Fantasia is back this summer with its 28th edition! And, of course, its first wave is an impressive, eclectic mix of genre titles you won't want to miss. The first wave announcement is in its entirety below and you can learn more about attending the fest at: https://fantasiafestival.com/en
The Fantasia International Film Festival will celebrate its upcoming 28th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 18 through August 4, 2024, returning yet again at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screens and events at Montreal’s Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée.
The festival’s full lineup will be announced on July 3, but in the meantime, Fantasia is excited to reveal a select first wave of premiere titles, along with a first look at its 2024 poster art.
The festival’s 2024 poster art, created by Montreal visual artist Donald Caron,...
The Fantasia International Film Festival will celebrate its upcoming 28th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 18 through August 4, 2024, returning yet again at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screens and events at Montreal’s Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée.
The festival’s full lineup will be announced on July 3, but in the meantime, Fantasia is excited to reveal a select first wave of premiere titles, along with a first look at its 2024 poster art.
The festival’s 2024 poster art, created by Montreal visual artist Donald Caron,...
- 5/9/2024
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 28th edition with another densely packed slate of events and programming running from July 18 through August 4, 2024, returning yet again at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screens and events at Montreal’s Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée.
The festival’s full lineup will be announced on July 3, but in the meantime, Fantasia 2024 has revealed a select first wave of premiere titles. With premieres for Chuck Russell’s Witchboard remake, the Mike Flanagan-presented found footage Shelby Oaks, the latest from La Llorona filmmaker Jayro Bustamante and more, Fantasia’s shaping up to have another can’t miss slate of films.
The first wave of select titles, from the press release:
Witchboard
From A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and the beloved1988 remake of The Blob to The Mask, Eraser, and The Scorpion King,...
The festival’s full lineup will be announced on July 3, but in the meantime, Fantasia 2024 has revealed a select first wave of premiere titles. With premieres for Chuck Russell’s Witchboard remake, the Mike Flanagan-presented found footage Shelby Oaks, the latest from La Llorona filmmaker Jayro Bustamante and more, Fantasia’s shaping up to have another can’t miss slate of films.
The first wave of select titles, from the press release:
Witchboard
From A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and the beloved1988 remake of The Blob to The Mask, Eraser, and The Scorpion King,...
- 5/9/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The 2000 film Ginger Snaps (watch it Here) is my all-time favorite werewolf movie. That was followed by a sequel – Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed – and a very unexpected prequel – Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning – and while I’m not as enamored with them as I am with the original movie, I do get some enjoyment out of watching them. The oddball prequel especially. If you’re a fan of Ginger Snaps trilogy as well and happen to have a Region B (or region free) Blu-ray player, you’ll be glad to hear that Second Sight Films is packaging all three movies together in a limited edition UK box set that’s going to be released on October 30th. Just in time for Halloween, which happens to be the setting of the first movie.
Copies of the Ginger Snaps trilogy Blu-ray box set can be pre-ordered directly from Second Sight Films.
Directed...
Copies of the Ginger Snaps trilogy Blu-ray box set can be pre-ordered directly from Second Sight Films.
Directed...
- 9/6/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Twenty-year-old Emma Ducharme knows she wants to be a soldier, perhaps more fervently than she knows why she wants to be a soldier. A slight, shy, reedy young woman, she enters the Canadian army with something undefined to prove to herself, and perhaps to her late father, himself a military man — but whether she proves it or not is one of many things her resting nervous face steadfastly refuses to give away.
“Wars” has its own ideas about how kindly the military treats vulnerable women like Ducharme, as she’s brusquely addressed throughout. Screenwriter Cynthia Tremblay’s ultra-sparse script has been in development since 2011, the film’s closing credits tell us, but this tightly wound character study feels aptly attuned to the #MeToo era and its reckoning with patriarchal abuse of power. There’s no obvious release or relief here, however: Ducharme’s is an untidy reckoning, as solemn and...
“Wars” has its own ideas about how kindly the military treats vulnerable women like Ducharme, as she’s brusquely addressed throughout. Screenwriter Cynthia Tremblay’s ultra-sparse script has been in development since 2011, the film’s closing credits tell us, but this tightly wound character study feels aptly attuned to the #MeToo era and its reckoning with patriarchal abuse of power. There’s no obvious release or relief here, however: Ducharme’s is an untidy reckoning, as solemn and...
- 8/30/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for “Wars” (Guerres), which plays in the main competition at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Sales on the film are being handled by Be For Films.
The Canadian film, based on a screenplay by Cynthia Tremblay, centers on 20-year-old Emma, who decides to join the army, following in her father’s footsteps. She yearns to rid herself of an oppressive sense of existential emptiness. In the army’s environment of harsh discipline, she submits to its repressive rules, but these cannot suppress the feelings she has toward her sergeant, Richard.
The film is the feature directorial debut of Nicolas Roy, whose short film “Ce n’est rien” played at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. It stars Éléonore Loiselle and David La Haye. The producer is Nicolas Comeau at 1976 Productions.
In a statement, Roy said the film “tackles several sensitive subjects, but...
The Canadian film, based on a screenplay by Cynthia Tremblay, centers on 20-year-old Emma, who decides to join the army, following in her father’s footsteps. She yearns to rid herself of an oppressive sense of existential emptiness. In the army’s environment of harsh discipline, she submits to its repressive rules, but these cannot suppress the feelings she has toward her sergeant, Richard.
The film is the feature directorial debut of Nicolas Roy, whose short film “Ce n’est rien” played at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. It stars Éléonore Loiselle and David La Haye. The producer is Nicolas Comeau at 1976 Productions.
In a statement, Roy said the film “tackles several sensitive subjects, but...
- 8/20/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Join Zack Snyder On The Set Of Army Of The Dead With The Newly Released Behind-the-scenes Special Creating An Army Of The Dead: "Timed to the release of Army of The Dead today, Netflix has released a surprise behind-the-scenes special feature that delves into the making of the unforgettable Zack Snyder zombie-heist film.
At almost thirty minutes in length, Creating an Army of The Dead features in-depth interviews with the cast and filmmakers, including Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller, Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Ana De La Reguera, Theo Rossi, Matthias Schweighöfer, Garret Dillahunt, Huma S. Qureshi, Visual Effects Supervisor Marcus Taormina, Costume Designer Stephanie Porter, Production Designer Julie Berghoff and more. Zack Snyder and the team on Army of The Dead will take you behind-the-scenes and discuss how the film came to life in a post apocalyptic Las Vegas - diving into the wild stunts, groundbreaking effects...
At almost thirty minutes in length, Creating an Army of The Dead features in-depth interviews with the cast and filmmakers, including Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller, Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Ana De La Reguera, Theo Rossi, Matthias Schweighöfer, Garret Dillahunt, Huma S. Qureshi, Visual Effects Supervisor Marcus Taormina, Costume Designer Stephanie Porter, Production Designer Julie Berghoff and more. Zack Snyder and the team on Army of The Dead will take you behind-the-scenes and discuss how the film came to life in a post apocalyptic Las Vegas - diving into the wild stunts, groundbreaking effects...
- 5/21/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Stars: Kaniehtiio Horn, Ezra Buzzington, Eamon Farren, Justin Rain, Jon Huber, Robert Longstreet, Noah Segan, Ian Colletti, Sheri Foster, Jack Gwaltney, Guy Gane, David La Haye, Wayne W. Johnson | Written by Ted Geoghegan, Grady Hendrix | Directed by Ted Geoghegan
Man, looking back at it, 2015 seems like an awfully long time ago now. Donald Trump wasn’t yet installed in the White House, the alt-right, though forever bubbling away, hadn’t been emboldened into action across the globe and we, here in the UK, weren’t yet divided by the madness of Brexit.
It was a simpler time indeed.
When I look back at 2015, I think of the good things and my favourite horror film of 2015? Ted Geoghegan’s debut feature, We Are Still Here, a slow-burning, mournful homage to Italian horror cinema of the 1970’s that lifts from what has gone before, while still feeling vital and fresh.
With his follow-up,...
Man, looking back at it, 2015 seems like an awfully long time ago now. Donald Trump wasn’t yet installed in the White House, the alt-right, though forever bubbling away, hadn’t been emboldened into action across the globe and we, here in the UK, weren’t yet divided by the madness of Brexit.
It was a simpler time indeed.
When I look back at 2015, I think of the good things and my favourite horror film of 2015? Ted Geoghegan’s debut feature, We Are Still Here, a slow-burning, mournful homage to Italian horror cinema of the 1970’s that lifts from what has gone before, while still feeling vital and fresh.
With his follow-up,...
- 4/16/2018
- by Andy Stewart
- Nerdly
Shooting underway in Montreal on historical drama features Vincent Perez and French-Canadian rapper Samian.
Anick Poirier and her team will launch sales in Berlin next week on the story that François Girard (The Red Violin) directs from his own screenplay.
Roger Frappier, whose credits include Two Lovers And A Bear and Jesus Of Montreal, produces through his Max Films.
Hochelaga spans 750 years and five stories set on the site of Montreal that link an Iroquoian massacre in 1267, Jacques Cartier’s first voyage in 1535, the purple fever epidemic in 1687, the Patriots uprising in 1837 and brain surgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1944.
Perez and Samian are among an ensemble that includes Naiade Aoun, Raoul Trujillo, Emmanuel Schwartz, David La Haye, Karelle Tremblay, Caroline Dhavernas, Linus Roache, and Sian Phillips.
Seville International senior vice-president of international sales Poirier described the project as “a sweeping, beautiful and unique story that we’re excited to launch in Berlin and bring to audiences...
Anick Poirier and her team will launch sales in Berlin next week on the story that François Girard (The Red Violin) directs from his own screenplay.
Roger Frappier, whose credits include Two Lovers And A Bear and Jesus Of Montreal, produces through his Max Films.
Hochelaga spans 750 years and five stories set on the site of Montreal that link an Iroquoian massacre in 1267, Jacques Cartier’s first voyage in 1535, the purple fever epidemic in 1687, the Patriots uprising in 1837 and brain surgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1944.
Perez and Samian are among an ensemble that includes Naiade Aoun, Raoul Trujillo, Emmanuel Schwartz, David La Haye, Karelle Tremblay, Caroline Dhavernas, Linus Roache, and Sian Phillips.
Seville International senior vice-president of international sales Poirier described the project as “a sweeping, beautiful and unique story that we’re excited to launch in Berlin and bring to audiences...
- 2/2/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Tagline: "Vengeance Knows No Mercy." Lightning Entertainment has developed a horrifying period piece titled Black Plague. This title is set in the 14th Century, during the bubonic plague. But, a murder mystery and Satanic elements enter the film's story. Black Plague stars Lena Heady (Dredd), Jason Flemyng (Snatch) and David La Haye. The film has been shot by director Alberto Sciamma. Now, a couple of promotional pieces have been released for the film. A film poster is now available for the film. The graphic shows the character Matilda (Heady), a wealthy noble. In the film, Matilda loses her husband in the 100 Years War and her son, Nicholas, is tasked with returning him to English lands. As well, an early trailer has been released by Lightning Entertainment. The reel shows more of the settings, costumes and characters. Film fans who enjoy history or fictional takes on the medieval period can take...
- 9/30/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Director Dominique Othenin-Girard's 2008 French feature "L'Infiltré" (aka "Dirty Money"),will be available on DVD, April 19, 2011 from eOne :
"...'Dirty Money' , follows a Swiss policeman who infiltrates an international money laundering business, moving millions of Swiss Francs between Switzerland and Turkey.
" The dark thriller is an uncompromising account of money laundering and white-collar crime..."
Cast includes actors Antoine Basler, David La Haye, Lucie Laurier, Uygar Tamer, Rosalie Julien, Pascal Vincent, Carlos Leal, Michel Voita, Andrea Ferreol, Jf Stevinin, Alexandra Tiedemann, Caroline Gasser and Teco Celio.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Dirty Money"...
"...'Dirty Money' , follows a Swiss policeman who infiltrates an international money laundering business, moving millions of Swiss Francs between Switzerland and Turkey.
" The dark thriller is an uncompromising account of money laundering and white-collar crime..."
Cast includes actors Antoine Basler, David La Haye, Lucie Laurier, Uygar Tamer, Rosalie Julien, Pascal Vincent, Carlos Leal, Michel Voita, Andrea Ferreol, Jf Stevinin, Alexandra Tiedemann, Caroline Gasser and Teco Celio.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Dirty Money"...
- 4/14/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
For the winter period, Radio-Canada, a French Canadian public TV network, had nothing serious to offer to us. While Mirador, a show created by Daniel Thibault and Isabelle Pelletier, looks full of promises because of its premise, it sinks quickly into doltishness.
First of all, Mirador is the name of a public relation firm from Montreal headed by Richard Racine (Gilles Renaud). In each episode, a client comes to see Mirador's crisis management team led by Philippe Racine (Patrick Labbé). Obviously, the mandate of Philippe's team is to rebuild the tarnished image of Mirador's given client. Besides working, Philippe also has to deal with the jaleousy of his older brother, Luc (David La Haye), who wants to head the crisis management team so badly or his ex-girlfriend, Véronique (Pascale Bussières), who is now engaged to Carl Imbeault (Sébastien Delorme), a former athlete turned into a TV personality.
First of all, Mirador is the name of a public relation firm from Montreal headed by Richard Racine (Gilles Renaud). In each episode, a client comes to see Mirador's crisis management team led by Philippe Racine (Patrick Labbé). Obviously, the mandate of Philippe's team is to rebuild the tarnished image of Mirador's given client. Besides working, Philippe also has to deal with the jaleousy of his older brother, Luc (David La Haye), who wants to head the crisis management team so badly or his ex-girlfriend, Véronique (Pascale Bussières), who is now engaged to Carl Imbeault (Sébastien Delorme), a former athlete turned into a TV personality.
- 5/9/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Is public relation your way to earn your bread? Have you ever wondered what are all the things we hear about people working in PR? If you live in Canada and can speak French, there's a funny TV series waiting for you on Radio-Canada.
Philippe Racine (Patrick Labbé) has been abroad, because he was disgusted by all the lies he spreaded as a PR. He comes back in Montreal in order to work for Mirador, a PR firm that was founded by his father, Richard (Gilles Renaud). Moreover, to Philippe's surprise, the firm's crisis management unit has been helmed by his brother, Luc (David La Haye). With Philippe's return, Luc feels - and with reason - that the father's pet is back in the house. After all, the patriarch gives Luc's job to Philippe out of trust. However, can Philippe find a way to combine honesty and his dedication to...
Philippe Racine (Patrick Labbé) has been abroad, because he was disgusted by all the lies he spreaded as a PR. He comes back in Montreal in order to work for Mirador, a PR firm that was founded by his father, Richard (Gilles Renaud). Moreover, to Philippe's surprise, the firm's crisis management unit has been helmed by his brother, Luc (David La Haye). With Philippe's return, Luc feels - and with reason - that the father's pet is back in the house. After all, the patriarch gives Luc's job to Philippe out of trust. However, can Philippe find a way to combine honesty and his dedication to...
- 1/20/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Now that CBC had unveiled its winter 2010 schedule grid, Radio-Canada, the French-language sister channel of CBC, is now doing the same thing through TV spots. The story of this very anticipated TV series is about a public relation firm offering help for people who are stuck in a scandal.
When scandals break, things get out of control and media storms start raging, it’s time to bring in the firm’s top-notch crisis management team, led by Philippe Racine. With every episode centring on a scandal, Philippe and his team are assigned the difficult task of bolstering the client’s tarnished image and using every trick in the public relations book to help him triumph in the court of public opinion, come hell or high water. At the same time, Philippe is at a turning point in his own life, desperately seeking to find meaning in his work.
The...
When scandals break, things get out of control and media storms start raging, it’s time to bring in the firm’s top-notch crisis management team, led by Philippe Racine. With every episode centring on a scandal, Philippe and his team are assigned the difficult task of bolstering the client’s tarnished image and using every trick in the public relations book to help him triumph in the court of public opinion, come hell or high water. At the same time, Philippe is at a turning point in his own life, desperately seeking to find meaning in his work.
The...
- 12/7/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
The winners at the recently held World Film Festival in Montreal have been announced, with France's "Korkoro (Freedom)" by Tony Gatlif winning the Grand prix des Americas.
Also declared winners are Japan's "Villon's Wife," which won Best Director for Kichitaro Negishi, and China's "Weaving Girl" by Wang Quan'an, which took home the Special Grand Prix of the jury.
Jury for the awards were represented by its president, Jafar Panahi (Iran), and members Eiji Okuda (Japan), Diane Demers (Canada), David Lahaye (Canada), Fernando Mendez-Leiti Serrano (Spain), Pascal Thomas (France), and Reinhard Wagner (France).
The World Film Festival was held from August 27 to September 7.
Also declared winners are Japan's "Villon's Wife," which won Best Director for Kichitaro Negishi, and China's "Weaving Girl" by Wang Quan'an, which took home the Special Grand Prix of the jury.
Jury for the awards were represented by its president, Jafar Panahi (Iran), and members Eiji Okuda (Japan), Diane Demers (Canada), David Lahaye (Canada), Fernando Mendez-Leiti Serrano (Spain), Pascal Thomas (France), and Reinhard Wagner (France).
The World Film Festival was held from August 27 to September 7.
- 9/9/2009
- icelebz.com
Dealing with themes and character types examined by Denys Arcand's far superior "The Barbarian Invasions", Quebec's "Life With My Father" is a tragicomedy mining the oft-tapped topic of errant fathers and strained sibling relationships that brings little in the way of freshness to that shopworn table.
This second film from French Canadian director Sebastien Rose ("How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause") focuses on a pair of very different brothers -- uptight, driven pharmaceutical exec Patrick David La Haye) and ne'er-do-well struggling writer/part-time drug dealer Paul (Paul Ahmarani) -- who must learn to reconcile their differences when their long-absent bohemian father, Francois (Raymond Bouchard), suddenly re-enters their lives.
A renowned author with one book to his credit, the career philanderer has come home financially and physically a broken man, and when his health further deteriorates, Patrick and Paul are forced to confront their past and present lives.
As the story, by Rose and Stefanie Lasnier, turns darker, so too does a tone that shifts uneasily from a lightly amiable, sitcom-y lilt to more purposeful dramatics, and while the director and his cinematographer, Nicolas Bolduc, find some moments of visual poetry to grace the overtly familiar proceedings, there's a prevailing emotionally artificial, prefabricated feel to the entire enterprise.
Performances from all concerned are effectively rendered, though there are times when they can only do so much with their heavily archetypal characters.
Also lacking in the subtlety department is a not-so-underlying theme of impotence, which seems to be symbolically tied to recurring images of floodwaters and other faulty plumbing.
This second film from French Canadian director Sebastien Rose ("How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause") focuses on a pair of very different brothers -- uptight, driven pharmaceutical exec Patrick David La Haye) and ne'er-do-well struggling writer/part-time drug dealer Paul (Paul Ahmarani) -- who must learn to reconcile their differences when their long-absent bohemian father, Francois (Raymond Bouchard), suddenly re-enters their lives.
A renowned author with one book to his credit, the career philanderer has come home financially and physically a broken man, and when his health further deteriorates, Patrick and Paul are forced to confront their past and present lives.
As the story, by Rose and Stefanie Lasnier, turns darker, so too does a tone that shifts uneasily from a lightly amiable, sitcom-y lilt to more purposeful dramatics, and while the director and his cinematographer, Nicolas Bolduc, find some moments of visual poetry to grace the overtly familiar proceedings, there's a prevailing emotionally artificial, prefabricated feel to the entire enterprise.
Performances from all concerned are effectively rendered, though there are times when they can only do so much with their heavily archetypal characters.
Also lacking in the subtlety department is a not-so-underlying theme of impotence, which seems to be symbolically tied to recurring images of floodwaters and other faulty plumbing.
- 11/8/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MILAN -- Lions Gate Films International has come aboard the epic Canadian/French/U.K. co-production New France, which stars Gerard Depardieu, Tim Roth, Jason Isaacs, Vincent Perez, Irene Jacob and Colm Meaney. Lions Gate has picked up world rights outside French-speaking Europe and all of Canada. The deal was announced Monday by Lions Gate International co-presidents Nick Meyer and Sergei Yershov here at the MIFED market, where the project is being touted. Set in 1759 against the backdrop of the struggle between England and France to control Canada, New France centers on a tragic love story between a feisty peasant woman and an adventurous trapper portrayed by Noemie Godin-Vigneau and David La Haye, who are little known outside their native Canada.
- 11/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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