The people have spoken at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival. Nicky Murphy’s vampire mockumentary “I Love Paris” took home best international feature honors at the audience awards, while Masanao Kawajiri’s “Cherry and Virgin” was honored with best animated feature. This year’s Fantasia International Film Festival took place from July 16 to Aug. 2 in
Six men lie face down on the ground, licking a deserted Los Angeles street It’s a stomach-churning introduction, but “Sour Minnows” is not a conventional tale. It’s a movie about roommates Ricky (David Brown, “Jury Duty”) and Tepper (Chase Williamson, “The Guest”) who one day accidentally enter a different plane of existence while shopping. Soon,
Heretic is in charge of global sales of “Hearing” (“Thính Giác”), the second feature film by Vietnamese director Lê Bảo, which will be screened in the international competition at the Locarno Festival. Written and directed by Lê Bảo, “Hearing” centers on Ninh, a mechanic whose work installing decibel meters in public spaces and private homes
A 25-foot fiberglass model of a shark (or at least its back half) adorning the roof of a townhouse in suburban Oxford, England, the Headington Shark is the kind of local curiosity that makes any casual passerby think, “There must be a story there.” And there is: it’s a protest artwork conceived in 1986 by