Phantom Limb: Panahi Treads Ripples of Retribution Jafar Panahi continues to poke the bear with It Was Just an Accident, his latest being another film made without permission from the Iranian government and perhaps his most direct indictment of the...
From Dag Johan Haugerud‘s Dreams (Sex Love) to Palme d’Or winning It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi to the Silver Lion winner in The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania, the 2025 European Film Awards have...
To international viewers, Bad Apples will play like a conventional dark comedy about a schoolteacher pushed too far by a student; to Brits, it’s a scorched Earth takedown of a state education system that has failed millions of children, any...
In 2008, Juliette Binoche paired with dancer Akram Khan for in-i, an experimental dance work about a couple’s dissolving relationship. They performed the piece 120 times in theaters around the world. Binoche’s sister Marion Stalens shot a documentary about the production,...
“Urchin” is a British independent drama film written and directed by Harris Dickinson, in his feature-length directorial debut, that stars Frank Dillane as a homeless young man in London, struggling with addiction and poverty. The film had its world premiere...
Sometimes a film is so enshrined in a canon, taken for granted as representative of either a genre (or subgenre), a national cinema, a director or actor's career, that it risks being a film talked about, but perhaps not watched,...
Black Rabbit, White Rabbit, Tajikistan's official submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, marks the Iranian filmmaker's first international production and an ambitious continuation of his narrative recursion, cinematic illusion. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]