Rotterdam Video Interview: ME, MARYAM, THE CHILDREN AND 26 OTHERS Blurs Boundaries Between Fiction And Reality
What happens when the boundaries between fiction and reality blur, not only on screen, but also during filmmaking itself? In Fiction & Reality – Vice Versa, journalist and filmmaker Ronald Glasbergen sits down with Iranian director Farshad Hashemi, actress and...
Rotterdam 2025 Reviews: THE TREE OF AUTHENTICITY And THE GREAT HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, From Congo And Mexico
The IFFR Tiger Competition has a long tradition of narrative and also more experimental films. The following two films belong to the latter category. The Congolese film The Tree of Authenticity (L'Arbre de l'authenticité) from 2025 and the Mexican The...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: FABULA, Chaos In The Peatlands
The Dutch film Fabula, the opening film of IFFR 2025, employs all possible means to tell its story. The film, much like its protagonist, the 55-year-old petty criminal Jos (played by renowned Dutch actor Fedja van Huêt), does not adhere to...
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...
Screen Anarchists On NOSFERATU
Last week we posted an article listing our favorite films from 2024, and one entry in it was Robert Eggers' new take on Nosferatu. It was notable for at least two reasons. One: it only premièred at Christmas so not...
Dutch Film Festival 2024 Overview: The Dutch Investigating Themselves In The Movies
The world is undergoing monumental changes in these decades. This can sometimes be unsettling and applies to practically every country. From Mongolia to Canada and from Chile to the Netherlands. Digital technology, media and artificial intelligence, quantum, the enormous increase...
MEGALOPOLIS Reviewed: Time Will Tell...
Megalopolis is everything at once, epic, parable, fairy tale, feature film, monument, homage, declaration of love, work of art. What the latter is exactly, no one knows, although it has something to do with time. The more time passes after...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of 2024
Hello all of you readers, we have officially entered 2025 so it's time to have a look back at 2024. We asked everyone here what their favorites were, and 24 writers gave a list. On those were a grand total...
THE APPRENTICE Review: Or, How To Use Film To Capture An Essence Of Donald Trump
Ali Abassi's Trump biopic is a good film, better than most will think, regardless of what politics you follow.
Dutch Film Festival 2024 Review: LIKE TEARS IN RAIN, The Many Adventures Of Rutger Hauer
The documentary Like Tears in Rain by the late Rutger Hauer's goddaughter Sanna Fabery de Jonge recently played at the Nederlands Film Festival (NFF). The film paints an intimate picture of the actor. Hauer, who was born in 1944 in...
The Light That Passed: Alain Delon, Icon Of French Cinema 1935 - 2024
At a press conference in Cannes in 1990, director Jean Luc Godard said about his choice of Alain Delon for the role of the hitchhiker in his movie New Wave: 'There was a role for 'him' in which I saw...
A Woman With Influence: Gena Rowlands 1930 - 2024
A peerless actress was Gena Rowlands. She was also the muse of actor and rightly renowned avant-garde filmmaker John Cassavetes (†1989), to whom she was married from 1954. It was an inspiration that was mutual. A number of great Cassavetes...
UKRAINE: ENEMY IN THE WOODS Review
The British BBC documentary Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods dryly and with restraint shows the harshness and bloodiness of life and death on the Ukrainian front this past winter. Drones and increasingly precise artillery are turning life on both sides...
Amman 2024: Prizes For Moroccan Gangster Drama HOUNDS, Lebanese Q, Jordan - Armenian MY SWEET LAND and Jordanian OUR MALES AND FEMALES
The closing awards ceremony of the fifth edition of the Amman International Film Festival – Awal Film were held on the 11th of juli at the Royal Film Commission – Jordan, one of the most scenic movie theatres in the...
Amman 2024 Review: MY SWEET LAND, And The Usefulness Of Having Dreams
My Sweet Land of Sareen Hairabedian was one of the stronger films in a small but mostly strong feature documentary competition section of the 2024 Amman International Film Festival. The film gained not only the International Film Critics Fipresci Award...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2024
The last six months of 2024 contain two more days than the first six do (courtesy of February, even in a leap year as this one...), so we could stretch it a day, but now there's no avoiding it any...
AIFF Jordan 2024 Preview: Context Is Everything
The Amman International Film Festival - Awal Film (AIFF) is celebrating its fifth edition this summer, in what is shaping up to be a hot July for the Middle East. Among the more than 30 long films and many short...
