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SXSW 2024 Review: DESERT ROAD, A Woman Navigates Her Way Through Despair In This Sci-Fi Gem
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
An intentionally convoluted science-fiction fantasy film about despair and recovery, first time feature filmmaker Shannon Triplett’s Desert Road is just the kind of small film with big ideas that really resonates with the festival crowd. Powered by an impressive lead...
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Jessica Hausner on Club Zero, Mia Wasikowska, Divisive Reactions, and the Overwhelming Stress of Youth
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
Across her five previous features, Austrian director Jessica Hausner (Amour Fou, Lourdes, Little Joe) has developed a distinctly unique tone––one which carries through her sixth outing Club Zero. Led by Mia Wasikowska, the dark satire follows a nutrition teacher at an...
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Alain Delon Has a Job to Execute in Trailer for 4K Restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
Whatever the idea of “canonized” suggests, few films of such order are quite so well-liked and perpetually referenced (or just ripped-off) as Le Samouraï, leaving me somewhat surprised we haven’t yet had a 4K treatment in the United States. But...
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Maya Hawke is Flannery O’Connor in First Trailer for Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
Coming off his stellar Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward documentary The Last Movie Stars, Ethan Hawke’s latest foray behind the camera is on the narrative side with the Flannery O’Connor biopic Wildcat. Marking a family affair, the film stars Maya...
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SXSW 2024 Review: IMMACULATE, Syndey Sweeney Does Nunsploitation
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
These last few years have been a dream run for it-girl Sydney Sweeney. From her breakout role TV roles in Euphoria and The White Lotus, to box office success in this year’s Anyone But You, she seems to have the...
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7 Films to Check Out at MoMI’s First Look 2024
by admin|3 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Returning for its 13th edition, the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look Festival marks the emergence of strong breakout international cinema. From March 13-17, it will screen over three dozen eclectic films, both features and shorts, making their New...
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THE COMPLETELY MADE-UP ADVENTURES OF DICK TURPIN Exclusive Clip
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
I quite like a lager. And in this economy any lager will do.  We've got an exclusive clip from the upcoming episode of the Apple TV+ comedy series, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, titled The Reddlehag. The Britcom has...
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I Saw the TV Glow Soundtrack Arrives May 10; Listen to yeule’s Broken Social Scene Cover
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
It’s hard to imagine we’ll get a better soundtrack this year than that for Jane Schoenbruen’s I Saw the TV Glow. Bringing together yeule, Frances Quinlan, Florist, King Woman, Caroline Polachek, Bartees Strange, Jay Som, The Weather Station, L’Rain, Drab...
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Blackout
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
If actors often make for compelling directors, then why not character actors? Larry Fessenden (“Depraved”) is a great That Guy character actor, and his work stands out in a range of genre movies, mostly horror. Fessenden’s also the producer and...
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Little Wing
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
The work of journalist Susan Orlean has been adapted to the big screen a few times, most notably in 2002 by herself for the Oscar-nominated rumination on the nature of writing itself "Adaptation." But even the girl power surfing film...
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