Speaker 1: Hey, folks, welcome to a special episode of the Projection
Speaker 1: Boothheim heros Mike White, I want to talk about Fantasia.
Speaker 1: You are going to be hearing a lot about the
Speaker 1: Fantasia Fest, hopefully over the next few weeks. Yeah, that's Fantasia,
Speaker 1: the film festival, not the Disney film talking about Fantasia
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, the festival of fantastic films that takes
Speaker 1: place in Montreal every year. It is coming to starting
Speaker 1: on July sixteenth this year. I will not be in attendance,
Speaker 1: but I will be covering some of the movies, hopefully
Speaker 1: talking with some of the filmmakers around here. So really
Speaker 1: a lot of what I cover is going to be
Speaker 1: based upon the availability of filmmakers. So doing these kind
Speaker 1: of quote unquote curtain raisers, it's a little difficult for
Speaker 1: me because I'm not exactly sure who all I'll be
Speaker 1: talking to, and I don't tend to request the screeners
Speaker 1: for films when I don't have the I don't want
Speaker 1: to say guarantee, but the opportunity to talk to the filmmakers.
Speaker 1: Of course, being Fantasia, there is a ton of great
Speaker 1: Asian films available. It's right in the name Folks Fantasia.
Speaker 1: That's because it really relies on great Asian cinema, and
Speaker 1: this year's no exception. There is a animated version now
Speaker 1: of All You Need Is Kill, which most people will
Speaker 1: know as Edge of Tomorrow, which was actually based upon
Speaker 1: a relatively short book, if not a short story, and
Speaker 1: there is now an anime of that that is going
Speaker 1: to be playing at the festival. They're also bringing back,
Speaker 1: speaking of anime, a restored version of Angel's Egg, which
Speaker 1: I haven't seen yet, but that's one movie I've been
Speaker 1: wanting to see. We talked about Belladona of Sadness a
Speaker 1: few years ago on the show. Angel's Egg is one
Speaker 1: of those films like Belladina of Sadness that's just kind
Speaker 1: of lifted up as being a really beautiful anime film,
Speaker 1: and from everything of the film I've seen, it seems
Speaker 1: like a very correct approach to that. That's also the
Speaker 1: thing is, I don't tend to get excited about films
Speaker 1: that I haven't seen yet because I don't have that
Speaker 1: much information, and also I don't want that much information.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go out and watch a bunch
Speaker 1: of these trailers because I really enjoy being surprised. So
Speaker 1: I feel kind of terrible for the folks that fantation
Speaker 1: when they tell me, oh, you got to do this,
Speaker 1: You have to do this curtain raiser before you actually
Speaker 1: can get approved to be a critic for the film Festival.
Speaker 1: So I will probably talk a lot about some of
Speaker 1: the older screenings of things that I am familiar with,
Speaker 1: such as Bullet in the Head, the John Wufilm. There's
Speaker 1: going to be a restoration of that. Of course, you
Speaker 1: are probably aware that there are a lot of WU
Speaker 1: films and heroic bloodshed films from that golden era of
Speaker 1: Hong Kong cinema, the late eighties early nineties, when stuff
Speaker 1: was just blowing up over there, and I'm so excited
Speaker 1: for more people to see these films. I'm really excited
Speaker 1: for more people to see bullet in the Head. I've
Speaker 1: almost kind of held a torch for that movie. A
Speaker 1: few years ago, I did a really stupid thing, but
Speaker 1: I went through and I tried to track down as
Speaker 1: many versions of Bullet in the Head as I possibly
Speaker 1: could and try to make a I don't want to
Speaker 1: say it was the complete version, but at least start
Speaker 1: to show how many different versions that there were, and
Speaker 1: really went through painstakingly. I would find, like a shitty bootleg.
Speaker 1: There was a shitty bootleg of that movie that was
Speaker 1: probably the Taiwanese version. It was different than the Hong
Speaker 1: Kong version, different than the mainland version. And went out
Speaker 1: and got that digitized that and then started to lay
Speaker 1: over pieces from other versions to try to make the
Speaker 1: most complete one I could. The Taiwanese one. There were
Speaker 1: times where there were a frame or two that were
Speaker 1: in that that weren't in any other versions. I mean
Speaker 1: really just literally a frame or two. But then you
Speaker 1: would also get major sections that were completely missing from
Speaker 1: other versions. You would get some versions that had a
Speaker 1: different ending. I remember I saw that originally in the
Speaker 1: theater and saw it with what I called the man
Speaker 1: who would be King ending, and then I rented it
Speaker 1: from a Chinese grocery store. The whole movie had a
Speaker 1: completely different ending. That is what people generally call the
Speaker 1: Carfu ending. I'm curious what this greening is going to
Speaker 1: be like, it's a supposed to be one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty six minutes. I don't remember off the top of
Speaker 1: my head which version that is from that, but more
Speaker 1: people definitely need to see that movie, no matter what
Speaker 1: version it is. There's also a restoration screening of a
Speaker 1: Chinese ghost story. Three. This is top stuff, guys. I
Speaker 1: cannot say enough nice things about some of these Hong
Speaker 1: Kong films that just really for me changed how I
Speaker 1: looked at stuff. Had no idea that this type of
Speaker 1: cinemi existed. Of course, they're going to be playing Eddington,
Speaker 1: the new ari Ast film. I haven't seen the last
Speaker 1: last arist film, maybe the last two Ariaster films. Not
Speaker 1: a big arister, guy, I guess. I mean they're fun,
Speaker 1: They're funny. I mean I found Hereditary to be absolutely hilarious,
Speaker 1: and Midsommar as well. I don't know if I'm supposed to,
Speaker 1: but I definitely did. I mean, especially when that little
Speaker 1: girl takes that face plant right to the poll. That
Speaker 1: was pretty damn funny. Forbidden City is going to be playing.
Speaker 1: That is actually not a Hong Kong film. It is
Speaker 1: a Italian Mandarin joint. It's got a name like it
Speaker 1: is a older Hong Kong movie, but it is a
Speaker 1: brand new thing and it looks fantastic. The film Fuck
Speaker 1: Toys is going to be playing. I did get to
Speaker 1: see that earlier from another festival, really really fun The
Speaker 1: Girl Who's Still Time is going to be playing, which
Speaker 1: looks like it's a new version that is more of
Speaker 1: like a three D animation that is different than I
Speaker 1: believe The Girl Who Walked Through Time. But yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: see how that compares. Also, there's going to be a
Speaker 1: retro screening of Funky Forest The First Contact, which is
Speaker 1: one of the most fucked up Japanese films that I've seen,
Speaker 1: outside of, of course, Takashimike. There's even a documentary about
Speaker 1: Japanese amant garde pioneers, which looks absolutely incredible. I'm hoping
Speaker 1: that some of my favorite avant garde filmmakers are actually
Speaker 1: discussed in that, but that is when I am super
Speaker 1: excited to be able to see hopefully they discussed some
Speaker 1: Shuji Tara Yama. As far as other retro screenings, are
Speaker 1: going to be doing a Nightmare before Christmas, as well
Speaker 1: as Night of the Juggler, which spoiler alert is not
Speaker 1: a lot of juggling and not nearly enough, especially not
Speaker 1: nearly enough to put that right in the name of
Speaker 1: the film. You would think maybe like a Tommy Smothers
Speaker 1: documentary would be called that but yeah, not nearly nearly,
Speaker 1: nearly enough juggling. Also a retro screening of pen All Summer,
Speaker 1: which I know that that was kind of hot a
Speaker 1: few years ago. I'm very excited that that is. I'm
Speaker 1: really glad that that is getting a little bit more attention.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but they're going to be showing
Speaker 1: the Smurfs, but I yeah, I guess this is the
Speaker 1: new one, the one with Rihanna, So I'm I don't know,
Speaker 1: I guess because it's the Smurfs, maybe that's why they're
Speaker 1: showing it. And of course there's going to be special
Speaker 1: events that are happening at the festival as well. There
Speaker 1: will be guests who are speaking. Even Danny Elfman will
Speaker 1: be up there talking about his work as well. I
Speaker 1: believe that's where we're getting the Nightmare before Christmas screening from.
Speaker 1: And even our old friend Lloyd Kaufman is going to
Speaker 1: be up there, hopefully maybe showing the new Taxic Avenger.
Speaker 1: But I actually think that that showed last year and
Speaker 1: we've just been waiting for that one to come out otherwise,
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure exactly what's happening with that film,
Speaker 1: why it took so long. I mean, if that's Peter
Speaker 1: Dinklingen there, for God's sakes, release it. But that one
Speaker 1: will be coming to us a lot sooner than Tom
Speaker 1: Six's The Yaina Club, which I'm still curious to see.
Speaker 1: Would still like to see that one, but I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that that's never going to be released. Well, folks,
Speaker 1: hopefully that checks that box of doing a curtain raiser
Speaker 1: for Fantasia. I'm super excited to actually see some of
Speaker 1: these movies, talk with some of the filmmakers and share
Speaker 1: those interviews with y'all. So definitely keep an eye out
Speaker 1: for a Fantasia series of podcasts coming to your feed.
Speaker 1: And in the meantime, we're gonna keep talking about older films,
Speaker 1: genre films, especially this month with sci Fi July. We
Speaker 1: will be discussing a whole lot of great things. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: by the time this has come out, we have kicked
Speaker 1: things off with Metropolis, got a lot of other good
Speaker 1: stuff happening in July. Thanks so much for listening. Keeps
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