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Fantastic Fest: HD Trailer for BODY TEMPERATURE (2011)

If you liked LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (2007) starring Ryan Gosling, a great film, then you may like BODY TEMPERATURE… or, you may find yourself in over your head. BODY TEMPERATURE is playing as part of Fantastic Fest 2011, which means it’s not your mama’s quirky romantic comedy. Created with a bizarreness that can only come from Japan, BODY TEMPERATURE looks to be an oddly charming dramedy.

Synopsis: Takaomi Ogata’s BODY TEMPERATURE is a weird surreal drama about a young man who falls in love with a life-size sex doll. Rintaro (Chavetaro Ishizaki) is a lonely guy who lives with a sex doll named Ibuki (played, at times, by Rin Sakuragi). As far as Rintaro is concerned, his relationship is completely normal. He eats with the doll, goes on dates, and enjoys numerous “intimate” moments with her. Once Ritaro decides to “cheat” with a real woman, his latex fantasy life begins to unravel.

‘Gentlemen Broncos’ is set to kick off Fantastic Fest 2009

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Via the Fantastic Fest twitter we have been informed that ‘Gentlemen Broncos’ will open Fantastic Fest 2009. With more updates coming our way in the next hour we wanted to give you a breakdown of the opening night film. Here is a synopsis of the film:

Benjamin (Michael Angarano), home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge),   is a lovable loner whose passion for writing leads him on an offbeat and hilarious journey as his story first gets ripped off by the legendary fantasy novelist, Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement) and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town’s most prolific homespun filmmaker.

And here is what the guys from Fantastic Fest had to say for this selection:

A couple of months ago, the Fantastic Fest programming team had the pleasure of viewing an early cut of Gentlemen Broncos and absolutely loved it.   In his third film, Hess continues to craft his very rich alternate-reality universe dominated by awkward but lovable losers, inappropriate fabric pairings and charmingly homespun handicrafts.   The themes of creativity and fantasy (let alone the interspersed movie-within-a-movie recreations of our protagonist’s sci-fi epic Yeast Lords) make this the perfect film to kick off the 5th edition of Fantastic Fest.   We will be announcing more details about this very special screening and after-party in subsequent press releases, but suffice it to say we are ecstatic to be kicking off the festival with the likes of director Jared Hess, screenwriter Jerusha Hess and star Jemaine Clement live in person.

For people that are fans of Jemaine Clement in ‘Eagle vs Shark’ or ‘Flight of the Conchords’ mix that with the humor of Jared and Jerusha Hess (‘Napoleon Dynamite’ and ‘Peluca’) then you should absolutely love this film. It also stars Sam Rockwell so that’s an instant win for me. Fantastic Fest 2009 will run September 24th – October 1st, if you aren’t there then you obviously aren’t a true fan of film and badassary, plain and simple.

SXSW 2009 Fantastic Fest at Midnight Lineup announced:

Thats right boys and girls, here is the list you have been waiting for! We get a little taste of Fantastic Fest at SXSW. “SXSW Presents Fantastic Fest at Midnight” and there are some great movies that will be premiering:

Ong Bak 2 (Thailand)
Director: Tony Jaa. Writer: Panna Rittikrai
Tony Jaa is back in a truly amazing, ass-kicking, mind-boggling, eye-popping prequel to the epic cult hit Ong Bak.
(International Film Festival Premiere)

Black (France)
Director: Pierre Laffargue. Writer: Pierre Laffargue, Lucio Mad, GÃ ¡bor Rassov
MC Jean Gab’1 stars in an action packed neo-blacksploitation tale of mutants, machetes, mercenaries, mysticism and magic.
(World Premiere)

The Haunting in Connecticut (US)
Director: Peter Cornwell. Writer: Adam Simon,Tim Metcalfe
A killer cast (Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan) stars in this truly chilling, chillingly true story of one family’s supernatural ordeal.
(International Film Festival Premiere)

The Horseman (Australia)
A dark, brutal thriller, starring Peter Marshall as a bereaved father seeking bloody vengeance from the pornographers who killed his drug addict daughter.
(North American Premiere)

Lesbian Vampire Killers (UK)
Director: Phil Claydon. Writer: Paul Hupfield, Stewart Williams
Gavin & Stacey‘s Matthew Horne and James Corden play hapless losers whose holiday idyll is shattered by, yes, lesbian vampires. Expect bawdiness, blood, and some good old British boozing!
(World Premiere)

Pontypool (Canada)
Director: Bruce McDonald. Writer: Tony Burgess
This genre-bending metaphysical horror film stars Stephen McHattie as a jaded, grizzled radio jock who finds himself in the midst of a bloody, violence-induced panic in the sleepy town of Pontypool.
(U.S. Premiere)

Told you that ‘Ong Bak 2’ would be at SXSW, but you didn’t believe me!