Yorgos Lanthimos is back from awards season with Kinds of Kindness. The upcoming anthology is from the director of such faves as Poor Things, The Favourite, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lobster, etc etc etc. He's made a lot of...
Though South Korea’s hardly produced a better-seen, more-beloved auteur, Lee Chang-dong hasn’t been quite so represented as the reputation suggests. Thus the work of restoring his earlier films is a major necessity and all the more reason to celebrate Film...
Sally Wainwright creates a new action-comedy-fantasy adventure series about the highwaymen era in England, starring Louisa Harland and Adrian Lester, debuting on Disney Plus. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
There’s nothing worse than watching a bio-doc about a revolutionary, unique, creative voice that reduces the life story of its subject to the basic beats, using standard techniques instead of embracing that which made this person's story worth telling in...
It flew under the radar that Ildikó Enyedi (most recently of Story of My Wife, most notably of My Twentieth Century) had suited a role for Tony Leung in her new feature, Silent Friend, which “tells three stories connected to...
“This is it. The moment of truth.” Fresh off her second Best Actress Oscar win for her performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, Emma Stone’s newest collaboration with the director will be arriving a lot sooner than expected. Lanthimos’ anthology...
Over Zoom, David Krumholtz flashes a friendly, bashful smile, his demeanor several shades warmer than the character he plays in the movie he’s here to promote. Named after the depressive malcontent at its center, “Lousy Carter” is a wry, off-kilter...
A special piece of cinema history has been unveiled. Seven years before Orson Welles would embark on the production of his legendary directorial debut Citizen Kane, he shot one of his earliest short films, capturing his production of William Shakespeare’s...
While Martin Scorsese aims to kick off production on his Jesus film this year, Terrence Malick is going on year five of editing his, marking one of the only films to wrap production pre-pandemic that still has yet to be...