Pretty Packaging: The MANDY German Ultimate Edition Should Not Be Sent Away
When we started publishing the Pretty Packaging articles here at ScreenAnarchy, we made a conscious decision to NOT go into private collections and take out some weird obscure old editions which happened to be awesome. No, the focus would be...
Cannes 2025: A Look At What The Mad Scientists Are Doing...
The world's most famous film festival rounds up today, and we've had plenty of reviews in the past weeks. But Cannes also has a business side of course, a vast market where people try and get their projects financed, scout...
Joseph Kahn's SANDBOX Music Video Provides Muppet Mayhem
Ouch... rock band The All-American Rejects seem to be losing a member here, in this screenshot from the music video for their new single Sandbox. Earlier this year, at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, our Theodoor Steen interviewed director Joseph...
Pretty Packaging: The SHAWSCOPE VOLUME 3 Boxset Still Kicks Shins
When I had the second Shawscope boxset featured in a Pretty Packaging article, the last thing I wrote was: "Any bets on whether Volume Three will be green or yellow?" Well... Volume Three is here, and this time there is...
Pretty Packaging: ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS VOL. 2 Haunts Harder
Back in 2021, writer-director Kier-La Janisse released Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, a great 3-hours-(and-14-minutes)-long documentary about witchcraft and mysticism around the world, especially as seen in films. That documentary didn't just get a special release on Blu-ray, it basically...
Rotterdam 2025: What The Audiences Liked Best
Three weeks ago, Rotterdam wrapped up its International Film Festival, and a few days after that they published the final results of their audience ratings, which is always a highlight for me. As the saying goes, everybody is a critic,...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: MEMOIR OF A SNAIL Gets You, Pacing Be Damned
Back in 2009 we were treated to one of the best films ever made about autism, and it was, surprise surprise, an animated puppet feature. That was Mary and Max, directed by Adam Elliot, who had previously won an Academy...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: I'M STILL HERE Will Not Fade From Your Memory
In 1970, Brazil was suffering under a military dictatorship. Political opponents and critics were arrested, tortured and murdered. As much as 20,000 people were "disappeared" under the regime. One of them was Rubens Pavia, an architect who had been a...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: LILIM Makes You Look Under The Bed
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has a healthy relationship with Asian genre cinema. In the past it was basically the go-to place for fans to check it out, and the (in)famous "Rotterdämmerung" part of the festival provided anime, horror and...
On David Lynch
It's not often that the team at ScreenAnarchy feels a loss like we have with David Lynch. And we're not alone; since last Thursday, I've seen an outpouring of love, sadness, and remembering that I've not seen the like...
Ard's Dozen Of Musings About 2024
Normally around this time of January I give an overview of impressions I got in the previous year. Why me? What makes me so special? Well... sometimes, in the past, I actually hadn't seen enough films to properly participate in...
Screen Anarchists On NOSFERATU
Last week we posted an article listing our favorite films from 2024, and one entry in it was Robert Eggers' new take on Nosferatu. It was notable for at least two reasons. One: it only premièred at Christmas so not...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of 2024
Hello all of you readers, we have officially entered 2025 so it's time to have a look back at 2024. We asked everyone here what their favorites were, and 24 writers gave a list. On those were a grand total...
Pretty Packaging: ARCANE Gets A Home Release To Di(c)e For
The League of legends online videogames have become somewhat of a legend in themselves, and the franchise has managed to amass enough following and money to polish its components to a sheen. Promo videos are of gobsmacking technical excellence, and...
Imagine 2024 Review: MI BESTIA
It's almost funny how well puberty and horror mix, especially for women. It's not just bodies and moods that change with hormones, but also the behavior of everyone else. Some see an innocent cherub changing into a possible sexual conquest,...
Pretty Packaging: The UK MACROSS PLUS Release May Make You Sing
It's been a while since I featured Anime Limited in this category (the last one was Belle two years ago...), but that doesn't mean the Scottish distributor has been quiet. In fact, the company got itself slightly reorganized and joined...
MEANWHILE ON EARTH Review: How Far Would You Go
Megan Northam stars in a science fiction drama by writer/director Jérémy Clapin ('I Lost My Body').
Pretty Packaging: THE CONVERSATION Is Worth Talking About
Here at ScreenAnarchy, and indeed in this column, we have a few choice distributors whose works keep popping up. Criterion, Anime Limited, Severin, Arrow, Second Sight, Curzon and several crazy Germans and French ones manage to regularly raise our eyebrows....
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2024 Review: THE COLORS WITHIN Shines With Bright Hues
Back in 2016-2017, director Yamada Naoko shook up the anime industry with her high-school bully drama A Silent Voice. The film took an uncommonly candid view of life in school, with people often doing stupid things while still totally unaware...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2024 Review: LET'S GO KARAOKE! Unites Audiences!
This year, director Yamashita Nobuhiro (Linda, Linda, Linda, Tamako in Moratorium) was the guest of honor at the Camera Japan Film Festival in Rotterdam. The programme showed no less than five films by him, all of which were released in...
