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Chattanooga 2024 Review: NOCLIP Goes Nowhere On Purpose
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
NOCLIP opens with a silly animated commercial for the Kansas City Missouri mall Crown Center. It's a real mall that's existed for more than half a century now, though I haven't been able to determine whether or not the commercial...
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A Quiet Place: Day One
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
There are enough interesting ideas and at least two confident performances holding “A Quiet Place: Day One” together, even if it sometimes feels like a first draft of a richer, more complex final film. “Pig” director Michael Sarnoski proves deft...
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A Quiet Place: Day One Review: A Tender, Uneven Franchise Origin Story of Existential Despair
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
For a movie so deeply focused on sound, there’s a bit of an arrhythmia to A Quiet Place: Day One. Michael Sarnoski directs his own screenplay, dabbling within this improbable sci-fi franchise to suit his interests. Despite the Pig director’s...
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Catherine Breillat Wants You to Think About (Movie) Sex Differently
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
As soon as Théo comes into Anne’s life, nothing will ever be the same for her. A successful, savvy middle-aged lawyer, Anne (Léa Drucker) is married to wealthy businessman Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin), the couple raising two young children they adopted....
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The Best Show on TV is Back in the Third Season of FX’s The Bear
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
“The Bear,” created by Christopher Storer and now entering its third season, has a simple premise: the lives, efforts, errors of a kitchen staff. It's a workplace show, not an uncommon thing in the history of American television. Where it...
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2024 Venice Gap-Financing Market: Ulrike Ottinger, Aga Woszczyńska, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Erige Sehiri & Theo Court Among Selected Projects
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
The projects for the upcoming Venice Gap-Financing Market have been unveiled (27 feature-length fiction) and there’ll be several listed here projects that we’ll discuss at length next year when they start hitting the festival circuit of 2025 and especially, 2026....
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CHRONICLES OF A WANDERING SAINT Review: High Concept, Gentle Humor, Constant Surprises
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Tomás Gómez Bustillo directed, Monica Villa and Horacio Anibal Marassi star in a magical realist triumph from Argentina. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: BOUND
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
(Here at Hammer to Nail, we are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, Brad Cook gets tied up with...
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LAST SUMMER Review: What Lies in Our Dark Hearts
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Catherine Breillat's latest film stars Lea Drucker. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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A Realistic Coup of the U.S. Government is Attempted in First Trailer for War Game
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
While thankfully the January 6 insurrection wasn’t successful in the intended coup of the United States government, the threats posed play out to another, far more disastrous conclusion with the new documentary War Game. Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber’s Sundance...
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