Ahir a una de les paradetes del #FestivalDeSitges un noi MOLT jove acompanyat d'un altre de la mateixa edat agafa de la prestatgeria un dvd amb la pel·lícula "Metròpoli" de Fritz Lang i exclama "Peliculón" (sense cap indici de sarcasme). / Yesterday at one of the stands of #SitgesFestival a very young boy accompanied by another one of same age takes from the shelf a dvd with Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" and exclaims "Awesome" (without any hint of sarcasm) #EsperançatPelJovent #HopeForTheFuture

Avui al #SitgesFestival hem vist "Esa cosa con alas". Per mi un pel·liculon. Benedict Cumberbatch incommensurable. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27773954/

Hammer time: Park Chan-wook's OLDBOY (2004) is "a tour-de-force of vibrant filmmaking from start to finish, manipulating the viewer like a master hypnotist, before revealing its final, awful dilemma." Screens 8pm at #SITGESFestival https://projectedfigures.com/2013/12/03/oldboy-2004

"a retrofuturist lo-fi sci-fi romantic comedy satirising the here and now": Michael Lukk Litwak’s feature debut MOLLI AND MAX IN THE FUTURE (2023) screens 7pm this evening at #SITGESFestival https://projectedfigures.com/2023/03/11/molli-and-max-in-the-future-2023/

"René Laloux and Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud animate this episodic SF rescue story for children": rare screening of THE MASTERS OF TIME (LES MAÎTRES DU TEMPS, 1982), 3.45pm at #SITGESFestival https://projectedfigures.com/2022/03/09/les-maitres-du-temps-time-masters-1982

Victor Danell’s good-natured retro adventure UFO SWEDEN "lets a disparate ensemble of dreamers look to the stars, leap through time and find each other." Screens 1.45pm today at #SITGESFestival. Capsule for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/inner-and-outer-spaces-sci-fi-london-day-one/

"Zach Passero’s affectionate Eighties-inflected animated monster movie lets teen rites of passage camp alongside adult ritual": THE WEIRD KIDZ screens 9pm tonight at #SITGESFestival https://projectedfigures.com/2022/10/15/the-weird-kidz-2022/

"cross-cultural documentary traces the origins and influences of a Japanese horror genre": Sarah Appleton & Jasper Sharp's THE J-HORROR VIRUS (2023) + JAGANREI: PSYCHIC VISION (1988) + Q&A, 6.30pm at #SITGESFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/the-j-horror-virus-review-delving-into-a-cultural-phenomenon/

In Paris Zarcilla's modern gothic feature debut RAGING GRACE, "a Filipino carer tries to make a home for herself and her daughter in her employers’ dysfunctional houses". Screens today 4.45pm today at #SITGESFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/raging-grace-review-at-fantasia-2023-creepy-portrait-of-family-and-class-divides/

"prepare to meet your manic, misanthropic maker" on this "allegorical plunge into the lowest depths of the human condition": Phil Tippett's animated deep-dive into depravity MAD GOD (2021) screens 3.30pm at #SITGESFestival https://projectedfigures.com/2022/06/06/mad-god-2021