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Escapism Film Festival is a blistering celebration of wildly irreverent
genre films from around the planet in the infamous tradition of the
"Midnight Madness" program at the Toronto International Film Festival
and the "Danger After Dark" program at the Philadelphia International
Film Festival. You'll witness action-adventure, science fiction,
fantasy, exploitation, animation, comedy, and cutting-edge thrillers
equally intermingled with anniversary screenings and eclectic filmmaker
retrospectives. From a spirited reassessment of Walt Disney Classics to
adrenalized explorations of Independent and Hollywood extravaganzas,
ESCAPISM is an ode to sheer artistic audacity. The festival delivers a
central assertion about movies: namely that art can be interpreted in
infinite ways and that genre filmmaking, so long unfairly sandbagged by
American movie power brokers and critics, can be just as idiosyncratic,
relevant and rich as so-called "personal" filmmaking. Confident,
assured and scholarly, ESCAPISM keeps its tongue firmly in cheek. Which
is where it belongs, right?
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