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Telluride Review: Noah Baumbach Makes His Fellini Film with Jay Kelly
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Let’s start here: Billy Crudup is one of our truly great actors. Early into Jay Kelly, written by Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer and directed by Baumbach, Crudup appears for a one-scene turn that jump-starts the narrative. Over drinks, his...
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Locarno 2025 Interview: DON’T LET THE SUN Director Jacqueline Zünd Discusses Heat, Humanity, and the Poetics of Minimalism
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Swiss filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd discusses the visual language, thematic layering, and hybrid process behind her fiction debut, offering insights into a future world shaped as much by emotional estrangement as by climate collapse. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Screambox in September: Line-Up Includes SUSPIRIA, BRUTAL MASSACRE, THE FOREST HILLS
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
It is a new month, so it is time for the folks over at Screambox to reveal their lineup of programming in the weeks ahead.    Shelley Duvall's final film, The Forest Hills, kicks things off this Friday. Along with...
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Healers and Nurturers: Ethan Hawke on the Artists of “Blue Moon” and “Highway 99: A Double Album”
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
An interview with the star of Richard Linklater's newest film and director of a new documentary about Merle Haggard, both of which played Telluride.
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The Unloved, Part 140: Shattered
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Reflecting on the Wolfgang Petersen film and the heady days of the erotic thriller.
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Telluride Review: Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet Reminds Us Why Art Matters
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Hamnet is a great work of empathy and the best film Chloé Zhao has made by quite a wide margin. Adapted from the 2020 novel by Maggie O’Farrell, who returns here as co-writer, the film serves as a lovely reminder...
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Venice Review: Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada is a Stupefying, Time-Slipping Ghost Story
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
The films of Mark Jenkin ooze a hypnotic, seasick sensibility; to watch them is to be lulled by their restless jumps through time and space, their ability to convert his home turf of Cornwall into a suspended world where facts...
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Locarno 2025 Interview: Jury President Rithy Panh Talks the Urgent Politics of Cinema, Totalitarianism and Algorithms
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
This year´s Locarno Jury President Rithy Panh reflects on the evolving role of cinema in an age of digital distraction, reaffirming his uncompromising commitment to artistic freedom, memory, and the political responsibility of filmmakers today. [Read the whole post on...
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Interview: Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney on ‘Twinless’ and Living in Liminal Spaces
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
The duo provide fascinating insight into how they understand the relationship between twins. The post Interview: Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney on ‘Twinless’ and Living in Liminal Spaces appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Venice Review: With Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro Crafts an Intricate World and Rhythmically Off-Kilter Adaptation
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
In the rather niche academic field of monster studies, the common understanding of monstrosity is very similar to that of queerness: through being “different,” a monster destabilizes historical notions of normality and normativity, exposing how fictitious they were in the...
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