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Nicolas Cage
Screening of the movie 'Joe' at the Cinema Society, New York, America – 09 Apr 2016
Actors Ed Harris and Nicolas Cage, and director John Carpenter join the guests of the upcoming Sitges Fantastic Film Festival (North West), which will take place from 4 to 14 October and whose theme is 50 years of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Nicolas Cage will arrive in Sitges (Catalonia) to receive a Grand Prix Honorific of the festival and present "Mandy", the thriller of Panos Cosmatos featured
The Californian actor, whose real name is Nicholas Kim Coppola – it's a nephew of Francis Ford Coppola -, began his career in the early 80's and has has played in all genres, with a remarkable predilection for action and thriller.
He participated in "Rumble Fish" (1983), "Cotton Club" (1984) and "Peggy Sue Got Married" (1986) by his uncle, but his dedication came with a title like "Arizona Baby" ( 1987), the Coen brothers, "Moonstruck" (1987) and especially "Wild at Heart" by David Lynch
He gets his only Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995) and from there he concentrated on action movies with movies like "The Rock" (1996), "Con Air" (1997), "Face / Off" (1997), "8MM" (1999), "Windtalkers". "(2002) or the most recent" Dog Eat Dog "(2016) or" Mom and Dad "(2017).
As explained today, the director of the festival, Ángel Sala, will also be present at the contest Ed Harris, one of his "bad" actors, to receive another Grand Prix Honorific
Actor, producer and director, Ed Harris will receive the maximum prize of the festival, the same that will also be collected in Sitges by the Australian filmmaker Peter Weir, who directed it in "The Truman Show" (1998), as previously announced.
Nominated four times in the Oscar – for "The Hours" (2002), "Pollock" (2000) ), "The Truman Show" and "Apollo 13" (1995) -, Harris is one of the most prestigious and solid actors in Hollywood, recognized for its enormous versatility.
The third announced in the presentation Today's festival was tribute to John Carpenter, "probably the most important director of genre, not appreciated at the dice goal of his career, which in 1982 created 'The Thing'. at the opening of the festival and today is already recognized as it should, "he stressed.
Carpenter will also present his talent as a film music composer at a concert on October 13 where he will perform fragments of films such as "The Fog" (1980), "Escape from New York" (1981).), "The Thing", "Christine" (1983) or "Halloween" (1978)
With regard to the official section, the names of Gaspar Noah, Lars Von Trier, David Robert Mitchell or Alice Rohrwacher, they add those of Armando Bo II Argentine ("Animal") and Alejandro Fadel , with "Muere, monstruo, muere", by Alejandro Fadel, or the Colombian Jaime Osorio ("Siete cabezas").
From Japan, the anime of "Inuyashiki", by Shinsuke Sato, adaptation of the manga of the science fiction "Hiroya Oku" and a new Sitges thriller Takashi Miike, "The Laplace witch"
Sala highlighted the presence of several independent American film titles ants, such as "Elizabeth Harvest", directed by Venezuelan Sebastián Gutiérrez, "a reinterpretation of Frankenstein and Barba Azul", and two films by two directors: "I think we're alone now", by Reed Morano, with Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning, and "Nancy", Christina Choe, with Steve Buscemi.
highlighted the science fiction film "The Prospect" by Christopher Caldwell and Zeek Earl, located on an alien planet with a dangerous flora and fauna, and "The man who killed Hitler then the bigfoot" by Robert Krzykowski with Sam Elliot
The Orbit section, devoted to thriller, action and adventure, will open with Michael Caton-Jones' "Asher", with Ron Perlman, who will be at Sitges to present the film and receive an award. EFE
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