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Hey, Toronto! Win Tickets To Alex de la Iglesia's THE LAST CIRCUS!
Hey, Toronto! ScreenAnarchy is proud to present Dancing With The Devil - an extensive retrospective of Spanish maverick Alex de la Iglesia unspooling at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Things wrap up this week with a March 28th screening of his...
Hey, Toronto! Win Tickets To Alex de la Iglesia's WITCHING AND BITCHING!
Hey, Toronto! ScreenAnarchy is proud to present Dancing With The Devil - an extensive retrospective of Spanish maverick Alex de la Iglesia unspooling at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Things continue this week with a March 21st screening of his Witching...
Stanley Film Fest 2014 Dispatch: Day 3, Or, Death Becomes Us
Festival exhaustion has set in, leaving the most hardcore among us shuffling about nearly as well as the afternoon's zombie procession. Day three was filled with enough panels, parties, performances, karaoke, and movies to rival an elevator blood tsunami....
Texas Frightmare Weekend 2014 Is Bigger Than Ever, And ScreenAnarchy Has A Pair Of Passes For A Lucky Reader!
When There's No More Room In Hell......The Dead Will Walk The Floors Of The Hyatt Regency DFW Convention CenterDallas's annual celebration of all thing ghoulish and gory has returned! Texas Frightmare Weekend has come a long way from its origin...
IMAGINE 2014 Promises THE RAID 2, THE WIND RISES And More
Come April 8th, the 2014 edition of Imagine begins, Amsterdam's annual genre film festival. This week the festival's website revealed the first few titles, and an impressive shortlist it is! First up: The Raid 2, which is much anticipated in...
Euro Beat: Michael Hazanavicius Works In Secret, James Marsh Takes On Stephen Hawking
After our exhaustive look at the European Oscar submissions, Euro Beat is back to its normally scheduled Tuesday spot with good news about upcoming projects, bad news about Spain, Portugal and a great director and some very interesting European box...
TIFF 2013 Review: WITCHING & BITCHING Is Vulgar Auteurism At Its Most Manic
They are in every city along the main tourist drags, those living statues of celebrities, comic book characters and horror icons just standing there, silently hoping for your loose change. In Álex De La Iglesia's latest bit of mayhem, they're...
Euro Beat: 7 Bernadette Lafont Movies You Should Know About
In most of the world, only dedicated cinephiles noted the passing of French actress Bernadette Lafont, but in France, citizens nation-wide are still mourning the loss of one of the country's great cinematic icons. Lafont passed away from a heart...
Chaos Reigns In New Trailer For Álex de la Iglesia's WITCHING AND BITCHING
Álex de la Iglesia calmed down a bit with his last film, As Luck Would Have It, but, based on this totally bonkers trailer for Witching and Bitching, he was just gathering strength to unleash a barrage of mayhem, including...
Jesus Got a Gun in First Trailer for Álex de la Iglesia's WITCHING AND BITCHING
It seems rather appropriate that on the day I'm redrafting my thesis chapter on The Day of the Beast, the first trailer for mad maverick Álex de la Iglesia's new film should be released. I've always been pretty impressed at...
Silver Jesus Wields A Shotgun In Behind The Scenes Shots From Alex De La Iglesia's WITCHING AND BITCHING
Do not mess with Silver Jesus. He will shoot you.Spanish director Alex De La Iglesia is hard at work on his latest cult comedy Witching And Bitching (Las brujas de Zugarramurdi) and behind the scenes shots have emerged featuring Silver...
Alex De La Iglesia Is WITCHING AND BITCHING
Cult favorite director Alex De La Iglesia (The Last Circus, Ferpect Crime, The Day Of The Beast) is now in production on his latest effort, a jet black comedy titled Witching And Bitching (Las Brujas De Zugarramurdi).When your marriage has...
THE LAST CIRCUS Blu-ray Review
The Last Circus is Alex de la Iglesia's most complete film and a work of mad genius. It takes all of his thematic obsessions and wraps them up in a masterful and epic piece of historical fiction that is so...
THE LAST CIRCUS Review
[With Alex De La Iglesia's The Last Circus hitting US screens today we revisit our earlier review.]Baroque, absurd and grotesque, Alex de la Iglesia's Balada Triste is a sprawling, epic beast, one that piles image upon image in an often...
EIFF 2011 - THE LAST CIRCUS Review
[This is a reprint of a review first published at BlogCritics.org]Bizzare. Weird. Unique. Bold. All words that could be used to describe Álex de la Iglesia's wonderfully wacky The Last Circus. An obvious cult film right from the outset (i.e. one...
Grand Guignol! It's the North American Trailer for Álex De La Iglesia's THE LAST CIRCUS
One of my favourite films on the festival circuit last year was Alex de la Iglesia's masterpiece, The Last Circus (aka Balada Triste) an allegory of Franco era Spain re-envisioned as an absurd killing joke by way of a grotesque...
SIFF 2011: THE LAST CIRCUS Review
I'd classify The Last Circus as one of the angriest comedies I've had the chance to see recently, with a sense of humor so black that some viewers may have a hard time seeing the joke. This is a film...
