WHILE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS Interview: Director Peter Mettler Talks Life, Death, and Meaningful Cycles
I sat down with internationally acclaimed Canadian Swiss filmmaker, Peter Mettler, to discuss his latest hybrid documentary, his seven-hour magnum opus, While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts (2025), which enjoyed its world premiere at the 2025 Toronto...
Hey Toronto! WHILE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS: A DIARY IN SEVEN PARTS, Peter Mettler's Magnum Opus, Screens in TIFF Retrospective
Fashioning unique and infinitely enticing diaristic, hybrid documentary-style adventures since the late 1970's, internationally acclaimed Canadian-Swiss filmmaker Peter Mettler can be regarded as cinema's quintessential seeker. His style is endlessly refreshing and compulsively hypnotizing in its audacity. He insistently probes...
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...
MATERIALISTS Review: A Somewhat Soulless Sophomore Effort
Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans star in Celine Song's second feature.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH Review: In on the Joke, a Fitting Tribute
Forty years after his untimely death from cancer, Andy Kaufman's influence persists in popular culture. His cutting-edge humour was at best outrageous and at worst utterly infuriating. Basically, you either got it or you didn't. For those that hung in...
SXSW 2025 Review: UVALDE MOM, As Questions Remain, a Hero Arises
On May 24, 2022, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, with an AR-15 style rifle. The former pupil fatally shot 19 students and two teachers, while injuring 17 others. These deaths and injuries happened over time that day. While...
SXSW 2025 Review: OTHER SIDE, Compassion Until The End
Brooklyn-based documentarians Carter Oakley and Heather Hogan have made a career of focusing on end-of-life issues. As individuals, they themselves have witnessed the process with loved ones and through Hogan’s work as a death doula. The reality is that sometimes...
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...
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...
