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REAL LIFE 4K Review: Birth of a Comic Legend
by admin|9 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Albert Brooks made his directorial debut with a sharp-eyed, witty satire starring Charles Grodin and Frances Lee McCain, now on 4K and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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CORALINE Review: Eternally Yours, Dreamy and Sometimes Surreal
by admin|9 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Some 15 years ago, Coraline graced our movie screens. Last weekend, it returned in a new, remastered 3D edition, via LAIKA and Fathom Events, and surprise! The animated film made $9.6 million at the box office in the U.S., good...
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Locarno Film Festival 2024: ‘Street of No Return,’ ‘Bang Bang,’ and ‘Death Will Come’
by admin|9 months ago|Slant Magazine
Death Will Come is a conspicuously de-glamorized tale of violent characters on society’s fringes. The post Locarno Film Festival 2024: ‘Street of No Return,’ ‘Bang Bang,’ and ‘Death Will Come’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Book Excerpt: A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda by Carrie Rickey
by admin|9 months ago|Roger Ebert
We are incredibly proud to present an excerpt from Carrie Rickey's new book about the life and work of Agnès Varda, one of the most important filmmakers in the history of the form. The official synopsis is below, followed by the...
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Michael Brown and Michael Oliver on Editing Welcome to Wrexham
by admin|9 months ago|Roger Ebert
Buying a cash-strapped, more losses than wins Welsh football team might seem like an impulsive decision by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney if they had not demonstrated repeatedly that they are two of the savviest and most entrepreneurial forces in...
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Exclusive Clip: The Kids Aren’t All Right in Alexandros Avranas ‘Quiet Life’
by admin|9 months ago|Ioncinema
After winning the Silver Lion for Best Director with Miss Violence (2013), Greek filmmaker Alexandros Avranas returns to the Lido in the Orizzonti section with his latest work. This time, the focus is on a Russian family exiled to Sweden,...
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The Light That Passed: Alain Delon, Icon Of French Cinema 1935 – 2024
by admin|9 months ago|Screen Anarchy
At a press conference in Cannes in 1990, director Jean Luc Godard said about his choice of Alain Delon for the role of the hitchhiker in his movie New Wave: 'There was a role for 'him' in which I saw...
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A Woman With Influence: Gena Rowlands 1930 – 2024
by admin|9 months ago|Screen Anarchy
A peerless actress was Gena Rowlands. She was also the muse of actor and rightly renowned avant-garde filmmaker John Cassavetes (†1989), to whom she was married from 1954. It was an inspiration that was mutual. A number of great Cassavetes...
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UKRAINE: ENEMY IN THE WOODS Review
by admin|9 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The British BBC documentary Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods dryly and with restraint shows the harshness and bloodiness of life and death on the Ukrainian front this past winter. Drones and increasingly precise artillery are turning life on both sides...
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THE STRANGER AND THE FOG 4K Restoration Trailer: Hidden Gem of the Iranian New Wave is Unearthed
by admin|9 months ago|Hammer to Nail
A hidden gem of Iranian cinema has been unearthed and restored in 4K. Bahram Beyzaie’s mythical 1974 sophomore film The Stranger and the Fog was banned in Iran for decades following the Revolution there, but it’s finally being brought back...
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