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Kier-La Janisse to Adapt & Direct KILLING FOR CULTURE Doc For Severin Films
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
It was announced today that Severin Films has optioned the adaptation rights to Killing For Culture, the cult classic nonfiction exploration of death on film written by David Kerekes and David Slater. Slated to adapt and direct the feature is...
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Sundance 2024 Review: HIT MAN, Richard Linklater Directs Glen Powell in a Morally Relativistic Comedy-Drama
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
To hear Glen Powell tell the story, he decided to become an actor and writer on Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation. It wasn’t his first or second role. It was his third. A not particularly significant part, it was more...
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Isabelle Huppert Takes One Small Step In First Footage from Hong Sang-soo’s A Traveler’s Needs
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
An early notable of this year’s Berlin lineup is A Traveler’s Needs, the latest from Hong Sang-soo. No surprise he’s appearing at the festival for the fourth consecutive year, but this one bears special anticipation for reuniting him with Isabelle...
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EVERY LITTLE THING
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of Every Little Thing. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A quiet film that at first glance appears only to be about hummingbirds but...
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Sundance 2024 Review: IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE, Leave Your (College) Friends Behind
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
The friends we make in high school and college often aren’t the friends we keep. Good reasons abound as to why friendships don’t carry over 10, 20, or 30 years, but the key one, the “why” or “whys” friendships form...
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How To Have Sex Director Molly Manning Walker on Emotional Realism, Gender Dynamics, and Silences
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
After winning the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes last year, Molly Manning Walker’s singular debut How to Have Sex has been racking up BAFTA nominations and widespread acclaim to nobody’s surprise. The film is much more than a fresh...
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Sundance Review: Sujo is a Visceral Tale About Growing Up in Your Father’s Shadow
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
A film about growing up in your father’s shadow that mostly (and unexpectedly) examines the role of women as community pillars and violence interrupters, Sujo is the compelling new Sundance award-winning feature from Identifying Features team Astrid Rondero and Fernanda...
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Sundance Review: Luther: Never Too Much is a Captivating Yet Minor Portrait of a Major Talent
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Filled with wonderful musical performances exploring the 30-year career of Luther Vandross, Dawn Porter’s sweeping biographical documentary Luther: Never Too Much interweaves archival materials and new interviews in a manner that is effective at telling the story but somehow feels...
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Sundance 2024 Review: BETWEEN THE TEMPLES, A Cantor Finds His Voice In Life and Love
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Trauma in all its facets -- experience, understanding, reconciliation -- and indie dramas are practically synonymous at this point. That, however, doesn’t make trauma or its natural consequence, mourning, or how it’s explored through film, any less relevant or meaningful....
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Sound And Vision: David Slade
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several videos by director David Slade. David Slade is something of a conundrum for me. I find it...
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