THE FESTIVALS ARE COMING!

The Seattle International Film Festival just announced its line-up and of note are screenings of the Pang Ho-cheung film ISABELLA which is worth your time. They're also screening SEVEN SWORDS.

The much-maligned Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (now with a new director!) will kick off on July 13 - 22 with a record-setting 250 films. This year they'll focus on Italian horror, a Teruo Ishii retro, Fritz Lang silent films and four restored director's cuts of classic Korean movies from the 70's and 80's.

The competing fest, made up of ex-PIFF staffers, Real Fanta, that rose up like a mighty challenger last year doesn't look like it'll do much rising this year.