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SUNNY Review: Forlorn American Turns Determined Detective with a Robot in Japan
by admin|3 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
Rashida Jones, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, Judy Ongg, YOU, annie the clumsy, and Jun Kunimura star in the darkly comic Apple TV+ mystery series. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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8 Films to See at Japan Cuts 2024
by admin|3 weeks ago|The Film Stage
Comprising international premieres, short programs, and some of the country’s finest-ever films in new restorations, 2024’s Japan Cuts––running July 10-21 at New York’s Japan Society––is upon us. As one of North America’s sole festivals devoted to new voices in Japanese...
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Japan Cuts 2024 Preview: Treasure Trove of New and Classic Japanese Films
by admin|3 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
North America’s largest Japanese film festival presents two weeks of contemporary premieres, including new films from Kei Chika-ura, Takeshi Kitano, Gakuryu Ishii, Shunji Iwai, Sho Miyake and Shinya Tsukamoto. The program features 31 films, including 5 International Premieres, 10 North...
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SPACE SHARKS Trailer: They Don’t Need Water (or a Budget) to Kill!
by admin|3 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
No matter how many times anyone boasts that sharks are the perfect apex predator, just the way they are, as nature intended, there is always someone else who says, 'Hold my beer'. Or, in the case of Dustin Ferguson's Space...
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A Conversation with Ramona Diaz (AND SO IT BEGINS)
by admin|3 weeks ago|Hammer to Nail
Director Ramona Diaz (A Thousand Cuts) premiered her latest documentary about the Philippines, And So It Begins, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival (where I reviewed it). In the movie, Diaz covers the 2022 presidential election in that country, embedding...
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THE NATURE OF LOVE Review: A Tale of Romance, Philosophy and the Power of Classic Love Ballads
by admin|3 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
Magalie Lépine-Blondeau and Pierre-Yves Cardinal star in French-Canadian writer-director-actor Monia Chokri's sexy new film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sound And Vision: Ti West
by admin|3 weeks ago|Screen Anarchy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: Justin Timberlake's No Angels, directed by Ti West. Ti West is obsessed with several themes, among them hedonism and the hive-mind...
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Longlegs Review: Frigid Serial Killer Procedural Plays Too Clean
by admin|3 weeks ago|The Film Stage
As FBI agents mention the final book of the Bible, one calls it “Revelations.” Then “semi-psychic” Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) corrects them. “Revelation. Singular,” she says, eyes glued to the ground as she pivots past, but not toward, the camera....
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Ride Again with Criterion’s 50th Anniversary Release
by admin|3 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” has about it an air of abeyance, of incompletion spurred by decades of mythology and rumor about its troubled production, contentious post-production, and the personal demons plaguing a director whose prickliness and...
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​Time to Bloom: KiKi Layne on Dandelion
by admin|3 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
In “Dandelion,” a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter (KiKi Layne, “If Beale Street Could Talk”) is looking for a way to make music for a living when, while performing at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota, she meets Casey (Thomas Doherty), a...
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