Fantastic Fest 2023 Preview: Too Many Great Flicks to Count
Leaves are falling and there's a mild chill in the air. It's Fall Fest Season and that means Fantastic Fest! It's a big year for new genre flicks and some of the best will be playing in Austin from September...
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...
Cannes 2023 Dispatch: Quentin Tarantino Presents ROLLING THUNDER in 35mm, Talks About Paul Schrader and John Ford
Quentin Tarantino arrived at the Cannes International Film Festival to participate in the activities of the Quinzaine des Cinéastes. For those responsible for this parallel section of the festival, the presence of the Hollywood director meant historical rectification, because more...
Cannes 2023 Review: PROJECT SILENCE, Satisfying South Korean Action Thriller
Project Silence, part of the Midnight section at the Cannes International Film Festival, is genre cinema in its purest form. It caused a good number of people to leave the Agnès Varda movie hall, something that would never have happened,...
Cannes 2023: New Podcast Stark Raving Cinema Announced
More news from the Fantastic Pavilion at the Marché du Film in Cannes: a new film and pop culture podcast called Stark Raving Cinema will be launched in June. It was created by Paul McEvoy, co-founder of London’s FrightFest. Here’s...
Cannes 2023 Roundtable Interview: Amat Escalante Talks LOST IN THE NIGHT
Amat Escalante returned to the Croisette, exactly 10 years after the premiere of Heli, for which he won the Best Director award at this prestigious festival. With Lost in the Night (aka Perdidos en la noche), Escalante continues to address...
Cannes 2023 Review: BLACK FLIES, Intense Portrait of Paramedics' Reality
Tye Sheridan and Sean Penn star in a dramatic thriller directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, co-starring Katherine Waterston, Michael Pitt and Mike Tyson.
Cannes 2023: European Genre Forum Reveals Project Selection at the Fantastic Pavilion
The pretty impressive Fantastic Pavilion has been the place of encounter for the genre film community at the Marché du Film in Cannes. Straight out of the Pavilion, now we share a press release by the European Genre Forum, revealing...
FICUNAM 2023: Program Highlights Include Albert Serra Retrospective, Venice Winner SAINT OMER
FICUNAM has been revealing the program of its upcoming 13th edition, set to take place in Mexico City from June 1 to 11. Highlights so far include a couple of retrospectives, one dedicated to Spanish auteur and showman Albert Serra,...
SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING Interview: Quentin Dupieux Reveals How He Comes Up With Crazy and Funny Ideas
Quentin Dupieux made his statement of principles with the opening monologue in Rubber, his notorious self-aware movie starring a tire that comes to life and then uses its telekinetic powers to kill animals and humans. Paraphrasing said speech, for Dupieux...
LA CIVIL Interview: Teodora Ana Mihai on Dramatizing a Mother's Living Nightmare
Arcelia Ramírez stars in director Teodora Ana Miha's dramatization of a true story about a mother's living nightmare, caught up in the midst of the horrific Mexican drug war.
Luis Estrada's ¡QUE VIVA MÉXICO! Will Have Wide Theatrical Release in Mexico
¡Que viva México!, Luis Estrada’s new political satire -- and his first film in almost a decade -- will have a wide theatrical release in Mexico, on Thursday, March 23. It’ll be distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing International. ¡Que viva...
Gaspar Noé's IRREVERSIBLE: STRAIGHT CUT Heading to Movie Theaters
Over 20 years ago, Irreversible was the film that turned Gaspar Noé into an auteur known worldwide. It was mainly notorious for two elements: its unconventional structure – kicking off with the end credits to tell its story backwards – and...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films of 2022
What, it's 2023 already? You're kidding, right? Alas, 2022 has come and gone, as long as every other non-leap year but seeming shorter than most nonetheless. But as Yoda says "Size matters not", so we asked our writers to send...
Opening in Movie Theaters: THE WHALE, A Hard Portrait, Full of Emotion
Having built up a critical head of steam after bowing at the Venice Film Festival in September, Darren Aronofsky's The Whale opens Friday, December 9, in select movie theaters. Our own Eric Ortiz Garcia saw the film at the Los...
Los Cabos 2022 Review: THE BEASTS, A Potent and Complex Exploration of Mundane Violence
The Spanish-French production The Beasts (As bestas), directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, takes place in a Galician village, although its central characters are a couple of French farmers, who have been living there for a couple of years, Olga and Antoine,...
Los Cabos 2022 Review: THE WHALE, One of Darren Aronofsky's Most Empathetic Films
Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale was the opening film of the eleventh edition of the Los Cabos International Film Festival, which took place from November 9 to 13. Since its world premiere at the latest edition of the Venice Film Festival,...
Interview: MURINA Director Antonela Alamat Kusijanović on Her Complex Character Piece
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature, Murina, is set on a Croatian island, where the adolescent protagonist Julija (Gracija Filipovic) usually fishes underwater with her father Ante (Leon Lucev). The fact that Julija usually observes the young people who have fun...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2022
Blimey folks... they say "time flies" but this year it flies on a rocket, it seems. While the second half of 2022 technically didn't start on the first of July (because February is so short), we DID pass the halfway...
VORTEX Interview: Gaspar Noé on Making a "Cruel But Warm" Film About Aging, Illness and Death
If conception and birth are always present themes in Gaspar Noé's cinema, death is equally important for him: “When you write your sentence, you always put a dot at the end. Talking about death is just putting a dot at...
