is Pablo Larcuen’s feature length debut.
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79′ |
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- Enemy ENGLISH Synopsis: Adam is an apathetic history teacher who, while watching a movie, discovers Anthony, an actor who looks exactly like him. These two identical men’s encounter will completely change their lives. Based on The Double by José Saramago, Enemy stars a Jake Gyllenhaal who excels in not one but two roles. The actor has made a triple commitment to director Denis Villeneuve: with his two characters in Enemy and in Prisoners, Villeneuve’s American debut.
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95′ |
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- Only God Forgives ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
40% Average Rating: 5.1/10 Reviews Counted: 140 Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 84 – Movie Info:- Julian (Ryan Gosling), a respected figure in the criminal underworld of Bangkok, runs a Thai boxing club and smuggling ring with his brother Billy. Billy is suddenly murdered and their crime lord matriarch, Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas) arrives from London to bring back the body. When Jenna forces Julian to settle the score with his brother’s killers, Julian finds himself in the ultimate showdown. (c)Radius
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- OF Competition
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- Wrong Cops ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- Imagine a Los Angeles where crime is so low that a bored cop sells drugs and harasses a teenager to pass the time. Shot in stand-alone chapters as it is being financed, screened, and released, this film is gonzo filmmaking with a unique online strategy. Watch the first 45 minutes of craziness, and then dive into conversation with the cast and creative team.
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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- Coherence ENGLISH Synopsis: It was in Finland, in 1923. A comet’s passing left the inhabitants of a town completely disoriented, to the point that a woman called the police alerting them that the man in her home wasn’t her husband. Decades later, a group of friends recalls this case was they have dinner, toast and prepare to see another comet pass. Could the same story possible repeat itself?
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- The Demon’s Rook ENGLISH Synopsis: A boy named Roscoe finds a portal that accesses a parallel dimension, inhabited by the sorcerer Dimwos, who takes the boy in as a pupil. But the wizard hides a secret, and when Roscoe discovers it years later, a series of misfortunes will be unleashed, opening the door to our world to the demons. With an imaginary that drinks equally from both Fulci and Jodorowsky, The Demon’s Rook shows itself to be a festival of creepy artisanal horror.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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- Patrick ENGLISH Synopsis: Mark Hartley wants to make it clear that seventies Australian cinema is his specialty. Following the documentary Not Quite Hollywood, now comes his remake of one of Australia’s most important horror movies. Patrick contains as many references to the original film as it does novelties. A boy is in a coma; when a beautiful young nurse arrives at the hospital, he’ll try to communicate with her.
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- 3x3D ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Synopsis: For a few years now, the three dimensions seem to have become a fundamental ally for mainstream cinema out of Hollywood. But, can 3D technology be used beyond the blockbuster? That’s the question asked by 3x3D, a group film made on the occasion of the 2000 anniversary of the city of Guimaraes, and that brings together three masters of contemporary cinema: Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. The first makes the most of tridimensionality to give his notion of depth of field more layers, while Godard makes a new and surprising historical-audiovisual essay. Pêra, on the other hand, playfully speculates about the possibility that cinema is turning us into a new species.
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- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
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- Hellbenders (3D) ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review) No Score Yet.. Synopsis: Smack in the heart of Brooklyn, there is a somewhat peculiar parish, made up of a secret division of priests specialized in fighting demons face to face. To do this, they train daily in all kinds of profanations and sins, following one of Sun Tzu’s teachings: know your enemy. Adapting his own comic, J.T. Petty creates a hilarious, irreverent film, a far-out version of Ghostbusters.
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- We Are What We Are ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
86% Average Rating: 7.1/10Reviews Counted: 35Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 5 – Movie Info:- The Parkers have always kept to themselves, and for good reason. Behind closed doors, patriarch Frank rules his family with a rigorous fervor, determined to keep his ancestral customs intact at any cost. As a torrential rainstorm moves into the area, tragedy strikes and his daughters Iris and Rose are forced to assume responsibilities that extend beyond those of a typical family. As the unrelenting downpour continues to flood their small town, the local authorities begin to uncover clues that bring them closer to the secret that the Parkers have held closely for so many years. — (C)EntertainmentOne
- Kiss of the Damned ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
63% Average Rating: 6.1/10 Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 10 – Movie Info:- Beautiful vampire Djuna (Josephine de La Baume) tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia), but eventually gives in to their passion. When her troublemaker sister Mimi (Roxane Mesquida) unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered… (c)magnolia
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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- The End of Time ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- Canadian cinematographer/director Peter Mettler (Gambling, Gods and LSD) travels the globe exploring the subject of time in this ambitious documentary that looks to the future while offering a fascinating glimpse of the world as it exists today. A visit to the particle accelerator in Switzerland offers a glimpse into the minds of scientists who are determined to answer our most difficult questions of how time functions, a trip to the Big Island of Hawaii reveals how lava flows are constantly …
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- Noves Visions – No Ficció
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- L’autre monde ENGLISH Synopsis: The locality of Montségur, in Occitania, is a place of pilgrimage that’s essential for all lovers of the esoteric. Years ago, Richard Stanley had an inexplicable experience there, the impact of which made the filmmaker decide to return to the area and shoot a movie investigating the signs of magic in south France. An essential documentary for both believes and for the most skeptical.
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- Noves Visions – No Ficció
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- Leviathan ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
77% Average Rating: 6.8/10 Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 7 – Movie Info:- in the very waters where melville’s pequod gave chase to moby dick, leviathan captures the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. shot on a dozen cameras – tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker – it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind’s oldest endeavors. (c)OfficialSite
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- Seven Chances
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- Coldwater ENGLISH Synopsis: In the middle of the night, a group of men enter Brad’s room and take him away against his will. But it’s not a kidnapping, since the boy’s mother has given her authorization for him to be sent to a reform facility. Thus begins the nightmare of this teenager, isolated from the world and subjected to a cruel and authoritarian discipline. Between a psychological drama and a thriller, Coldwater turns real experiences into pure horror.
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
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22:30 |
- For Those in Peril ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
100% Average Rating: 7.4/10 Reviews Counted: 8 Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 0 Synopsis: Aaron is the lone survivor of an accident at sea where five people die, including his older brother. Tagged by the community as the person actually responsible for the tragedy, the stigmatized Aaron will become more and more lost within himself until, carried away by pain and suffering, he will start to believe that his brother and his companions are still alive. A beautiful and sensorial tale of love and loss.
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- Abductee
- Proxy ENGLISH Synopsis: Esther is in the last few months of her pregnancy when she is attacked by a hooded assailant. As a consequence of the assault, the woman loses her baby and, traumatized, starts to attend a support group. There she meets Melanie, with whom she strikes up a strong friendship. Their relationship will become more and more turbid as time passes…
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- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
- Noves Visions – Ficció
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- Stripped ENGLISH Synopsis: Four friends head to Las Vegas for the party of their life. But everything will change when they discover that the strippers they’ve hired work for an organ trafficking network.
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Sitges Fòrum: Alex Van Warmerdam. Trobada amb l’actor Alex Van Warmerdam que presenta a Sitges el film Borgman |
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Màster Class Raul Garcia. Classe magistral de l’animador Raul García |
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Wednesday, 16 October 2013 (DATES:11/12/13/14/15/17/18/19/20/TOP) (Sitges.net)
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- The Congress ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
86% Average Rating: 6.6/10 Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1 – Movie Info:- Directed by Ari Folman (Oscar (R)-nominated Waltz With Bashir), starring Robin Wright ("House Of Cards"; The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), Jon Hamm (AMC’s "Mad Men"), Paul Giamatti (Sideways; John Dies At The End) and Harvey Keitel (Taxi Driver; Bad Lieutenant), The Congress blends live-action and psychedelic animation as an aging, out-of-work actress (Wright playing an alternate reality version of herself) accepts her final job: preserving her digital image for a future Hollywood. Empire …
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- OF Competition
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- Open Grave ENGLISH Synopsis: Completely amnesic, John wakes up in an open tomb full of dead bodies. A woman helps him out of it and leads him to a group of people in similar circumstances. But doubts start to hover over the survivors: what if the person responsible for the massacre is one of them? Gonzalo López-Gallego continues his American adventure with this surprising, adrenaline charged film.
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- OF Competition
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101′ |
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- Dark Touch ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
71% Average Rating: 6/10 Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2 – Movie Info:- At night, an isolated house deep in the countryside takes on a monstrous life of its own. Objects and furniture run riot against the inhabitants, leaving 11-year-old Neve the only survivor of a bloody massacre that destroys the bodies of her parents and culminates in the death of her little brother, Ciaran. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve when she tries to tell them about the murderous rage of the house. She is taken in by friends of her parents who, with the help of a local social worker, try to ease her trauma by surrounding her with love and rebuilding the semblance of a normal life. But Neve doesn’t find peace. Far from it… All around her, signs of danger continue to manifest, and her surroundings remain imbued with a lurking violence that soon unleashes itself again, erupting into further slaughter and claiming more victims.(c)IFCFilms
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- OF Competition
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90′ |
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16:45 |
- Europa Report ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
77% Average Rating: 6.6/10 Reviews Counted: 66 Fresh: 51 | Rotten: 15 – Movie Info:- A unique blend of documentary, alternative history and science fiction thriller, EUROPA REPORT follows a contemporary mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to investigate the possible existence of alien life within our solar system. When unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean could exist underneath Europa’s icy surface and may contain single-celled life, Europa Ventures, a privately funded space exploration company, sends six of the best astronauts from around the world to confirm the data and explore the revolutionary discoveries that may lie in the Europan ocean. (c)Magnet
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- OF Competition
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89′ |
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18:45 |
- Cheap Thrills ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
100% Average Rating: 7.3/10 Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 0 – Movie Info:- Director E.L. Katz teams with screenwriters Trent Haaga and David Chirchirillo to deliver this exceedingly dark comedy about a pair of old friends (Pat Healy and Ethan Embry) whose chance reunion at an inner-city dive bar leads to an encounter with a wealthy couple (David Koechner and Sarah Paxton) who tempt the pals to participate in a lucrative game of one-upmanship that quickly runs off the rails. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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- OF Competition
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- Open Grave ENGLISH Synopsis: Completely amnesic, John wakes up in an open tomb full of dead bodies. A woman helps him out of it and leads him to a group of people in similar circumstances. But doubts start to hover over the survivors: what if the person responsible for the massacre is one of them? Gonzalo López-Gallego continues his American adventure with this surprising, adrenaline charged film.
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- OF Competition
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101′ |
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22:45 |
- The Congress ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
86% Average Rating: 6.6/10 Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1 – Movie Info:- Directed by Ari Folman (Oscar (R)-nominated Waltz With Bashir), starring Robin Wright ("House Of Cards"; The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), Jon Hamm (AMC’s "Mad Men"), Paul Giamatti (Sideways; John Dies At The End) and Harvey Keitel (Taxi Driver; Bad Lieutenant), The Congress blends live-action and psychedelic animation as an aging, out-of-work actress (Wright playing an alternate reality version of herself) accepts her final job: preserving her digital image for a future Hollywood. Empire …
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- OF Competition
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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- A Field in England ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
85% Average Rating: 7.6/10 Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 4 – Movie Info:- England : 1648 AD. A small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by two men: O’Neil and Cutler. O’Neil, an alchemist, forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field
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- OF Competition
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- V/H/S/2 ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
69% Average Rating: 5.9/10 Reviews Counted: 48 Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 15 – Movie Info:- Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static-white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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- Baskin
- Only God Forgives ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
40% Average Rating: 5.1/10 Reviews Counted: 140 Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 84 – Movie Info:- Julian (Ryan Gosling), a respected figure in the criminal underworld of Bangkok, runs a Thai boxing club and smuggling ring with his brother Billy. Billy is suddenly murdered and their crime lord matriarch, Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas) arrives from London to bring back the body. When Jenna forces Julian to settle the score with his brother’s killers, Julian finds himself in the ultimate showdown. (c)Radius
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- OF Competition Shorts
- OF Competition
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- Frankenstein’s Army ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
71% Average Rating: 5.6/10Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 5 – Movie Info:- FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY takes place toward the end of World War II, as Russian soldiers push into eastern Germany and stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Viktor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein’s work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades – a desperate Hitler’s last ghastly ploy to escape defeat. (c)DarkSky
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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- OF Competition Shorts
- OF Competition
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121′ |
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- Brigadoon- Emergents
- Brigadoon- Emergents
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- Computer Chess ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
85% Average Rating: 7.4/10 Reviews Counted: 46 Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 7 – Movie Info:- Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, COMPUTER CHESS transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to know it in the future. (c)OfficialSite
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- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
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- Willow Creek ENGLISH independent found footage film about a couple interested in Bigfoot lore
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- Noves Visions – No Ficció
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79′ |
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21:00 |
- Much Ado About Nothing ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
84% Average Rating: 7.5/10 Reviews Counted: 148 Fresh: 124 | Rotten: 24 – Movie Info:- Shakespeare’s classic comedy is given a contemporary spin in Joss Whedon’s film, "Much Ado About Nothing". Shot in just 12 days (and using the original text), the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a dark, sexy and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love. (c)RoadsideAttractions
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- Seven Chances
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Presentació Pixel Theory |
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Lliurament dels premis del Primer Concurs de Guió Transmèdia |
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20:30 |
Sessió de curtmetratges ESCAC |
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Thursday, 17 October 2013 (DATES:11/12/13/14/15/16/18/19/20/TOP) (Sitges.net)
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- Gallows Hill ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet…
Widowed David, from his Columbian-born wife, flies to Bogota with his new fiancée (Myles) to retrieve his rebellious teenage daughter Jill (Ramos). A car accident leaves them stranded in a rundown isolated Inn. Discovering a young girl locked in the basement, they are determined to set her free, from the old innkeeper. But have they made a terrible mistake?
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- OF Competition
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- The Philosophers ENGLISH Synopsis: Takashi Miike isn’t the only one who knows about high school terrors. We’re in Jakarta, where a group of foreign students says goodbye to their philosophy teacher, who submits them to a final, perverse test. In the middle of the nuclear Apocalypse, only ten of the twenty students can access the bunker: what will they do to save their skin? A complex, fantasy-filled story.
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- OF Competition
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Presentació – Jodorowsky’s Dune Frank Pavich, Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Presentació – La danza de la realidad Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky
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- Gallows Hill ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet…
Widowed David, from his Columbian-born wife, flies to Bogota with his new fiancée (Myles) to retrieve his rebellious teenage daughter Jill (Ramos). A car accident leaves them stranded in a rundown isolated Inn. Discovering a young girl locked in the basement, they are determined to set her free, from the old innkeeper. But have they made a terrible mistake?
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- OF Competition
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- The Station (Blutgletscher )
- Almost Human ENGLISH Synopsis: Mark disappeared from home in a blinding beam of light. His friend Seth was the last person to see him alive. Two years later, a series of atrocious murders will lead Seth to believe that Mark has returned home, but changed into something different, strange and evil. One of the big surprises at the Toronto festival, Almost Human is destined to become one of this season’s most violent and viscose milestones.
- Big Ass Spider
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- Midnight X-Treme
- Midnight X-Treme
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- Dark Touch ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
71% Average Rating: 6/10 Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2 – Movie Info:- At night, an isolated house deep in the countryside takes on a monstrous life of its own. Objects and furniture run riot against the inhabitants, leaving 11-year-old Neve the only survivor of a bloody massacre that destroys the bodies of her parents and culminates in the death of her little brother, Ciaran. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve when she tries to tell them about the murderous rage of the house. She is taken in by friends of her parents who, with the help of a local social worker, try to ease her trauma by surrounding her with love and rebuilding the semblance of a normal life. But Neve doesn’t find peace. Far from it… All around her, signs of danger continue to manifest, and her surroundings remain imbued with a lurking violence that soon unleashes itself again, erupting into further slaughter and claiming more victims.(c)IFCFilms
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- OF Competition
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Presentació – Shield of Straw (Retiro) Takashi Miike, Shinjiro Nishimura
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- Hooked Up ENGLISH Synopsis: Tonio and Peter, two young Americans, travel to Barcelona to party and, above all, to score with women. During their very first night out partying, they meet some girls that they go home with. There, things will take an unexpected turn. With no possibility of escape, they must face their worse nightmares. This surprising production, backed by Jaume Collet-Serra, is Pablo Larcuen’s feature length debut.
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- OF Competition
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Presentació – Shield of Straw (Retiro) Takashi Miike, Shinjiro Nishimura
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Presentació – La danza de la realidad (Retiro) Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky
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- The Demon’s Rook ENGLISH Synopsis: A boy named Roscoe finds a portal that accesses a parallel dimension, inhabited by the sorcerer Dimwos, who takes the boy in as a pupil. But the wizard hides a secret, and when Roscoe discovers it years later, a series of misfortunes will be unleashed, opening the door to our world to the demons. With an imaginary that drinks equally from both Fulci and Jodorowsky, The Demon’s Rook shows itself to be a festival of creepy artisanal horror.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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Marató Found Footage
- The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill ENGLISH Synopsis: In 1963, some witches celebrated a black mass at an abandoned church in Clophill, Bedforshire. As of that moment, the place has been a witness to strange phenomena and inexplicable apparitions. Half a century after the event that unleashed everything, some documentary makers travel to the area to research what’s hidden behind all this paranormal activity. The result is a terrifying journey into darkness.
- Mr. Jones ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Synopsis: Scott is a filmmaker in crisis: he’s lacking inspiration, and his relationship with his wife, Penny, isn’t going through its best moment. The couple moves to a house in the desert where they discover that their neighbor is Mr. Jones, a world famous sculptor who is as hermetic as J. D. Salinger. Their fascination with this character will lead them to enter his universe, as twisted as his sinister works.
- Europa Report ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
77% Average Rating: 6.6/10 Reviews Counted: 66 Fresh: 51 | Rotten: 15 – Movie Info:- A unique blend of documentary, alternative history and science fiction thriller, EUROPA REPORT follows a contemporary mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to investigate the possible existence of alien life within our solar system. When unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean could exist underneath Europa’s icy surface and may contain single-celled life, Europa Ventures, a privately funded space exploration company, sends six of the best astronauts from around the world to confirm the data and explore the revolutionary discoveries that may lie in the Europan ocean. (c)Magnet
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- Panorama especial
- Panorama especial
- OF Competition
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261′ |
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10:30 |
- The Rambler ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
40% Average Rating: 6.1/10 Reviews Counted: 10 Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 6 – Movie Info:- Upon release from prison, a solitary man known only as "the Rambler" (Dermot Mulroney) embarks on a mysterious journey en route to reconnecting with his long-lost brother. Traversing treacherous back roads, lost highways, and isolated small towns, he unearths a multitude of bizarre and wickedly depraved slices of Americana
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98′ |
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12:30 |
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81′ |
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14:15 |
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- Noves Visions – No Ficció
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90′ |
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16:00 |
- White Epilepsy ENGLISH Synopsis: A man’s naked body moves subtly. There is barely any light and the frame, far from the landscape film format, is vertical like a cell phone screen. The experimental gives way to a silent tale, that of a man and a woman named Adam and Eve. Grandrieux works with bodies again in a hypnotic and tremendously physical movie.
- The Taking ENGLISH Synopsis: A victim of infidelity, Carl sets out to kill his best friend and his fiancée. However, his plans don’t turn out as he expects; but he will wake up tied to a tree, with an unknown woman as a companion and a sinister family prepared to make them have a really bad time. “A film made with balls”, say the directors of this movie with Lynchean overtones, which explores the possibilities of image, of sound and of horror.
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- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta|
- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
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145′ |
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18:45 |
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92′ |
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20:45 |
- Yellow ENGLISH Synopsis: Mary Holmes’ life is completely off the rails: she just lost her job as a teacher and she spends her days in a haze of pills and alcohol. Her escape valve is fantasy, a boundless interior world full of dancers, strange characters and all sorts of phenomena. An imaginative, absolutely free comedy, Yellow is one of the most pertinent female depictions in recent film.
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
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109′ |
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23:00 |
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100′ |
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01:00 |
- The Rambler ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
40% Average Rating: 6.1/10 Reviews Counted: 10 Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 6 – Movie Info:- Upon release from prison, a solitary man known only as "the Rambler" (Dermot Mulroney) embarks on a mysterious journey en route to reconnecting with his long-lost brother. Traversing treacherous back roads, lost highways, and isolated small towns, he unearths a multitude of bizarre and wickedly depraved slices of Americana
- The Taking ENGLISH Synopsis: A victim of infidelity, Carl sets out to kill his best friend and his fiancée. However, his plans don’t turn out as he expects; but he will wake up tied to a tree, with an unknown woman as a companion and a sinister family prepared to make them have a really bad time. “A film made with balls”, say the directors of this movie with Lynchean overtones, which explores the possibilities of image, of sound and of horror.
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
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175′ |
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12:00 |
Debat autors i crítics. Organitza Col·legi de Directors de Catalunya
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16:00 |
Aventura Americana: Trobada amb directors nacionals que han treballat als Estats Units |
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18:00 |
Sitges Coming Soon 2013 |
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20:00 |
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95′ |
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Friday, 18 October 2013 (DATES:11/12/13/14/15/16/17/19/20/TOP) (Sitges.net)
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08:30 |
- The Returned (Retornados) ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- Humanity lives with the "Returnees" normal looking people who have been infected by a devastating virus. Only one daily injection prevents protein turn into zombies. Kate works in a research unit urgently trying to find definitive vaccine that prevents the epidemic from spreading. It also hides a powerful reason: his partner, Alex, is a "returnee". Chaos breaks out when the Government announces a shortage of Protein and paralyzing investigations, forcing all infected to enter a high-security military center. Fearing the worst, Kate and Alex decide not to follow orders and flee. Its countdown for survival has begun.
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- OF Competition
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98′ |
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10:30 |
- Insidious 2 ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
35% Average Rating: 4.6/10 Reviews Counted: 96 Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 62 – Movie Info:- The famed horror team of director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell reunite with the original cast of Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye and Ty Simpkins in INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2, a terrifying sequel to the acclaimed horror film, which follows the haunted Lambert family as they seek to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. (c)FilmDistrict
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- Official Fantàstic Galas
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106′ |
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12:45 |
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104′ |
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14:45 |
- All Cheerleaders Die ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info When tragedy rocks Blackfoot High, rebellious outsider Mäddy Killian shocks the student body by joining the cheerleading squad. This decision drives a rift between Mäddy and her ex-girlfriend Leena Miller – a loner who claims to practice the Dark Arts. After a confrontation with the football team, Mäddy and her new cheerleader friends are sent on a supernatural roller coaster ride which leaves a path of destruction none of them may be able to escape.
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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- The Returned (Retornados) ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- Humanity lives with the "Returnees" normal looking people who have been infected by a devastating virus. Only one daily injection prevents protein turn into zombies. Kate works in a research unit urgently trying to find definitive vaccine that prevents the epidemic from spreading. It also hides a powerful reason: his partner, Alex, is a "returnee". Chaos breaks out when the Government announces a shortage of Protein and paralyzing investigations, forcing all infected to enter a high-security
military center. Fearing the worst, Kate and Alex decide not to follow orders and flee. Its countdown for survival has begun.
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- OF Competition
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98′ |
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23:00 |
- Insidious 2 ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
35% Average Rating: 4.6/10 Reviews Counted: 96 Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 62 – Movie Info:- The famed horror team of director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell reunite with the original cast of Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye and Ty Simpkins in INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2, a terrifying sequel to the acclaimed horror film, which follows the haunted Lambert family as they seek to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. (c)FilmDistrict
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- Official Fantàstic Galas
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106′ |
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01:00 |
La nit + Sitges
- The Dyatlov Pass Incident ENGLISH Synopsis: In 1959, a group of hikers embarked on journey through the Urals. Days later they all appeared dead in strange circumstances and it was impossible to determine the causes of their death. Now, five young filmmakers reproduce the itinerary the victims followed hoping to solve one of the most famous mysteries of the 20th century. A new example of horror in found footage format, by the veteran Renny Harlin.
- Wolf Creek 2
- Savaged ENGLISH Synopsis: Zoe is a young deaf-mute who, traveling around the United States, is kidnapped by a bunch of rednecks who brutalize her until leaving her for dead. A shaman will find her and try to save her, but the spirit of an Apache warrior will possess Zoe, turning her into a lethal creature that, as her body decomposes, will go out and take revenge on the men who humiliated her. A brutal, supernatural twist on rape & revenge films.
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- Panorama especial
- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
- Midnight X-Treme
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303′ |
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08:30 |
- The Philosophers ENGLISH Synopsis: Takashi Miike isn’t the only one who knows about high school terrors. We’re in Jakarta, where a group of foreign students says goodbye to their philosophy teacher, who submits them to a final, perverse test. In the middle of the nuclear Apocalypse, only ten of the twenty students can access the bunker: what will they do to save their skin? A complex, fantasy-filled story.
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- OF Competition
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100′ |
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10:30 |
- The Machine ENGLISH Synopsis: England finds itself immersed in a Cold War with China. This is why the Ministry of Defense entrusts scientist Vincent McCarthy with developing a cybernetic super-soldier. Research is affected when a computer error gives life to his invention, leading the scientist to ask Ava, an Artificial Intelligence expert, for help. The Machine is the new independent science fiction sensation and it has aroused passionate praise at festivals like Tribeca or PiFan.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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90′ |
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12:15 |
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14:15 |
- Soulmate ENGLISH Synopsis: Following a failed suicide attempt, Audrey, a young widow, retires to an isolated country house. It won’t be long before she discovers that the spirit of its old owner still inhabits the place. Even so, Audrey decides to overcome her fear and stay, trusting that she’ll finally reach a somewhat harmonious relationship with the ghost. Actress Axelle Carolyn cements her talent as a filmmaker with this misty film backed by her husband, Neil Marshall, also a director.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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104′ |
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16:15 |
- Cheatin’ ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Synopsis: Jake and Ella quite literally run into each other in a car accident. Following this fender-bender, a wonderful romance begins. However, the ghost of jealousy will soon appear. With the help of a not so honest magician, Ella will take the form of Jake’s many lovers. Bill Plympton is back. And with him, a world of possibilities, of fine animation and irony.
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- Anima’t
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75′ |
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18:15 |
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134′ |
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21:00 |
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23:00 |
- V/H/S/2 ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
69% Average Rating: 5.9/10 Reviews Counted: 48 Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 15 – Movie Info:- Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static-white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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95′ |
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01:00 |
Otaku Marató
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299′ |
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08:30 |
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10:30 |
- Prince Avalanche ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
84% Average Rating: 7.1/10 Reviews Counted: 79 Fresh: 66 | Rotten: 13 – Movie Info:- Driven by striking performances from Rudd and Hirsch, Prince Avalanche is an offbeat comedy about two men painting traffic lines on a desolate country highway that’s been ravaged by wildfire. Against this dramatic setting, the men bicker and joke with each other, eventually developing an unlikely friendship. Funny, meditative and at times surreal, Prince Avalanche features a score by Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo, and was shot by frequent Green collaborator Tim Orr was. Loosely adapted from Either Way, an Icelandic film by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson. — (C)MagnoliaPictures
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
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90′ |
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12:30 |
Presentació – Shinjuku Triad Society Takashi Miike
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- Retrospectiva Homenatge Takashi Miike
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101′ |
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14:30 |
- The Dirties ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- When two best friends team up to film a comedy about getting revenge on bullies, the exercise takes a devastating turn when one of them begins to think of it as more than a joke
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
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83′ |
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16:15 |
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100′ |
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18:15 |
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- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
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88′ |
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20:00 |
- Interior, Leather Bar ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
33% Average Rating: 4.8/10 Reviews Counted: 6 Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4 – Movie Info:- In order to avoid an X rating, 40 minutes of gay S&M footage was rumored to be cut and destroyed from the 1980 film, "Cruising." Inspired by the mythology of this controversial film, filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews collaborate to imagine their own lost footage. Amid the backdrop of a frenzied film set, actor Val Lauren reluctantly agrees to take the lead in the film. Val is repeatedly forced to negotiate his boundaries during scenes on and "off camera," as unsimulated gay sex happens
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60′ |
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21:15 |
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103′ |
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23:15 |
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94′ |
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01:15 |
- Faraday
- The Dirties ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info:- When two best friends team up to film a comedy about getting revenge on bullies, the exercise takes a devastating turn when one of them begins to think of it as more than a joke
- Escape from Tomorrow ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
63% Average Rating: 6.8/10 Reviews Counted: 8 Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3 – Movie Info:- The most provocative film from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW should not exist, and yet it does. Like nothing you’ve ever seen, Randy Moore’s directorial debut is a bold and ingenious trip into the happiest place on earth. An epic battle begins when a middle-aged American husband and father of two learns that he has lost his job. Keeping the news from his nagging wife and wound-up children, he packs up the family and embarks on a full day of park hopping amid enchanted castles and fairytale princesses. Soon, the manufactured mirth of the fantasy land around him begins to haunt his subconscious. An idyllic family vacation quickly unravels into a surrealist nightmare of paranoid visions, bizarre encounters, and an obsessive pursuit of a pair of sexy teenage Parisians. Chillingly shot in black and white, ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW dissects the mythology of artificial perfection while subversively attacking our culture’s obsession with mass entertainment.(c)FilmBuff
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- Brigadoon- Emergents
- Noves Visions – Ficció
- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
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254′ |
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Title |
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15:00 |
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45′ |
Free |
16:00 |
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64′ |
Free |
17:30 |
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95′ |
Free
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19:30 |
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82′ |
Free |
Tramuntana |
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11:00 |
Pitching Four Corners (ESCAC) |
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Free |
18:00 |
Màster Class Takashi Miike i Presentació Llibre Takashi Miike: La provocación que llegó de Oriente |
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20:00 |
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62′ |
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Saturday, 19 October 2013 (DATES:11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/20/TOP) (Sitges.net)
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08:30 |
- The Sacrament ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
44% Average Rating: 4.3/10 Reviews Counted: 9 Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 5 – Movie Info "The Sacrament" was written by West and is produced and presented by Eli Roth, alongside Jacob Jaffke, Peter Phok and Worldview’s Christopher Woodrow and Molly Conners. West and Eric Newman are executive producing with Worldview’s Maria Cestone, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Hoyt David Morgan and IM Global’s Stuart Ford. IM Global is handing international sales while CAA, which arranged financing for the film, is handling the domestic sale
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- Closing Film
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92′ |
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10:30 |
Presentació – Lesson of the Evil Takashi Miike, Shinjiro Nishimura
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129′ |
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13:00 |
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85′ |
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15:00 |
Sessió sorpresa |
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17:00 |
- Haunter ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
83% Average Rating: 5.2/10 Reviews Counted: 6 Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1 – Movie Info:- Lisa Johnson is one day shy of her sixteenth birthday. And she will be forever. She and her family are dead and doomed to repeat that fateful last day before they were all killed in 1985. Only Lisa has "woken up" and realizes what is going on. She starts to feel as if she is being haunted, but the "ghost" turns out to be Olivia, a very much alive girl who lives in the house in the present day with her own family. With her help, Lisa discovers that the house once belonged to a serial killer who kidnapped teenage girls and burned their remains in a hidden furnace room. When he died, he became a Haunter – a powerful, evil spirit able to possess the living. (c)IFCFilms
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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95′ |
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19:30 |
Gala Cloenda
- The Sacrament ENGLISH
(Link to RottenTomatoes review)
44% Average Rating: 4.3/10 Reviews Counted: 9 Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 5 – Movie Info "The Sacrament" was written by West and is produced and presented by Eli Roth, alongside Jacob Jaffke, Peter Phok and Worldview’s Christopher Woodrow and Molly Conners. West and Eric Newman are executive producing with Worldview’s Maria Cestone, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Hoyt David Morgan and IM Global’s Stuart Ford. IM Global is handing international sales while CAA, which arranged financing for the film, is handling the domestic sale
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92′ |
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22:45 |
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01:00 |
Marató
- Lesson of the Evil
- Shield of Straw
- The Sacrament ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
44% Average Rating: 4.3/10 Reviews Counted: 9 Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 5 – Movie Info "The Sacrament" was written by West and is produced and presented by Eli Roth, alongside Jacob Jaffke, Peter Phok and Worldview’s Christopher Woodrow and Molly Conners. West and Eric Newman are executive producing with Worldview’s Maria Cestone, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Hoyt David Morgan and IM Global’s Stuart Ford. IM Global is handing international sales while CAA, which arranged financing for the film, is handling the domestic sale
- Haunter ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
83% Average Rating: 5.2/10 Reviews Counted: 6 Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1 – Movie Info:- Lisa Johnson is one day shy of her sixteenth birthday. And she will be forever. She and her family are dead and doomed to repeat that fateful last day before they were all killed in 1985. Only Lisa has "woken up" and realizes what is going on. She starts to feel as if she is being haunted, but the "ghost" turns out to be Olivia, a very much alive girl who lives in the house in the present day with her own family. With her help, Lisa discovers that the house once belonged to a serial killer who kidnapped teenage girls and burned their remains in a hidden furnace room. When he died, he became a Haunter – a powerful, evil spirit able to possess the living. (c)IFCFilms
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- Official Fantàstic Galas
- Focus Àsia
- Closing Film
- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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432′ |
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08:30 |
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104′ |
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10:30 |
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132′ |
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13:00 |
- Cheap Thrills ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
100% Average Rating: 7.3/10 Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 0 – Movie Info:- Director E.L. Katz teams with screenwriters Trent Haaga and David Chirchirillo to deliver this exceedingly dark comedy about a pair of old friends (Pat Healy and Ethan Embry) whose chance reunion at an inner-city dive bar leads to an encounter with a wealthy couple (David Koechner and Sarah Paxton) who tempt the pals to participate in a lucrative game of one-upmanship that quickly runs off the rails. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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- OF Competition
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85′ |
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14:45 |
- Afflicted ENGLISH Synopsis: Derek and Cliff are two friends who are preparing to travel around the world, carrying a camera to be able to upload the videos of their experiences to Internet. But while they’re in Europe, Derek has an incident after which his metabolism starts to change, rejecting all food but developing superhuman strength. Afflicted is a new step forward in documentary-style horror and it creates a strong bond between the audience and its unlucky heroes.
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16:30 |
- The Congress ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
86% Average Rating: 6.6/10 Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1 – Movie Info:- Directed by Ari Folman (Oscar (R)-nominated Waltz With Bashir), starring Robin Wright ("House Of Cards"; The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), Jon Hamm (AMC’s "Mad Men"), Paul Giamatti (Sideways; John Dies At The End) and Harvey Keitel (Taxi Driver; Bad Lieutenant), The Congress blends live-action and psychedelic animation as an aging, out-of-work actress (Wright playing an alternate reality version of herself) accepts her final job: preserving her digital image for a future Hollywood. Empire …
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- OF Competition
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120′ |
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19:00 |
- The Machine ENGLISH Synopsis: England finds itself immersed in a Cold War with China. This is why the Ministry of Defense entrusts scientist Vincent McCarthy with developing a cybernetic super-soldier. Research is affected when a computer error gives life to his invention, leading the scientist to ask Ava, an Artificial Intelligence expert, for help. The Machine is the new independent science fiction sensation and it has aroused passionate praise at festivals like Tribeca or PiFan.
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- Official Fantàstic Panorama in competition
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90′ |
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21:15 |
- Insidious 2 ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
35% Average Rating: 4.6/10 Reviews Counted: 96 Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 62 – Movie Info:- The famed horror team of director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell reunite with the original cast of Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye and Ty Simpkins in INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2, a terrifying sequel to the acclaimed horror film, which follows the haunted Lambert family as they seek to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. (c)FilmDistrict
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- Official Fantàstic Galas
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106′ |
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23:30 |
- All Cheerleaders Die ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
No Score Yet… Movie Info When tragedy rocks Blackfoot High, rebellious outsider Mäddy Killian shocks the student body by joining the cheerleading squad. This decision drives a rift between Mäddy and her ex-girlfriend Leena Miller – a loner who claims to practice the Dark Arts. After a confrontation with the football team, Mäddy and her new cheerleader friends are sent on a supernatural roller coaster ride which leaves a path of destruction none of them may be able to escape.
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- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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90′ |
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01:30 |
La nit + Sitges
- The Body
- Baskin
- Wolf Creek 2
- Savaged ENGLISH Synopsis: Zoe is a young deaf-mute who, traveling around the United States, is kidnapped by a bunch of rednecks who brutalize her until leaving her for dead. A shaman will find her and try to save her, but the spirit of an Apache warrior will possess Zoe, turning her into a lethal creature that, as her body decomposes, will go out and take revenge on the men who humiliated her. A brutal, supernatural twist on rape & revenge films.
- The Dyatlov Pass Incident ENGLISH Synopsis: In 1959, a group of hikers embarked on journey through the Urals. Days later they all appeared dead in strange circumstances and it was impossible to determine the causes of their death. Now, five young filmmakers reproduce the itinerary the victims followed hoping to solve one of the most famous mysteries of the 20th century. A new example of horror in found footage format, by the veteran Renny Harlin.
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- OF Competition Shorts
- OF Competition Shorts
- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
- Midnight X-Treme
- Panorama especial
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332′ |
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Hour |
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Section |
Duration |
Buy |
08:30 |
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10:45 |
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- Retrospectiva Homenatge Takashi Miike
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105′ |
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12:45 |
Presentació – The City of Lost Souls Takashi Miike
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- Retrospectiva Homenatge Takashi Miike
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103′ |
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14:45 |
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- Oficial Noves Visions – Experimenta
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161′ |
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17:45 |
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85′ |
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19:30 |
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91′ |
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21:15 |
Presentació – Audition Takashi Miike
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- Retrospectiva Homenatge Takashi Miike
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115′ |
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23:30 |
- Prince Avalanche ENGLISH (Link to RottenTomatoes review)
84% Average Rating: 7.1/10 Reviews Counted: 79 Fresh: 66 | Rotten: 13 – Movie Info:- Driven by striking performances from Rudd and Hirsch, Prince Avalanche is an offbeat comedy about two men painting traffic lines on a desolate country highway that’s been ravaged by wildfire. Against this dramatic setting, the men bicker and joke with each other, eventually developing an unlikely friendship. Funny, meditative and at times surreal, Prince Avalanche features a score by Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo, and was shot by frequent Green collaborator Tim Orr was. Loosely adapted
from Either Way, an Icelandic film by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson. — (C)MagnoliaPictures
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- Noves Visions – Ficció
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90′ |
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01:30 |
La nit + Monster
- Almost Human ENGLISH Synopsis: Mark disappeared from home in a blinding beam of light. His friend Seth was the last person to see him alive. Two years later, a series of atrocious murders will lead Seth to believe that Mark has returned home, but changed into something different, strange and evil. One of the big surprises at the Toronto festival, Almost Human is destined to become one of this season’s most violent and viscose milestones.
- Big Ass Spider
- The Station (Blutgletscher )
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- Midnight X-Treme
- Midnight X-Treme
- Oficial Fantàstic Especials
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260′ |
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Brigadoon |
Hour |
Title |
Section |
Duration |
Buy |
12:00 |
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99′ |
Free |
14:00 |
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78′ |
Free |
16:00 |
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61′ |
Free |
18:00 |
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90′ |
Free |
21:00 |
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93′ |
Free |
23:00 |
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72′ |
Free |
01:00 |
Synopsis: A couple documents their pregnancy for a reality show, but the production is devastated by supernatural events. This will make them think there’s something strange about their unborn child.
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- Brigadoon
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88′ |
Free |
Tramuntana |
Hour |
Title |
Section |
Duration |
Buy |
11:00 |
Sitges Fòrum: Bill Plympton. Trobada amb el conegut animador Bill Plympton
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Free |
16:00 |
Sitges View: Hannibal. Presentació de la nova sèrie basada en el personatge d’Hannibal Lecter del film “El silenci dels anyells” |
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18:00 |
Marató Low Cost |
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Sunday, 20 October 2013 (DATES:11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/TOP) (Sitges.net)
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09:45 |
Marató Anima’t |
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15:30 |
Marató Auditori |
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Retiro |
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09:45 |
Marató 3D |
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15:30 |
Marató Retiro |
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Prado |
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10:30 |
Programa Matinal Family |
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15:30 |
Marató Prado |
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Brigadoon |
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14:00 |
- No smoking ENGLISH Synopsis: K, the story’s hero, is a narcissistic chain smoker obsessed with himself.
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128′ |
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