Our Film Has A Power: Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham on No Other Land
by admin|7 months ago|Roger Ebert
The filmmakers behind one of this year's most powerful documentaries details the urgency of documenting war crimes in Gaza.
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CIFF 2024: The Light of Truth: Richard Hunt’s Monument to Ida B. Wells, Time Passages, Slice of Life: The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts
by admin|7 months ago|Roger Ebert
On three docs from this year's CIFF.
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CIFF 2024: Compensation, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Save the Children
by admin|7 months ago|Roger Ebert
On three restorations from the Chicago International Film Festival this year, all focused on the Black experience.
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Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era
by admin|7 months ago|The Film Stage
In Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2, Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult) finds himself in an unenviable position: not only was he selected for jury duty, but something odd occurs during the murder trial’s opening statements. Details surrounding the night of the murder...
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Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon
by admin|7 months ago|The Film Stage
Kicking off November 8 in Estonia, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF) is a strong showcase for independent voices in international cinema. One premiere on our radar is Lina Lužytė and Nerijus Milerius’ Jōhatsu, which explores the Japanese...
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Lausanne 2024 Interview: SCALA!!!, Jane Giles and Ali Catterall on Cult Cinema, Counterculture Icons, London’s Underground Legacy
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss the transformation of London's Scala cinema from an underground movie theater into an icon of cult film and counterculture. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT Review: Invigorating, Infuriating Documentary Epic
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Like much of the jazz that soundtracks it, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat doesn't hold your hand. From the start, the film unleashes a frenetic, almost overwhelming, visual language. It's a visual language that, along with the phenomenal titular soundtrack,...
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Youth (Hard Times) | Review
by admin|7 months ago|Ioncinema
Make the Best of Us: Bing’s ‘Youth’ Cycle Expands Into the Gloom The middle part of Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy, Youth (Hard Times) perhaps more properly addresses the bleak realities of his observational endeavor, cobbled together into a cohesive structure...
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THE EDGE OF NATURE
by admin|7 months ago|Hammer to Nail
“I guess you could call that instinct – or insanity,” states the director-writer-environmental activist Josh Fox about his compulsion to build a high platform in the middle of the Pennsylvania forest where he’d gone to convalesce from long Covid. Later,...
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F MARRY KILL Official Trailer: Lucy Hale Might be Dating a Serial Killer, or Three, in Comedy Thriller
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Laucy Hale stars in Laura Murphy's (Awkwafina is Nora From Queens) upcoming comedy thriller, F Marry Kill.   Released by Lionsgate and produced by BuzzFeed Studios you can catch the flick in select theaters and on VOD/digital on December 6th....
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