Screen Anarchy

Hawaii 2024 Review: SISTER MIDNIGHT Has a Punk Rock Flavor
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Sister Midnight from Karan Kandhari (Bye Bye Miss Goodnight) is a hard film to review and classify, but I’m going to try after seeing the film at the 44th annual Hawaii International Film Festival. Funded in part by the British...
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Filmmaker François Simard Charged With Sexual Assault
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Quebecois filmmaker François Simard has been charged with sexually assaulting two children. Because there has not been much of any English-language press about this, collectively ScreenAnarchy felt it was our responsibility to share this news with you.    This report...
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BeyondFest 2024 Review: SHADOWLAND, Compelling, Infuriating, And Sobering
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In 2021 Finnish filmmaker and documentarian Otso Tiainen, together with their co-writer Kalle Kinnunen, set out to Montségur, France, a commune nestled in the French Pyreneese mountains and a homestead for practitioners of the occult. Initially filming started out as...
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New York 2024 Review: THE DAMNED (IL DANNATI), Neorealist Anti-Western About the Senselessness of War
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Roberto Minervini’s new film, which premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, is the second feature in this festival round to be titled The Damned. Another movie with the same English-language title, directed by Thordur Palsson and featured...
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New York 2024 Review: PAVEMENTS Has Great Fun Selling Out
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In the romanticizing of 90s indie music, it's oft said that no band better epitomized the rock & roll slacker ethos of rebelling against establishment/commercialism/‘whatever else ya got’/etc. than Pavement. If true enough, then how exactly do you make a...
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Friday One Sheet: MICKEY 17
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Who needs credit blocks anymore? The new poster for Bong Joon Ho's science fiction cloning comedy Mickey 17 sees Robert Pattinson framed in ochre and rust. The numbers 1 through 16 are cleverly hiding in plain sight, anchored by the...
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Montreal Nouveau 2024 Review: THE HYPERBOREANS, The Puppetry of Memory
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Human memory is fallable, at least on an individual level; though as some cultures can tell you, a poor memory has also been of great service to larger groups of people who need to forget, or need others to forget,...
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PIECE BY PIECE Review: Colorful, Engaging, Surface-Deep Bio-Doc
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As a music producer, singer-songwriter/rapper, and serial entrepreneur, Pharrell Williams has been a part of pop music for the better part of three decades, offering his services as producer, singer, and occasional rapper. Along with his longtime friend and business...
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POSIES: ALTER Re-Released Rachel Stavis’ Short Film, Featuring a Score by Chappell Roan
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ALTER has re-released Rachel Stavis' short film Posies yesterday, Thursday, October 10th.   The date is significant because it is also the final date of Chappell Roan's summer tour. I've heard they're a bit of a thing these days. At least as...
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SATURDAY NIGHT Review: Jason Reitman Gives SNL the Hagiographic Treatment
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For pre-cable or Internet audiences of a certain vintage and generation, the arrival of a late-night, weekly sketch comedy show, Saturday Night (Live), represented keenly subversive, self-aware, comically absurdist counter-cultural programming. It was the last, sustained gasp of one generation’s...
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