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[bryant]

I am fantastically excited: Fangoria has the first peek at the FanTasia film festival lineup. As I'd hoped, Night Watch and Kitamura's Godzilla: Final Wars will be there. Night Watch is the Russian conspiracy modern fantasy epic which has a ton of buzz, and Kitamura is of course the director of the insanely spirited Versus. Those were the movies I'd really wanted to see.

Lots of other cool stuff, too. Lion's Gate has a small slew of J-horror sequels, which I'll see if it's convenient, and the horror anthology film Three... Extremes by Miike, Fruit Chan, and Chan-wook Park. I'll see that for shock value. Lots of zombie movies. Hm, and Paul Spurrier's "P" -- made in Thailand by a British director, looks interesting, gives me some creepy vibes. I love fusion and I want to see that one badly.

Speaking of creepy, Creep looks intriguing as well. I don't know a lot about it, but I like subway movies and I like Franka Potente. There's a capsule review of it on Twitch, from whence I also got the Fangoria link.

I love this festival so much.

Comments

[head58.livejournal.com]

I don't know a single thing about any of these films.

But I wil still sit through as many as humanly possible.

[bryant]

See, and that's the essential spirit of the thing!

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if I can make the trip or not, but do let me know the dates you plan on going as soon as you know them.

[bryant]

Absolutely.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Is it true that you need a passport to get across the border now? If so, I'd better get my ass on that right away. Even still, it might be too late.

[head58.livejournal.com]

I didn't think that took effect yet, did it? Or did it pass at all?

All the same, I brought mine last time, because I'm a nervous nelly w/r/t travel and border hassles and full body cavity searches.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's officially in effect yet. You should be good with a driver's license.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Usually, I needed the license and my birth certificate.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Last year, Bryant and I just got waved through when we crossed the border at midnight. No checking in the car, no checking of IDs, nothing. Just two white guys coming back into the US in the dead of night. What harm could we possibly do?

I think that was about the time we started talking about werewolf truckers.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

OK, birth certificate too if you've got it. But yeah, what Chris said. The post 9-11 crackdown is apparently over (at the road crossings that is - airports are a different story). I haven't had to even show ID the last two times. All the Canadians care about is handguns and getting their duty on liquor & smokes, eh, and all the Americans care about is if you're swarthy-looking.

[kodi]

Looks like the change doesn't take affect for Canada until 2007. Even if it did, it probably wouldn't be too late - I applied for a passport earlier this year, and although they claimed it would take 6 weeks, I had it in 2.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

When is all this?

[head58.livejournal.com]

July. In Montreal. Wanna go?

http://www.fantasiafest.com/en/index.php

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Hrm, tempting. . .Since that is when I'm going to be in Boston and all. . .we'll have to think about that. And I still have to come back here on the 11.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Aargh. They say that Night Watch is the closing night of the festival. That was one of the one's I really wanted to see.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I so want to see Night Watch....sigh....

[bryant]

I may soon be able to enable that desire.

[bryant]

So...

What are you guys doing this weekend?

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Not much. Is it playing somewhere or do you have it?

[bryant]

I have it in my hot little hands. God bless EBay.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

WooHoo Movie night!