Screen Anarchy

Some 15 years ago, Coraline graced our movie screens. Last weekend, it returned in a new, remastered 3D edition, via LAIKA and Fathom Events, and surprise! The animated film made $9.6 million at the box office in the U.S., good...

At a press conference in Cannes in 1990, director Jean Luc Godard said about his choice of Alain Delon for the role of the hitchhiker in his movie New Wave: 'There was a role for 'him' in which I saw...

A peerless actress was Gena Rowlands. She was also the muse of actor and rightly renowned avant-garde filmmaker John Cassavetes (†1989), to whom she was married from 1954. It was an inspiration that was mutual. A number of great Cassavetes...

The British BBC documentary Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods dryly and with restraint shows the harshness and bloodiness of life and death on the Ukrainian front this past winter. Drones and increasingly precise artillery are turning life on both sides...

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan reflects on the serendipitous journey from a young boy mesmerized by Yash Chopra's films to becoming one of Bollywood's most celebrated stars, all while maintaining a humble, grounded approach to stardom. [Read the whole post...

Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down Azrael, a young woman who escaped her own imprisonment- and she will stop at nothing to ensure her own survival. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Beth (Courtney Halverson) and Jay (Mark Famiglietti) want to celebrate a one-year anniversary of Beth’s cancer remission. Apparently, neither of them is acquainted with horror classics, so they decide to go on a camping trip to the woods. Everyone familiar...

Alexandra Rapaport and Tobias Santelmann star in the psychological thriller series from Sweden, making its U.S. premiere on Viaplay. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: several music videos by Alex Proyas. I'm an Alex Proyas-apologist. His film record is widely considered spotty with Dark City and...

The 77th Locarno Film Festival culminated in a triumph for Saulė Bliuvaitė's Toxic, which led the awards tally alongside notable wins for Kurdwin Ayub's Moon and Laurynas Bareiša's Drowning Dry, showcasing a diverse range of new cinematic voices. [Read the...