I'm So Excited! a campy sexy film out of Spain starts the festival, but I don't really know why. It doesn't have a lot of buzz behind it or anything. It's rush line, but if you want to see comedians on a plane doing things I suggest Airplane!.
We have a great amount of foreign content including Takashi Miike's Lesson of Evil about a popular teacher turning out to be an all out psycho, this prolific director has no end of films he churns out, but with great quality and his own signature style.
The Act of Killing has been on my radar since, hhmm for at least a year. Drafhouse grabbed this frightful doc on a bunch of soldiers re-enacting their brutal murders through artistic means like dance. Yes, real soldiers act out how they gunned down and slaughtered Christians in this uneasy documentary.
Drug War is a Chinese film with some hype behind it, can it pull off the drama and action of stateside films. More than likely, did anyone see Gangster Squad, no of course you didn't.
Oh, Germans and apocalyptic settings, it's too good to be true. They just have what it takes to make things weird and when a village becomes barren and winter never comes things don't go well. They don't go well at all in The Fifth Season.
Back to the states for good ol' American horror with You're Next. I might be full of people being hunted after The Purge comes out shortly before this does. Ooh, Ti West might did in and after the stuff he's been pulling with his short films, he deserves too.
Sadly, the Spike Jonze: A Rubberband and His Comb conversation is only rush line as this is written. Who doesn't want to get into his head for a while, better than listening to Neil Gaiman for the hundredth time. He's in LA a lot lately.
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