The Critic's Week invited Juan Antonio Bayona and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to serve as godfathers to Gabe Ibáñez and his film Hierro. Starring is the strikingly beautiful actress Elena Anaya from Talk to Her, Savage Grace and breakout role in Sex and Lucia).
Won’t cause the distress the title suggests: Fresnadillo Can't Hack it.
Spanish filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s first film since his excellent 2007 28 Weeks Later...
It's official. The cruelest bunch on the film festival circuit are the programmers from TIFF. Once again they make choosing what films to cover during a film festival a painstaking process. A sizeable chunk of films among the just announced Gala and Special Presentations reflect ongoing trends, heavy on world premieres of Brit offerings, red carpet bling items that will be receiving a theatrical release with weeks of the T.O premiere, and a satisfying mix of Cannes items that are definitely worth re-watching and Venice items that have been circled as must see coverage items for the IONCINEMA.com team.
Today co-directors Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling of the Toronto International Film Festival announce the first batch of titles that are the make-up of the 36th edition. Today's the pair will read off mostly Gala screening mentions (our Blake Williams will be LIVE tweeting), which in turn give us a strong indication as to what will be shown in Venice and what Telluride, NYFF and BFI London Film Festivals might salvage/lasso as their own.