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THE SHADE Exclusive Clip: Supernatural Horror in Theaters Tomorrow
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Following the loss of his father, a grieving twenty-year-old struggles to hold his family together as an unspeakable darkness plagues his older brother. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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A Conversation with Jennifer Kent (THE BABADOOK 10th ANNIVERSARY)
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Australian director Jennifer Kent directed her first feature, The Babadook, in 2014. That supernatural horror film proved extremely effective at externalizing both grief and a mother’s worst fears about parenting. Starring Essie Davis (Babyteeth) as that mom, Amelia, a widow...
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Day Moves: Josh O’Connor Toplines Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Keeping up with her pattern of releasing a film roughly every three years, Kelly Reichardt’s next project, The Mastermind, is one extra America indie auteur item to watch out for and if I were Venice Film Festival’s Alberto Barbera, I’d...
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IN THE SUMMERS Review: A Man and His Daughters
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
It’s not being provocative — at least not intentionally — to suggest families, biological and otherwise, can seriously f*ck you up. Parents can fail their children. Children can fail their parents. Whether realistic or the opposite, expectations in either direction...
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Interview: Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Whiplash receives a 10th Anniversary re-release – reissued with a new 4K DCP via Sony Pictures Classics and coming directly from a showcase at the 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival. We interviewed Damien Chazelle at Sundance back in 2014. Here...
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SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY Review: Deeply Moving Portrait of the Actor Behind the Superhero
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
For Gen X’ers and Millennials, Superman in live-action form started and ended with Christopher Reeve. Across four films and a decade (1978-1987), Reeve embodied Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Depression-era, comic-book creation, a secular savior, a super-powered alien from a...
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Exclusive Clip: Painted Birds in Elfar Adalsteins’ ‘Summerlight… and Then Comes the Night’
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
For his sophomore feature film, Icelandic filmmaker Elfar Adalsteins adapts from Icelandic author Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novel. This comes after 2019’s End of Sentence – the shot in Ireland drama starring John Hawkes, Logan Lerman and Sarah Bolger, Summerlight… and...
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Lisandro Alonso on Eureka, Indigenous Perspective, Film Festival Controversies, and Being Stubborn
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
One of the pioneers of contemporary slow cinema, Lisandro Alonso made a name for himself on the festival circuit with his 2001 feature La libertad, which took that very notion of duration and “boredom” associated with the art-film subgenre to...
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Go Behind-the-Scenes of Carol Reed’s The Third Man in Exclusive Photos From New Book Arriving on 75th Anniversary
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Released 75 years ago this year, Carol Reed’s towering masterwork of film noir, The Third Man, has entered generation upon generation. Now, in celebration of its landmark anniversary, a new book by John Walsh uncovers more about its making. The...
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BLITZ Trailer: Saoirse Ronan Stars in Steve McQueen’s WWII Epic
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
After exploring the lingering effects of World War II in his documentary Occupied City last year, Steve McQueen takes on the subject once again in his war thriller Blitz. The film, which will premiere Closing Night at the New York...
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