Screen Anarchy

As a Tunisian queer filmmaker, one must exercise particular care when addressing an issue that remains deeply taboo in society to this day. Yet this does not prevent Leyla Bouzid from boldly portraying the increasingly precarious reality faced by homosexual...

Crack jokes all you want about the concept of German comedy films, but they exists and are often quite good. Case in point: Florian Dietrich's comedy No Hit Wonder, which played at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year and...

Most movies that go behind the scenes on a set to showcase the blood, sweat and tears that go into making movies treat filmmaking as a badge of honor.   Whether it's a documentary -- see Mark Borchardt in American...

Johnny's violent rampage leads him to a summer camp, just as a young, outcast camper is forced to spend the night with his counsellor sister and her friends at their annual end-of-season party. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Plus: 'Dreams,' 'Micro Budget,' 'Bring the Law,' 'The Napa Boys,' 'EPiC,' 'A Better Tomorrow.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

In his animated feature debut, Zao Xu applies a production designer's precision to a near future fable that examines precarious labor, mediated intimacy and the fragile architectures, both physical and digital, that shape contemporary isolation. [Read the whole post on...

After an 18-year hiatus, Lance Hammer makes a remarkable return to the director’s chair following his Sundance Award–winning debut Ballast. For this long-awaited project, he assembled what he describes as his dream cast, led by Juliette Binoche and the outstanding...

As a writer or director of finley crafted, first-rate animated entertainments, Andrew Stanton (Finding Dory, WALL-E, Finding Nemo) has few, if any, equals. Stanton’s only foray into live-action filmmaking, however, John Carter, an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' titular character and...

Neve Campbell returns. Kevin Williamson sits in the director's chair. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Festival people are the best. At the International Film Festival Rotterdam, a filmmaker I met for the first time almost immediately recommended I should watch Cris Tapia Marchiori's thriller Gatillero, released internationally as Gunman, and it turned out to be...