Fantasporto 2008: Chills and Thrills of Portugal's Main Creep-Meet
by Mateo Perez & Nicolas Tamargo/Variety Team, Oporto
In Oporto, shady, half-ruined sinuous alleys give way in a beat to wide traffic-clogged boulevard.Oporto Europe 's biggest fantasy fests.
Fantasporto's main venues lie deep in the heart of the city. The Rivoli Theater's comfy wifi chill-out bar, replete with squishy pouf-cushions, offers shelter to festgoers who emerge from a main hall set off by bleeding columns and projected virtual lurking spiders which take red carpet catwalkers unaware.
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Some like it hot: Press conferences take place in a huge - and hot-as-a-greenhouse when the sun's high - plastic carpa-marquee outside Rivoli, Cidade do Cinema.
Cult classics like musical parade "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or the mind-boggling "Forbidden Planet" were screened at the charmingly creepy Teatro sá da Bandeira, a chainsaw's throw from Rivoli.
Though Portuguese cinema remains the most high-art auteurist national cinema in western Europe, Fantasporto's two week fantasython,Portugal
Variety Team, Oporto
Mateo Perez & Nicolas Tamargo
In Oporto, shady, half-ruined sinuous alleys give way in a beat to wide traffic-clogged boulevard.
Fantasporto's main venues lie deep in the heart of the city. The Rivoli Theater's comfy wifi chill-out bar, replete with squishy pouf-cushions, offers shelter to festgoers who emerge from a main hall set off by bleeding columns and projected virtual lurking spiders which take red carpet catwalkers unaware.
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Some like it hot: Press conferences take place in a huge - and hot-as-a-greenhouse when the sun's high - plastic carpa-marquee outside Rivoli, Cidade do Cinema.
Cult classics like musical parade "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or the mind-boggling "Forbidden Planet" were screened at the charmingly creepy Teatro sá da Bandeira, a chainsaw's throw from Rivoli.
Though Portuguese cinema remains the most high-art auteurist national cinema in western Europe, Fantasporto's two week fantasython,
Variety Team, Oporto
Mateo Perez & Nicolas Tamargo
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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