Festivals and Filmmakers

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Star-crossed lovers in a gorgeous high tragedy, a straight-laced cop who becomes a brilliant crook, and ghostly twists-‘n-turns practically guaranteed to fake you out—this year’s New York Korean Film Festival provides a host of international and North American premieres of movies with imagination to burn…
Can two of the most downtrodden of film genres, horror and exploitation, actually help restore the communal wonder of the cinema itself?  Well, for the producer/distributor behind Wild Eye Releasing, this may be a question that’s barely worth asking…
Japan Society has curated an impressive program that includes classic and recent works from the late grandmaster Kon Ichikawa, the funniest Giant Monster flick you’ll ever see, and Quentin Tarantino in Takashi Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django
Probably the most impressive, most fun feature film I’ve ever seen about fandom…
Takashi Miike makes a movie out of a videogame… or is it the other way around?

Even if you can’t manage to claw your way to the Big Apple over the next couple of weeks for NYAFF, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with its offerings and queue them mentally.  With directors such as Miike and To, and films such as the Death Note sequel L: Change the World and the live-action Dororo, we’re talking state-of-the-art genre movies…

There’s only a handful of horror film festivals that enjoy international reputations and Edinburgh’s Dead by Dawn is one of them.  In a way, its founder and director Adèle Hartley is the ultimate fan—with no real prior experience, she nonetheless started the kind of event that she knew she’d love to attend.  That was in 1993.  And the startling success that she’s achieved since tells me that all of us in horror could probably learn a few things from her…
As if it needed further validation as the premiere publication on horror, Rue Morgue recently won the Rondo Hatton award for Best Magazine of 2007.  We sat down with its founder, filmmaker Rodrigo Gudiño, to learn why horror fans (surprise, surprise) are among the most creative, introspective fans out there…
Once in a while an actor comes along and creates a character that—for better or worse—you can’t get out of your head.  Marc Senter, who gives a towering performance as sociopath Ray Pye in The Lost, is an undeniable addition to these ranks...
A hit last year at the Fantasia Film Festival and the After Dark Horrorfest, Mulberry Street is finally arriving on DVD this month.  We were fortunate enough to chat with one of the stars of this allegorical and deeply felt horror film in which New York is once again ravaged, this time by an enemy from within…(minor spoilers beneath the cut)
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