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10 Must-See Short Films at TIFF 2025
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Comprising 48 titles from 28 countries, this year’s Short Cuts program at the Toronto International Film Festival doesn’t represent any sort of significant change from 2024 (48 shorts but from 23 countries, so a little more geographic representation this time)....
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Locarno 2025 Review: THE SEASONS Unearths Memory Through Layers of Land and Myth
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Maureen Fazendeiro excavates landscape as living archive, fusing archaeology, oral history, and local myth into a layered docu-fictional portrait of southern Portugal's cultural memory. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Creature Feature Preacher Review Roundup: Kino, Warner Brothers, Mutant Records and Titan Books
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Dave aka the Creature Feature Preacher here to recommend some recent books, records and movies. Nobody can keep up with the constant flood of cool stuff out there but as I always say it’s not about having all the cool...
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Locarno 2025 Review: MOSQUITOES Turns 1990s Nostalgia Into a Punk-Tinted Coming of Age
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Valentina and Nicole Bertani's 'Mosquitoes' blends punk energy with coming-of-age intimacy to explore childhood as both refuge and rebellion in a world of distracted adults and dysfunction. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Venice Film Festival 2025: The Smashing Machine, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, The Testament of Ann Lee, Father Mother Sister Brother
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
On four films that just premiered at Venice, including a dramatic turn for Dwayne Johnson.
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Locarno 2025 Review: LAKE Immerses the Audience in a Sensorial Drift Between Body and Landscape
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Fabrice Aragno abandons conventional storytelling in favor of a meditative, sensory experience where the human body, light, and landscape become the film's primary narrative elements. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sound And Vision: Adam Curtis
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 Weyes Blood's God Turn Me Into A Flower, directed by Adam Curtis. As a director Adam Curtis is...
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Venice Review: An Impressive Dwayne Johnson Softens Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
The Smashing Machine is a movie with a lot of heart and soul. It’s also a movie with great love for its subjects: the people involved and, for better and worse, the industry they helped build. It’s inspired by a...
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Locarno 2025 Review: THE FIN, Dystopian Sci-Fi Turns Environmental Collapse into Political Allegory
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Syeyoung Park's sophomore film is a dystopian sci-fi grounded in political allegory, using environmental mutation and social exclusion to reflect on ideology, historical amnesia, and state control. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Venice Review: The Wizard of Kremlin Proves an Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian 
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
In April 2022, two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Italian author and political writer Giuliano da Empoli published a fictionalized account of Vladimir Putin’s ascent as seen through the eyes of his advisor. The Wizard of Kremlin almost immediately...
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