Kathryn Morris UK

Bone Tomahawk Heads For The Low Country

After the dizzying heights of eastern France yesterday today we are heading both North and down.

The distinguished looking gentleman you see on the right is the logo/mascot of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. He’s a tiger, apparently loosely based on the MGM film studio’s iconic roaring lion, and is used to represent the event in all its forms. The festival is held in the city of Rotterham in South Holland, the Netherlands, and this will be its 45th year.

S. Craig Zahler’s Horror western Bone Tomahawk is having its national première on Friday (29th) at the Pathé Schouwburgplein cinema starting at 12:30pm. Saturday night sees a repeat screening a the same venue. An evening showing at the Cinerama Filmtheater on Sunday and the following Friday (5th Feb, yes it is nearly February already!) for final 19:15 start at the Oude Luxor Theater.

As is usual on these occasions we end on a link to the official website of the event in question: HERE.

Bone Tomahawk Heads For The Hills (Of France)

You’ll have to forgive me up front because I’m bound to make a hash of this one. No doubt I’ll amuse and offend a whole country in one post with my attempts to understand a language I very clearly don’t.

It’s been a while since we’ve hit the festival circuit here on KM UK and it is already late January 2016. We have a bit of catching up to do.

On Wednesday (27th Jan 2017) the Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer starts. I think we can work out most of that without reaching for the French-English dictionary but suffice to say it is a sci-fi and horror film festival held in France.

Gérardmer is a community in the far East of France, around 35 miles (that’s approx. 60km for locals) from the borders with both Germany and Switzerland. Up in the mountains it is on the shores of Lac de Gérardmer and looks like a very beautiful part of the world (hopefully that buys me a bit of goodwill ).

Bone Tomahawk is one of four films premièring at the event and gets an initial 11am showing on Thursday (28th) at the L’espace LAC cinema, which is the main venue for the whole event. Later, at 7:30pm, it will be at the Cinéma du casino. Friday and Saturday see screenings at the other two screening rooms for the festival La MCL and Le cinéma Paradiso respectively.

Check out the official website for the Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer, which runs until the end of the month, for all the details without my butchering.

Again, apologies 😐

The Coin Is Sent To Coventry

But in a good way, of course.

We might have almost forgotten about it but The Coin keeps on popping-up. Perhaps it is appropriate that this old acquaintance has resurfaced just in time for Xmas.

Friend of the site writer/director/producer Fabien Martorell has let it been known that his Christopher Lloyd/Kathryn Morris starring short film The Coin is making another event appearance.

On Xmas eve-eve-eve in the city of Coventry here in the UK the Roots To Shoots organisation is holding another film night made up of short films from around the world. It takes place this coming Tuesday, the 22nd of December 2015, at The Tin Music & Arts, The Coal Vaults. It is in the heart of the city, right next to a section of canal

I’ve found almost no information about the films showing apart from what is apparently a rare showing of a short called Stew & Punch by Simon Ellis. A dinner takes a turn for the worse when the hosts start arm wrestling.

The only other film, again apparently, being shown that we know of is Fabien’s project after The Coin called Unbelief. Fabien mentioned it as well. Unbelief is also a short and stars Tobin Bell (the Saw movies) and Andrew Howard (soon to be seen on Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. series). One them is an assassin, it’s Xmas Eve. I’m assuming that the assassin is on the ‘naughty list’ and is out for revenge

The show starts at 7:30pm and runs until 11pm so there is time for plenty of films of around 15 minutes long. It is only £5 (less than $8 and €7) to get in with tickets only sold at the door.

You can find a few more details on The Tin Arts & Music website here.

Bone Tomahawk @ Abertoir Tomorrow

There is too much of the wrong sort of horror in the world.

The films at events like the Abertoir Film Festival in the mid-Wales coastal town of Aberystwyth are the right sort.

The screening of Bone Tomahawk starts at 9:30pm at the Arts Centre venue.

Tickets are in limited supply so if you don’t have a pass already you might be out of luck. The official website has details.

All Roads Leeds To Bone Tomahawk Tomorrow

The 29th Leeds International Film Festival has been running for a week now.

And it has one week left to go.

It’s a long one.

Bone Tomahawk will feature v. late tomorrow night (actually 1am v. early on Saturday morning) in a marathon within a marathon.

The festival is two weeks long (5th-19th Nov) and features hundreds of films. Getting the middle weekend started is an event called ‘Fanomenon Night Of The Dead XV’. The comparatively mild 9pm Friday night kick-off belies the serious nature of this endeavour: four feature films and a couple of collections of shorts. 10 hours later, at 7am, the last film is due to end.

Tickets, available via the official website, cover the whole thing and not individual films within the set.