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‘The Graduates’ Review: A Quietly Somber Portrait of a Community Living Through Grief
by admin|7 months ago|Slant Magazine
Writer-director Hannah Peterson effectively suffuses the film with a mournful absence of life. The post ‘The Graduates’ Review: A Quietly Somber Portrait of a Community Living Through Grief appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood
by admin|7 months ago|The Film Stage
Robert Zemeckis’ Here arrives with an ambitious framing device in that the entire story is told through one static camera placement. Through this fixed position we witness the early days of Earth when dinosaurs roamed freely. But like his fellow...
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Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller
by admin|7 months ago|The Film Stage
Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada premiered at Cannes this past spring, and although the subject matter, surrounding a dying filmmaker grappling with his own mortality, led to speculation that this was the final film from the aging filmmaker, Schrader is wasting...
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SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
by admin|7 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival ran October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s Small Things Like These movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) With her 2010 short story “Foster,” Irish writer Claire Keegan established herself as a magnificent...
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Lausanne 2024 Interview: BEEZEL Director Aaron Fradkin on Haunted Homes, Genre-Bending Horror, Crafting Viral Scares
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Aaron Fradkin delves into discusses the unique challenges of using personal spaces to amplify fear, blending vintage horror aesthetics with modern pacing, and drawing on feedback from his viral YouTube shorts to craft scares that resonate deeply. [Read the whole...
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2024 Gothams: Sean Baker’s Anora Lands Four Noms; Payal Kapadia & RaMell Ross in the Mix
by admin|7 months ago|Ioncinema
The notoriously unpredictable and always confusing Gotham Awards revealed their nominations for the upcoming 34th gala, with Sean Baker’s Anora leading the pack. Anora earned four nominations: Best Feature, Best Director, Outstanding Lead Performance for Mikey Madison, and—perhaps most exciting...
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Lausanne 2024 Review: BEEZEL, Hex Marks the Spot in Haunted House Found Footage Horror
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
American indie filmmaker Aaron Fradkin fuses old-school horror aesthetics with modern found footage techniques to deliver a multi-generational tale of supernatural terror, unfolding within a cursed New England home. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled
by admin|7 months ago|The Film Stage
The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced today the nominations for the 34th edition of The Gothams, including 39 feature films and 25 performances in nine award categories. Leading the Best Feature nominees are Anora, Babygirl, Challengers, A Different Man,...
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Lausanne 2024 Review: SELF DRIVER Spins Survival Satire in Gig Economy Gone Rogue
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
In Michael Pierro's darkly satirical debut, a cash-strapped cab driver plunges into a digital enslavement where the promise of easy money reveals a world of moral decay, autonomy lost, and the high stakes of a gig economy spiraling out of...
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Yokohama BJ Blues Makes U.S. Theatrical Premiere on November 11 from Amnesiascope
by admin|7 months ago|The Film Stage
I was so delighted by one of my favorite films getting restored that I simply had to secure its American debut. With Yokohama BJ Blues‘ forthcoming Blu-ray release from Radiance, my screening series Amnesiascope will show the film on Monday,...
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