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FilmSharks Signs Deals For NINE QUEENS 4K, BOOGEYMAN: THE ORIGIN OF THE MYTH, And THE RESTLESS WATERS, SHIVERING LIGHTS
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
With a couple more days left in this year's EFM our friends at FilmSharks have let us know about more deals they've secured in their time there. Two titles we've spoken about in recent months the other is the return...
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CONCRETE VALLEY Review: The Quiet Lives of Those Trying to Fit In
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Urban parkland can bring both solace and anonymity. For someone who is new to a place, connecting with their environment can be at once daunting and daring - the constructed landscape being one against which an immigrant is often antagonized,...
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Pepe | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Cocaine Hippo: de Los Santos Arias Explores an Assassination To say Pepe, the second narrative feature from Dominican director Nelson Carlos de Los Santos Arias, is unclassifiable will likely be as much of a reason to dismiss it as it...
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Berlinale Review: A Traveler’s Needs is Hong Sangsoo’s Funniest Film in Years
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Two things can be true at once. The old debate over whether Hong Sangsoo’s cinema is overly earnest or self-aware was always a bit reductive––when the most light-hearted of the director’s films transcend, it is usually a result of both....
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Sam Mendes to Direct Four-Film Beatles Biopic Releasing in 2027
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Like a chimera of any intelligent person’s least-favorite storytelling models, we are (in the sense of a diagnosis) finally seeing the cinematic universe intersect with musical biopics. And where to start but the very biggest? Today brings the rather momentous...
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Second Trailer for Alex Garland’s Civil War Imagines a Divided Near-Future America
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
After dividing audiences with Men, Alex Garland is back with what looks to be his most ambitious directorial outing yet. Civil War, which follows a divided, near-future America and a race to the White House, stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura,...
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Berlin Film Festival 2024: Dahomey, My Favorite Cake, A Traveler’s Needs
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
If I have another dispatch with three films of this quality, then Berlin will have been an incredible success. Each selection here is an intimate, at moments, meditative interrogation of memory and the brutal passage of time composed through a...
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Architecton | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Judgment in Stone: Kossakovsky Gazes Into the Concrete Jungle Celebrated documentarian Viktor Kossakovsky explores our complex relationship with concrete in the abstract visual feast, Architecton. For those familiar with his previous explorations, such as 2020’s Gunda, in which we follow...
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Berlinale Review: Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara Superbly Examines Paradoxes of Intimacy
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
The films of Canadian director Kazik Radwanski are freedom in its purest form, or the purest this particular medium can contain. Being the opposite of prescriptive, they sculpt themselves according to interpersonal dynamics that can otherwise be invisible, and by...
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#478 February 20, 2024
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Matt writes: Our Editor at Large Matt Zoller Seitz recently posted a very well-received essay entitled, "Why Deleting and Destroying Finished Movies Like 'Coyote vs Acme' Should Be a Crime." You can read the article in its entirety here, and...
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