FANOMENON
26th Leeds International Film Festival www.leedsfilm.com
King Kong vs Godzilla Fanomenon Retro
Dir. Ishirô Honda, Japan, 1962, 99 mins, ST Sat 3, 13:45, HYDE The first of a cracking classic Japanese monster double bill with Matango, presented in association with Zipangu Festival and featuring rarely screened archive 35mm prints. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) sees the world’s two most monumental monsters go head-to-head, slugging it out in their first ever colour widescreen outing. The film remains the most commercially successful of all the Godzilla films to date. Both films in the double bill are directed by the legendary Ishiro Honda, creator of Godzilla and the mastermind behind some of Japan’s most inventive and memorable apocalyptic visions.
The King of Pigs
Fanomenon Panorama Dir. Yeon Sang-ho , South Korea, 2011, 97 mins, ST Fri 2, 14:30, VUE1 • Sat 3 14:00, VUE1 King of Pigs is an utterly compelling and emotionally shattering animation from Korea about the brutality of school bullying. Kyung-Min‘s business is failing and he can’t stop thinking about his middle school days, back when he was one of the lowly, bullied ‘pigs’, the rock-bottom caste of the social animal kingdom, at the mercy of the popular ‘dogs’. He meets his old school friend, Jong-Suk and together they pay tribute to Chul-Yi, their old class comrade who fought back against the bullies and became, for one blazing moment in time, The King of Pigs.
The Legend of Kaspar Hauser Fanomenon Panorama
DIr. Davide Manuli, Italy, 2012, 95 mins, ST Mon 12, 18:30, HYDE A radical reinvention of The Legend of Kaspar Hauser about the appearance of a young man who has been held captive throughout his life, very different from Werner Herzog’s famous 1974 version. Davide Manuli’s cult reboot is a surreal sci-fi western odyssey set on a remote Mediterranean Island with a throbbing techno soundtrack and a bizarre dual role for Vincent Gallo as ‘the pusher’ and a drawling sheriff DJ who thinks Kaspar is the new Messiah. Oh and Kaspar Hauser is played by a beautiful, androgynous young woman, Silvia Calderoni.
A Little Bit Zombie
Night of the Dead 12, UK Premiere Dir. Casey Walker, USA, 2012, 87 mins Sat 3, Part of Night of the Dead 12, HYDE Steve and his bride-to-be Tina are having a weekend away so that they can spend some time with Steve’s sister and her husband. While the boys are planning a weekend of drinking, bridezilla Tina has other plans - organising the wedding and making corsages. That is until Steve gets bitten by a zombieinfected mosquito and acquires an unquenchable appetite for brains (even if they are still inside his fiance’s pet rabbit). Tina refuses to let Steve’s condition, or a maniacal zombie hunter, get in the way of the wedding and goes to any lengths to get him to the church on time.
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TOWNHALL1&2 - Leeds Town Hall HYDE - Hyde Park Picture House VUE1&2 - Vue in the Light VARIETIES - City Varieties