Sep 16 2008
SITGES Film Festival line-up announced!
If that headline didn’t ring any bells with you, then you haven’t yet heard of the — and I mean the — preeminent celebration of fantastic cinema in our whole, wide-old world.
The 2008 SITGES International Film Festival is gearing up for its October 2-12 run, and it promises to be a tasty treat for film freaks (perhaps with heavier emphasis on the latter word). Based in Spain on the Catalan coast, SITGES is now in its 40th year, after its auspicious 1968 debut as the 1st International Week of Fantasy and Horror Movies. Everyone who is anyone in genre cinema has graced its red carpets, from the well-known, such as George A. Romero and Quentin Tarantino, to the relatively obscure (even if undeservedly so), like Takashi Miike, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador and Paul Naschy.
The fest has unveiled its competition line-up here, and it looks terrifically strong. Also exciting is the fact that they’ll be honoring some classic warhorse directors like Abel Ferrara and John Carpenter with “Time Machine” awards in celebration of their memorable bodies of work.
If you’d like to visit the official SITGES website and check out all of its events and screening line-ups (including the out-of-competition films), you can do so here.
