Barbara Goslawski

Veteran Canadian avant garde filmmaker, Denis Côté once stated that he measures the success of his works by the number of walk-outs. It's doubtful that his wish will be satisfied with his latest. Nobody's Violence (Violence du corps de l'autre)...

In Elsinore, the new biopic on Scottish actor Ian Charleson (1949-1990), director Simon Stone thankfully avoids most of the usual cliches of the genre to create a deeper cinematic experience. Anchored by Stephen Beresford's (Pride, 2014) script, with a career-defining...

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's latest, All of a Sudden is a revelation. A meditation on the everyday lives of his characters and the weightier ideas orbiting them, the film transcends the experiences and ideas it presents. Considering that the film glides between...

As the first year after the Toronto International Film Festival (colloquially known as tiff, in all lower case) turned 50, the 2026 edition feels like a more low-profile year for the festival. A back to basics, nuts & bolts, and...

Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, and Joe Alwyn star in director Aneil Karia's modern-day adaptation.

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...

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...

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...

Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans star in Celine Song's second feature.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...