Exceptionally many films have taken part in the Méliès d’Argent competition series for fantasy films at Espoo Ciné this year: nine feature films and ten short films. Pleasingly four Finnish short films were presented in the short film competition series. Also screened at the festival are two Méliès d’Argent winners from earlier this year. The [...]
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Today is the last day of the competition and later tonight we will have to decide the winner for Best Feature Film and Best Short Film for Méliès d’Argent. There is still one more feature film and two short films to consider and then we are done.
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Considering the heaps of shit that keep on flowing out from the tubes dressed up as vampires these days, I’m not envious of the directors who decide to invest their time and enthusiasm on just another vampire story set in the modern world. Vampires (2009) does that. But in order to deliver something new, one [...]