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Neuchâtel 2024 Review: MEANWHILE ON EARTH Wanders Through Grief
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Fantastic genres like science fiction, fantasy and horror lend themselves for hiding a message in your entertainment. Throw in monsters, aliens or revolting transformations and you can make the most difficult ethical dilemmas palatable for a larger audience. But some...
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‘Dìdi’ Review: A Taiwanese American Coming of Age in the Early Age of Social Media
by admin|11 months ago|Slant Magazine
The film speaks unflinchingly to the unique anxieties and frustrations of early teenhood. The post ‘Dìdi’ Review: A Taiwanese American Coming of Age in the Early Age of Social Media appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Fantasia 2024: THE SECOND, Short Film Short Review
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Editor Tony Zhou and Illustrator Taylor Ramos are perhaps best known for their YouTube channel Every Frame A Painting, their video essay side-hustle away from their day jobs in the TV animation industry.   Early pioneers in this space nearly...
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2024 Venice: Valerio Mastandrea’s “Nonostante” & Tim Fehlbaum’s “September 5” Horizons Sections Openers
by admin|11 months ago|Ioncinema
The full line-up will be unveiled on Tuesday, but we got a little Lido appetizer pair this morning. Opening the Horizons (aka Orrizonti) section it is Italian cinema that will be profiled with Valerio Mastandrea‘s Nonostante launching festivities. With about...
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Neuchâtel 2024 Review: ETERNAL Takes Its Sweet Time Getting… Somewhere
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
At the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival back in 2021, several films directly tackled the subject of environmental issues (including the International Critics' Jury Winner that year). This year, the selection skewed more towards emotions of grief, loss, failed relationships....
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Fantasia 2024 Review: 4PM, Where The Social Contract Is Weaponized.
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Jay Song’s two-hour long, complete implosion of the social contract, 4PM, is delightfully frustrating, and terribly absurd. Loosely based on the Belgian novel, “The Stranger Next Door,” written by Francophone author Amélie Nothomb, the film plays as if that scene...
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Karlovy Vary 2024 Review: Political Satire RUMOURS Takes Surreal Turn
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Guy Maddin teams up with Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson on a trippy political comedy in a dystopian predicament led by Cate Blanchett. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Find Me Falling
by admin|11 months ago|Roger Ebert
When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first things that come to mind might be the gorgeous blue-green crystalline waters, the picturesque villages anchored on the shoreline, and the many variations of seafood fare available within...
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Karlovy Vary 2024 Review: PARTHENOPE is a Fantasy of Womanhood Through Male Gaze
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Paolo Sorrentino, the Oscar-winning Italian director, returns with Parthenope, a visually opulent that serves as both a love letter to Naples and a very male exploration of womanhood through the intertwining lenses of myth and modernity. [Read the whole post...
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Scala!!!
by admin|11 months ago|Roger Ebert
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall's documentary "Scala!!!" is about a legendary, notorious, hugely influential and long-gone London theater. But it'll appeal to anyone whose formative moviegoing years were defined by eccentric, usually urban or college-town cinemas that programmed whatever the folks who ran...
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