Screen Anarchy

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: several music videos by Jacques Audiard. Jacques Audiard's newest film, Emilia Pérez will be released this week in cinemas and soon...

Here at ScreenAnarchy, and indeed in this column, we have a few choice distributors whose works keep popping up. Criterion, Anime Limited, Severin, Arrow, Second Sight, Curzon and several crazy Germans and French ones manage to regularly raise our eyebrows....

How do you capture the essence of Donald Trump? In this case, by capturing an underexposed, pivotal period in his life. The period from 1970 to 1980, when Donald Trump was shaped by his relationship with lawyer Roy Cohn. Or...

Boaz Yakin's Once Again (For the Very First Time) signals something of a rebirth. In it's opening moments, the protagonist falls from the heavens with bloodied clothing and lands on the doorstep of his love interest. He is a street...

One of my favorite films of all time is Gust Van den Berghe's Lucifer, a film that is so stylistically audacious it is hard to compare it to anything else. Based on a famous Flemish version of the Lucifer-story and...

The lineup for the 13th annual Blood In The Snow Film Festival has been announced.    Lowell Dean's Dark Match is the opening night film while Vivieno Caldinelli's Scared Shitless is all set to close out the six day event. Both...

This news hit the trades a few days ago, over at Variety, and if you haven't read up on it now is your chance.   Production has begun on a new thriller in the UK called Retreat. It will be...

Horror fans, don't be blue! Just because the Halloween season concluded yesterday, there are still plenty of frightening flicks that await your discovery and/or revisitation. Our favorite horror-focused streamer, Shudder, announced their slate for the Fall and Holiday seasons last...

Anticipation for the next Star Wars series, Skeleton Crew, is building and this new trailer builds on top of that. By all appearances it looks like things are back on track, getting ready to deliver some good old fashioned, rollicking...

Back in 2016-2017, director Yamada Naoko shook up the anime industry with her high-school bully drama A Silent Voice. The film took an uncommonly candid view of life in school, with people often doing stupid things while still totally unaware...