From April 18 thru 24 1996, the Amsterdam theatres Alhambra and Tuschinski are the venue of the 13th Festival of the Fantasic Film, organized by Stichting Film Events.Background
This will mark the second occasion on which the annual Weekend of Terror, which dates back to 1984, will be expanded to a week-long festival. In April 1993 the obvious occasion was its 10th anniversary. This time around there are three good reasons:
> In 1995/96 we celebrate the centennial of moving pictures.Since fantastic cinema is as old as its medium, we want to give it due attention.
> FFFXIII wil probably be the last possibility to stage such an event at the Alhambra theatre: after the expansion of Tuschinski theatre Alhambra wil be closed down. With that Amsterdam will lose it's last authentic neighboorhood cinema. Film Events mourns this development, not in the least because it was at the Alhambra that the Weekend of Terror was born.
> To a festival of the fantastic film, a thirteenth edition is as much cause for celebration as a tenth or a fifteenth would be.
As in previous editions a representative selection will be made of the new fantastic films on offer, regardless of their theatrical distribution in Holland. This part of the programme will encompass 21 titles.Programme
The festival's retrospective will be dedicated to Wes Craven, all things considered the only contemporary innovator of fantastic cinema our festival hasn't paid proper attention to. Depending on availability this part of the programme will consist of seven to fourteen titles.
The first-run programme will feature short genremovies from Holland, among which The Prodigal Son (Chris W. Mitchell) and The Bitch Is Back (Tjebbo Penning).
As our contribution to the celebration of the centennial of cinema we present a sidebar programme on '100 Years of European Fantastic Film'. This part of the festival, containing seven titles, will be supervised by the editors of the Groningen-based fanzine Camera Obscura, perrennial advocates of the European genrefilm.
Talkshows with foreign guests will be hosted at Alhambra 2. We have invited Clive Barker (US), Dario Argento (Italy), Frank LaLoggia (US), Stuart Gordon (US), Brian Yuzna (US), Harry Kümel (Belgium) and Nigel Wingrove (Redemption Video,GB). In the talkshows we want to focus on the current discussion of the influence of on-screen violence on society. The organisation of the weekend of Terror can't help but feel that in the public discussion of this subject influentious people tend to broadly generalise. It's time to let the professionals have their say.
As a special guest we want to invite British filmmaker and video-distributor Nigel Wingrove, owner of the successful Redemption- and Jezebel labels. Prone to be at loggerheads with the British Board of Classification, he is currently fighting for his rights at the European Court.
Four of the public's favourites of the Festival will be screened at the Night of Terror, Saturday April 20/Sunday 21.
The most popular premiere movie of the festival will be awarded the audience-chosen Silver Scream Award. In previous years recipients were Clive Barker (Nightbreed, 1990), Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, 1991), Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, 1992), Peter Jackson (Brain Dead/Dead Alive, 1993), Brian Yuzna (Return of the Living Dead, 1994) and Michele Soavi (Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man, 1995).
The programme is completed by three matinees aimed at a younger audience.
The 13th Festival of the Fantastic Film is organised by the same people responsible for the annual weekend of Terror. They are:Organisation
Jan Doense (movie- and video ditributor, editor-in-chief of the Dutch Film Yearbook 1990-95, cultfilm programmer of the Dutch Film Museum and free lance film journalist), Jac. Goderie (programmer Pathé Cinema's, tv host Avro's Filmspot), Phil van Tongeren (film journalist and screenwriter), Fir Suidema (producer and importer of movie soundtracks), Bart Oosterhoorn (graphic designer) and Peter Westervoorde (staff Dutch Film Museum). A host of volunteers and part-time employees contributes to the realisation and accompaniment of the festival.
Ticket pre-sales start on April 11 at the ticket office of Alhambra Theatre. Important: At the same time a special phone number will be opened to reservations. The number will be posted here as soon as available.Pre-sales
Pre-sales for The Night of Terror start April 6 at noon (GMT+1) only at the following theatres: Amsterdam Tuschinski, Rotterdam Lumière, The Hague Tuschinski, Utrecht Rembrandt, Groningen Pathé and Maastricht Pathé.
Afternoon shows Dfl 9 eachTicket prices
Evening shows Dfl 11 each
Day pass (3 shows) Dfl 32,50
Night of Terror (4 films) Dfl 40
A 80 page catalogue is being printed and expected out around April 6. It can be ordered in advance for (the equivalent of) Dfl 10 (Holland) or Dfl 15 (other countries), made payable to Stichting Film Events, Amsterdam (Postbank account # 6494305).Catalogue and poster
An A2-sized poster can be bought at the festival only (Dfl 10).
The T-shirts of The Weekend of Terror are extremely popular and traditionally sell out in the first hours of the festival. On the occasion of the FFFXIII two different shirts will be printed. Pictures of the prints will be posted here soon!T-shirts
Both shirts can be ordered in advance and sell for (the equivalent of) Dfl 25 each (plus Dfl 10 p&p), made payable to Stichting Film Events, Amsterdam (Postbank account # 6494305). Sixe XL. Please allow two weeks for delivery.
Schokkend Nieuws (Shocking News) is the Dutch fanzine for genre-film. It contains reviews of theatrical and video-releases, books and fanzines, news, special features and interviews. In it's three years of publication it has interviewed among others Dario Argento, Jörg Buttgereit, Lucio Fulci, Frank Henenlotter, Tobe Hooper, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Christopher Lee, John McNaughton, Paul Naschy, George A. Romero, Michele Soavi, Shinya Tsukamoto and Brian Yuzna. Schokkend Nieuws is published bi-monthly, A5-sized and contains 20-24 pages. Foreign readers please note: except for the column 'Confessions of a Smut Peddler' by Jack Stevenson, Schokkend Nieuws is in Dutch!Magazine
A one-year subscription is (the equivalent of) Dfl 25 (Holland) or Dfl 40 (other countries), made payable to Stichting Film Events, Amsterdam (Postbank account # 6494305).
