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[Cartman]

Tydligen ska även regissören Tomas Alfredson dyka upp på den exklusiva visningen.

Ain't It Cool - The Fantastic Fest Awards Have Been Given!

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Horror Features:

First Place: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (surprise!)

Fantastic Fest is the largest genre film festival in the United States featuring over 100 films from over 30 countries. The event highlights the best new sci-fi, horror, fantasy and genre films, as well as choice classic and obscure cult titles from all over the world.

Edited by Cartman, 25 September 2008 - 10:57.

[Cartman]

Verkligen. Jag hoppas att så många som möjligt ser originalet istället. Det enda positiva med en remake är väl att man får in pengar på försäljningen av rättigheterna och som i sin tur kanske kan hjälpa till att finansiera framtida projekt. Hanteringen av odöda, Människohamn med mera.

[Cartman]

Mer recensioner att läsa för den som är intresserad.

Ain't It Cool - The Beef Reports Back On Day 7 Of Fantastic Fest! Let The Right One In Reviewed!

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

This is the film that from day one I've heard that if I see nothing else I have to see this, this supposedly revelatory pre-adolescent vampire love story from Sweden. Is it those things? Well, it is Swedish. It is a pre-adoloscent love story involving a vampire and a young boy. Is it a revelation? It is considerably strong, original, engaging, and even touching I didn't love it to the degree that I think I'm supposed to.

Oskar is a shy, awkward 12 year, 8 month, and 9 day old boy with no friends, and many bullies. Eli, is an anti-social, nocturnal 12 year old girl (more or less) that has just moved next door to Oskar with her Dad. After a couple of awkward, and short encounters in the courtyard of their apartment building Oskar and Eli begin to form a very fond affection for one another. Meanwhile, from the day that Eli and her father move into the neighborhood murders start to occur, and it's only a matter of time before Eli's deadly secret about who she really is gets exposed, and the strong bond that she has generated with Oskar gets challenged.

I think the problem with LET THE RIGHT ONE IN in terms of why I didn't find it quite as incredible as everyone else did has absolutely nothing to do with the film, and more that I saw it towards the end of the festival after I had already seen a handful of good European horror films. I think had I seen this earlier I would have been more impressed with its atmospheric approach, but I saw it after I had seen LEFT BANK, SAUNA, and JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY which isn't really horror, but the mood matches.

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN would be my pick for best of the bunch however, if only because it works extremely well on two totally separate planes. It's both a successful love story (in fact, successful love story first), and a very original vampire film. Typically, one of those will do just fine, but the fact that it has both and incorporates both so well together is what I think makes it special.

The film is supposed to come out on dvd in a month. I suggest renting it, if not just straight out purchasing it, especially for anyone wanting to sit down and watch a good, artistic horror film on Halloween that will also entertain the girly girls with the sweet love story at the core of the film.

Ain't It Cool - Moriarty @ Fantastic Fest Part One: I Think We're Alone Now, Astropia, Sauna, Let The Right One In, and JCVD!

Thursday kicked off with a couple of press screenings as everyone was picking up their badges and their t-shirts and their tote bags. This year, you had to submit a “shakeyface” picture for the badge, which is basically a photo that someone snaps while you whip your head around, face totally slack, trying to sling your skin like a Sharpei. In taking my photo for my badge, I (A) learned some rather upsetting things about the elasticity of my giant awful WC Fields-like nose (B ) managed to freak out Toshi quite a bit and © gave myself a headache so bad it felt like I got punched by Tyson in his prime. But it turned out to be a good badge photo, so I guess the three days worth of headbanger’s neck was worth it.

Our first press screening of the day set the bar incredibly high for the rest of the festival, something that can easily lead to someone becoming disappointed with the line-up afterwards. It’s just one of those flukes of scheduling that LET THE RIGHT ONE IN turned out to be one of the best films I’ve seen all year, much less in the festival. John Ajvide Lindqvist adapted his own novel for the screen and, working with director, Tomas Alfredson, the result is haunting and gorgeous, smart and subtle and hard to describe. It’s almost impossible to discuss without offering up one real spoiler, so if you don’t want to know anything at all about the film before Magnolia rolls it out in limited theatrical release next month (it’ll be on video at the start of 2009), then just suffice it to say that this has far more on its mind than “just” scaring you. It’s a film about how important connections to other people can be for us, how even one friend can change the way we live, and how monsters come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Now skip down to where I start talking about the next film.

If you don’t mind a few basic spoilers, then read on. It’s inevitable anyway. By the time you see the movie, you’ll know that it’s “just” a vampire film. The same way you’ll know that another movie in the fest (I won’t say which one) is “just” a zombie film. But in both cases, that’s not really true. These are films that take these familiar monsters, this worn-out iconography, and they bend it to something real. Not even new, per se. Just real. These are movies about something more than their genre.

That’s nice to see. There’s a lot of irony out there in the world. A lot of movies that strike an arch pose but don’t really mean it. Movies that want to wink at you and diffuse their own potency just to make sure that you don’t get a chance to laugh at them for trying. And I’ve certainly enjoyed my fair share of that. But LET THE RIGHT ONE IN is painful because of how real it plays. It’s like AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS, a film about this difficult childhood relationship playing out in extraordinary circumstances. Here, we meet this lonely kid Oskar (Kare Hedebrant), angry and embittered and frail at the start of the film, standing outside alone in the cold and practicing with a knife. He’s rehearsing what he’s going to say, his tough guy patter, as he prepares to stab someone. Oskar’s 12, but he’d be easily mistaken for 10 or even 9 years old. He’s just a wee squirt of piss, the kind of kid who was genetically evolved to give bullies something to do. And Hedebrant’s great, right from that first scene. If the movie was just about him dealing with the world, I have a feeling it would still be a great film. That’s something you can’t say about many genre films. Someone moves into the building where Oskar lives, right into the apartment next door. Someone he doesn’t see at first. And there’s a guy, he’s attacking people. Trying to drain their blood. He’s got local police on edge, and he’s clumsy, not terribly good at what he’s doing, so he’s always justthisclose to getting caught. And this guy... he’s got a little girl. And his little girl... she’s hungry.

Oskar meets this little girl, his strange new neighbor Eli (Lina Leandersson), who seems to be 12 years old just like him. Strange is an understatement, actually. Alfredson plays subtle tricks on the audience right from the start with little physical impossibilities, little digital or make-up or even editing tricks that all enhance the fact that this little girl’s seriously not right. Oskar’s no dope. He figures out what she is. What her dad’s doing. Why she needs this blood he’s draining. He calls her what she is, and she never denies it.

But whatever this movie is, it’s not a standard revenge film. Yes, Oskar sees Eli as a way to settle some scores, a motivator or maybe even a weapon. But it’s not handled the way any Hollywood movie would handle it. The storyline sneaks up on you. It dodges formula in favor of very simple, raw character work that all feels real.

And whatever this movie is, it’s not a standard horror film. Eli’s a monster in a conventional sense, but her actions actually help pull Oskar back from the edge of being a very real and recognizable human monster, the kind we’ve seen march into schools or malls or post offices, guns blazing, determined to make the world hurt just as much as they do. Oskar’s on the road to that. He’s just so easy to pick on, such a blinking red target, that he’s been pushed more than anyone should be. Every day. Pick. Pick. Pick. Pick.

And whatever this movie is, it’s not a standard coming-of-age romance. There’s something animal in the way Oskar sniffs out exactly what Eli is. Little boys are wild things, and Oskar’s just about to lose that the way little boys do when they become teenagers, but he still has enough of it to recognize her for what she is, and to accept her just as easily.

So whatever this movie is, it’s a powerful and intimate film that commands real respect. Alfredson has a real gift for directing young actors. He gets remarkable work out of both of his young stars, and from the supporting cast as well, and he has impeccable taste when it comes to the way he stages his big moments. He could probably make a terrifying film if he wanted to. His scares here are sophisticated and perfectly timed. But that’s not what he’s really trying to do. That reaching deeper, that attempt to make his movie more... that’s what makes this one such a profound surprise, and such a pleasure.

Edited by Cartman, 26 September 2008 - 16:12.

[Marie Morot]

JAL fick G-P:s litteraturpris och här finns en liten intervju med honom: http://gptv.gp.se/player/play/61163

Bonus

Edited by Marie Morot, 26 September 2008 - 18:54.

[XC]

Ajvide Lindqvist svarar på frågor om engelsk filmatisering | Bloggywood

Det är mycket “Låt den rätte komma in” just nu på Bloggywood. Mycket pga att man kan läsa en hel om filmen runt om i filmsajtsvärlden. Men nu handlar det om författaren av den svenska boken.

Författaren Johan Ajvide Lindqvist är nere på Bok&Bibliotek-mässan i Göteborg och Aftonbladet passade på att anordna en chatt med honom. Nedan följer ett referat från chatten. Jag har klippt bort allting som inte har med filmatiseringen av hans bok Låt den rätte komma in. Hela chatten hittar du här.

Jag lyckades få in två frågor. Mina övriga tio verkade inte gå hela vägen fram. Kortfattat kan man säga att Ajvide Lindqvist är mycket nöjd med den svenska filmatiseringen och att han inte kommer att ha en hand med i produktionen av den engelska versionen.

" bokhans säger: Låt den rätte komma in, ska tydligen bli film i USA. Vad kan du berätta om det!
John Ajvide Lindqvist säger: De kommer inte att utgå ifrån den svenska filmen, utan ifrån boken. Skriva ett nytt manus och göra en helt annan och troligen mer konventionell skräckfilm.

J säger: Hur känns det att få en bok filmad?
John Ajvide Lindqvist säger: Första gången Tomas Alfredsson visade mig åtta filmade minuter, började jag gråta eftersom jag tyckte att det var så satans vackert. I stort har det fortsatt på det viset. Jag har sett filmen sju gånger och ser fram emot att se den ett par gånger till.

downthesun säger: Jag har med glädje läst massvis av positiva recensioner från USA av filmversionen av Låt Den Rätte Komma In de senaste dagarna. Kommer dina böcker också lanseras där, eller har det kanske redan gjort det?
John Ajvide Lindqvist säger: Jo, den första har kommit ut under titeln “Let me in” eftersom de tyckte att Let the right one in var för långt. Även den andra är på gång, Handling the undead. Men det är faktiskt i Australien som böckerna har gått allra bäst. Av någon anledning.

bengan säger: Är du nervös över den svenska filmpremiären och hur mycket inverkan hade du på filmen?
John Ajvide Lindqvist säger: Jag är inte nervös eftersom jag tycker att filmen är ett mästerverk. Jag hade den inverkan att jag skrev manuset och rådgjorde lite med Tomas Alfredson om klippningen. I övrigt är den helt hans verk (+ alla andra som jobbade förstås. Vill bara nämna Hoyte van Hoytema, sveriges bäste fotograf.

Daniel säger: Det sägs att Matt Reeves ska regissera den engelska filmen. Han gjorde Cloverfield, i min tanke en av de fräschaste monsterfilmerna på bra länge. Vad är dina tankar kring honom som regissör (som regissör av ditt material) och har du träffat honom?
John Ajvide Lindqvist säger: Jag har ingen aning om huruvida det blir på det här sättet. Jag har inte träffat karln, men jag håller med dig; Cloverfield kändes lite ny. Om det blir han tycker jag att det är bra.

Daniel säger: Kommer du ha någon roll i produktionen av den kommande engelska filmatiseringen?
John Ajvide Lindqvist säger: Nej "

Klicka här för att läsa hela chatten med Johan Ajvide Lindqvist (Aftonbladet)

[Cartman]

Tack Marie och XC.

Marie, var du eller någon annan och kollade upp det där jag tidigare postade om? Fribiljetter till gratisvisning av filmen?

[Marie Morot]

Nej, gjorde inte det trots allt. Det hade betytt att vi bara haft tre timmar på oss på mässan + att FX inte kunnat följa med, så vi skippade det.

Dock hade jag med mig mitt ex av Människohamn och fick det signerat på lördagen och pratade några ord med en glad och trevlig JAL. En kvinna från förlaget (?) vad med honom och jag undrade varför filmen hållits inne här i Sverige. De sa båda ngt om att Sandrews ville ge den bättre promotion och därför flyttat fram datumet, men de höll med mig om att det var ett väldigt tunt argument då filmen i princip inte promotats alls här hemma, men desto mer utomlands.

[Cartman]

Okej, förstår att ni ville prioritera mässan mer. Ska kolla av via det andra forumet som nyheten kom från om det stämmde eller ej. Tror det gör det men man kan aldrig vara säker på saker man snappar upp via det stället.

Kul att du fick din bok signerad och hade möjligheten att växla ett par ord med JAL.

Hoppas dom satsar på någon speciellt nu sista månaden för att promota filmen här hemma. Är ju ytterst tveksam till att det blir så men hoppas gör jag alltid. Får mer och mer känslan av att dom ville promota filmen utomlands snarare än att promota den här hemma, vilket är oerhört synd med tanke på hur överdrivet lång väntetiden blev. Det hade säkert gått bra att promota filmen på samma sätt men efter att den först hade gått upp i sverige. Den positiva kritiken i utlandet hade väl knappast blivit annorlunda bara för att dom hade fått vänta ett tag. Speciellt med tanke på att dom hade noll koll på filmens existens innan den började på sin jorden runt turné.

Edited by Cartman, 29 September 2008 - 11:22.

[Marie Morot]

Håller med i din bedömning av hur Sandrews kommer att agera. Pffft.

[Fiskrens]

Håller fast vid min teori att de drabbades av "Pirate bay"-frossan och ville släppa filmen samtidigt globalt. Håller också med om att det är hög tid att börja promota här, man kan ju jämföra med Arn-filmerna. Fast sånt kostar ju också, och sandrews är väl inte direkt gjorda av pengarna numera...

[Cartman]

Fast dom visste ju inte från början hur filmen skulle tas emot av publiken eller hur? Då skulle dom ju göra så här med alla svenska filmer tycker jag och inte bara en. Det finns ju fler filmer som skulle kunna vara intressant för pubik utanför landet eller hur?. Beslutet med en senare premiär togs ju i samband med att den hade visats på Göteborgs filmfestival för första gpngen och där kunde dom knappast ha vetat om hur pass intressant filmen skulle bli utomlands. Så jag tror snarare att beslutet togs utifrån att dom ville chansa på att filmen skulle uppmärksammas utomland och deras strategi ser ju ut att gå hem så här med facit i hand. Som sagt, jag tror inte så mycket på "Pirate bay"-frossa för då skulle vi se samma sak med andra svenska filmer också.

[Cartman]

Svenska hemsidan är nu igång.

Om Filmen
Trailer
Downloads
Regissören Svarar
Boka Biljetter

Rätt trist och intetsägande sida måste jag säga. Är det allt dom kan trycka ur sig efter den långa planeringstiden dom haft IMO den senarelagda premiären?

Shock Till You Drop - Let the Right One In Director Talks Remake

Source: MovieZine.Se September 30, 2008

In the wake of an announcement which placed director Matt Reeves at the helm of Hammer Films' Let the Right One In remake, the original film's director, Tomas Alfredson is speaking out about the new take on his vampire tale.

"Remakes should be made of movies that aren't very good, that gives you the chance to fix whatever has gone wrong," he tells Moviezine. "I'm very proud of my movie and think it's great, but the Americans might be of an other opinion. The saddest thing for me would be to see that beautiful story made into something mainstream."

Right One tells of a 12-year-old Oskar who befriends his neighbor: a young vampire girl. Magnet Releasing is giving the film a limited theatrical run in the States on October 24th. It's part of Magnet's Six Shooter Film Series which has launched an official site you can view here.

Edited by Cartman, 30 September 2008 - 18:49.

[Cartman]

Jag som inte orkar läsa på engelska när intervjun finns att läsa på svenska

Jag länkar till ursprungsartikeln under "Source" i min post.

Magnolia Pictures har öppnat sin hemsida för filmen. Den återfinns här. Inte det minsta bättre än den svenska.

[Fiskrens]

Amerikanska trailern finns att beskåda på
http://www.slashfilm...and-play-dates/

brrr... riktigt bra!

[Cartman]

Vill.....Se.....Nu!!!!!

Finns även att se via IGN.

[XC]

This Just In: 'Let the Right One In' is Ten Times Better Than 'Twilight' - Cinematical

Sorry for tricking you, but I just used that headline to grab your attention. I haven't even seen Twilight yet. But if you're someone who's in the market for a film based on an award-winning book about a dark-yet-poignant romance between two young people -- one of whom happens to be a vampire -- then I have a movie that's NOT called Twilight that I want you to check out. You'll have to (gasp) brave some subtitles to earn your rewards, but Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In is one fantastic film. Either you know that already, you've heard it already, or you'll find out in a few months time: It's awesome.

Anyway, Magnet / Magnolia has just announced an official release pattern for the brilliant Swedish film, and I'll give you the full calendar after the jump, but I will say this: There's good news afoot if you happen to live in or around New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia (hooray!), Seattle, Denver, Nashville, Santa Fe, Hartford ... Oh hell, just click on in and check the big list. (And thanks to Fangoria for the heads-up.)

As much as I hate to contribute to "overhype," some films just deserve the praise. Like this one. As far as Twilight goes, well, if it's half as good as LTROI, then it will be a VERY good film. (Again, I'm not comparing -- merely piggy-backing on a popular title in the hopes of shedding some light on a much smaller one. Movie geeks are clever that way.)

Kul rubrik.

[Cartman]

Okej, så filmen verkar får en limiterad release i USA. Då kanske det där ryktet om att den släpps på DVD i USA under Februari 2009 verkligen stämmer.

[XC]

MovieZine.se - Tävling: Vinn biobiljetter till "Låt den rätte komma in"!

Tio lyckliga vinnare får två biobiljetter till skräckdramat "Låt den rätte komma in" som har biopremiär 24 oktober. Den första dragna vinnaren får dessutom en ljudbok av "Låt den rätte komma in".

[Cartman]

Twitch - Sitges 2008: Let The Right One In Wins Golden Melies Award

Oct 09 2008

And the acclaim just keeps rolling in for Swedish vampire film Let The Right One In.

Every year each of the affiliated festivals of the European Federation of Fantastic Film Festivals - there are about twenty in all - award what is known as the Silver Melies Award to the best European genre film to take part in each of their festivals. Those silver award winning films, in turn, become eligible to win a Golden Melies Award as the Best European Genre Film of the year. This year’s award ceremony has just wrapped up here in Sitges and out of a very strong field that included the likes of The Orphanage, Frontiere[s], King of the Hill, Inside, The Substitute and more, Let The Right One In has been selected as this year’s winner. Yes, it really is that good.

Edited by Cartman, 10 October 2008 - 11:14.

[Marie Morot]

Wow. Det bådar gott för fortsättningen av lanseringen. Verkligen.

[Cartman]

Amerikansk Trailer i HD @ Apple.Com

Edited by Cartman, 12 October 2008 - 12:13.

[Cartman]

Synd att dom inte marknadsför filmen mer här hemma i sverige.

Tack till XC som delade denna artikel. Hade säkert missat den annars.

Sci-Fi Wire - Right One Risked Frostbite

13-OCTOBER-08

Tomas Alfredson, the Swedish director of the vampire drama Let the Right One in, told SCI FI Wire that he faced frostbite while filming in the northern part of his Scandanavian country, but added that there were some benefits to the location.

"Many people in my own country thought I was crazy trying to shoot it outdoors for as much as I did, but I think it was good for the movie," Alfredson said in an interview. "After a heavy snowfall, there is a very special silence. You can hear you own breath; you can hear your eyelids moving. The winter is striking. The lighting and the colors pop out."

The film centers on Oscar (Kare Hedebrant), an overlooked and bullied boy, who finds love and revenge through Eli (Lina Leandersson), a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.

The director said he shot in temperatures that fell to minus 30 degrees Celsius (22 below zero Fahrenheit). "My fingers got frostbite," he said. "It was really tough. It was very beautiful and very crisp. It was a strange kind of poetry to light it, because it was so white, like ice."

In the very northern end of Sweden, it also stayed dark longer, which was perfect for a vampire film. "There was one or two hours of daylight, so we could do the night shooting during the day," Alfredson said. "But [we] had a lot of special effects that you don't think about, and it's very, very complicated."

In the course of the 52-day shoot, Leandersson didn't have a deep enough voice, so she was dubbed by another older girl, Alfredson said.

In the story, Oscar is bullied by a group of schoolyard tormentors. One of the attackers was a youth who was bullied himself, and he broke down in tears during the filming. Alfredson said he let the cameras roll. "It was spontaneous when he began crying, and we kept it all in," he said. Let the Right One In (called Lat den rätte komma in in Swedish) opens nationwide on Oct. 24.

Edited by Cartman, 13 October 2008 - 14:49.

[Cartman]

I väntan på att biljetterna ska släppas (blev inget denna vecka så dom släpps väl först nästa onsdag, 3 dagar innan premiären ) så kan man alltid ta sig en titt på några olika posters till filmen. Måste säga att den svenska är så oerhört ful om man jämnför med den amerikanska.

[Peak]

Japp. Det är ju helt klart att det svenska filmbolaget inte vill att folk skall gå på filmen..

Förseningar och uselt med reklam...

[Cartman]

Instämmer till fullo. Trist att man inte satsar lite mer nu när man dessutom haft tid att lägga upp en bra marketing kampanj.

Under gårdagens avsnitt av Stargate Atlantis på TV6 så visades något som skulle kunna likna en TV-Spot. Inget nytt utan mest en nedbantad (Ca. 15 sekunder lång) variant av dom två trailers vi redan har sett.

EDIT: RED BAND TRAILER (Rotten Tomatoes)

First Showing

ETT-PAR-DAGAR-EFTER-EDIT: Twitch - TAD2008: Let the Right One In [Review] och Quiet Earth - TAD '08: Let The Right One In.

Edited by Cartman, 19 October 2008 - 11:20.