Screen Anarchy

LOOK BACK Review: Emotionally and Visually Beautiful Film, Undone by Melodrama
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It's no wonder that Look Back is highly anticipated by anime fans. The film is based on the manga of the same name by Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto and is directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, whose resume includes working with...
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Friday One Sheet: ENTELEQUIAS
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With a tagline of "Imagination is not always perfect," Darío Autrán's Entelequias, if judged by its desaturated, asymmetrical, vertically distorted key art, looks to be playing in the narrow liminal space between Solaris and eXistenZ.  This poster eschews a standard credit...
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V/H/S BEYOND Review: Horror Anthology Goes to Outer Space and Back
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If it’s October, it’s practically Halloween and if it’s Halloween, then it’s time for Shudder’s horror-themed found footage anthology, V/H/S, to make its yearly return to the streaming service.  V/H/S Beyond, the fourth entry in as many years, its seventh...
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Vancouver 2024 Interview: SUPER HAPPY FOREVER Director Kohei Igarashi Talks Romantic Memory and Finding the Happy in the Sad
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People and places can leave an impression on us. In absence of one thing, we might find ourselves returning to the other for traces. Sano (Hiroki Sano) sits in his minimally adorned hotel room, staring blankly towards the light from...
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New York 2024 Review: THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, Striking Tale of Violence and Moral Compromises
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Iman (Misagh Zare) has just gotten the much-desired promotion, but asks his family to keep quiet about his new job: he is now an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. So, while the very real protests against the...
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NEW WAVE Review: Vietnamese-American Music Ripples Close to Home
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Like waves that come crashing on the seashore, except they keep crashing. New Wave The film enjoyed its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival. The film opens Friday, October 4, at DCTV in New York, and October 25 at Laemmle...
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DAAAAAAL! Review: Dancing Between the Real and the Imagined
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Quentin Dupieux directed. Anaïs Demoustier, Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï, Didier Flamand, and Romain Duris star. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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FRANKIE FREAKO Review: Gooey, Chaotic, Freaky Family Film With a Twist
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A painfully bland office worker gets his world turned upside down by a trio of tiny cosmic weirdos in Steven Kostanski’s latest gonzo comedy, Frankie Freako. After he hit cult comedy gold with 2021’s Psycho Goreman, Kostanski and his usual...
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THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT Review: Engaging and Confusing, In Equal Measure
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A pair of siblings on the run after a robbery take refuge in a house with mysterious time-warping qualities, only to find that the law isn’t the only thing they have to fear. Things Will Be Different, the latest from...
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New York 2024 Review: NO OTHER LAND Chronicles Living Under Occupation
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The suffering of people in this film is staggering, but so is their resilience. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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