Vlissingen 2023 Review: SIRA Survives
One of the nice surprises at the Film by the Sea Festival in Vlissingen was the unexpected warm weather, a nice little hot after-Summer. A less nice surprise was that some of the venues at the festival did not have...
Vlissingen 2023 Review: THE TASTE OF THINGS
The Film By the Sea Festival in Vlissingen focused this year on French cinema, and on literary book adaptations. With Trần Anh Hùng's The Taste of Things they scored a double-whammy, as it falls in both categories. A loose adaptation...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2023: Heads-Ups And Recommendations
Each year, in the second half of September, the Camera Japan Festival is held in Rotterdam for a few days, after which the festival moves to Amsterdam for the next weekend. This year is no exception and as always...
Vlissingen 2023 Review: DARK SATELLITES
One of the themes this year at the Film by the Sea festival in Vlissingen was "films based on literature". And one of the International Premieres being shown as part of this theme is Thomas Stuber's Dark Satellites, based on...
Vlissingen 2023 Review: UNDER THE NAKED SKY Is Very Impressive
On the first full day of Vlissingen's Film by the Sea festival, audiences were treated to a world premiere, red carpet and all. And while the film in question was a small drama, it actually quickly captured the top spot...
Vlissingen 2023: Twelve Recommendations
Today sees the start of the 25th Film by the Sea Festival in the town of Vlissingen (Flushing), the Netherlands. Over the years, the festival grew from a pretty small event (5000 tickets sold) to one of the largest film...
Pretty Packaging: Criterion's PASOLINI 101 Boxset Pulls No Punches
A lavish boxset full of Italian films, many of which have caused controversy and scandal? What, is this article about Severin's Black Emanuelle boxset again? Nope. A BIG nope. This set comes from Criterion, and contains the first nine films...
Vlissingen 2023: The FILM BY THE SEA Festival Has Its 25th Edition
The city of Vlissingen lies in the South-West of the Netherlands, in the province of (Old) Zeeland. English-speaking regions sometimes refer to it as Flushing. It's a beautiful town, reachable by train, with old streets, a harbor, a beach... and,...
Pretty Packaging: The Sensual Boxset Of BLACK EMANUELLE
If you are a Blu-ray collector, US-based distributor Severin is worth keeping tabs on, as their releases tend to be interesting, with many films getting proper treatment and great extras. Their boxset dedicated to folk-horror films is rightly the stuff...
Screen Anarchists On INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
It seemed like a joke when the news broke that Harrison Ford, at the time almost 80 years old, would take up the hat and whip for another turn as the intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones. But lo-and-behold, there it...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2023
Thanks to February being so short, the first of July is technically still in the first half of the year. It was only yesterday at noon that we all moved into the second half, but we're here now and that...
Pretty Packaging: GHOST IN THE SHELL Lands An Ultimate Edition
Blu-ray distributor Plaion, previously known in Germany as Koch Media, has been responsible for some Special Editions which were absolute jawdroppers. Their release of Richard Stanley's The Color Out of Space was a highpoint for me in 2020, and last...
Rotterdam 2023 Interview: Yuasa Masaaki Talks About The Last Nine Years
This winter saw the International Film Festival Rotterdam celebrate the work of Japanese animator Yuasa Masaaki, with a retrospective of the man's work and the Dutch premiere of his newest film Inu-Oh (which is excellent). Yuasa himself was present, finally...
FREAKS VS. THE REICH Review: A Magnificent Dark Fantasy
Gabriele Mainetti ('They Call Me Jeeg') directed the historical fantasy, starring Franz Rogowski, Pietro Castellitto, and Claudio Santamaria.
Kaboom Animation 2023 Review: BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN Sums Up That Murakami Feelin'
As one of the most highly regarded current writers in the world, Haruki Murakami has plenty of fans. His works have often been adapted for film, and even his short stories lend themselves for being adapted into great long films....
Kaboom Animation 2023 Review: UNICORN WARS Is Awesomely Bonkers
Today sees the start of the 2023 edition of the Utrecht-and-Amsterdam-based Kaboom Animation Festival, which focuses on animation worldwide. All audiences are catered for: the festival's programme has a kids section, a great selection of queer movies, many amazing shorts,...
Pretty Packaging: The SHAWSCOPE VOLUME 2 Boxset Kicks Shins Again!
In my 2022 overview article I mentioned that Arrow had released two awesome Shaw Brothers Blu-ray boxsets. I also said that as I had given the first one a "Pretty Packaging" article, the second one would get one as well,...
Rotterdam 2023 Review: INU-OH Is Magnificent Masaaki At His Best
Anime legend Yuasa Masaaki's newest film, the semi-historical musical drama Inu-Oh had its world premiere at the tail-end of 2021. As such, it was originally planned to arrive at the International Film Festival Rotterdam a year ago, together with its...
Rotterdam 2023 Review: Sokurov's Last FAIRYTALE
Russian director Alexander Sokurov makes weird films, or rather really special ones. Most famous of these is probably 2002's Russian Ark, an absolutely fantastic walk through 300 years of Russian history as displayed in the Hermitage museum, done in one...
Rotterdam 2023 Review: ORPHEA IN LOVE Steals Your Eyes And Ears
It must be fun to be an established, experienced director and be able to throw several of your loves into one project. Media Jack-of-all-trades Axel Ranisch got to do just that with his new film Orphea in Love. In it,...
