Friday, February 20, 2015

Bellevarado Film Studios

LA VACANZA (Italy)

3:00 PM

Director: Tinto Brass

The second film to team the real-life couple of Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero with director Tinto Brass, is perhaps their greatest collaboration; a story about women in society, and the very nature of sanity, with mediations on the absurd corruption inherent in power. New english subtitles created by HRIFF specifically for our rare HRIFF translated and Tinto Brass approved print of this hard-to-find masterpiece.

Official Selection

Feb 20, Bellevarado Studios

DROPOUT (Italy)

5:00 PM

Director: Tinto Brass

Dropout, which stars (then-and-now) real-life couple Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero who produced and financed the film themselves, tells the tale of a couple who meet in swinging London and run away together to have a series of adventures with societies dropouts. This premiere restoration, has unseen material from the Tinto Brass archives, and was completed in cooperation with Tinto Brass and Alexander Tuschinski, to give viewers the most complete version of the directors original vision, in the highest quality available in the world.

Official Selection

Feb 20, Bellevarado Studios

ISTINTOBRASS (Italy)

7:00 PM

Director: Massimiliano Zanin

Worldwide previewed at the 70th Venice Film Festival and nominated to Nastri d’argento 2014 (a film award assigned by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists) for best documentary of cinema, ISTINTOBRASS tells the story of the artist Tinto Brass through the analysis of the well-known film critics and the tales of those who know the private and professional life of the Venetian director since his formation years in Paris at the Cinémathèque Française until his first great successes with the national and international public, after which he became “the king of the erotic cinema”.

Official Selection

Feb 20, Bellevarado Studios

SEAHORSES (USA)

8:45 PM

Director: Jason Kartalian

A lonely and intense man invites a mysterious woman he met on craigslist into his house. He gets much more than what he bargains for as this strange young woman takes over his life. What transpires is a dramatically intense and darkly comic journey about love, co-dependency and loss. Seahorses is a dark comedy, a drama and an unlikely romance that poses the question: Can we transcend the past so we can live freely in the present?

Official Selection

Feb 20, Bellevarado Studios

SLIT MOUTH WOMAN IN L.A. (Japan)

10:15 PM

Director: Hiro Kay, Akira Hirose, Kazuya Ogawa, Takeshi Sone

This is the first new approach of making a film, for it's a non-remake but original stories of Japanese urban horror legends. The film introduces the following famous characters; Slit mouth woman ,Kokkuri-san (Japanese Oiji board), Onmyo-ji (Practitioner of Japanese esoteric cosmology), and Yurei (Japanese ghost). Utilizing the Japanese horror visual look, these Japanese urban horror legends were never before portrayed in the States, and are combined with western horror characters, like Zombies or Demon. Besides, it also introduces the Japanese alternative culture.(anime, geek, maid cafe, game, food, etc.) The way we produce the film itself is quite unique in film industry. This film creates a unique approach to horrifying visual images & techniques of 'Japanese Urban Legends Horror'.

Official Selection

Feb 20, Bellevarado Studios