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A catch-all phrase popularized over a decade ago by Meta (formerly Facebook), “It’s complicated,” meant to describe romantic relationships that didn’t fall into one particular category or another, finds its clearest, nearest, and obviously it’s most recent application in director...

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: Amanda Kramer's music videos for Magdalena Bay. Amanda Kramer's films never clicked for me. They should be right up my alley,...

In the Q&A after Transcending Dimensions, Toyoda mentioned that this might be his last feature film, as he felt like he transcended himself with this film. What does a transcendent Toyoda-film look like? As usually loud, violent and surreal, with...

The IFFR Tiger Competition has a long tradition of narrative and also more experimental films. The following two films belong to the latter category. The Congolese film The Tree of Authenticity (L'Arbre de l'authenticité) from 2025 and the Mexican The...

Joseph Kahn always had his pulse on the zeitgeist. No, scrap that, he made the zeitgeist what it is. If you look at his music videos in the late nineties and early aughts, he together with Dave Meyers, Hype Williams,...

Anticipation is building for Osgood Perkins' latest horror flick, The Monkey. With each teaser and trailer that has come out our excitement grows, eager to be at the theaters on opening night, February 21st.    When twin brothers find a...

Plus: 'Invincible' returns, 'The Eastern Gate' opens, 'Love You to Death' mocks. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Here is a beautiful use of text and negative space, from IFFR, The International Film Festival Rotterdam in south Holland. Christina Friedrich's film may have a lengthy, and debatably cumbersome title, The Night Is Dark And Colder Than The Day,...

Ali (Ekin Koç), the professor-protagonist in Iranian-born, Canada-residing writer-director Alireza Khatami’s (Terrestrial Verses, Oblivion Verses) perception- and consciousness-bending film, The Things You Kill, suffers from a debilitating existential/spiritual crisis.   After returning to Turkey after more than a decade in...

As WWII reaches its turning point, the 761st Tank Battalion, a majority-African American unit known as the Black Panthers, must fight to stop Germany’s advance during the Battle of the Bulge. The fate of the free world is in their...