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New York 2024 Review: LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR Conjures Up Celestial Music

by admin|7 months ago09 October 2024|Screen Anarchy

Jem Cohen makes a gentle inquiry to human connections while presenting it within the bigger picture; in this case, the universe. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Shoplifters Unite: Boots Riley Pickpockets Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield & Demi Moore for ‘I Love Boosters’

by admin|7 months ago09 October 2024|Ioncinema

Musician turned filmmaker Boots Riley is set to begin production on that always critical sophomore feature with a quartet of players that include muse LaKeith Stanfield (toplined Riley’s debut Sorry to Bother You), Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, and the Demi...

‘I’m Still Here’ Review: Walter Salles’s Personal Chronicle of a Political Disappearance

by admin|7 months ago09 October 2024|Slant Magazine

I’m Still Here’s affection for its subjects, though tender, is largely hagiographic. The post ‘I’m Still Here’ Review: Walter Salles’s Personal Chronicle of a Political Disappearance appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Prix Iris 2024: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person Leads “Quebec Oscars” Noms

by admin|7 months ago09 October 2024|Ioncinema

Ariane Louis-Seize‘s Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (winner of the Director’s Award at Giornate degli Autori section in Venice Film Festival last year) leads all nominations at the Prix Iris (aka Quebec Oscars) with a total of twenty-two including...

WOMAN OF THE HOUR Review: A Date with a Killer

by admin|7 months ago09 October 2024|Screen Anarchy

Women are not believed. This has been true for decades (if not centuries) and it has allowed men to perpetrate terrible crimes, almost in plain sight, without remorse or consequences. I realise this is something of a blanket statement (yes,...

“Shut Up, Shut Up, Listen”: Julia Loktev on My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow

by admin|7 months ago09 October 2024|The Film Stage

For a certain kind of cinephile (e.g. me) more than a decade’s been spent wondering about Julia Loktev. The brilliant director behind Day Night Day Night and The Loneliest Planet has been largely off-the-grid since the latter’s release in 2011,...

Polish Film Festival 2024: ‘Under the Volcano,’ ‘The Girl with a Needle,’ ‘Night Silence,’ & More

by admin|7 months ago09 October 2024|Slant Magazine

The 49th edition of the festival was a showcase of more liberal sentiments and artistic styles. The post Polish Film Festival 2024: ‘Under the Volcano,’ ‘The Girl with a Needle,’ ‘Night Silence,’ & More appeared first on Slant Magazine.

NYFF Review: The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire is a Bold Rethinking of Black Surrealism

by admin|7 months ago09 October 2024|The Film Stage

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, the feature debut from artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, aims to foreground its primary literary material and historical context, but instead directs more attention to its oneiric touches and environmental phenomena––the “wind in the trees,”...