Nouvelles

15 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020: The paper tigers in World Premiere

    As teenagers, friends Danny (Alain Uy), Hing (Ron Yuan, MULAN) and Jim (Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Undisputed III) were inseparable. Loyal disciples of their Sifu, Master Cheung (Roger Yuan), they trained and fought together, aspiring to become the greatest experts in martial arts. Life and plans change, and when Dany travels alone to Japan to take part in a competition, the three companions lose sight of each other. Thirty years later, drama reunites them again, Sifu...

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14 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020 : Special actors, Canadian Premiere

    Shinichiro Ueda (of instant cult classic and Fantasia Audience Award winner One cut of the dead) is back with his highly anticipated follow-up, Sepcial Actors! Doubling down on the meta-antics of his previous zom-com (which took us behind the scene of an elaborate, single-take zombie film… and subsequent “real” zombie outbreak), this latest film ups the ante, and turns the entire world into a stage. Ueda confirms his One cut was far from a one-hit...

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14 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020 : You cannot Kill David Arquette, Canadian Premiere

    At the age of 48, while recovering from a heart attack, David Arquette decides it's time to face the one thing that really haunts him: his career as a professional wrestler. You may know him for his role in theScream franchise and for being part of the famous Arquette family of actors (the Rosanna and Patricia sisters, the late Alexis, Father Lewis), but for millions of professional wrestling fans, it is the Hollywood actor who won the World Championship Wrestling...

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14 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020 : Undergods, World Premiere

    An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline, Chino Moya’s debut Undergods is a collection of darkly humorous fantasy tales about a series of men whose worlds fall apart through a visit from an unexpected stranger. Set to an original, synth score featuring ‘80s electronica, Undergods journeys through disparate eras and realities fusing failed 20th Century utopias and 21st Century Ikea nightmares. An unsettlingly entertaining, singular visual feast,...

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14 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020 : Tezuka’s Barbara, Nort American Premiere

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HSyHA4qAkoE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> “Barbara is the story about a man obsessed with decadence and insanity” – Osamu Tezuka An abrasive and jazzy adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's adult manga series Barbara (1973-1974), Makoto Tezuka's most recent film (Legend of the stardust brothers) is a loving tribute to one of his father's most controversial and...

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