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Venice Film Festival 2025: The Smashing Machine, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, The Testament of Ann Lee, Father Mother Sister Brother

by admin|19 hours ago01 September 2025|Roger Ebert

On four films that just premiered at Venice, including a dramatic turn for Dwayne Johnson.

Locarno 2025 Review: LAKE Immerses the Audience in a Sensorial Drift Between Body and Landscape

by admin|19 hours ago01 September 2025|Screen Anarchy

Fabrice Aragno abandons conventional storytelling in favor of a meditative, sensory experience where the human body, light, and landscape become the film's primary narrative elements. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Sound And Vision: Adam Curtis

by admin|19 hours ago01 September 2025|Screen Anarchy

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Weyes Blood's God Turn Me Into A Flower, directed by Adam Curtis. As a director Adam Curtis is...

Venice Review: An Impressive Dwayne Johnson Softens Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine

by admin|21 hours ago01 September 2025|The Film Stage

The Smashing Machine is a movie with a lot of heart and soul. It’s also a movie with great love for its subjects: the people involved and, for better and worse, the industry they helped build. It’s inspired by a...

Locarno 2025 Review: THE FIN, Dystopian Sci-Fi Turns Environmental Collapse into Political Allegory

by admin|21 hours ago01 September 2025|Screen Anarchy

Syeyoung Park's sophomore film is a dystopian sci-fi grounded in political allegory, using environmental mutation and social exclusion to reflect on ideology, historical amnesia, and state control. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Venice Review: The Wizard of Kremlin Proves an Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian

by admin|21 hours ago01 September 2025|The Film Stage

In April 2022, two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Italian author and political writer Giuliano da Empoli published a fictionalized account of Vladimir Putin’s ascent as seen through the eyes of his advisor. The Wizard of Kremlin almost immediately...

Telluride Review: Noah Baumbach Makes His Fellini Film with Jay Kelly

by admin|22 hours ago01 September 2025|The Film Stage

Let’s start here: Billy Crudup is one of our truly great actors. Early into Jay Kelly, written by Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer and directed by Baumbach, Crudup appears for a one-scene turn that jump-starts the narrative. Over drinks, his...

Locarno 2025 Interview: DON’T LET THE SUN Director Jacqueline Zünd Discusses Heat, Humanity, and the Poetics of Minimalism

by admin|22 hours ago01 September 2025|Screen Anarchy

Swiss filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd discusses the visual language, thematic layering, and hybrid process behind her fiction debut, offering insights into a future world shaped as much by emotional estrangement as by climate collapse. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Screambox in September: Line-Up Includes SUSPIRIA, BRUTAL MASSACRE, THE FOREST HILLS

by admin|22 hours ago01 September 2025|Screen Anarchy

It is a new month, so it is time for the folks over at Screambox to reveal their lineup of programming in the weeks ahead. Shelley Duvall's final film, The Forest Hills, kicks things off this Friday. Along with...