Tag: rubenostlund

Ruben Östlund is proving himself to be a keen observer of the human (specifically, male) condition, and one who can draw humor from its depths without losing any empathy along the way.

I just watched this trailer and, frankly, I have no idea what The Square is about. But recently my mind has been opened up by watching David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return, and so I don't even know if things...

Here's another look at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as it started to wind down, including another shot at The Square (above), which won the Palme d'or; Lynne Ramsay's return with You Were Never Really Here; the amazing The Florida Project;...

For a festival notorious for taking itself way too seriously, the opening salvo of the Palme d'Or competition has been filled with movies that are actually pretty weird. Of course, that's incredibly refreshing. Not to say that it isn't nice...

As much as I can see 2014 packed to the gills with films people fell head over heels for, many of those mainstream and even ScreenAnarchy favorites will be vacant from this list, simply because I thought this was a...

Johannes Bah Kuhnke, the hunky lead in Ruben Östlund's biting Swedish comedy Force Majeure, was in town to promote the film along with his director. I had a chance to chat briefly with the actor who plays a character carrying...