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THE BEAST Review: Lovers Beset By a Sense of Doom
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Léa Seydoux and George MacKay star in a film by director Bertrand Bonello. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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CHICKEN FOR LINDA! Review: Food As a Springboard to Delight
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Directed by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach, the animated film from France happily defies expectations. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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WICKED LITTLE LETTERS Review: A Foxy-a••ed Clever Eruption of Suppressed Rage
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
I'm sure that I'm not the only one who has written - either in their head or possibly on virtual or real paper - a letter that they never sent; the kind of letter that lets out all the anger...
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Metrograph Highlights Remarkable Career of Lee Chang-dong
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Lee Chang-dong began his career in the arts as a novelist and “novelistic” in all the richness and implication of that term is how I find myself thinking of his films. Asked to write a script for Park Kwang-su’s “To...
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7 Films to See at New Directors/New Films
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Throughout its five-decade run, New Directors/New Films has introduced the works of many prolific filmmakers today, including Steven Spielberg, Wong Kar-Wai, Kelly Reichardt, Denis Villeneuve, Guillermo del Toro, Laura Poitras, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Christopher Nolan – just to name a...
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SUGAR Review: Sweet, Spicy, Stylish Hollywood Noir
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Colin Farrell, Kirby, Amy Ryan, and James Cromwell star in the cool new detective story, debuting on Apple TV+. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Nick Newman and the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research Present Amnesiascope, a New Screening Series, on April 12
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Complementing recent work with the Roxy Cinema and BAM, I’ve begun a monthly screening series at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. It’s called Amnesiascope and somewhat unique: a “blindfold” program wherein I pick the (rare, out-of-print) film and you...
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THE PEOPLE’S JOKER Review: Maniacally Magical
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
It makes perfect sense that writer/director/effects artist/star Vera Drew doesn't want to rewatch The People’s Joker anymore. Drew has spent more than three years with the film now, since its beginning as a re-edit of the 2019 film Joker, through the...
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Female Filmmakers in Focus: Alice Rohrwacher on La Chimera
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Set in 1980s Tuscany, the ethereal romantic drama "La chimera" from writer-director Alice Rohrwacher follows the plights of Arthur (Josh O'Connor), a heartbroken British archaeologist who uses a divining rod to locate Etruscan artifacts, which he, along with a band...
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The Beast
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”) is a 1903 short story by Henry James called “The Beast in the Jungle.” Seen by some James scholars as an autobiographical expression of rue for a life...
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