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General Comics Chat: Leeds International Film Festival

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      CommentAuthorRob
    • CommentTimeOct 7th 2006
     
    They've just released the line-up for the Leeds Film Festival
    http://www.leedsfilm.com/2006/liff/page/entries

    Like Japan? How about zombie films? Rock 'n' Roll? Go and see Wild Zero. Part of the "Night of the Dead" at Hyde Park Picture House
    http://www.leedsfilm.com/2006/liff/film/61162
    One of the characters is called Guitar Wolf. He's played by Guitar Wolf of Japanese punk band Guitar Wolf. It's that kind of film..

    Anyone see anything else they'd recommend?
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      CommentAuthorArseface
    • CommentTimeOct 7th 2006
     
    that wild zero film looks bitchin.
    • CommentAuthorClemfold
    • CommentTimeOct 7th 2006
     
    it does indeed look good, but 5.30am...


    i've always meant to go to a proper film festival, i should go to at least one thing there. but if i went at 5.30 i'd probably get leathered beforehand a annoy everyone else thru out the film
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      CommentAuthorRob
    • CommentTimeOct 8th 2006
     
    I remember Jonathan Ross raving about Calamari Wrestler
    http://www.leedsfilm.com/2006/liff/film/61045
    Same director: Executive Koala. Spot a theme?
    http://www.leedsfilm.com/2006/liff/film/61091

    Call of Cthulhu is supposed to be a fantastic modern adaptation of Lovecraft, done in the style of a silent movie
    http://www.leedsfilm.com/2006/liff/film/61176

    Night of the Dead (Wild Zero is part of it) is a back-to-back (ish) showing of 4 horror/zombie films, starting at midnight and finishing as the sun comes up. Good if you like film marathons..
    • CommentAuthorWalkin-X
    • CommentTimeOct 8th 2006
     
    I missed out on seeing Clerks 2 :-(

    its now no longer in any cinema in Leeds.
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    thats because only 3 or 4 people went to each showing so technicaly its your fault its not showing
    • CommentAuthorClemfold
    • CommentTimeOct 8th 2006
     
    i think its already out on dvd in the us, so if you have a region free player and a debit/credit card...


    also Evening With... 2 should be out by now, in the states
    • CommentAuthorWalkin-X
    • CommentTimeOct 9th 2006
     
    nah, they ain't out till november over there, even longer over here.

    i would have gone, I planned to go but then no cinema except hyde park puicture house showed it in the day. And my mate wouldn't go at night (Don't aks why, I don't know, he is just wack) and then I came down ill the last week and now its finished.

    sucks balls.
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeOct 9th 2006
     
    Who Does?
    Unfortunately I'm getting less and less impressed by the Leeds Film Festival every year. There was a time when I'd go see a film every night of the two weeks, but now I'm struggling to get excited about anything at all.

    What's wrong with me? Answers on a postcard...
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      CommentAuthordigbyswift
    • CommentTimeOct 9th 2006
     
    I was looking forward to seeing some of the stuff this year. Ok, i may have missed a lot of this in the previous years (sheer laziness/work addiction) but the horror stuff looks great!
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    Release dates ~ Clerks II 26/11, An Evening With 7/11 both dates Stateside. If anybody is interested in buying them try

    http://www.enterprisesdvd.com/

    or ring 0870 241 4345 where the discs are £15.99 free P&P. Both are 2DVD sets and if you pre order you should get them a couple of days before release.

    I read about the Lovecraft Cthulhu film some time ago in a copy of Monsters From The Vault. It's an independently made film by a Lovecraft society and looks extremely atmospheric. John Foxx's Cathedral Oceans also looks interesting.
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    JM ~

    the problem with the line up for the festival is that it appears too avant garde. There's no fun there any more, no cheaply made splatter all nighters, no significant guests, no retrospectives, no classic science fiction, no forums in fact anything geekish like they used to do.
    I get the impression that they are trying to appeal to the pseudo intellectuals that will leave the festival handbook on the coffee table at home as a talking point for guests. Along with the rock festival programme that they went to but didn't actually watch or listen to.
    I mean, hells bells, the photographic museum gets better guests.

    End of rant.
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    Some of the stuff looks promising, I picked up a guide somewhere. Though I don't know how much it costs for a single show.
    • CommentAuthorthe goon
    • CommentTimeOct 10th 2006
     
    I just picked up a brochure and I have to say it looks great - sure there are things in there are designed to appeal to devoted cinepiles but there's a load of fun stuff in the line up - the horror all nighter looks fantastic - They've shown Wild Zero before,I have the DVD and it is truly one of the most inventive and bloody zombie films ever made so I guess they've brought it back because of how good it is. I'm really looking forward to Satoshi Kon's Paprika, Beach Party at the threshold of Hell and The World Sinks Except Japan - the titles alone make me want to go along!
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    I just noticed that there showing Severance - which is the best f***ing brit horror film to come along in years, the film came out over the Summer and most people seemed to miss it...they've also got Chris Smith doing a live directors commentary to the film!!
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    better then shaun of the dead?
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      CommentAuthorArseface
    • CommentTimeOct 10th 2006
     
    the bit on shaun of the dead when he walks to the shop when the place is deserted and full of zombies is pure genius.
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    I've been playing Dead Rising and it just keeps reminding of Shaun of the Dead more than anything, with the silly weapons and taking of photographs of zombies, when you should be like killing them.

    The World Sink except Japan sounds interesting, as do alot of the horror flicks.
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      CommentAuthordigbyswift
    • CommentTimeOct 10th 2006
     
    See Severance, it is very very good. I actually thought it was quite scary in parts and i'm no wuss. Ok, i'm a wuss but it is still scary in parts. And people die in many horrible ways. Plus its got Tim McKinnery in and he's fab. He's Percy from Blackadder ...

    "Have i wet myself?" and "Shit, I've left his foot on the bus" are among the f-ing funny lines.
    • CommentAuthorthe goon
    • CommentTimeOct 10th 2006
     
    As much as I enjoyed Shaun of the Dead I personally think Severance is a better film, it's smarter, funnier, really inventive and it is quite scary - there were a few times when I jumped out of my seat and there's plenty of blood and gore.

    Also if you like extreme horror check out Broken - I saw this as part of the Dead by Dawn in Edinburgh, the opening 20 mins are truly shocking and there's a leg breaking scene that's more stomach churning the the ankle breaking scene in Misery.
    • CommentAuthorOften
    • CommentTimeOct 12th 2006
     
    Wild Zero is awesome ... I might just go to that
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      CommentAuthorRob
    • CommentTimeOct 24th 2006
     
    If you tried to buy any tickets for the Fanomenon weekend and were told you had to buy the £40 pass, try again because they've just started selling single tickets to most screenings that weekend.

    I'm going to see Call of Cthulhu because that's the only one I reckoned would be worth seeing in the full cinema experience. Especially at £6 a go. Anyone else?
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    I am going solely for Calamari Wrestler. I have been wanting to see it for quite a while.

    Straight from its exciting theatrical release, The Calamari Wrestler is a hilarious action comedy about a young girl who falls in love with a Giant Squid, who is a Championship Wrestler. Things go out of control when an evil Giant Octopus and Lobster scheme to take over the Championship for themselves.

    Link to the trailer: http://mediax.muchosucko.com/movies/512_ika_xl.mov
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    that is one wired film
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    Something that can only come from Japanese Cinema.
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      CommentAuthorArseface
    • CommentTimeOct 27th 2006
     
    has anyone seen the korean war film called brotherhood?
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    Does anyone know if there's a film fair this year?
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeOct 30th 2006
     
    I hope not, for the sake of any dealer or retailer hoping to make money. I had a stall at one a couple of years ago. I didn't even take ebough to make back the running costs for the day. Badly organised, badly advertised, poorly attended. Never again.
    Though that is where I got my signed Ian McShane picture which you may have seen up in OK Comics, so it wasn't all bad. And I had my picture taken with a taxidermied Ewok.
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    And I thought I was sad with my picture of me and Bullwinkle.
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      CommentAuthorgeorgiana
    • CommentTimeOct 30th 2006
     
    hey hey steady - ian mcshane is godliness incarnate ;)
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    It was more in reference to the Ewok.
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      CommentAuthorgeorgiana
    • CommentTimeOct 30th 2006
     
    oh - yeah you can have that one :)
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    Ta. Shouldn't you be snoozing? And did the tape play ok?
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      CommentAuthorgeorgiana
    • CommentTimeOct 30th 2006 edited
     
    i should be snoozing - correct, but i am a nerd and cannot actually go to bed without sending emails and googling comic questions. i didn't get a chance to play the tape - a, i left it at the shop (doofus) and b, people were busy having siezures, but i will soon and will let you know :)

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