From this Tuesday, the São Jorge cinema is the Lisbon house psychopaths, yakuza, vampires and other lions during the six days of MOTELx. The 9th edition of the International Terror Lisbon Film Festival will not, after all, have the presence of Roger Corman, forced to cancel his visit on business, but brings new Joe Dante movie, Eli Roth, Takashi Miike and Hideo Nakata.
And the official opening tonight Tuesday by 21.00 gives with one of the most anticipated fantastic films of recent times: in premiere shows up visit , author of The Sixth Sense and Signs , M. Night Shyamalan, which will hit Portuguese rooms as early as next Thursday.
It is not the only Festival premiere, which ends on Sunday evening with Knock Knock – Dangerous Temptations , where Eli Roth (Hostel) directs Keanu Reeves and is scheduled to premiere October. Also two examples of the horror comedy come to our rooms soon. One is How Burying the Ex , a romantic comedy with zombies directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins) (Thursday 10, 19.15); another is What We Do in the Shadows on the daily lives of New Zealanders vampires, directed and played by Jemaine Clement, the series Flight of the Conchords , and Taika Waititi ( on Friday 11, 00.15).
If Roger Corman could not come, on the other hand will be in Lisbon South African Richard Stanley, whose Hardware (1990) became one of the great movies Cult 1990s horror film The filmmaker accompanies a small retrospective of his erratic career, with the screening of his two most important films, Hardware (Friday 11th, 17:15) and Dust Devil (1992 Sunday 13, 16.45) and their short films and a documentary about his unsuccessful experience in Hollywood during the filming of The Island of Dr. Moreau with Marlon Brando film which would be removed and replaced by John Frankenheimer ( Lost Soul , Thursday 10, 19.15). Stanley also give you a masterclass (Sunday, 18:30).
Among the films that deserve right now all the attention on the festival’s 2015 programming is include Green Room Jeremy Saulnier ( Blue Ruin ), about a group Punk who finds himself witness to a murder committed by a gang supremacists White led by Patrick Stewart (Saturday 12, 00.15, and Sunday 13, 14:45), and two mini-sensations of alternative American festivals such as Sundance and South by Southwest. A, Cop Car , Jon Watts, brings Kevin Bacon in the role of a corrupt sheriff threatening both rural kids who stole his car where he hid a body (Friday, 11, 21:45, and Saturday, 12 , 14:30); the other, Turbo Kid , signed by the Canadian team formed by Anouk Whissell, François Simard and Yoann-Karl Whissell, is an affectionate parody and retro to the fantastic cinema of the 1980s, which can be defined by the formula ” Mad Max on bicycles filmed by Peter Jackson “(Wednesday 9, 16:30, and Friday 11, 00.15).
The MOTELx also continues to bet on cinematography” regional “less widely in Our rooms: the case of Japan, with the presence of veterans Hideo Nakata ( Ghost Theater , Saturday 12, 14h) and Takashi Miike ( Yakuza Apocalypse , Thursday 10, 00.15 and Sunday 13, 16:45), and its latest sensation Sion Sono ( tag , today, 22h), or France ( Night Fare Julien Seri, Thursday 10 , 00.15, or Road Games Abner Pastoli, Thursday 10, 21:45). To mention the strong British presence, led by very violent police Gerard Johnson Hyena (fifth 9, 24, 10 and Thursday, 14:30). Among the Spanish contingent, noting the presence of Miguel Ángel Vivas, director of short produced by Filipe Melo I’ll See You in My Dreams with his feature film Extinction , played by Matthew Fox and Jeffrey Donovan (Saturday 12, 18:45).
As always, the event proposes a short films of national production competition this year with ten titles in competition, visible in two sessions (Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 to 13h always) and also in “complement” of feature films of the normal program. The MOTELx also continues to explore genre cinema made in Portugal, this year with the showing of two forgotten films of the immediately preceding period to April 25. They are The Hunt of Malhadeiro (1968), Quirino Simões documentary filmmaker’s first feature film about an episode of the French invasion (Saturday 12, 19:30), and Red signal (1972 ), police in Portuguese-Spanish co-production Rafael Romero Merchant (Sunday 13, 16:15).
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