Festival Fantasia

5.0 star rating
2 reviews

Category: Cinema  [Edit]

1396 Rue Sainte-Catherine O
Montreal, QC H3G 1P9
(514) 876-1760
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2 reviews in English

  • Review from Michele G.

    Boston, MA

    USA
    5.0 star rating
    7/21/2010 1 photo

    This festival is fantastic. World cinema unfurls for a full three weeks every July, and the programming team does a phenomenal job of procuring films that you might never see otherwise. Strange Serbian films, Shaw Brothers classics, Russian obscurities, amazing guests, and sometimes live performances make this fest a world leader in the fantastic and weird in cinema.

    Jeffrey Combs just put on a one-act play here called Nevermore in which he portrayed a spot-on Edgar Allen Poe to a packed house at the gorgeous Rialto Theater. The HP Lovecraft master class conducted by horror director Stuart Gordon and screenwriter Dennis Paoli was sheer awesomeness.

    Head here for a daily blog and online film descriptions! http://www.fantasiafes...

    Also, this is one of the only places you can catch the new, restored footage of Metropolis with a live orchestra!

    Fantasia, may you live a long and weird, weird life!!

    Love,
    Your fans

  • Review from Spiro P.

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    Toronto, ON

    5.0 star rating
    12/6/2010

    This is my favorite film festival.   I appreciate the films that are played at this festival.  Alot of the films come from the far east.  Some of them are thrillers, fantasy, horror, and/or martial arts.
    There are english language movies here as well, but they will not be mainstream ones.

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