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Busan 2024 Review: THE LAND OF MORNING CALM, Grim Coastal Drama Offers Satisfying Character Portrait
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Following his intriguing debut The Girl on a Bulldozer, which screened at the Busan International Film Festival in 2021, directed Park Ki-woong returns to the festival with the New Currents competition title The Land of Morning Calm. Set far away...
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‘Hard Truths’ Review: Mike Leigh’s Compassionate Portrait of a Woman on the Brink
by admin|7 months ago|Slant Magazine
The film finds Marianne Jean-Baptiste channeling an anger that feels excruciatingly real. The post ‘Hard Truths’ Review: Mike Leigh’s Compassionate Portrait of a Woman on the Brink appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘Emilia Pérez’ Review: Jacques Audiard’s Melo-Noir Musical Makes It Up As It Goes Along
by admin|7 months ago|Slant Magazine
Just as its style is enervating, Emilia Pérez settles for mundane portraiture. The post ‘Emilia Pérez’ Review: Jacques Audiard’s Melo-Noir Musical Makes It Up As It Goes Along appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘The Shrouds’ Review: David Cronenberg’s Disquieting Story of Grief and Disillusionment
by admin|7 months ago|Slant Magazine
Grief may be its starting point, but the film has much more on its mind than that. The post ‘The Shrouds’ Review: David Cronenberg’s Disquieting Story of Grief and Disillusionment appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Busan 2024 Review: KIKE WILL HIT A HOME RUN, and So Does This Kaurismaki-esque Korean Indie Delight
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Possibly the highlight among the new Korean Indies on show at the Busan International Film Festival this year (though this critic hasn't quite seen everything yet), Kike Will Hit a Home Run is a quirky, charming and assured follow-up from...
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Poetic Justice: Blake Draper Unbottled in Patrick Wang’s ‘A. Rimbaud’
by admin|7 months ago|Ioncinema
American micro-indie filmmaker Patrick Wang of 2011’s In the Family (read review), The Grief of Others (2015), A Bread Factory (2018) parts I and II, was working under the radar and his latest project – Variety have the full details...
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TERRIFIER 3 Banned to Minors Under 18 in France
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
If you're under the age of 18 in France and you were itching to see Terrifier 3 in the cinemateques, looks like you're shit outta luck.   The Classification Committee over in France has recommended a ban on the film...
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Chaz Ebert to Speak at Decatur Book Festival with Gregory Berns
by admin|7 months ago|Roger Ebert
Join Chaz Ebert this Saturday, October 5th at the Decatur Book Festival, where she’ll be speaking with Gregory Berns, author and neuroscientist. Ebert Digital CEO and Publisher of RogerEbert.com, Chaz Ebert will appear at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel on Saturday,...
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HAPPINESS 4K Review: Todd Solondz’ Confrontational Black Comedy Gets a Gorgeous Upgrade
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The Criterion Collection plays hero once again with their recent 4K UHD release of Todd Solondz’s 1998 sophomore feature, Happiness. The film had long languished on a pitiful non-anamorphic window-boxed DVD from Lionsgate and fans have been clamoring for an...
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New York 2024 Review: STRANGER EYES, Sex, Lies, and Videotape
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
When a little girl vanishes straight from the playground, her parents Junyang (Wu Chien-ho) and Peiying (Anicca Panna) start a search that doesn’t provide any leads. That is, until they start getting DVDs with the footage of the family doing...
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