Screen Anarchy

Have we featured key art from pretty much every Yorgos Lanthimos film since this column's inception? Probably. The work of designer Vasilis Marmatakis is always striking, and his inclination towards verticality always captures my attention.  For Bugonia, a loose remake...

It's been four years since Finney (Mason Thomas) killed notorious child killer The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) and escaped from his basement dungeon. While he and his sister Gwen (Madeleine McGrew) have spent the intervening years building a new life, it...

Directed by Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás, the film stars Natalia Reyes. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Swedish filmmaker John Skoog reconstructs the true story of Karl-Göran Persson, a Cold War-era farm laborer who turned his home into a private fortress. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Writer-director Tiina Lymi delivers a darker Finnish crime dramedy that examines the collapse of middle-class identity through the story of a real estate agent whose gradual descent into criminality exposes the moral fragility beneath social respectability. [Read the whole post...

The new year will span a lifetime through fresh releases from The Criterion Collection, headlined by Jonathan Glazer's Birth, John Huston's The Dead, and Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man. Of course, the home video label is about more than life and...

Jafar Panahi's new film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Jafar Panahi makes films under immense pressure. The Iranian filmmaker's conditions of censorship and surveillance have become the grammar of his storytelling. Out of those limits, he's built one of the most radical bodies of work, where love for one's...

Directed by the legendary David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, Crash, The Brood), A History of Violence was released --- gasp --- 20 years ago. Honestly? Rude. Time goes by too fast. Anyway, I heard a rumor that it was the last...

Frank Dillane and Megan Northam star in Harris Dickinson's directorial debut. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]