NIFFF XXII: Ishii, McTiernan, Female Trouble, Swissploitation And More Ahead For This Year’s Festival
The 22nd Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival is lining up what already looks to be an exciting programme kicking off its nine-day event. Free open air screening in Neuchatel will include restored classics like Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 psych-romance thriller, Rebecca, Jindrich Polák’s 1963 sci-fi Ikarie XB-1, and Jean Louis-Roy’s 1970 black comedy, Black Out. Two other titles will include The Taste Of Tea from director Katsuhiro Ishii whose works will headline his first-ever retrospective at NIFFF, and Die Hard, the 1998 action classic from director John McTiernan who takes the reigns for his own newly-announced retrospective as well, as of Tuesday. Additionally, the aforementioned Rebecca comes packaged within the festival’s Female Trouble section which aims it spotlight on memorable classic works such as Shunya Ito’s Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, the first in an unrelenting revenge saga starring none other than the venerable Meiko Kaji. Other titles here include […]
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