Considered the world’s largest genre film festival and running over three weeks long, Fantasia is celebrating its 19th edition this year and the lineup is pretty incredible. This year’s fest runs July 14 through August 4 and will see over 130 feature films including more than 20 world premieres. Legendary filmmaker Sion Sono is delivering three new movies with Tag, Love & Peace, and Shinjuku Swan, meanwhile Tales of Halloween and A Christmas Horror Story are bringing horror anthologies back to the big screen. In addition, the festival will offer up the Montreal premiere of Marvel’s highly anticipated Ant-Man, the world premiere of Israeli horror flick Jeruzalem, the world premiere of Assassination Classroom and the first Canadian screening of the Canadian/Kiwi festival hit Turbo Kid. The festival is rounded out with screenings of Big Match, Crumbs, Deathgasm, The Demolisher, Experimenter, Cooties, We Are Still Here, The Editor, Cub, He Never Died,...
- 7/26/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono has been steadily gathering both critical and commercial acclaim around the world for his work since his feature film debut in 1986. Recent years have seen the filmmaker become more prolific, with multiple features coming out every year, and fans not knowing what to expect from each film, other than an entertaining ride.
2015 is no different for Sono, as he is poised to release up to six films this year. Among them will be Shinjuku Suwan, aka Shinjuku Swan, as well as Love & Peace. The latter sees Sono direct from an original screenplay of his own, a rarity among the filmmaker’s 2015 releases, and stars Kumiko Asô, Hiromi Hasegawa, and Suidôbashi Hakase. The synopsis for the film, from Twitch, is as follows.
In the summer of 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. Ryoichi dreamed of becoming a punk rocker when he was younger, but became a timid salaryman at a musical instrument parts company.
2015 is no different for Sono, as he is poised to release up to six films this year. Among them will be Shinjuku Suwan, aka Shinjuku Swan, as well as Love & Peace. The latter sees Sono direct from an original screenplay of his own, a rarity among the filmmaker’s 2015 releases, and stars Kumiko Asô, Hiromi Hasegawa, and Suidôbashi Hakase. The synopsis for the film, from Twitch, is as follows.
In the summer of 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. Ryoichi dreamed of becoming a punk rocker when he was younger, but became a timid salaryman at a musical instrument parts company.
- 4/23/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
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