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CIFF 2014 Day 1: ‘Words With Gods’ and ‘The Midnight After’

Day 1 begins with two films I listed in my Top 5 Most Anticipated List. Words With Gods Directed by: Guillermo Arriaga … (segment “La Sangre de Dios”) Hector Babenco … (segment “The Man That Stole a Duck”) Álex de la Iglesia … (segment “The Confession”) Bahman Ghobadi … (segment “Kaboki”) Amos Gitai … (segment …

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25 Days of Christmas: ‘Day of the Beast’ – Delirious, demented and diabolically funny

El día de la bestia (The Day of the Beast)Directed by Álex de la Iglesia Written by Jorge Guerricaechevarría and Álex de la Iglesia Spain, 1995 Considered one of Spain’s hottest directors in the late 1990s, Alex de la Iglesia hasn’t slowed down one bit over time. He’s continuously directed genre-bending, imaginative films, laced with …

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The Best Films Ever Screened At The Fantasia Film Festival

Horror, fantasy, Hong Kong action, animation, strange documentaries, gored-up science-fiction, Japanese Pink films and martial arts flicks are just among the many genres Fantasia has covered in its fourteen years of programming. Famous for being the largest genre film festival in North America, Fantasia is packed with Canadian, North American and worldwide feature-length premieres as …

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