ARCHIVES 2013
International Fantastic Competition
Gold Octopus
Kiss of the Damned
Silver Meilies
Borgman
Jury’s special mention
Dark Touch
Audience Award
Uma História de Amor e Fúria
Short Films Competition
Gold Octopus
Yardbird
Silver Meilies
No tiene Gracia
Jury’s special mention
The Hunt
Audience Award
Yardbird
Young Jury Prize
No tiene Gracia
Prize for Best Short Film Made In France
The Things they Left Behind
Award for Best Animated Short Film
Pryg-Skok
Indie Game Contest
Octopix the best independent full game
Element4l
Octopix of the best independent video game work in progress
Pathogen
Opening / Closing
We Are What We Are
Machete Kills
Fantastic International Competition
App
Bad Milo!
Big Bad Wolves
Borgman
Dark Touch
For Those in Peril
In Fear
Kiss of the Damned
Love Eternal
The Returned
The Station
Uma História de Amor e Fúria
Upstream Color
Crossovers Competition
7 Boxes
Cheap Thrills
Graceland
Our heroes are dead tonight
Proxy
Tore Tanzt
Wrong Cops
Midnight Movies
The Battery
Big Ass Spider
Frankenstein's Army
Fresh Meat
Go Goa Gone
Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles
V/H/S/2
Documentaries
Special Screenings
All Cheerleaders Die
Static
Young Audience
A Letter to Momo
Room on the Broom
International Competition
And Death Will Be Alright
Let Me Go
ESC
Intus
No tiene gracia
Proto
The Hunt
Yardbird
Animation Competition
L'art des Thanatier
The can of sardines
Initium
Linear
The bear's night
Pryg-Skok
Life and death of the famous Grigory Efimovich Rasputin
Zombirama
Made in France Competition
Silent Night
Ecce Mulier
The woman who floated
Guys girls
Rose or the Mute Liars
The Things they Left Behind
Zygomatiques
Monkey Business
Human fascination with apes doubtless has much to do with the proliferation of films featuring giant gorillas and psychotic apes, so many films in fact that they may be categorised as a separate sub-genre, with King Kong forming the gold standard.
The beginnings of King Kong are to be found in films like Lloyd Bacon’s Stark Mad (1929) and, above all, Harry Hoyt’s The Lost World, which already boasted the work of Willis O’Brien, who was later to be responsible for the special effects in King Kong in 1933. It was a project by Harry Hoyt and Willis O’Brien entitled Creation together with a project by Merian C. Cooper on the history of gorillas, produced by RKO, that gave birth to this film classic, which was initially to been titled The Beast and then Kong, only finally to be given the name that resonates like two fists thumping on his chest: King Kong. Shot in the middle of the Great Depression, King Kong evoked in filmgoers then, as it still does today, an allegory of wild nature confronted by the harmful effects of“civilisation”.
With sequels, remakes or just pale copies, King Kong has left an indelible mark on cinema history. To celebrate his 80th birthday, we are pleased to offer you a retrospective of 12 films, all of them 35mm prints, on the subject of apes and forming are view of a 70-year period of the cinema, from Cooper and Schoedsack’s masterpiece to the last remake to date by Peter Jackson, with productions from Hong Kong, Japan and Italy in between.
King Kong (1933)
Mighty Joe Young
Gorilla at Large
Konga
King Kong (1976)
The Mighty Peking Man
Yeti the giant of another world
King Kong VS Godzilla
King Kong Lives
Link
Monkey Shines
King Kong (2005)
El Santo (1917-1984)
For over seven decades Mexico has had a love affair with luchalibre, prompting influential Mexican writer, Carlos Monsivais, to discuss at length the Mexican need to go to wrestling arenas and cheer or curse at their heroes or villains. One of those heroes was Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, better known as “ElSanto”. His popularity was such that the El Santo comic book series, launched in 1952, ran for 35 years. Besides a wrestling megastar, he was a bona fide matinee idol. The production values of his films may have been low by Hollywood standards, but they made for highly entertaining exploitation films with a winning formula. From the Guanajuato mummies to La Llorona or the Wailer, Santo was placed against armies of supernatural foes, many of which were autochthonous (read Mexican monster mythology); though later he would take on Hollywood’s Frankenstein, Dracula andWolfman. His film career took off in 1961 with his 3rd film, Santovs. the Zombies, and he made over 50films from 1961-82. Four of these found a niche in the United States, where they were regulars on TV’s midnight B-movie circuit, although one of his best, Santo vs. the Vampire Women, appeared as an episode on the acclaimed cult series Mystery Science Theatre 3000. By the late 1970s, his stock of monsters depleted, Santo turned to US-Mexican border foes or to Bruce Lee wannabes to choke hammer. But super-hero wrestler films were also starting to wane and Santo retired from the ring and cinema in 1982 at age 65. A genuine folk hero, his legend continues today through myriad tributes in the form of cartoon series, cinema and Santo-inspired wrestlers.
Santo vs. las mujeres vampiro
Santo el enmascardo de plata vs la invasión de los marcianos
El hombre detrás de la máscara
Centenary Peter Cushing
Bringing talent and refinement to British horror films, Peter Cushing (1913-94) was best known for his Hammer Studio roles of Baron Frankenstein, Dr Van Helsing and Sherlock Holmes. In tribute to the birth centenary of this iconic actor who defined the horror films of his times, we present a restored version of a film thought to have fallen off the edge, but which was recently found in the Sony Pictures vault.