Tag: tildaswinton
THE END Review: A Song For the Discordant Last
Perhaps because we feel, more so than ever, at the edge of a possible fall of civilzation as we know it, the destruction of the environment to the point of unsustainability, but likely many of us have thought about (either...
PROBLEMISTA Review: Clever, Witty, Boldly Distinctive
Julio Torres writes, directs, and stars alongside Tilda Swinton in a modestly audacious comedy.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO 4K Review: An Honest to Goodness Great Film
Ewan McGregor, Gregory Mann, Tilda Swinton, David Bradley, and Christoph Waltz star in the award-winning stop-motion take on the dark fairy tale.
Review: THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER, Just the Right Level of Creepiness
It might be something bred into us when we're in the womb: a need to please our parents. Or at least, to have some kind of effect on them. The memory of how we either succeeded or failed can haunt...
Review: GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO, Stunningly Realized Stop-Motion Animation
There’s a moment in the stunningly realized Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio where the familiar title character (winningly voiced by Gregory Mann), newly granted a semblance of animated life by a compassionate supernatural spirit, attempts to greet his new “father,” Geppetto...
Review: THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING, Djinn and Tonic
It’s been almost a decade since George Miller (Babe: Pig in the City, Lorenzo’s Oil, The Witches of Eastwick), a then 70-year-old, Australian filmmaker some dismissed as either washed or well past his prime, proved doubters spectacularly wrong, writing and...
Review: THE FRENCH DISPATCH, Delightful, Wonderful Ode to Mid-Century Journalism
To call Wes Anderson (Isle of Dogs, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom, The Royal Tenenbaums) an auteurist filmmaker with a singular, uncompromising vision doesn’t come close to describing the moment-by-moment, shot-by-shot experience of sitting through one of Wes Anderson's...
New York 2021 Review: MEMORIA, Body Memories in Visual/Sonic Masterpiece
Tilda Swinton stars in a new film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. As with the Thai auteur's other films, watching it is like sleepwalking through unfamiliar territory.
New York 2021 Review: THE SOUVENIR PART II, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
Honor Swinton Byrne stars in a marvelously inventive, self-effacing film, directed by Joanna Hogg, that is also immensely affecting and moving.
Friday One Sheet: THE (Animated) FRENCH DISPATCH
It has been over a year since The French Dispatch (of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Star) was to premiere at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. After numerous date changes and the typical COVID release dance seen for major titles, the...
New York 2020 Review: THE HUMAN VOICE, Quintessential Almodovar, Plus Tilda Swinton in Short Form
Hopefully, this isn't the first and last collaboration between Pedro Almodovar and Tilda Swinton, because this short film is an extremely enjoyable experience.
Review: In THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD, Charles Dickens Gets an Update
Dev Patel stars in director Armando Iannucci's fresh new adaptation of Charles Dickens' venerable novel.
Blu-ray Review: WOMEN MAKE FILM: A CINEMATIC ROAD MOVIE THROUGH CINEMA
When a publicist contacted us about reviewing writer-director Mark Cousins' latest series, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema, I was ecstactic. As a filmmaker, I've been devouring his excellent The Story of Film at home on DVD ---...
Friday One Sheet: THE FRENCH DISPATCH
The French Dispatch of The Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, has this piece of delightful Wes Anderson clutter (in title and design) slash dollhouse-diorama as its first piece of key art. What has become the norm for the filmmaker, is to...
Interview: Jim Jarmusch & THE DEAD DON'T DIE
Quite like the new Jim Jarmusch film, The Dead Don’t Die, Sturgill Simpson’s self-titled theme song delivers many delicious nuggets of zombie metaphor in a smilin’ down-home death-ballad drawl. ‘Oh the dead don’t die, any more than you or I,...
Cannes 2019 Review: THE DEAD DON'T DIE Is A Nice Place To Live
I’m not sure what possessed Jim Jarmusch to make a zombie film, but I, for one, am so damn glad he did! And, to be clear, this is coming from someone who swore off the subgenre eons ago. Sure, there...
Review: SUSPIRIA, Creating New Flames From the Ashes of a Classic
It's honestly difficult to know where to start with Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of Dario Argento's deeply loved and cherished Suspiria. This film is something you really have to take away with you -- like a curse. The first thing you...
Friday One Sheet: SUSPIRIA And Watercolour Nightmares
Our poster column is more or less on hold while the Toronto International Film Festival takes over the city for the next ten days, but I wanted to quickly highlight Tony Stella's watercolour terror of a poster for the remake...
SUSPIRIA To Open Sitges Festival, Tilda Swinton to Receive Award
The long-awaited remake of the classic horror film, Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria will open the Sitges Festival this coming October. In addition, star Tilda Swinton will receive the Grand Honorary Award. I think only a filmmaker such as Guadagnino could be...
ScreenAnarchy's Favourite Films of 2017
Another year over, and what an annus horribilis it proved to be in so many ways. But away from the political atrocities that took place in pretty much every country you care to mention, and the sexual harassment scandals that...
