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NYC Weekend Watch: Bulworth, Gummo, Portuguese Cinema & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMFilms by Warren Beatty, Mike Judge, and more play in Facing the Future; the restoration of I Heard it Through the Grapevine screens. Roxy CinemaGummo, Love Streams, and Dancer in the...
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Interview: Mikey Madison and Sean Baker on Bringing the Freewheeling ‘Anora’ to Life
by admin|2 years ago|Slant Magazine
Madison and Baker discuss how youth and love shape the eponymous character’s trajectory. The post Interview: Mikey Madison and Sean Baker on Bringing the Freewheeling ‘Anora’ to Life appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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SMILE 2 Review: Effective, But Overlong and Obvious Horror Spectacle
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Smile 2 picks up right where Smile left off. Well, "six days later," as onscreen text tells us. It's a bold move from writer/director Parker Finn that combines with a bravura long-take opening sequence to announce that Smile 2 is...
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That’s a Wrap on the New York Film Fest (NYFF) ’24!
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Over the last couple weeks whenever I mentioned I was attending NYFF to a normie, they told me, “oh yeah, I saw the long lines.” What those normies didn’t realize is that the lines they saw were actually to enter...
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‘Goodrich’ Review: Michael Keaton Anchors Warmly Humanist Family Comedy
by admin|2 years ago|Slant Magazine
Goodrich’s modest ambitions yield modest rewards. The post ‘Goodrich’ Review: Michael Keaton Anchors Warmly Humanist Family Comedy appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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2024 Prix Jean Vigo: Louise Courvoisier’s ‘Vingt Dieux’ Claims Top Prize
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
The annual Prix Jean Vigo, typically awarded to a rising French director, recently recognized talents like Sophie Letourneur for Énorme, Axelle Ropert for Petite Solange, and Alice Diop for Saint-Omer. This year, the honor goes to another female filmmaker this...
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DOC NYC Announces Their Influential 2024 Short List Lineup
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
DOC NYC, the world’s largest documentary film festival, has announced the lineup for its influential, distinguished Short List section for its 15th edition. This section features 15 titles that are the top documentary contenders, and is known to overlap with...
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BLACK CAB Official Trailer: Nick Frost Rings With Jovial Madness in Upcoming Horror Thriller
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Starring Nick Frost and Synnøve Karlsen star. A couple who find their jovial cab driver diverts them to a remote, haunted road, revealing disturbing motives and his true intentions. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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NYFF Review: Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I – The Last Air in Moscow Reveals the Real World Horrors of Anti-War Russian Journalists
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
“The world you’re about to see no longer exists. None of us knew what was about to happen.”  Writer-director Julia Loktev––whose 13-year hiatus from filmmaking has left cinephiles in a curious stupor––has returned, and it was worth the wait. My...
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New York 2024 Review: SUBURBAN FURY, The Truth is Still Out There in This Captivating Documentary Thriller
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Even with all the collective force of human imagination, evidenced by books, scripts and conspiracy theories, nothing can be as wonderfully and sometimes scarily incredible as reality. Some history lessons, even seemingly lesser ones, are so genuinely wild it’s hard...
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