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Fantasia Screenings Announced

Submitted by Marya Murphy on Sun, 07/05/2009 - 2:08pm.
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Fantasia Film Festival (Montreal) has announced its 2009 line-up and screenings. Canary will screen on July 21 and 22. The Canary catalog listing features a thorough description and great stills.

A Fantasia programmer was asked to name the most intelligent film in the 2009 program. Wait for it...Canary! "Wo boy. Celui-là nous a impressionnés." ("That one really impressed us.")

We're excited that Canary is part of Fantasia. The festival organizers have offered a great deal of personal attention and care so far, and we know each screening will have a great audience!

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"This second feature by Alejandro Adams confirms him as an arresting talent. [Viewers] may be fascinated to the point of repeat viewings to sort out its myriad characters and half-buried clues."
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety


"Micro in budget, macro in ambition, accomplishment, and scope, Adams's slyly withholding film prompts multiple viewings--and deserves them."
-- Jim Ridley, Village Voice


"Wildly ambitious...an overwhelming and surprisingly fresh-feeling sense of dystopian dread."
-- Karina Longworth, Spout


"[CANARY is] terrific...very creepy and uncanny. It's quite an achievement."
-- Phillip Lopate


"Mysterious, elliptical, Bresson-like. [CANARY] is to biotech what PRIMER was to time-travel."
-- Richard von Busack, Metro


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