Last week, we got a look at some of the wacky and wonderful films that will be shown at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival – films about tiny action heroes and video game critics. But that was just a sample of the cinematic feast the Quebec-based festival has prepared for you.
These entrées (yep, sticking with that metaphor) include the zombie-comedy, Life After Beth starry Aubrey Plaza (Safety Not Guaranteed, TV’s Parks and Recreation); From Vegas to Macau, the fourth entry in the God of Gamblers series starring Hong Kong-action superstar, Chow Yun-fat (The Monkey King, Let the Bullets Fly); plus popular indie director and gay icon Greg Araki’s (Nowhere, Mysterious Skin) latest film, White Bird in a Blizzard.
Fantasia 2014 will also be one of the latest film festivals to show Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank, the weird sort-of-true story about a weird band led by the titular Frank (Michael Fassbender), who wears a giant fake head all the time, which is weird. It’s an appropriate entry considering “weird” may just be one of the qualifiers for a spot at Fantasia.
Fantasia will be held in Montreal from July 17th to August 5th (the year should be obvious at this point).
Here’s a list of newly added films:
Bag Boy Lover Boy
Dir: Andres Torres
Bloody Knuckles
Dir: Matt O’mahoney
Hana-dama: The Origins
Dir: Hisayasu Sato
I Am A Knife With Legs
Dir: Bennet Jones
At The Devil’s Door (formerly titled Home)
Dir: Nicholas Mccarthy
Open Windows
Dir: Nacho Vigalondo
Cheatin’
Dir: Bill Plympton
Closer to God
Usa Dir: Billy Senese
Creep
Dir: Patrick Brice
The Creeping Garden
Dir: Tim Grabham, Jasper Sharp
Dancing Karate Kid
Dir: Tsukasa Kishimoto
The Devil’s Mile
Dir: Joseph O’brien
The Drownsman
Dir: Chad Archibald
Fight Church
Dir: Daniel Junge, Bryan Storkle
Frank
Dir: Lenny Abrahamson
From Vegas To Macau
Dir: Wong Jin
Fuku-chan Of Fukufuku Flats
Dir: Yosuke Fujita
Housebound
Dir: Gerard Johnstone
The Hundred Year-old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared
Dir: Felix Herngren
Ingtoogi: The Battle Of Internet Trolls
Dir: Um Tae-hwa
In Order Of Disappearance
Dir: Hans Petter Moland
Jellyfish Eyes
Dir: Takashi Murakami
Kumiko The Treasure Hunter
Dir: David Zellner
Kundo: Age Of The Rampant
Dir: Yoon Jong-bin
Let Us Prey
Dir: Brian O’Malley
Life After Beth
Dir: Jeff Baena
3D Naked Ambition
Dir: Lee Kung Lok
No Tears For The Dead
Dir: Lee Jeong-beom
Starry Eyes
Dir: Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch
Stereo
Germany Dir: Maximilian Erlenwein
Summer Of Blood
Dir: Onur Tukel
Ugly
Dir: Anurag Kashyap
White Bird In A Blizzard
Dir: Gregg Araki