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With the 30th anniversary of The Shining as a backdrop, China has created a story that talks about the power of Fantasy cinema and its ability to create images that are etched on your memory forever. In this sense, Stanley Kubrick was a master when it came to making his meticulously created images survive the passage of the years and even his own films. The sequence of the boy starring in The Shining riding his tricycle down the hotel corridor is probably one of the most memorable in film history.

The spot presents the story of a nurse on the night shift who’s lived with the existence of this child since the very day she saw The Shining for the first time. For three decades the woman has carried out all of her everyday activities accompanied by the boy on the tricycle, so she experiences the situation normally and with resignation.

For its production, China and the Festival relied on the collaboration of Wind, a production company that, thanks to its commitment to creations that sometimes border on experimental, has already collaborated with the Festival on previous occasions. They entrusted its direction to Mireia Pujol, a director with a special cinematic sensitivity and very interesting experience despite her youth, and who knew how to transmit her knowledge of the Festival to the piece’s tone. Contributing to a large extent to its intriguing atmosphere is the musical piece, “Aviva Pastoral” by Nathan Larson.

Dexter is back

Spoilers on the clip if you haven´t seen season 4 yet

Sunday the 26th of September. Dexter face Rita´s death with a huge guilty feeling inside.

Alien prequels go nasty

Ridley Scott keeps teasing fans with details of the new Alien prequels he is working on right now. If the last we heard about the projects was that Damon Lindelof from Lost was polishing the first prequel's script, but now, the director of Gladiator comes up with more "details" about these two Alien´s prequels. As we can read on the Independent web site, the director of the first Alien is in a competition mood: "Jim's raised the bar and I've got to jump to it," he says, in a friendly jibe at Cameron. "He's not going to get away with it".

Untill now, the movies were supossed to be converted to 3D instead of beeing shooted with that technology but now, there´s a buzz on the internet claming that it could be actually shoot with 3D cameras, even with a improved technology that the one used by Cameron to shoot Avatar. What we know for sure, is that they want the movie to be Rated R, which leaves the the possibility to get really nasty alive: "The film will be really tough, really nasty," he notes. "It's the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?"

Then will the fans see Ripley´s character coming back to the franchise? Scott himself answers that one: “It’s set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney [Weaver's character Ellen Ripley].  It’s fundamentally about going out to find out ‘Who the hell was that Space Jockey?’  The guy who was sitting in the chair in the alien vehicle — there was a giant fellow sitting in a seat on what looked to be either a piece of technology or an astronomer’s chair.  Remember that?”

Yeah, we do remember that. Wait. You don´t? Just check the picture opening this post again... Or click and watch it here.