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BLACKOUT: Larry Fesseden’s Werewolf Movie is Coming This Spring
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Painter Charley (Alex Hurt, Minyan, TV's New Amsterdam) wakes up in an upstate motel where he appears to have been living for some time. After he packs and leaves he encounters various people in the small town where everybody knows...
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A Conversation with Asmae El Moudir (THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES)
by admin|3 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, after which it traveled to other festivals such as TIFF (where M.J. O’Toole reviewed it) and then Sundance 2024 (where I reviewed it)....
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MCCABE & MRS MILLER Blu-ray Review: Robert Altman’s Frontier Western Remains a Masterpiece
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Part of both the New Hollywood era and the second wave of Westerns, Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs Miller might have suffered from poor box office on its release, but luckily did not have to wait long to find its...
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Berlin Film Festival 2024: Small Things Like These, Crossing, Cuckoo
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
It’s early, but the Berlinale has already granted three enriching films of distinctly different backgrounds. In fact, usually for these dispatches, I try to pair films of similar genres. In this instance, I think having these works together clues you...
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The Arc of Oblivion
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
"The Arc of Oblivion" is a documentary about a lot of things, including the futility of its own existence. Writer-director Ian Cheney, who also narrates, presents himself as, basically, a hoarder, mainly of hard drives containing photos, video and audio of...
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America’s Greatest Threat? A New Documentary Argues It’s Christian Nationalism
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
In an election year full of anxiety, documentary filmmaker Dan Partland has given us another reason to lose sleep at night. The director of “Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump” returns with “God & Country,” a sobering examination of the...
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Spirit Awards 2024: A Platform for Essential Independent Films
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
The Spirit Awards, hosted by Film Independent, will take place Sunday, February 25, and once again will be held under a tent on the beach in Santa Monica. The organization is helmed by its President, Josh Welsh, and Brenda Robinson, the Chair...
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HOUSE OF NINJAS Review: Shinobi Stealth Success
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Kento Kaku, Yosuke Eguchi, Tae Kimura, Kengo Kora, Aju Makita, and Nobuko Miyamoto star in Dave Boyle's Japanese-language action series. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Rotterdam 2024 Review: THE LIGHT Points Attention To An Art Scandal
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
In May 1995, Denmark was celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the end of its occupation by the Nazis during World War 2, and many festivities were planned. As part of these, an art installation called 'Peace Sculpture 1995' was greenlit...
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LA NUEVA (The Newcomer): 2023’s Horror Short Film of the Year? It Just Might be…
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
For your consideration.   Let us say that Horror Short Film of the Year were something that was officially awarded by globally recognized group of our peers. Then we say that the honor was awarded to the horror short that...
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