Fantasy Filmfest

Geez. The only one I've seen of all those is Identity. It wasn't bad, nothing special. I was more interested in the way switching focus with an anamorphic lens makes everything waver and then pop back again.

Stuff to see from this list:
Ripleys Game (John Malkovitch camps it up - nowt special but entertaining)
Otherworld (Welsh prog nonsense = very violent cartoon)
Narc, My Little Eye,
Dark Water (good Nikata ghost story)
Do not miss Sympathy For Mr Vengence - dark and relentless.

Of that list the films I would like to see are Bubba-Ho-Tep (just a silly idea for a film so great), Cypher and Willard.

Avoid Dirty Deeds, and Phone Booth.

Bubba Ho-Tep has a wonderful premise indeed but doesn't know what to do with it. There's barely enough story for a thirty minute short, the rest is filler. Bruce Campbell does sound exactly like Elvis, though.

Pete OTM re: Ripley's Game and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance. ("Relentless" doesn't begin to describe it.)

Tube has major plausibilty issues but is sufficiently entertaining. Feels like a stupid-ass Wong Jing movie done with a Bruckheimer budget.

Interstella 5555 consists of the Daft Punk anime videos cut together. It's about cock, I guess. But then, what anime isn't.

There were plenty of good ideas in Otherworld but the animation quality put me off completely.

Steer clear of Alive. It's boring as fuck. Except for the showdown - think Neo vs the Hulk, very flashy. Too bad you have to wade through two hours of sci-fi lab-rat thriller without any characters in it to get there.

It's on again!

Opening Night Gala

Control (2003)

Avant Premiere

Hellboy (2004)
Saw (2004)

Centerpiece

Green Butchers, The (2003)

Closing Night Gala

Open Water (2004)

Best of Festivals

Alzheimer Case, The (2003)
Last Horror Movie, The (2003)
Machinist, The (2004)
Perfect Strangers (2003)
Reise ins Glück, Die (2004)

Focus Asia

Arahan (2004)
Azumi (2003)
Dead End Run (2003)
Eye 2, The (2004)
Infernal Affairs (2002)
Infernal Affairs II (2003)
Koma (2004)
Legend of the Evil Lake, The (2003)
Memories of Murder (2003)
Old Boy (2003)
One Missed Call (2003)
Park - 3D, The (2003)
Save the Green Planet (2003)
Sword in the Moon (2003)
Twins Effect, The (2003)

French Connection

Cash Truck (2004)
Evil Words (2003)
Hanging Offense (2003)
High Tension (2003)
Labyrinths (2003)
Madame Edward & Inspector Leon (2004)
Ordeal, The (2004)
Spy Bound (2004)
White Skin (2003)

Midnight Madness

Dead and Breakfast (2004)
Hillside Strangler, The (2004)
Lost Things (2003)
Madhouse (2004)
Mayhem (2001)
Mucha Sangre (2002)
Toolbox Murders, The (2003)

Official Selection

Aro Tolbukhin: In the Mind of a Killer (2002)
Big Empty, The (2004)
Butterfly Effect, The (2004)
Charlie (2004)
Decoys (2004)
Drowning Ghost (2004)
Freeze Frame (2004)
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
Ginger Snaps Unleashed (2004)
Good Cop, The (2004)
I Inside, The (2003)
Immortel (ad vitam) (2004)
Jericho Mansions (2003)
Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)
LD 50 (2003)
Locals, The (2003)
Nothing (2003)
Octane (2003)
One Point O (2004)
Seven Times Lucky (2004)
Slim Susie (2003)
Trespassing (2004)

Retrospektive Shaw Brothers

36th Chamber of Shaolin, The (1977)
New One-Armed Swordsman (1971)
One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (1968)
Shaolin Temple (1976)
Two Heroes (1973)

Get Shorty

13 Days Out (2002)
Destino (2003)
Floß, Das (2004)
Gravedigger, The (2004)
I'll See You in My Dreams (2003)
Im Dunkeln (2004)
Indecision (2004)
Jigsaw (2004)
Kitty (2002)
Last Attack of the Beast, The (2002)
Man in the Cupboard, The (2003)
Terra (2003)
Tramper (2004)
Zur Hölle mit Dir (2003)

I'm very excited about the Shaw Brothers retrospective and I haven't seen the Infernal Affairs series yet. What else is good?

Calum recommended Saw on an ILE thread but judging from the trailer it looks like a run-of-the-mill serial killer bore.