Screen Anarchy

At a moment when global cinema is reexamining its aesthetic language and moral imagination, the 78th Locarno Film Festival unveiled a main competition shaped by formal audacity, political introspection, and a deepening search for emotional and historical truth. [Read the...

An explosion tears through the silence of an otherwise quiet Kyrgyzstan town. What happened to the couple that lived there? Asel and her husband, Marat. And didn’t his mother, Farida, just arrive in town to help around the house?   ...

Prepare for 'Weapons' by watching 'Barbarian' (again). Plus: Nisha Ganatra's previous films hint at what may come with 'Freakier Friday.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

We're living in what feels like a golden age of film restoration: from classic Hollywood to obscure Eastern European animation to hidden African gems to old cult films, it's getting easier to find, restore, and create collector's editions of movies we...

Bill Paxton's directorial debut is new to 4K UHD, plus a Criterion Collection roundup. [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 we look at several music videos directed by Samuel Bayer. Samuel Bayer is one of the biggest names in the music...

We are thrown into a twisted, ultra-patriotic Florida where guns, God, and old-school values rule. 13-year-old Sam, a bullied kid who just wants to feel seen, instead he lashes out at his tormentors, even his mom. Sam’s actions catch the...

Yasamin (Yasi), a recently immigrated Iranian teen in Canada, struggles to fit in at her new high school. She falls in with a clique of white girls whose subtle racism pressures her to erase her identity. Desperate to belong, Yasi...

Luc has gone to the club where his ex, Valentine, works to convince her to go with him to see their daughter, who is now living in foster care with his parents. A struggling addict, though, he buys a line...

In 2013, the Troma Team returned to the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du film for the first time in a decade. Their mission was twofold. First, sell their latest production at the time, Return to Nuke ‘Em High Volume 1....