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Dìdi (弟弟)
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to discover my initial gut reaction might have been a bit too harsh. When I first watched Sean Wang’s emotionally brutal coming of age film “Didi” at Sundance—where it...
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Retrospective: Jean-Pierre Melville and the Cinematic Hitman
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
When thinking about the present resurgence of the cinematic hitman, it’s difficult not to immediately think about the legacy of Jean-Pierre Melville. My thoughts on Melville’s impact on the stock character have been percolating through several critics’ mentions of the...
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New To Streaming: La Práctica, Kill, Starve Acre, Nothing Compares & 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. Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah) Bad Boys: Ride...
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Amman 2024 Review: MY SWEET LAND, And The Usefulness Of Having Dreams
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
My Sweet Land of Sareen Hairabedian was one of the stronger films in a small but mostly strong feature documentary competition section of the 2024 Amman International Film Festival. The film gained not only the International Film Critics Fipresci Award...
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THE GIRL IN THE POOL Exclusive Clip: Freddie Prinze Jr. Goes Off The Deep End in Thriller
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Monica Potter star in a domestic thriller The Girl in the Pool. It is a reunion of the two stars who first acted together in the rom com Head Over Heels in 2001. Here they play husband...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS, A Plucky Podcaster Hunts A Serial Killer In Her Hometown
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
A true crime podcaster heading home for Christmas finds herself in the middle of a murder spree that she has to solve before she becomes the next victim in Alice Maio Mackay’s Carnage for Christmas. Mackay’s latest feature marks her...
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Survival of the Fittest: Anamaria Vartolomei Joins Laura Wandel’s “L’Intérêt d’Adam”
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Earlier last month we reported that actresses Léa Drucker and Noémie Merlant were going to topline Laura Wandel’s highly anticipated sophomore feature, L’Intérêt d’Adam. We now learn via the Cineuropa folks that Anamaria Vartolomei will instead take the role that...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: FRANKIE FREAKO, Steven Kostanski’s Chaotic Puppet Adventure Is Freakin’ Great!
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
A painfully bland office worker gets his world turned upside down by a trio of tiny cosmic weirdos in Steven Kostanski’s latest gonzo comedy, Frankie Freako. After hit cult comedy gold with 2021’s Psycho Goreman, Kostanski and his usual bunch...
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Gentle Creatures: Robert Bresson and Mani Kaul Screens at BAM on August 5
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
It’s my distinct pleasure to announce Gentle Creatures: Robert Bresson and Mani Kaul, a Dostoevsky double-header comprising adaptations of the short story “A Gentle Creature”––Bresson’s Une femme douce and Kaul’s Nazar––that I’ve programmed and which comes to BAM on Monday,...
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2024 TIFF: Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” Opens the Midnight Madness Programme
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
It was considered a “risky” film selection by Thierry Frémaux that divided critics but found a large swath of defenders (including our chief film critic Nicholas Bell) and now Coralie Fargeat will have its North American premiere at the fest...
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