Now that it's festival run is over, Spanish filmmaker Jon Mikel Caballero wants to share his award-winning short film, Hibernation, with you. It is an emotionally driven work of sci-fi with a bittersweet ending. The visual style is reminiscent of sci-fi films from the 60s and 70s. You can watch the full short below. Joseph is an astronaut set to go where no man has gone in the Universe through the hibernation program. But something is wrong between him and his instructor Claire, and decisions that seemed unshakeable begin to tremble.Some folks who worked on TwitchFilm faves lent their skills to this projects. Eugenio Mira, director of Grand Piano and Agnosia composed the score for the short and Sergio G. Sánchez, writer of The Orphanage, was...
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- 2/10/2015
- Screen Anarchy
El Mercado Fantastico is back. The international co-production market for genre films is putting out a wide alert to find projects made by Latino filmmakers currently in development, pre-production or post. Finalists will go to Austin during this year’s Fantastic Fest (September 18-25) and be hooked up with potential production partners, sales agents, and distributors. The market is co-produced with Canana and El Rey so you know the platform will attract heavyweight investors and partners.
Seize this unique opportunity to fast track your film, and who knows, your film could be distinguished in a future Fantastic Fest program with as many uncouth visual reference icons that fit your crazy film’s themes i.e. Fishhook Violence, Puppet Sex, Pedophilia, Decapitation, Lactation…. You have until May 31′st to submit
Along with accepting classic genre staples like horror, action and fantasy, projects can run the genre gamut and include animation, westerns, dark comedies, sci-fi, basically anything other than your run of the mill drama. In its second year, the market will select 12-14 projects and new this year, will select four films in post to screen as works in progress.
Since 2005, Fantastic Fest has nailed its epic niche of being the ultimate festival for a ravenous movie geek audience who embraces the rigorously curated fantastic program. And the international film marketplace has taken note, snapping up rights to several film titles that have screened in the Fantastic Fest program. El Mercado Fantastico feels like a natural step for them to incubate their specialty and sustain their grip on all films fantastic.
Director of Programming Rodney Perkins, along with Festival Director Kristin Bell are and heavily scouting for submissions. They received around 100 submissions last year and Rodney told me that overall, the quality was very high. Out of the 16 participating projects, a majority were by directors and producers who have had previous films in the festival. Rodney says they are looking to mix it up with bringing new talent to the surface, but also choosing projects by filmmakers with proven track records in making good movies and the quality of their new projects.
Rodney commented, “Some of the most interesting genre directors in the world are based out of countries like Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Brazil and Uruguay. Fantastic Fest has featured numerous films from these and other countries. A lot of these talented people don’t get recognized globally, particularly in the U.S. We want to do what we can to help them make films and expose their work to a broader international audience.”
Like Rodney says, since its inception, Fantastic Fest has supported and premiered films from Spanish filmmakers like Nacho Vigalondo (Time Crimes, Open Windows), Eugenio Mira (Agnosia, Grand Piano), Chileans like Ernesto Diaz Espinosa (Kiltro, Mandrill), Nicolas Lopez (Santos, Aftershock) and Mexicans Adrian Garcia Bogliano (Here Comes The Devil), and Jorge Michel Grau (Somos Lo Que Hay), among other filmmakers from all over South America and the Caribbean.
A number of projects that were in pre-production when they participated in the inaugural market last September are already coming to fruition. Notably Isaac Ezban’s feature debut El Incidente, produced by Andrea Quiroz (Here Comes the Devil), is completed and will screen at Ventana Sur’s Blood Window showcase at Cannes Marche du Film. Edgar Nito’s project Tatewari is steadily advancing and recently announced a new associate producer. The team from Uruguayan project Small Town found the producing partners for their film, Dios Local from the market last year. Dios Local is almost complete and is represented for international sales by the French company Elle Driver.
So what are you waiting for? I know there has got to be more than 100 Latino made genre projects out there. They aren’t just looking for international Latinos but U.S. native Latinos to represent. At least one of the filmmakers/producers should be some kind of Latino. Get your application together to submit asap. I was on the documentary jury last year which awarded Best Documentary to Jodorowsky’s Dune and Best Director to Shaul Shwarz for (Now on Netflix and iTunes) so I know firsthand this festival is a vital film festival. Plus, there’s really nowhere else you’ll find such sanctioned festival shenanigans like Helicopter Hog Hunting, Filmmaker Shotgun outings, the Schlitz chuggin Award Ceremony rite, Nerd rap, Karaoke and Debates that are settled with a good ol boxing fight.
Seize this unique opportunity to fast track your film, and who knows, your film could be distinguished in a future Fantastic Fest program with as many uncouth visual reference icons that fit your crazy film’s themes i.e. Fishhook Violence, Puppet Sex, Pedophilia, Decapitation, Lactation…. You have until May 31′st to submit
Along with accepting classic genre staples like horror, action and fantasy, projects can run the genre gamut and include animation, westerns, dark comedies, sci-fi, basically anything other than your run of the mill drama. In its second year, the market will select 12-14 projects and new this year, will select four films in post to screen as works in progress.
Since 2005, Fantastic Fest has nailed its epic niche of being the ultimate festival for a ravenous movie geek audience who embraces the rigorously curated fantastic program. And the international film marketplace has taken note, snapping up rights to several film titles that have screened in the Fantastic Fest program. El Mercado Fantastico feels like a natural step for them to incubate their specialty and sustain their grip on all films fantastic.
Director of Programming Rodney Perkins, along with Festival Director Kristin Bell are and heavily scouting for submissions. They received around 100 submissions last year and Rodney told me that overall, the quality was very high. Out of the 16 participating projects, a majority were by directors and producers who have had previous films in the festival. Rodney says they are looking to mix it up with bringing new talent to the surface, but also choosing projects by filmmakers with proven track records in making good movies and the quality of their new projects.
Rodney commented, “Some of the most interesting genre directors in the world are based out of countries like Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Brazil and Uruguay. Fantastic Fest has featured numerous films from these and other countries. A lot of these talented people don’t get recognized globally, particularly in the U.S. We want to do what we can to help them make films and expose their work to a broader international audience.”
Like Rodney says, since its inception, Fantastic Fest has supported and premiered films from Spanish filmmakers like Nacho Vigalondo (Time Crimes, Open Windows), Eugenio Mira (Agnosia, Grand Piano), Chileans like Ernesto Diaz Espinosa (Kiltro, Mandrill), Nicolas Lopez (Santos, Aftershock) and Mexicans Adrian Garcia Bogliano (Here Comes The Devil), and Jorge Michel Grau (Somos Lo Que Hay), among other filmmakers from all over South America and the Caribbean.
A number of projects that were in pre-production when they participated in the inaugural market last September are already coming to fruition. Notably Isaac Ezban’s feature debut El Incidente, produced by Andrea Quiroz (Here Comes the Devil), is completed and will screen at Ventana Sur’s Blood Window showcase at Cannes Marche du Film. Edgar Nito’s project Tatewari is steadily advancing and recently announced a new associate producer. The team from Uruguayan project Small Town found the producing partners for their film, Dios Local from the market last year. Dios Local is almost complete and is represented for international sales by the French company Elle Driver.
So what are you waiting for? I know there has got to be more than 100 Latino made genre projects out there. They aren’t just looking for international Latinos but U.S. native Latinos to represent. At least one of the filmmakers/producers should be some kind of Latino. Get your application together to submit asap. I was on the documentary jury last year which awarded Best Documentary to Jodorowsky’s Dune and Best Director to Shaul Shwarz for (Now on Netflix and iTunes) so I know firsthand this festival is a vital film festival. Plus, there’s really nowhere else you’ll find such sanctioned festival shenanigans like Helicopter Hog Hunting, Filmmaker Shotgun outings, the Schlitz chuggin Award Ceremony rite, Nerd rap, Karaoke and Debates that are settled with a good ol boxing fight.
- 5/7/2014
- by Christine Davila
- Sydney's Buzz
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 20, 2014
Price: DVD $26.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
An official selection of the 2013 Fantastic Fest, independent film Grand Piano got much acclaim from critics.
The thriller stars Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings movies) as Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, whose stage fright let to a catastrophic performance and sent him into seclusion. Years later, he’s ready to give his comeback performance. In front of a packed theater, he’s about to begin when he sees a message written on the score: “Play one wrong note and you die.”
Tom must figure out who’s threatening him and get help, all while never leaving the piano.
John Cusack (Hot Tub Time Machine) also stars in the R-rated movie, which was written by Damien Chazelle (Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench) and directed by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia), who’s also a composer.
Price: DVD $26.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
An official selection of the 2013 Fantastic Fest, independent film Grand Piano got much acclaim from critics.
The thriller stars Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings movies) as Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, whose stage fright let to a catastrophic performance and sent him into seclusion. Years later, he’s ready to give his comeback performance. In front of a packed theater, he’s about to begin when he sees a message written on the score: “Play one wrong note and you die.”
Tom must figure out who’s threatening him and get help, all while never leaving the piano.
John Cusack (Hot Tub Time Machine) also stars in the R-rated movie, which was written by Damien Chazelle (Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench) and directed by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia), who’s also a composer.
- 4/18/2014
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Player Piano: Interesting Ideas Churn Into Nonsensical Slog in Mira’s Third Outing
Back with his first film since the 2010 potboiler, Agnosia, Spanish director Eugenio Mira returns to filming in English with Grand Piano, an ambitiously designed film that desperately tries to work around a central gimmick. Featuring inspired use of several musical selections and slick editing, which seem designed to pick up the slack for the lack of dramatic tension in a laughable narrative that only becomes more ludicrous as more details become revealed, its initial set-up is quite certainly engaging in that it creates a curiosity to want to know more. That’s saying a lot considering there are several obnoxious supporting characters and wooden performances that muddle the mood early on.
Tom Selznick (Elijah Wood) is known as the most talented pianist of his generation, but he hasn’t performed in public for five years due to...
Back with his first film since the 2010 potboiler, Agnosia, Spanish director Eugenio Mira returns to filming in English with Grand Piano, an ambitiously designed film that desperately tries to work around a central gimmick. Featuring inspired use of several musical selections and slick editing, which seem designed to pick up the slack for the lack of dramatic tension in a laughable narrative that only becomes more ludicrous as more details become revealed, its initial set-up is quite certainly engaging in that it creates a curiosity to want to know more. That’s saying a lot considering there are several obnoxious supporting characters and wooden performances that muddle the mood early on.
Tom Selznick (Elijah Wood) is known as the most talented pianist of his generation, but he hasn’t performed in public for five years due to...
- 3/23/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In the new thriller Grand Piano, a stage-fright-stricken classical pianist (Elijah Wood) is informed he must perform his comeback recital perfectly or get shot to death. Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
Directed by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) and costarring John Cusack and Alex Winter, the film opens theatrically in New York and Austin, Tx., today. To mark the film’s release, we spoke to Wood about tickling the ivories — and why it pays to hang out in Austin bars.
Entertainment Weekly: Grand Piano looks like it was a very difficult film to make from a technical standpoint.
Directed by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) and costarring John Cusack and Alex Winter, the film opens theatrically in New York and Austin, Tx., today. To mark the film’s release, we spoke to Wood about tickling the ivories — and why it pays to hang out in Austin bars.
Entertainment Weekly: Grand Piano looks like it was a very difficult film to make from a technical standpoint.
- 3/7/2014
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
If you saw Eugenio Mira's earlier film "Agnosia," then you may have already noticed his fondness for Brian De Palma. Anyone making thrillers who holds De Palma as part of the pantheon is already on my short list of people I like, but when you see how well Mira pulls it all together for "Grand Piano," it's obvious that he's graduated to a different level with this film. I think it's very fair to compare this to "Non-Stop," which I reviewed earlier today, since both of them are thrillers that take place over a compressed period of time in a fairly restrictive setting with a ticking clock. For both filmmakers, the exercise is the same. Can you keep the film somewhat plausible while ratcheting up the tension and convincing us that things could unfold like this? In the case of "Grand Piano," the answer is a resounding yes, and...
- 2/27/2014
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
There's not a lot hitting theaters this weekend, but don't freak out about having nothing new to watch. Just fire up your On Demand platform of choice (iTunes, Vudu, Pay Per View and so on) and look for Grand Piano. We promise you will not be disappointed. Directed by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) and written by Damien Chazelle (who wrote and directed this year's big Sundance favorite Whiplash), Grand Piano stars Elijah Wood as a brilliant pianist about to give the concert of his life, only to discover that there's a sniper hiding somewhere in the theater ready to blow his head off if he messes up a very specific part of the performance. Yes, we realize that sounds like a rather absurd premise, and it is, but the result is a very fun, smart, beautifully orchestrated...
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- 1/30/2014
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
After premiering at Fantastic Fest this year (check out a review from Jeremy Kirk), the thriller Grand Piano is coming to theaters next spring (and VOD earlier in the year). Elijah Wood plays a concert pianist attempting a comeback after a career-crippling performance in his past. The pressure is already on, but then things get even more stressful as he finds a note scrawled in his sheet music saying he will be killed if he plays one wrong note. It's basically Phone Booth at a piano but with John Cusack on the other end of the threats this time. Our review says calls it a "stylish, quirky thriller that never hits too heavily." Watch now! Here's the first trailer for Eugenio Mira's Grand Piano, originally from Apple: Grand Piano is directed by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) and written by Damien Chazelle (The Last Exorcism Part II). Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation,...
- 12/17/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Last month Mondo announced a new venture into soundtracks produced on vinyl, starting with the limited edition release on black 180-gram vinyl, and randomly-inserted milky yellow/clear vinyl of the score created by "Chucky Namanera" for the science fiction thriller Timecrimes. This film about an ordinary man whose life is changed -- repeatedly -- by the consequences of traveling back in time by just one hour debuted at Fantastic Fest 2007 and found U.S. distribution shortly afterward.
Austin composer and writer Brian Satterwhite collaborated with Mondo on the project for this previously unreleased soundtrack, and hosted a special screening and Q&A of Timecrimes during this year's Fantastic Fest at the new Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline. A limited number of the LPs with artwork (pictured at right) including the cover by Australian artist and commercial illustration studio We Buy Your Kids was available for sale at the screening and online.
Namanera...
Austin composer and writer Brian Satterwhite collaborated with Mondo on the project for this previously unreleased soundtrack, and hosted a special screening and Q&A of Timecrimes during this year's Fantastic Fest at the new Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline. A limited number of the LPs with artwork (pictured at right) including the cover by Australian artist and commercial illustration studio We Buy Your Kids was available for sale at the screening and online.
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- 10/9/2013
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
Why Watch? Chances are that you played the Rotating Corpse game at one point in your life, especially if you were brutally subjected to a creative writing class. The rules are simple — multiple artists create a single piece of art without knowing what the other artists contributed. It’s how you get an elephant with a flame thrower for a trunk, or a story about a man who bakes a pie, flies to the moon and kidnaps a princess. It’s often less about the disjointed final result and more about the challenge of the restraint, but a crew at Fantastic Fest decided to have some fun with it, and the result is a short film experiment that works far better than the ABCs of Death toss-up. This particular monster was cobbled together over five days by Oren Carmi (Goldberg & Eisenberg), Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes), James Ward Byrkit (Coherence), Matthew Johnson (The Dirties) and Eugenio Mira (Agnosia, Grand Piano...
- 9/27/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
After three days of films and parties, it would seem the only bad choice at Fantastic Fest 2013 is to not be at Fantastic Fest this year. Response to almost all the movies has been overwhelmingly positive, and I found at the end of the second day that I enjoyed every selection more than the previous one.
I began the fest on Thursday with Coherence, an intriguing exploration into the human psyche when confronted with an impossible situation. Many of the best films over the years of the fest have been shot on zero budget with just a good idea and a great script. This one foregoes the script and instead let the actors truly go "method" as they were only provided with character notes about motivations or specific things they needed to say or do. Yet from these, the actors build performances that draw the audience into their nightmare.
One...
I began the fest on Thursday with Coherence, an intriguing exploration into the human psyche when confronted with an impossible situation. Many of the best films over the years of the fest have been shot on zero budget with just a good idea and a great script. This one foregoes the script and instead let the actors truly go "method" as they were only provided with character notes about motivations or specific things they needed to say or do. Yet from these, the actors build performances that draw the audience into their nightmare.
One...
- 9/23/2013
- by Mike Saulters
- Slackerwood
Magnolia Pictures' Magnet Releasing has acquired Us distribution rights to Grand Piano , which had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin yesterday. Starring Elijah Wood and John Cusack, the film was directed by Eugenio Mira ( Agnosia ) and produced by Adrián Guerra and Rodrigo Cortés (producers of Buried , Red Lights ). Wood plays Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, who has stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic performance, he reappears in public for a long awaited concert in Chicago. In a packed theater, in front of an expectant audience, Tom finds a message written on the score: .Play one wrong note and you die.. In the sights of an anonymous sniper (Cusack), Tom must get through the most...
- 9/21/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Directed by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) Elijah Wood stars in this thriller about a reclusive concert pianist who must keep playing the piano flawlessly or a sniper will shoot him. That may sound ridiculous, but it’s also precisely why we’re interested in it. Seriously, how can you not be excited about a movie that sounds like Speed, but with a piano?
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- 9/20/2013
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
In Grand Piano, Elijah Wood plays a pianist who is put in the worst situation a pianist could find himself in. While playing a concert he receives a threat that if he plays one wrong note he will die. You could be the greatest and most talented pianist in the world, but let's face it, if something like that happens they're feeling some intense pressure that they've never felt before.
The first trailer for the film has been released. It's an international trailer and it's not in English. There are no subtitles, but if you watch it you'll get the idea.
It was directed by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) and also stars John Cusack, and it will be shown at Fantastic Fest in the next week. Here's the synopsis:
Taking a page out of the book of incredible film history feats like High Noon, the bulk of the movie takes place...
The first trailer for the film has been released. It's an international trailer and it's not in English. There are no subtitles, but if you watch it you'll get the idea.
It was directed by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) and also stars John Cusack, and it will be shown at Fantastic Fest in the next week. Here's the synopsis:
Taking a page out of the book of incredible film history feats like High Noon, the bulk of the movie takes place...
- 9/18/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Grand Piano, a thriller starring Elijah Wood, will open this year’s Sitges Festival in October
Spain’s Sitges Festival (October 11-20) has unveiled a selection of titles for its 46th edition.
Grand Piano, the new film by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) with an international cast led by Elijah Wood, John Cusack and Alex Winter, will open the festival.
A production by Adrián Guerra and Rodrigo Cortés (Buried), the real-time thriller tells the story of a retired piano player who finally goes back to work under threat of death by a mysterious killer if he misses one note.
The festival has also named other titles in its official section including Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives; Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive; Roman Coppola’s A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III and Ari Folman’s The Congress.
“When things work out there is no need for dramatic changes”, Sitges festival director Angel Sala told Screen...
Spain’s Sitges Festival (October 11-20) has unveiled a selection of titles for its 46th edition.
Grand Piano, the new film by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) with an international cast led by Elijah Wood, John Cusack and Alex Winter, will open the festival.
A production by Adrián Guerra and Rodrigo Cortés (Buried), the real-time thriller tells the story of a retired piano player who finally goes back to work under threat of death by a mysterious killer if he misses one note.
The festival has also named other titles in its official section including Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives; Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive; Roman Coppola’s A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III and Ari Folman’s The Congress.
“When things work out there is no need for dramatic changes”, Sitges festival director Angel Sala told Screen...
- 6/28/2013
- by jsardafr@hotmail.com (Juan Sarda)
- ScreenDaily
Spain might be in the throes of severe economic problems, but you wouldn't necessarily know it from the current state of its film industry. With Juan Antonio Bayona's The Impossible breaking box office records and Pablo Berger's Blancanieves the official Spanish selection for the foreign language Oscar, Spanish film, especially of the more fantastic variety, seems to be heading full steam ahead. I recently had the chance to visit the set of Grand Piano, currently wrapping up production in Barcelona. Directed by Eugenio Mira (The Birthday, Agnosia), produced by Rodrigo Cortés and Adrián Guerra (Buried, Red Lights), and starring Elijah Wood, John Cusack, Alex Winter and Kerry Bishé, the film is a tense, intimate thriller, with a complex plot and somewhat high-concept scenario that provides...
- 10/22/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Have you heard about this new thriller starring Elijah Wood and John Cusack, titled Grand Piano?
The film follows a concert musician who is, after a five-year hiatus due to the concert fright, making his way back to the stage and who discovers a note on his music sheet saying that, if he doesn’t play the best recital of his life, he will be killed. Not exactly the most thrilling of concepts, but there it is, and it reminds me a little of the Speed concept (remember – Sandra Bullock, Kianu Reeves, speeding bus…?).
Here we have the first look at Elijah Wood sitting at the piano keys, which isn’t much – I like ‘nasty little Hobbitses’ as much as the next girl, but please, make him look at least a bit scared while at the keys, for f*ck’s sake! Check it out below:
Damien Chazelle, who wrote...
The film follows a concert musician who is, after a five-year hiatus due to the concert fright, making his way back to the stage and who discovers a note on his music sheet saying that, if he doesn’t play the best recital of his life, he will be killed. Not exactly the most thrilling of concepts, but there it is, and it reminds me a little of the Speed concept (remember – Sandra Bullock, Kianu Reeves, speeding bus…?).
Here we have the first look at Elijah Wood sitting at the piano keys, which isn’t much – I like ‘nasty little Hobbitses’ as much as the next girl, but please, make him look at least a bit scared while at the keys, for f*ck’s sake! Check it out below:
Damien Chazelle, who wrote...
- 9/12/2012
- by Sunrider
- Filmofilia
Back in May, we got word that Elijah Wood would be leading the new twisted psychological thriller, Grand Piano, with John Cusack joining him for the ride shortly after. Now, just a few months later, we’re finally getting details on the supporting cast, as well as the first still. According to Variety, Kerry Bishe (Argo), Tamsin Egerton (Camelot), and Allen Leech (Downtown Abbey) will be joining the two stars in some unidentified roles.
Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) will be directing the feature, from a screenplay by Damien Chazelle (Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench). Adrian Guerra and Rodrigo Cortes, the duo behind Buried and Red Lights, will be producing the project for Barcelona’s Nostromo Pictures. Check out a photo of Wood above thanks to Fotogramas.
The film follows a “piano player (Wood) who, after spending five years on a professional leave of absence, comes back to perform a concert,...
Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) will be directing the feature, from a screenplay by Damien Chazelle (Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench). Adrian Guerra and Rodrigo Cortes, the duo behind Buried and Red Lights, will be producing the project for Barcelona’s Nostromo Pictures. Check out a photo of Wood above thanks to Fotogramas.
The film follows a “piano player (Wood) who, after spending five years on a professional leave of absence, comes back to perform a concert,...
- 9/10/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Fresh off his turn as a serial killer in Maniac, Elijah Wood is currently hard at work in Barcelona playing the lead in Eugenio Mira's Grand Piano. Wood stars opposite John Cusack in the thriller from the director of Agnosia. A thriller about a piano? You bet:Forced into early retirement because of crippling stage fright, Wood is a piano virtuoso who returns to the stage where the recital turns deadly and he is forced to literally play for his life in the tense and twisted psychological thriller.The Buried duo of Adrian Guerra and Rodrigo Cortes produce and Twitch is happy to present the first image from the film....
- 9/10/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Eugenio Mira's Grand Piano may land John Cusack in the psychological thriller from scribe Damien Chazelle John Cusack is in negotiations for a lead opposite Elijah Wood in the film helmed by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia), which is being shopped at Cannes by Solution Entertainment Group's Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestles. Variety reports that Grand Piano is produced by Nostromo Pictures, the same production team behind films like Red Lights and Buried. The story based on a spec that Nostromo optioned via the Gersh Agency, follows Wood's character, a limns a piano maestro who is forced to retire after suffering an extreme stage fright, then forced to return to work. Grand Piano starts filming in Spain and Chicago this July, with Nostromo serving as full financiers on the project.
- 5/17/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Eugenio Mira's Grand Piano may land John Cusack in the psychological thriller from scribe Damien Chazelle John Cusack is in negotiations for a lead opposite Elijah Wood in the film helmed by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia), which is being shopped at Cannes by Solution Entertainment Group's Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestles. Variety reports that Grand Piano is produced by Nostromo Pictures, the same production team behind films like Red Lights and Buried. The story based on a spec that Nostromo optioned via the Gersh Agency, follows Wood's character, a limns a piano maestro who is forced to retire after suffering an extreme stage fright, then forced to return to work. Grand Piano starts filming in Spain and Chicago this July, with Nostromo serving as full financiers on the project.
- 5/17/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Solution Entertainment Group (.The Solution.) has acquired international rights to Grand Piano, the new thriller from Spanish producing team Adrian Guerra and Rodrigo Cortés (upcoming Red Lights, Buried), starring Elijah Wood (upcoming The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy), written by Damien Chazelle and to be directed by sought after Spanish director Eugenio Mira (The Birthday), it was announced today by The Solution.s founders and partners, Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel.
Guerra and Cortés will produce the film, scheduled to start shooting in July, under their Spain-based company, Nostromo Pictures.
Forced into early retirement because of crippling stage fright, Wood is a piano virtuoso who returns to the stage where the recital turns deadly and he is forced to literally play for his life in the tense and twisted psychological thriller.
The Solution will be presenting the title to international buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.
Guerra and Cortés will produce the film, scheduled to start shooting in July, under their Spain-based company, Nostromo Pictures.
Forced into early retirement because of crippling stage fright, Wood is a piano virtuoso who returns to the stage where the recital turns deadly and he is forced to literally play for his life in the tense and twisted psychological thriller.
The Solution will be presenting the title to international buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.
- 5/9/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Elijah Wood is set to headline the high-concept indie thriller Grand Piano , says a story at The Hollywood Reporter . The film arrives from writer Damien Chazelle ( The Last Exorcism Sequel ) and director Eugenio Mira ( Agnosia ) and will feature Wood as a famous concert pianist whose crippling stage fright has prevented him from performing for years. When he finally overcomes his fears and plays before an audience, he finds himself trapped in a deadly scenario that forces him to keep playing expertly or forfeit his own life and that of his wife to a mysterious madman. Production is targeted for this summer in Ciudad de la Luz in Alicante and Chicago with Buried producers Rodrigo Cortes and Adrian Guerra. (Photo Credit: Daniel Tanner / WENN.com)...
- 5/1/2012
- Comingsoon.net
You never know quite what path Antonio Trashorras is going to take you on. He first gained international attention in 2001 with his screenplay of The Devil's Backbone, a haunting ghost story set in the Spanish Civil War; last year his screenplay for Agnosia was a costume drama romantic crime film. His feature directorial debut, El Callejon (which means 'blind alley') is an outrageously fun homage to exploitation and slasher cinema. With nods to directors such as Dario Argento and Jess Franco, it is definitely made for lovers of the genre: a well-controlled and campy film that packs a colourful punch and leaves the audience guessing to the last moment. Lucy is a young girl from Cuba, working as a maid in a resort hotel...
- 10/16/2011
- Screen Anarchy
A sequel to the 2010 "found footage" film "The Last Exorcism" is in the works, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter. Damien Chazelle has just boarded the project to provide the screenplay. Little is known about the direction that the sequel will take, especially given the surprise ending of the first film. Chazelle, who wrote and directed "Guy And Madeline On A Park Bench", has also sold a Hitchcockian spec script entitled "Grand Piano" that will be produced by Adrian Guerra and directed by Eugenio Mira ("Agnosia"). ...
- 8/26/2011
- www.ohmygore.com/
Yes, it’s true that The Last Exorcism wasn’t actually the last one, but The Penultimate Exorcism doesn’t have as good a ring to it. Regardless, the commercial success of the first film has warranted a follow-up, and that production has now found a writer to get itself off the ground. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Damien Chazelle will have the spirit move him to write the script. Chazelle is a new name, but he’s already hit the ground running with a thriller spec script called The Claim sold, another thriller spec called Grand Piano to be directed by Agnosia director Eugenio Mira, and his senior thesis – the gritty musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench – graduating from Harvard to premiere at Tribeca and get a limited release. The large question is whether or not faux-doc lightning can be captured twice. The ending of the first film had its own brand of ambiguities...
- 8/23/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
A sequel to the 2010 "found footage" film The Last Exorcism is in the works, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter . Damien Chazelle has just boarded the project to provide the screenplay. Little is known about the direction that the sequel will take, especially given the surprise ending of the first film. Chazelle, who wrote and directed Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench , has also sold a Hitchcockian spec script entitled Grand Piano that will be produced by Adrian Guerra and directed by Eugenio Mira ( Agnosia ).
- 8/23/2011
- Comingsoon.net
L'Age D'Or
DVD & Blu-ray, BFI
Spanish director Luis Buñuel's importance in the world of film-making is often overlooked, perhaps because he wasn't part of any handy film movement such as New Wave or neo-realism.
But he was part of an artistic movement, hanging out with surrealists such as Man Ray and Max Ernst. Oddly, this has left him between two stools: too artistic for cinema, too cinematic to be considered true art. This release contains two groundbreaking films Buñuel made some 80 years ago in collaboration with Salvador Dalí.
Their first, the notorious Un Chien Andalou, included here as an extra, has inspired everyone from David Lynch to David Bowie and Pixies. It's rich in imagery, from ants crawling out of a hand and rotting animals stuffed in pianos to the famous shot of a razor blade bisecting an eye. With sequences drawn from dreams rather than conscious imagination, the...
DVD & Blu-ray, BFI
Spanish director Luis Buñuel's importance in the world of film-making is often overlooked, perhaps because he wasn't part of any handy film movement such as New Wave or neo-realism.
But he was part of an artistic movement, hanging out with surrealists such as Man Ray and Max Ernst. Oddly, this has left him between two stools: too artistic for cinema, too cinematic to be considered true art. This release contains two groundbreaking films Buñuel made some 80 years ago in collaboration with Salvador Dalí.
Their first, the notorious Un Chien Andalou, included here as an extra, has inspired everyone from David Lynch to David Bowie and Pixies. It's rich in imagery, from ants crawling out of a hand and rotting animals stuffed in pianos to the famous shot of a razor blade bisecting an eye. With sequences drawn from dreams rather than conscious imagination, the...
- 5/27/2011
- by Phelim O'Neill, Richard Vine
- The Guardian - Film News
After eight crazy days, Fantastic Fest 2010 is in the books. Here's an index to all of our coverage, reviews, features, interviews, videos, and podcasts.
Last Updated: 10/01/2010
Reviews
"Red," directed by Robert Schwentke
"Agnosia," directed by Eugenio Mira
"Bibliotheque Pascal," directed by Szabolcs Hajdu
"Corridor," directed by Johan Lundborg and Johan Storm
"Fatso," directed by Arild Fröhlich
"Fire of Conscience," directed by Dante Lam
"Ip Man 2," directed by Wilson Yip
"I Saw the Devil," directed by Kim Ji-woon
Kidnapped," directed by Miguel Angel Vivas
"Let Me In," directed by Matt Reeves
"The Man From Nowhere," directed by Lee Jung-beom
"Outrage," directed by Takeshi Kitano
"Red White and Blue," directed by Simon Rumley
"A Somewhat Gentle Man," directed by Hans Petter Moland
"Sound of Noise," directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Interviews
Mark Hartley, "Machete Maidens Unleashed"
Ryan Kwanten and Patrick Hughes, "Red Hill"
Andrew Lau, "Legend of the Fist"
Ryan Reynolds and Rodrigo Cortés,...
Last Updated: 10/01/2010
Reviews
"Red," directed by Robert Schwentke
"Agnosia," directed by Eugenio Mira
"Bibliotheque Pascal," directed by Szabolcs Hajdu
"Corridor," directed by Johan Lundborg and Johan Storm
"Fatso," directed by Arild Fröhlich
"Fire of Conscience," directed by Dante Lam
"Ip Man 2," directed by Wilson Yip
"I Saw the Devil," directed by Kim Ji-woon
Kidnapped," directed by Miguel Angel Vivas
"Let Me In," directed by Matt Reeves
"The Man From Nowhere," directed by Lee Jung-beom
"Outrage," directed by Takeshi Kitano
"Red White and Blue," directed by Simon Rumley
"A Somewhat Gentle Man," directed by Hans Petter Moland
"Sound of Noise," directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Interviews
Mark Hartley, "Machete Maidens Unleashed"
Ryan Kwanten and Patrick Hughes, "Red Hill"
Andrew Lau, "Legend of the Fist"
Ryan Reynolds and Rodrigo Cortés,...
- 10/1/2010
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Lead actor Eduardo Noriega and director Eugenio Mira attended Fantastic Fest in support of their latest film, the world premiere of Agnosia. The producers of Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage brought another suspenseful story to Fantastic Fest with Agnosia. It is a visually stunning and elegant period piece about Joana Prats, a young woman whose childhood bout with encephalitis leaves her stricken with agnosia, a strange neuropsychological illness that affects her perception. Joana becomes the center of a sinister and life-threatening plot to discover her father's secret formula for a lens with revolutionary military implications. Two men who both have desires for her play integral roles in whether she will be cured of her illness, or a victim of the dastardly plans. Noriega plays Carles, Joana’s fiancé and her father’s right-hand man, who has some dark secrets of his own.
Mira is a veteran of Fantastic Fest, as...
Mira is a veteran of Fantastic Fest, as...
- 10/1/2010
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
Reviewed at Fantastic Fest 2010.
"Agnosia," like "Julia's Eyes," which screens at the festival today, is the product of a Guillermo del Toro protege -- Eugenio Mira, whose first film, 2004's "The Birthday," caught the director/producer/force of nature's attention, if few others'. And it looks like it -- working off a screenplay by "The Devil's Backbone" writer Antonio Trashorras, Mira adeptly assembles lush, gothic visuals of the type that have become del Toro's signature. If only the film had the same amount of emotional impact. "Agnosia" is certainly the most lavishly beautiful film at Fantastic Fest, but it's structured around a story that doesn't seem to have enough to it to support a feature, either in what's at stake or in the characters.
The film starts with a group of investors arriving in the countryside to try out a new telescopic rifle, the joint product of German weapon manufacturer...
"Agnosia," like "Julia's Eyes," which screens at the festival today, is the product of a Guillermo del Toro protege -- Eugenio Mira, whose first film, 2004's "The Birthday," caught the director/producer/force of nature's attention, if few others'. And it looks like it -- working off a screenplay by "The Devil's Backbone" writer Antonio Trashorras, Mira adeptly assembles lush, gothic visuals of the type that have become del Toro's signature. If only the film had the same amount of emotional impact. "Agnosia" is certainly the most lavishly beautiful film at Fantastic Fest, but it's structured around a story that doesn't seem to have enough to it to support a feature, either in what's at stake or in the characters.
The film starts with a group of investors arriving in the countryside to try out a new telescopic rifle, the joint product of German weapon manufacturer...
- 9/30/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
The most visually lush film I've seen at this year's Fantastic Fest is undoubtedly Agnosia, Spanish director Eugenio Mira's costume melodrama/gothic thriller. Set in turn-of-the-century Barcelona, Agnosia is centered on Joana, a young woman with the unusual titular handicap (with which an individual's brain cannot interpret data from eyes and ears in order to distinguish sounds and images), the two men who love her, and the industrial criminals who will stop at nothing to use her handicap to steal her father's company's secrets. The two men in question are the passionate Vincent, a family servant (played by Felix Gomez) recruited by Joana's enemies, and Carles (played by The Devil's Backbone star Eduardo...
- 9/30/2010
- FEARnet
Today was a short day for me, and I'm wishing I had greater endurance. I managed to snag a ticket to the Fantastic Debates, where Michelle Rodriguez (Girlfight, Avatar) dukes it out with Tim League. The debates added boxing last year, and was a huge hit, not just because League challenged director Uwe Boll to a debate in the ring. But I need sleep, so I missed it. I also missed the celebration of Zack Carlson's publishing debut at the Destroy All Movies!!!: Class of 1984 screening. Never fear though, we will have some photographic coverage of the bouts ... errr ... debates.
But I didn't miss Carancho, because I'm a big Ricardo Darin fan. Carancho doesn't quite live up to my two favorite Darin films Nine Queens and The Secret in Their Eyes, but it's worth catching. I was also able to catch the restored 1960 version of The Housemaid. It's a trippy little film,...
- 9/27/2010
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
Whatever it is you may expect from Eugenio Mira's Agnosia, chances are good it is not quite that. An unusual amalgam of elements and influences the picture is one part lush period piece, one part wildly inventive corporate espionage thriller, and one part romantic drama with all of those elements centering on the beautiful Joana Prats (Barbara Goenaga) a young woman with a most unusual medical condition.
Written by Antonio Trashorras - the acclaimed writer of Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone - the film begins with Joana as a young girl assisting her father, Artur - the maker of fine glass lenses - in a demonstration of his latest product, the world's first telescopic rifle scope. All is going well at first but when Artur witnesses first hand the use his creation will be put to he has a change of heart and refuses to sell it to anyone at all,...
Written by Antonio Trashorras - the acclaimed writer of Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone - the film begins with Joana as a young girl assisting her father, Artur - the maker of fine glass lenses - in a demonstration of his latest product, the world's first telescopic rifle scope. All is going well at first but when Artur witnesses first hand the use his creation will be put to he has a change of heart and refuses to sell it to anyone at all,...
- 9/27/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Having its world premiere at Fantastic Fest tomorrow is Eugenio Mira's Agnosia, a romantic thriller from the producer of Hierro. And just in time for the premiere a new trailer has arrived online.
Joana Prats suffers from agnosia, a strange neuropsychological illness that affects her perception. Although her eyes and ears are in perfect condition, her brain cannot interpret the stimuli she receives through them.
As the only one who knows the industrial secret left behind by her father, the enigmatic young girl will become the victim of a sinister plan to get the information out of her by taking advantage of her sensory confusion.
As the plot unfolds, the two men closest to her will become crucial to its outcome: Carles, Joana´s fiancé and her father´s right-hand man, and Vicent, a young, impulsive servant working at the Prats mansion.
Joana Prats suffers from agnosia, a strange neuropsychological illness that affects her perception. Although her eyes and ears are in perfect condition, her brain cannot interpret the stimuli she receives through them.
As the only one who knows the industrial secret left behind by her father, the enigmatic young girl will become the victim of a sinister plan to get the information out of her by taking advantage of her sensory confusion.
As the plot unfolds, the two men closest to her will become crucial to its outcome: Carles, Joana´s fiancé and her father´s right-hand man, and Vicent, a young, impulsive servant working at the Prats mansion.
- 9/26/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Fantastic Fest 2010 began with a bang. Matt Reeves' Let Me In served as the opening night film at the Paramount theatre in downtown Austin. You can watch my previously recorded review/reaction to the film here. In his opening night introduction, Fantastic Fest founder Tim League ripped off a velcro-suit to reveal a "not-so-modest Viking battle gear" outfit. He was joined on stage by Fantastic Fest staff and special guest Eugenio Mira, whose film Agnosia is playing at the fest. It also happened to be Eugenio's birthday and as a sign of gratitude for his wonderful support of the festival (his film The Birthday showed at the very first Fantastic Fest six years ago). Matt Reeves showed up with a handfull of cast members: Kodi Smit-McPhee (the co-lead, who also appeared in The Road), Elias Koteas and Dylan Minnette (the bully in the remake who is better known as...
- 9/25/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Fantastic Fest Kickoff It was an epic kickoff to Fantastic Fest at The Paramount Theatre last night. This year, Fantastic Fest is spotlighting the incredible genre films of Norway and after last night's Viking war dance/karoake concert we hope they allow us to do it again some time in the future! Fantastic Fest founder Tim League ripped off a velcro-suit to reveal not-so-modest Viking battle gear. He was joined on stage by Fantastic Fest staff and special guest Eugenio Mira, whose film Agnosia is playing at the fest. It also happened to be Eugenio's birthday and as a sign of gratitude for his wonderful support of the festival (his film The Birthday showed at the very first Fantastic Fest six years ago). Let Me In After the Viking dance things switched gears to a more serious note when the Texas Boys Choir performed music from the score of Let Me In.
- 9/25/2010
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
September 23rd, the first day of Fantastic Fest 2010, is already just a memory, which is why it's good that we've gotten ahold of a few photos from the opening night festivities. In addition, the Dread Central team on the scene, Scott & Tabby Johnson and Clint & Heather McCrocklin, have already posted two new reviews from the fest, both of which are extremely positive.
Fantastic Fest Kickoff
It was an epic kickoff to Fantastic Fest at The Paramount Theatre last night. This year Fantastic Fest is spotlighting the incredible genre films of Norway, and after last night's Viking war dance/karaoke concert, we hope they allow us to do it again some time in the future! Fantastic Fest founder Tim League ripped off a Velcro suit to reveal not-so-modest Viking battle gear. He was joined on stage by Fantastic Fest staff and special guest Eugenio Mira, whose film Agnosia is playing at the fest.
Fantastic Fest Kickoff
It was an epic kickoff to Fantastic Fest at The Paramount Theatre last night. This year Fantastic Fest is spotlighting the incredible genre films of Norway, and after last night's Viking war dance/karaoke concert, we hope they allow us to do it again some time in the future! Fantastic Fest founder Tim League ripped off a Velcro suit to reveal not-so-modest Viking battle gear. He was joined on stage by Fantastic Fest staff and special guest Eugenio Mira, whose film Agnosia is playing at the fest.
- 9/24/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
If there was a more rousing way to kick off Fantastic Fest than bringing in the Texas Boy Choir to set the ominous mood for the opening night film "Let Me In," Tim League will figure it out for next year. The choir only came out after the P.T. Barnum-esque Fantastic Fest co-founder stripped down from a suit and tie to viking wear to celebrate the festival's Norwegian sidebar, brought out "Agnosia" director Eugenio Mira to serenade with Happy Birthday (It's his 33rd, just like Jesus, League noted, to which Mira got on his knee and said "I love you") and got the audience to down a test tube of "green blood" while taking an oath from a schlocky 1970s trailer.
Still, it was the choir that brought down the house, singing Michael Giacchino's brilliant score before raising the curtain on "Let Me In," which proved equally triumphant.
Still, it was the choir that brought down the house, singing Michael Giacchino's brilliant score before raising the curtain on "Let Me In," which proved equally triumphant.
- 9/24/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to Sitges 2010:
Exorcisms, Vampires, Zombies, Martial Arts And Liters Of Blood At Sitges 2010
The 43rd Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, that will take place from 7 to 17 October, presents its lineup, with some films still to be confirmed, for the following sections:
Sitges 43 Official FANTÀSTIC Selection - In Competition
The official selection par excellence will be offering a lineup emphasizing a variety of nationalities (Bulgaria, Japan, France, Swede, Uruguay,...), the impact of new South American cinema, the rebirth of oriental cinema and the mixture of supernatural horror movies with exorcisms, vampires and mutants and everyday horror with real extreme violence.
13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, Japan)
14 Days With Victor (Román Parrado, Spain)
A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop (Zhang Yimou, China, Hong Kong)
Bedevilled (Jang Cheol-soo, South Korea)
Black Death (Christopher Smith, Germany)
La Casa Muda (Gustavo Hernández, Uruguay)
Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima,...
Exorcisms, Vampires, Zombies, Martial Arts And Liters Of Blood At Sitges 2010
The 43rd Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, that will take place from 7 to 17 October, presents its lineup, with some films still to be confirmed, for the following sections:
Sitges 43 Official FANTÀSTIC Selection - In Competition
The official selection par excellence will be offering a lineup emphasizing a variety of nationalities (Bulgaria, Japan, France, Swede, Uruguay,...), the impact of new South American cinema, the rebirth of oriental cinema and the mixture of supernatural horror movies with exorcisms, vampires and mutants and everyday horror with real extreme violence.
13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, Japan)
14 Days With Victor (Román Parrado, Spain)
A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop (Zhang Yimou, China, Hong Kong)
Bedevilled (Jang Cheol-soo, South Korea)
Black Death (Christopher Smith, Germany)
La Casa Muda (Gustavo Hernández, Uruguay)
Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima,...
- 9/17/2010
- Screen Anarchy
If I had the holiday time left, I’d be booking a trip to España right about now. The 43rd annual Sitges kicks off on October 7th and their line up so far is impressive. Damned impressive.
In competition are Gregg Araki’s Kaboom (teaser, stills), Christopher Smith’s Black Death (review), Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports (trailer), Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber (clip) and Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins among many others. In competition in the Panorama section are another great set of films including Shion Sono’s Cold Fish (trailer), Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage (trailer), Jim Mickle’s Stake Land (trailer) and Srdjan Spasojevic’s A Serbian Film (review).
If those titles aren’t enough, there’s loads more including Rob Stefaniuk’s vampire musical road trip film Suck (review, trailer), James Wan’s Insidious (clip), Adam Green’s Frozen (trailer), Black Lightning (trailer), Super (clip), The Vanishing on 7th...
In competition are Gregg Araki’s Kaboom (teaser, stills), Christopher Smith’s Black Death (review), Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports (trailer), Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber (clip) and Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins among many others. In competition in the Panorama section are another great set of films including Shion Sono’s Cold Fish (trailer), Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage (trailer), Jim Mickle’s Stake Land (trailer) and Srdjan Spasojevic’s A Serbian Film (review).
If those titles aren’t enough, there’s loads more including Rob Stefaniuk’s vampire musical road trip film Suck (review, trailer), James Wan’s Insidious (clip), Adam Green’s Frozen (trailer), Black Lightning (trailer), Super (clip), The Vanishing on 7th...
- 9/17/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Fantastic Fest 2010 Adds New Films To Its Impressive Lineup
Fantastic Fest, the largest genre festival in the U.S., is excited to announce additional films to its mind-blowing roster of features & shorts. Highlights of this announcement are the Us premiere of the hyper-stylized action film Bunraku, a sneak preview of Darren Bousman’s terrifying new horror-thriller film, Mother’s Day (featuring a bravura performance by Rebecca DeMornay), and the world premiere of Agnosia, the latest film from Fantastic Fest 2005 Alumnus Eugenio Mira.
Additionally, Fantastic Fest will play host to a sneak preview of the highly anticipated action-comedy Red, starring pretty much the best cast assembled for a comic book adaptation…ever. And if you’re not excited to see Helen Mirren at the helm of a .50 caliber machine gun, we don’t want to know you.
Bill Pullman, one of our all-time favorite Fantastic Fest guests is returning to the festival this year.
Fantastic Fest, the largest genre festival in the U.S., is excited to announce additional films to its mind-blowing roster of features & shorts. Highlights of this announcement are the Us premiere of the hyper-stylized action film Bunraku, a sneak preview of Darren Bousman’s terrifying new horror-thriller film, Mother’s Day (featuring a bravura performance by Rebecca DeMornay), and the world premiere of Agnosia, the latest film from Fantastic Fest 2005 Alumnus Eugenio Mira.
Additionally, Fantastic Fest will play host to a sneak preview of the highly anticipated action-comedy Red, starring pretty much the best cast assembled for a comic book adaptation…ever. And if you’re not excited to see Helen Mirren at the helm of a .50 caliber machine gun, we don’t want to know you.
Bill Pullman, one of our all-time favorite Fantastic Fest guests is returning to the festival this year.
- 9/9/2010
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
With the Fantastic Fest 2010 just two weeks away, the “largest genre festival in the U.S.” has announced a third wave of films.
Included in the line-up are Summit Entertainment’s action-comedy Red, Darren Bousman’s Mother’s Day, and the stylized action flick Bunraku with Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson.
But I’m especially excited about the addition of Agnosia, a “romantic thriller” produced by Guillermo del Toro. ”I’ve read few screenplays in my life that have impressed me as much as Agnosia,” del Toro said. Spanish filmmaker Eugenio Mira directed.
Fantastic Fest is also hosting a special “Master Pancake Theater” (similar to Mystery Science Theater) to mock Independence Day with guest Bill Pullman, plus a Spaceballs quote-along. Finally, they have planned the world premiere of the SyFy movie Sharktopus, followed by the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to Roger Corman and his wife, Julie. Again, I...
Included in the line-up are Summit Entertainment’s action-comedy Red, Darren Bousman’s Mother’s Day, and the stylized action flick Bunraku with Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson.
But I’m especially excited about the addition of Agnosia, a “romantic thriller” produced by Guillermo del Toro. ”I’ve read few screenplays in my life that have impressed me as much as Agnosia,” del Toro said. Spanish filmmaker Eugenio Mira directed.
Fantastic Fest is also hosting a special “Master Pancake Theater” (similar to Mystery Science Theater) to mock Independence Day with guest Bill Pullman, plus a Spaceballs quote-along. Finally, they have planned the world premiere of the SyFy movie Sharktopus, followed by the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to Roger Corman and his wife, Julie. Again, I...
- 9/9/2010
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
It looks like the Fantastic Fest shingdig down in Austin is getting even hotter, if that’s possible with titles like Donnie Yen’s “Legend of the First” and Ryan Reynolds’ “Buried” already announced. The fest has now added four more titles: Guy Moshe’s “Bunraku”: In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter (Josh Hartnett), a young samurai and a bartender (Woody Harrelson) plot revenge against a ruthless leader (Ron Perlman) and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assassins. This visually stunning film is filled with uniquely choreographed action sequences of a new style that melds east with west and old school with new. Director Guy Moshe will be live in person. Eugenio Mira’s “Agnosia”: The producers of Pan’s Labyrinth and The Orphanage present a truly unique romantic thriller from Fantastic Fest veteran Eugenio Mira (The Birthday). “I’ve read...
- 9/9/2010
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Practically every day this week, Fantastic Fest has announced movies, special guests, and events for its 2010 festival. Of course, the film fest does start two weeks from tonight ... but I suspect there are still surprises in store for festgoers.
Yesterday, the last wave of films in the festival lineup was announced, including some world premieres and sneak previews. Darren Bousman, who brought his film Repo: The Genetic Opera to Fantastic Fest 2008, returns with a preview of Mother's Day, along with two of the film's stars, Jaime King and Rebecca De Mornay. The star-studded action-comedy Red will also preview during the fest ... and Karl Urban will be in town with the movie (be still, my heart).
Personally, I am looking forward to Agnosia, the latest film from Spanish director Eugenio Mira, who will be at the fest. Mira was at the first Fantastic Fest in 2005 with his weirdly comic Lovecraftian film The Birthday,...
Yesterday, the last wave of films in the festival lineup was announced, including some world premieres and sneak previews. Darren Bousman, who brought his film Repo: The Genetic Opera to Fantastic Fest 2008, returns with a preview of Mother's Day, along with two of the film's stars, Jaime King and Rebecca De Mornay. The star-studded action-comedy Red will also preview during the fest ... and Karl Urban will be in town with the movie (be still, my heart).
Personally, I am looking forward to Agnosia, the latest film from Spanish director Eugenio Mira, who will be at the fest. Mira was at the first Fantastic Fest in 2005 with his weirdly comic Lovecraftian film The Birthday,...
- 9/9/2010
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
In a few weeks, Austin, Texas will be host to one of the most incredible genre film festivals in the world. While we sadly won’t be able to attend this year’s Fantastic Fest, we are having a blast covering it from afar. The fine programmers are slowly teasing out the incredible line-up of films, and special guests.
Just yesterday it was announced that Roger Corman and his lovely wife Julie will be receiving a lifetime achievement award from the festival, and I couldn’t be happier for all involved. I know this year has been tremendous for Roger, with all of the DVDs and Blu-rays that Shout! Factory have been releasing, the Comic Con panel that Shout helped organize, and now this award from Fantastic Fest, the Corman’s must be riding an incredible wave of joy. We’ve written about several of the Corman Collection releases over the past few months,...
Just yesterday it was announced that Roger Corman and his lovely wife Julie will be receiving a lifetime achievement award from the festival, and I couldn’t be happier for all involved. I know this year has been tremendous for Roger, with all of the DVDs and Blu-rays that Shout! Factory have been releasing, the Comic Con panel that Shout helped organize, and now this award from Fantastic Fest, the Corman’s must be riding an incredible wave of joy. We’ve written about several of the Corman Collection releases over the past few months,...
- 9/9/2010
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
The third wave of programming for the sixth edition of Fantastic Fest, happening September 23rd-30th in Austin, Texas, has been announced with the highlights being the Us premiere of the hyper-stylized action film Bunraku, a sneak preview of Darren Bousman’s terrifying new horror-thriller Mother’s Day, and the world premiere of Agnosia, the latest film from Fantastic Fest 2005 alumnus Eugenio Mira.
A total of 20 films have been added in this latest wave, and we're including them all here, even if a few aren't strictly horror, just to give you an idea of how truly diverse Fantastic Fest is. For the other films screening that week, click here for all our Fantastic Fest 2010 coverage.
Premiere Screenings
Agnosia (2010)
Director: Eugenio Mira, Spain, World Premiere
The producers of Pan’s Labyrinth and The Orphanage present a truly unique romantic thriller from Fantastic Fest veteran Eugenio Mira (The Birthday). “I’ve read...
A total of 20 films have been added in this latest wave, and we're including them all here, even if a few aren't strictly horror, just to give you an idea of how truly diverse Fantastic Fest is. For the other films screening that week, click here for all our Fantastic Fest 2010 coverage.
Premiere Screenings
Agnosia (2010)
Director: Eugenio Mira, Spain, World Premiere
The producers of Pan’s Labyrinth and The Orphanage present a truly unique romantic thriller from Fantastic Fest veteran Eugenio Mira (The Birthday). “I’ve read...
- 9/8/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Fantastic Fest, the largest genre festival in the U.S., is excited to announce additional films to its mind-blowing roster of features & shorts. Highlights of this announcement are the Us premiere of the hyper-stylized action film Bunraku, a sneak preview of Darren Bousman’s terrifying new horror-thriller film, Mother’s Day (featuring a bravura performance by Rebecca DeMornay), and the world premiere of Agnosia, the latest film from Fantastic Fest 2005 Alumnus Eugenio Mira.
Additionally, Fantastic Fest will play host to a sneak preview of the highly anticipated action-comedy Red, starring pretty much the best cast assembled for a comic book adaptation…ever. And if you’re not excited to see Helen Mirren at the helm of a .50 caliber machine gun, we don’t want to know you.
Bill Pullman, one of our all-time favorite Fantastic Fest guests is returning to the festival this year. Pullman will join the hecklers of...
Additionally, Fantastic Fest will play host to a sneak preview of the highly anticipated action-comedy Red, starring pretty much the best cast assembled for a comic book adaptation…ever. And if you’re not excited to see Helen Mirren at the helm of a .50 caliber machine gun, we don’t want to know you.
Bill Pullman, one of our all-time favorite Fantastic Fest guests is returning to the festival this year. Pullman will join the hecklers of...
- 9/8/2010
- by George Bragdon
- OriginalAlamo.com
Another round of programming announcements from Fantastic Fest includes the news that Robert Schwentke's graphic novel adaptation "Red," starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren as former CIA agents forced back into action, will be screening as a sneak preview at the festival, as will "Mother's Day," starring Rebecca De Mornay, the new film from "Repo! The Genetic Opera"'s Darren Bousman. More exciting to me personally is the announcement that Bill Pullman will be appearing in person to help mock "Independence Day" in a special Master Pancake Theater screening of the Roland Emmerich alien disaster epic.
The complete announcement, descriptions courtesy of the festival:
Premieres
Agnosia (2010)
Director: Eugenio Mira, Spain, World Premiere
The producers of Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage present a truly unique romantic thriller from Fantastic Fest veteran Eugenio Mira (The Birthday). "I've read few screenplays in my life that have impressed me as much as Agnosia,...
The complete announcement, descriptions courtesy of the festival:
Premieres
Agnosia (2010)
Director: Eugenio Mira, Spain, World Premiere
The producers of Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage present a truly unique romantic thriller from Fantastic Fest veteran Eugenio Mira (The Birthday). "I've read few screenplays in my life that have impressed me as much as Agnosia,...
- 9/8/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
U.S. genre event, Fantastic Fest, unveiled its second round of titles Wednesday, including the U.S. debut of Guy Moshe's "Bunraku," a sneak preview of Darren Bousman’s new horror-thriller film, "Mother’s Day," and the world premiere of "Agnosia," the latest film from Fantastic Fest 2005 alumnus Eugenio Mira. In addition to the ten films previously announced, Fantastic Fest will sneak action-comedy "Red" starring Helen Mirren. Bill Pullman will return this year for ...
- 9/8/2010
- Indiewire
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