...AND IT ROCKS!!!
I've been dreadfully neglecting the latest news concerning this year's Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, but thanks go to Peter Cornelissen who shook me awake in our forum. Because man... this festival brings the goods this year.
Not only have they secured most of the premieres and hits from the Brussels festival, they also have Tim Burton showing up in person to receive a lifetime achievement award.
I'd love to be able to cover Brussels and Amsterdam in the same way as I did Rotterdam, but time constraints thwart me. I'll sure as hell try to see a couple of titles in Amsterdam though!
The complete program can be found at the AFFF website, but look at this for example:
5 Centimeters Per Second
Sword of the Stranger
Dante's Inferno
Film Noir
Vexille
Appleseed: Ex Machina
Fears of the Dark
That's only their animation line-up!
And the rest of the list reads like a veritable summary of what we cover (and like) here at Twitch: Wolfhound, Sukiyaki Western Django, The Machine Girl, King of the Hill, Timecrimes, Doomsday, [*Rec], The Cottage...
The list goes on.
The AFFF starts on the 9th of April and ends at the 20th. There are certainly worse reasons to visit Amsterdam!
Damn I would have loved to also have seen 'Sukiyaki Western Django' included in my insane BIFFF schedule (even though i've got the dvd at home)...
For the curious ones ...
"Machine Girl" totally kicked ass at the BIFFF and put the crowd in a blaze
and achieved the impossible by actually exceeding my wildest expectations :)
Wow, how we wish we could be there...
we wonder whether 'Tekon kinkurîto' would be in the festival as well, it's a mind blowing anime film.
Tekkon Kinkreet was at AFFF last year, I thought, together with The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. These guys have great taste...
guys come on!
the biggest reason to go to AFFF is the fact that 'the Fall' is showing!