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“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz
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We could tie ourselves in knots, draw party lines, and make blood oaths declaring cinema’s greatest-evers: directors, actors, screenwriters, even studios or entire national output. I have rarely heard a conversation for greatest-ever producer, so allow me to propose that...
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The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse
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A decade after his staggering documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer has now returned, but this time with a narrative feature. The End, which stars Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Michael Shannon, Moses Ingram, Bronagh...
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Tokyo International Film Festival 2024: Orang Ikan, Missing Child Videotape, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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A report from the Tokyo International Film Festival.
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Malcolm Washington, John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler on the Power of “The Piano Lesson”
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An interview with the director and stars of The Piano Lesson.
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Sound And Vision: Jacques Audiard
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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: several music videos by Jacques Audiard. Jacques Audiard's newest film, Emilia Pérez will be released this week in cinemas and soon...
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Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch Bring Gravity to “The Day of the Jackal”
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“The Day of the Jackal” is one of this season’s generally great surprises.
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AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism
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Vermiglio is set in the eponymous alpine village during the waning days of WWII. Maura Delpero’s film, gorgeously shot by Leviathan cinematographer Mikhail Krichman, is a slow-moving fable that unfolds as a novelistic series of pastoral tableaus. The short chapters...
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Pretty Packaging: THE CONVERSATION Is Worth Talking About
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Here at ScreenAnarchy, and indeed in this column, we have a few choice distributors whose works keep popping up. Criterion, Anime Limited, Severin, Arrow, Second Sight, Curzon and several crazy Germans and French ones manage to regularly raise our eyebrows....
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Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights
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It’s hard to overstate just how ubiquitous the Paddington films––particularly the 2017 sequel––have been in the British cultural consciousness over the last decade. Not simply massive box office successes experienced by many more millions through their seemingly weekly BBC One...
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THE APPRENTICE, Or How To Use Film To Capture An Essence Of Donald Trump
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How do you capture the essence of Donald Trump? In this case, by capturing an underexposed, pivotal period in his life. The period from 1970 to 1980, when Donald Trump was shaped by his relationship with lawyer Roy Cohn. Or...
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