Posted by Blake on Friday, October 26 2007 at 11:50 am
::: Sitges 07: Night of the Living Nacho
Steve Dollar, Paste Magazine
Really well written piece that covers quite a few films at Sitges this year and a nice look at Nacho’s Timecrimes.
Movie Tags: Film Festivals: 40th Sitges Film Festival, People: Nacho Vigalondo, Movies: Timecrimes (2007)
Posted by Blake on Thursday, October 25 2007 at 11:17 am
Over at Twitch, Todd brings us some incredibly exciting news on Timecrimes! Not only that he drops first official word of Nacho’s follow up to the film (if this was a karaoke party we would be queuing up David Bowie’s Space Oddity to celebrate).
::: Magnolia Bringing Nacho Vigalondo’s TIME CRIMES To The World!
Todd, Twitch
Movie Tags: Film Festivals: Fantastic Fest 2007, Movie News, Film Festivals: 40th Sitges Film Festival, People: Nacho Vigalondo, Movies: Timecrimes (2007)
Posted by Blake on Monday, October 22 2007 at 9:08 am
The masked pink mummy in Nacho Vigalondo’s debut feature Timecrimes (Los Cronocrímenes). This image will stand as one my favorites of cinema 2007.
Fantastic Fest audiences ate up this refreshing softly stirring time travel film from Nacho Vigalondo (view blog). In Sitges audiences were much more hostile and indifferent to it. They seemed to go into it with knives out ready to cut it to pieces, which I found rather sad and unfortunate. Such is the fate of films from Spain that play there. If a film isn’t more of a straight up horror film like [REC] and in addition doesn’t have strong mainstream sensibilities it seems to get railed against. It’s unique voice and vision that was void of cliche and non-mainstream pandering is exactly what brought it to such praise at Fantastic Fest. Those that went into Timecrimes with an open mind at Sitges seemed to really respond to the film. I saw a long line of people that looked like they had just seen an angel from Heaven standing in line waiting to talk to Nacho Vigalondo after its first screening. A dense time travel film with deep musings on changing fate that acts as if the audience is smart and can follow along certainly is something I appreciate. As of now this film is my second favorite film of the year. My favorite still being P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood.
Expect an interview I did with its star Karra Elejalde (Hector) and a part two interview I did with its director (to be a companion piece to the interview Peter Martin did) on Twitch soon.
Related Coverage:
::: Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes) at Fantastic Fest 2007
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Movie Tags: Movie Wallpaper, Movie Wallpaper - 2000's, Film Festivals: Fantastic Fest 2007, Film Festivals: 40th Sitges Film Festival, People: Nacho Vigalondo, Movies: Timecrimes (2007)