Screen Anarchy

A slice of weird, and fingers-crossed wonderful, for you today.   This Friday, the web series Art Show! With Captain Skinner, launches on YouTube, and we thought you should know. At first glance it looks a little bit like the...

Art-world satires come (The Square); art-world satires go (Velvet Buzzsaw). Few, if any, art-world satires leave any impression whatsoever beyond the transient or the ephemeral.   Writer-director Cathy Yan’s (Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn,...

A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join the crew, hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew. [Read the whole post on...

On the morning of August 22nd, 2023, eight young men, six of them still in school, climbed into a cable car to traverse a valley 900 feet above the remote foothills of Pakistan, a trip the young men took at...

On the occasion of receiving the European Lifetime Achievement Award at the 38th European Film Awards, Liv Ullmann reflects on cinema as legacy, moral responsibility and the enduring mystery of performance in a conversation that speaks directly to the ethical...

Chandler Levack's latest, the Canadian romcom Mile End Kicks, hit cinemas on April 17th. It will have its long awaited US premiere at SXSW before that. The film's distributor Sumerian Pictures has sent out a whopper of a gallery of...

Nearly three decades after its release, The Matrix remains as relevant as ever, and likely always will be. It's one of my all-time favorite action films. When I first watched it, though, I was captivated less by its philosophy and...

Variety has reported this morning that French sales outfit Charades has come on board the slasher horror sequel, In A Violent Nature 2, and will present it to buyers during EFM in Berlin.    The sequel ... brings back Ry...

With Bazaar (Murder in the Building), Rémi Bezançon delivered the intended closing film of IFFR: a playful homage to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. One of Hitchcock's finest films, Rear Window, is about watching, listening, and cinema itself. Photojournalist Jeff, accustomed to...

Alice Rohrwacher reflects on her collaborative practice, myth-infused realism and the production realities shaping contemporary European auteur cinema. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]