Review: THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER, A Weekend of Quiet Revelation
Henriette Confurius and Liliane Amuat star in Silvan & Ramon Zürcher's soul-stirring slice-of-life drama.
ScreenAnarchy Top Films of 2020
One of the great advantages of ScreenAnarchy's global writing staff is that our individual end-of-year lists always have a least a few titles that the rest of us have not only not seen, but likely haven't heard of. And I'm...
Now Streaming: THE DIRTIES Still Stings With Mad Style and Intelligence
Can you laugh with the boy holding the gun? The short answer is, "Yes." The slightly longer answer is, "Quite a lot, but with a hell of a caveat." And the longest answer is the rest of this review. Looking...
Poster Debut: Meet Luana Muniz, the QUEEN OF LAPA
You may not have heard the name Luana Muniz before today, but rest assured the transgender sex worker and activist was deemed a powerhosue for transgender communities across her native Brazil, and most noteably, as filmmakers Carolina Monnerat and Theodore...
Exclusive Trailer Premiere: WE USED TO KNOW EACH OTHER
Slamdance and SXSW alumni filmmaker Robert G. Putka follows up his critically-acclaimed family clusterfuck MAD with the post-romance drama We Used To Know Each Other. With the strain of long distance weighing on them, Hugo (Hugo De Sousa) and Amanda...
Exclusive Poster and Stills for Sidewalk Bound THE GHOST WHO WALKS
Keen-eyed cinephiles with a penchant for true American indies from this past decade will recognize Cody Stokes as the cinematographer and co-writer of Uncertain Terms and Soft in the Head, seminal micro-budget features from prolific director Nathan Silver. Stokes' own...
Crowdfund This: MISTER LIMBO, Spiritual Sci-fi Goes for a Walkabout
Over the last decade, Cleveland based filmmaker Robert G. Putka has been intelligently mining the fields of familial catharsis in the shallows and shadows of American Suburbia with short form work such as the SXSW selected Mouthful, and most notably...
Crowdfund This: MURDER BURY WIN Takes a "Stab" at Board Games
Nary a human being on the planet can escape the craft (and sometimes wrath) of the board game. From the agony and ectasy of a slumber party Sorry, to the shores of Scrabble and the battlefields of Risk, the art...
Screen Anarchy's Favorite Films of 2018
Here's our favorite films of 2018, as voted on by more than 20 of our contributing writers, who collectively picked 114 films as their favorites. 1. Roma 2. The Favourite 3 (tie). BlacKkKlansman / You Were Never Really Here 5....
Review: BISBEE '17, Caught Between Documentary and Narrative
The city of Bisbee, Arizona is nestled between the hills and mountains of the Chihuahua desert, some 90 miles southeast of Tucson, and just seven miles north of the Mexican border. As one winds up the road to Old Bisbee,...
THE RAINBOW EXPERIMENT: Slamdance Avant-Drama Goes to Gravitas
If you've been digging the weirder, bolder side of American Indies circa 2018ish, namely Josephine Decker's stupendously stirring Madeline's Madeline, than you may want to keep your eye out for Christina Kallas' The Rainbow Experiment. Preposed as a jarring 21st century Rashomon,...
CineMage - Episode Two: (In)glorious Americana
SA Editor Benjamin Umstead's new column studies the intersections between film culture, social systems, mental health and the nature of self-awareness and actualization through a humorous lens.
Review: MADELINE'S MADELINE, Josephine Decker's Stunning Drama
The notion of authenticity can often get haphazardly tossed around when talking about cinema. Indeed, one's declaration of authenticity can tread a fine line with hyperbole. What are we really saying when we shout "this film is so authentic!" Authentic...
Japan Cuts 2018 Sneak Peek: New Work from Naomi Kawase Leads an Eclectic Slate
Summer in New York City means Japan Society presenting another round of delish contemporary Japanese films, ranging from the weird and macabre, to the sincere and bubblegum apeshit insane! It's all happening, starting today, July 19, and roaring until July...
ScreenAnarchy's Top Movies Of The First Half Of 2018
Time flies like a sonofabitch, and this year it seems to do so faster than usual. We are at 2018's mid-point already. Whoa! That does beg the question though: what films have managed to impress and touch us most, so...
New York Asian Film Festival 2018 Sneak Peek: Weird, Wild Summertime Cinema
With the summer heat on full blast this coming weekend in New York, patrons of the five burroughs may want to consider the cool and also very hip insides of a movie theater for proper retreat and enjoyment. And what...
Review: WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... If you were a child growing up in the United States between the late 1960s and early Aughts...
CineMage - Episode One: How Old is the Cinema and Why am I Here?
U.S. Editor Benjamin Umstead's new column studies the intersections between film culture, social systems, mental health and the nature of self-awareness and actualization through a humorous lens.
Crowdfund This: Season Two of THE EYESLICER Will Be So Good They'll Write Their Own Penultimate Headline, Thank You Very Much
If you are a curiously twitchy reader, one who likes their cinema and television jarring and jangling, you may already be in the know on the madcap brilliance of DIY web show The Eyeslicer a DIY. Devised by indie film...
Tribeca 2018 Poster Debut: Nathan Silver's THE GREAT PRETENDER Will Make You Believe
If you are a long time reader of these here pages, then you may very well already be aware of my love for the cinematic works of Nathan Silver. Working under the mode of roughly a movie a year, Silver...
