Festivals Features
Friday One Sheet: MAGELLAN
The majestic ode to the age of exploration and sail show in today's key art belies the revisionist historical film from slow cinema maestro Lav Diaz. With its hazy sunrise and high grain, and jaunty tilt (note the waterline, and...
Friday One Sheet: SHE LOVED BLOSSOMS MORE
The poster for Greek horror science-fiction hazy tale of unexplored grief, She Loved Blossoms More, has worthy-weird poster, with slime-green text, and a textured background of dried and oxidized blood. And of course, the key and central image of the...
Friday One Sheet: COPPER
This highly unusual poster instantly communicates that it is for a highly unusual film. Completely at odds with the look of the film (which is dust and tan) or the title of the film, Copper, the washed out blue looks...
Friday One Sheet: NOVIEMBRE
27 Hours, 1 Bathroom. 25 Hostages. This festival poster for Tomás Corredor's Noviembre (November) lists the real-life hostages vertically above the catchy tagline. A highly-dramatized account of Colombia's nation-tramautizing 1985 siege and hostage situation at the country's Palace of Justice, the key art...
Friday One Sheet: UNDER THE SAME SUN
A round hug of a one sheet, for Ulises Porra's historical drama, Under The Same Sun uses the title and credit block, above the line and below the line, to form a circle around its multi-racial trio. A young Spanish...
Toronto 2025 Curtain Raiser: The Festival Of Festivals Turns 50
ScreenAnarchy, in a way, was birthed at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) over 20 years ago. At a time when movies were still shown on 35mm film, tickets were printed on paper, and Todd Brown asked a few movie...
Locarno 2025 Industry: Locarno's First Look Turns Spotlight on Canadian Cinema
Locarno's First Look industry showcase turned its 14th edition spotlight on Canadian cinema, unveiling six diverse works in progress that underline the country's growing ambition and international reach.
Locarno 2025 Industry: Story Lab Showcases New Projects Merging Place, Politics, and Hybrid Storytelling
New generation of filmmakers unveiled projects that blur fiction and documentary, reclaim overlooked histories, and probe urgent social questions, offering international partners early access to bold, globally resonant storytelling at Locarno's Story Lab Pitching Session.
Locarno 2025 Industry: Ed Guiney and Radu Jude on Trust, Conflict, and Resisting the Bigger-Is-Better Trap
Producer Ed Guiney and director Radu Jude offered international film professionals a candid set of lessons on how trust, transparency, and the creative use of constraints can define, and ultimately strengthen, the producer-director relationship.
Locarno 2025: Jackie Chan On Mastering Every Craft, Defying Imitation, and Staying Relevant for Six Decades
Jackie Chan's Locarno talk offered a rare, practical breakdown of how creative control, cultural awareness, and long-term strategy can shape a sustainable career.
Friday One Sheet: MY SUNSHINE
I am feeling whimsical in the back half of summer, and this simple design for Hiroshi Okuyama's nostalgic love story, My Sunshine, is doing the trick. Normally the Koreans excel at this kind of design, where there is little fuss...
Locarno 2025 Industry Preview: Talent Incubation, Co-Production Platforms, and Private Financing Take Centre Stage
With a programme built to reflect the evolving needs of the international film community, Locarno Pro 2025 offers a curated suite of initiatives, labs, and strategic forums designed to support emerging talent, advance co-productions, and foster critical dialogue across the independent film value chain.
Locarno 2025 Preview: Kechiche, Jude, Komljen, Koberidze and Rivers Lead the Competition
At a moment when global cinema is reexamining its aesthetic language and moral imagination, the 78th Locarno Film Festival unveiled a main competition shaped by formal audacity, political introspection, and a deepening search for emotional and historical truth.
Fantasia 2025: 25 Films To Watch in '25 - Raising the Bloody Curtain on Genre Film Paradise
Fantasia is nearly upon us, and with almost two hundred feature films spread out over three weeks of cinematic bliss, we thought you could use a bit of a roadmap to success in what to look forward to at this...
Tribeca 2025: Opening Night Kicks Off with BILLY JOEL: AND SO IT GOES
Here are 5 suggestions to get you started as Tribeca Festival kicks off.
Calgary Underground 2025: Curtain Raiser
Part fan-festival, with quietly subversive programming, and a gateway to oddness and offbeat cinema for Canada’s mid-west, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) showcases a sampler of the highlights of indie, documentary and genre cinema from the festival circuit that...
Friday One Sheet: EDDINGTON
Disturbing imagery is carrying much of the load for Ari Aster's latest film, a neo-western called Eddington. This grey-ish design from LA outfit, grandson, is a festival teaser poster for its upcoming Cannes bow. The black buffalo charging off a cliff (the odd...
Friday One Sheet: SPARE MY BONES, COYOTE!
We have featured the work of Dylan Haley before in these pages for his fine work on Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie 4K reissue some years ago. (Also we are big fans of his key art for The Belladonna of Sadness). His work...
SXSW 2025 Wrap: All Our Reviews, Interviews, and More
The sound of silence is deafening. SXSW 2025 has concluded this year's edition. Last week the jury and special awards were announced. Updated 5/23/25: Our coverage is now complete. We saw a lot of films we loved and liked in...
SXSW 2025 Preview: Fun Films Galore at Texas's Biggest Throwdown
Now that the serious business of Sundance and Oscar Season have come to a close, we can turn our attention to what really matters... a wild festival of good times, BBQ, and too many great movies to see in Texas's...
