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Sound And Vision: Alex Proyas
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: several music videos by Alex Proyas. I'm an Alex Proyas-apologist. His film record is widely considered spotty with Dark City and...
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Locarno 2024 Awards: Lithuanian Drama TOXIC Dominates 77th Locarno Film Festival
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The 77th Locarno Film Festival culminated in a triumph for Saulė Bliuvaitė's Toxic, which led the awards tally alongside notable wins for Kurdwin Ayub's Moon and Laurynas Bareiša's Drowning Dry, showcasing a diverse range of new cinematic voices. [Read the...
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The Most Vital Actress of Her Generation: A Goodbye to Gena Rowlands
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
Richard Brody, the highly esteemed critic of The New Yorker, would often wish Gena Rowlands a Happy Birthday on the 19th of every June, writing in 2022 that she was “the most inventive, creative, original, transformative actress in the history...
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LAIKA Studios Returns in First Teaser for Travis Knight’s Wildwood
by admin|10 months ago|The Film Stage
With the current re-release of Henry Selick’s Coraline netting a rather staggering $11.3 million at the U.S. box office, LAIKA is back in the conversation. The Oregon-based animation studio isn’t just hanging on its laurels, however, as they are in...
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Locarno Film Festival 2024: Eight Postcards from Utopia and Sleep #2
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
Radu Jude is a cheeky filmmaker, espousing a biting Romanian humor that takes to task the history, politics and culture of his country and the outside economic forces by world powers that have unmoored it. He arrived at Locarno Film...
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Neuchâtel 2024 Review: ANIMAL Hurts Men, Women And Beasts
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Last month, the 2024 edition of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival ended, so normally by now we'd have finished our coverage. But the review for Emma Benestan's Animale, internationally distributed as Animal, lived rent-free in my brain for weeks,...
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‘The Outrun’ Review: Saoirse Ronan Soars in Drama About Navigating the Waves of Addiction
by admin|10 months ago|Slant Magazine
The way Nora Fingscheidt captures two modes of life is one of the film’s greatest strengths. The post ‘The Outrun’ Review: Saoirse Ronan Soars in Drama About Navigating the Waves of Addiction appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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2024 Locarno Film Festival: Saulė Bliuvaitė Wins Pardo d’Oro for Toxic (Akiplėša)
by admin|10 months ago|Ioncinema
The 2024 film festival summer closed out with the prizing at the Locarno Film Festival and it’s the debut feature of a Lithuanian filmmaker who claimed to highest prize in the Golden Leopard aka the Pardo d’Oro. Our Nicholas Bell...
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‘Transamazonia’ Review: An Elegant Mood Piece That Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
by admin|10 months ago|Slant Magazine
This tale of spiritual and neo-colonial exploitation is unfocused and unrelentingly somber. The post ‘Transamazonia’ Review: An Elegant Mood Piece That Can’t See the Forest for the Trees appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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NOT A PRETTY PICTURE Blu-ray Review: A Meta Examination of Deep Trauma
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Martha Coolidge might be more known for her teen-focused comedies such as Valley Girl and The Prince and Me, but her work has always been forward-thinking in representations of women, and likely none of her films showcase this more than...
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