Screen Anarchy

Drawing on unprecedented access to Leni Riefenstahl's estate, Andres Veiel reflects on the long ethical labour of archival authorship, the filmmaker's complicity with power, and why confronting fascist imagery requires intellectual proximity rather than historical distance. [Read the whole post...

Liz Sargent's film won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic. Anna Sargent, Victor Slezak, Ali Ahn, Shane Harper, and Marceline Hugot star. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

The International Film Festival Rotterdam has started its 2026 edition. And even though the festival slants towards arthouse as always there are plenty of genre films to enjoy as well. Case in point: Paul Urkijo Alijo's Gaua a.k.a. The Night,...

Michelle Torian, Luke Barnett, and Barbara Crampton star in writer/director Noam Kroll's unsettling, slow-burn psychological drama. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Plus: Aaron Silverstein's 'The Infinite Husk,' Alexander Skarsgard in 'Pillion,' Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in 'Jimpa.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

As our own Ryland Aldrich noted in his wonderful essay, Ryland's Musings From Two Decades of Sundance, the Sundance Film Festival celebrated its final edition in Park City, Utah, with a bang -- and with an announcement about their annual...

The Godfather of the Dead would have celebrated their 86th birthday this Wednesday. Their daughter Tina leads a special celebration on Shudder in their absence. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Not so long ago, it was really not very fun to watch someone else play a video game. Whether it was your sibling, your cousin or your pal, the pained cries of "Mom says it's my turn on the Xbox"...

The Canadian theatrical release for Adam MacDonald's zombie thriller has been revealed. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

The German actor reflects on the risks of inhabiting an over-mythologised literary figure, the freedoms and uncertainties of a fragmented docu-fiction form, and how performance emerges when authorship, history, and interpretation remain deliberately unresolved. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]