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New to Streaming: Here, Conclave, Eureka, Memoir of a Snail, Beatles ’64 & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Beatles ’64 (David Tedeschi) While Andrei Ujică’s TWST / Things We Said Today, which...
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig | Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Way of the Gun: Rasoulof’s Bold, Blunt Indictment of Iranian Regime There’s been little opportunity for artists to clearly or critically speak truth to power in post-revolutionary Iran, where filmmakers and actors are often censored through brute force. Anything considered...
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Pretty Packaging: The UK MACROSS PLUS Release May Make You Sing
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
It's been a while since I featured Anime Limited in this category (the last one was Belle two years ago...), but that doesn't mean the Scottish distributor has been quiet. In fact, the company got itself slightly reorganized and joined...
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig Director Mohammad Rasoulof on Filming in Secret and the Repression of the Iranian Republic
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini was killed by authorities. She was arrested for alleged non-compliance with the country’s mandatory hijab laws, subsequently collapsing and dying while in their custody. The Iranian government denied any brutality...
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Thessaloniki Review: Holy Electricity is a Directorial Debut That Finds Substance in Unusual Places
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
The jump from cinematographer to director doesn’t happen so often. Barry Sonnenfeld, Jan de Bont, Ernest Dickerson––an attractive list, if a short one. The latest to join their rank is Tato Kotetishvili, the Georgian DP behind Uta Beria’s Negative Numbers...
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Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2024 Includes Misericordia, Evil Does Not Exist, and Trap
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
No matter the changes and upheavals from recent years, Cahiers du cinéma’s status as cinematic north pole has waned little––evidenced by annual top 10 lists combining beloved arthouse titles, one or two mainstream favorites, and titles whose status has yet...
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Colman Domingo Propels Phenomenally Entertaining “The Madness”
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Netflix has a great thriller to make you thankful today in "The Madness."
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Queer | Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
(Disem)Body Talk: Guadagnino Pays Homage to the Paradoxical Beat Pariah If Ayn Rand had dared to write a character who was a genius gay white male unable to reconcile his hedonistic tendencies and is thus thrown out of the heavenly...
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YALLA PARKOUR
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
(DOC NYC, the world’s largest documentary film festival, runs November 13 through December 1 (in-person and online) for its 15th edition. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Yalla Parkour. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)...
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MOANA 2 Review: Stellar Animation, Wobbly Storytelling, Middling Outcome
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Repurposed from a limited series initially intended for Disney’s streaming platform, Moana 2, an eight-years-in-the-making sequel, arrives in movie theaters with the usual expectations associated with big-screen Disney fare: vividly realized, sometimes stellar animation, relatively well-drawn, well-rounded, arc-driven characters, and...
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