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Exclusive Clip: The Kids Aren’t All Right in Alexandros Avranas ‘Quiet Life’
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Interview: Mika Gustafson – Paradise is Burning
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Swedish filmmaker Mika Gustafson shifts from the docu world beginnings to her fiction feature debut in Paradise is Burning – a selection in the 2023 Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section. Winner of the Best Director award, Gustafson infuses her world...
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Locarno 2024: King of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan on Global Stardom, Brad Pitt´s Jaw and the Power of Female Directors
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Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan reflects on the serendipitous journey from a young boy mesmerized by Yash Chopra's films to becoming one of Bollywood's most celebrated stars, all while maintaining a humble, grounded approach to stardom. [Read the whole post...
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AZRAEL Official Trailer: Samara Weaving Breaks Their Silence With Lots of Violence
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Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down Azrael, a young woman who escaped her own imprisonment- and she will stop at nothing to ensure her own survival. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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AZRAEL Trailer: Samara Weaving Tries To Survive a Mute, Post-Apocalyptic World
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After surviving a blood-soaked wedding in 2019’s Ready or Not, Samara Weaving now has to survive a merciless wilderness in Azrael. E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills) directs the post-apocalyptic from a script by Simon Barrett (You’re Next; The Guest) which took...
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Azrael Trailer: Samara Weaving Leads Horror Feature from Cheap Thrills Director E.L. Katz
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Cheap Thrills and Small Crimes director E.L. Katz director returned earlier this year, premiering his new action-horror feature Azrael, scripted by Simon Barrett (You’re Next, The Guest), at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival. Led by Samara Weaving, Nathan...
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