Weird Features

Sound And Vision: Kristian Levring

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at Oh Land's Love You Better, directed by Kristian Levring. The music video of this week's Sound...

Sound And Vision: Marco Brambilla

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at Kanye West's Power, directed by Marco Brambilla. Marco Brambilla is a curious director, in that...

Friday One Sheet: RIDDLE OF FIRE

The "Coolest debut from Cannes," according to AnOther Magazine, the poster for American indie cult-film-to-be, Riddle Of Fire, exudes rural middleschool cool. The key art is awash in warm peachy tones and early 70s pre-Amblin 'latch-key kids' vibes. Note the mushrooms and...

Sound And Vision: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at The Red Hot Chilli Peppers' Otherside and The Smashing Pumpkins' Tonight, Tonight by Jonathan Dayton and...

Friday One Sheet: POOR THINGS

Welcome to the wonderful world of Vasilis Marmatakis, the Greek graphic designer and illustrator behind one of my favourite posters of the past decade, an earlier Yorgos Lanthimos film, The Killing of A Sacred Deer, with its immense verticality, and...

Sound And Vision: Sam Taylor-Johnson

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at R.E.M's ÜBerlin, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Ostensibly, this edition of Sound and Vision will be about...

Sound And Vision: Claude Lelouch

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at Françoise Hardy's Tous les Garçons et les Filles, directed by Claude Lelouch. I have to admit...

Sound And Vision: William Friedkin

In the article series Sound and Vision we talk about music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Laura Branigan's Self Control, directed by William Friedkin. Last week director William Friedkin passed away. The luminary behind such classics...

Pretty Packaging: The Sensual Boxset Of BLACK EMANUELLE

If you are a Blu-ray collector, US-based distributor Severin is worth keeping tabs on, as their releases tend to be interesting, with many films getting proper treatment and great extras. Their boxset dedicated to folk-horror films is rightly the stuff...

Sound And Vision: Jeremy Blake & Theresa Duncan

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a different direction, looking into the stories of artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan. The Sound and Vision this...

Sound And Vision: Paul Thomas Anderson

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at Fiona Apple's Across the Universe, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Paul Thomas Anderson, PTA for those...

Sound And Vision: Xavier Dolan

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several videos from Xavier Dolan, including the two he made for Adele. Xavier Dolan is quitting filmmaking, because...

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...

Sound And Vision: Toshiaki Toyoda

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Asian Kung-Fu Generation's A Flower Named You, directed by Toshiaki Toyoda. My favorite Japanese director is Toshiaki Toyoda....

Sound And Vision: Richard Bates Jr.

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at White Lung's Below, directed by Richard Bates Jr. Richard Bates Jr. made an impressive debut with Excision,...

Sound And Vision: Gregg Araki

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors.This week we look at The Micronauts' The Jag, directed by Gregg Araki. Gregg Araki never really played by the rules, not even in...

Sound And Vision: Russell Mulcahy

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at The Tubes' Mondo Bondage, directed by Russell Mulcahy. Vulgar auteurism is the idea that there is a...

Sound And Vision: Todd Haynes

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Sonic Youth's Disappearer, directed by Todd Haynes. The love affair of Todd Haynes with Sonic Youth is a...

Sound And Vision: Jessica Hausner

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Attwenger's erso&sieso, directed by Jessica Hausner. When you think of Jessica Hausner's oeuvre, the word comedy is not...

4K Review: THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS

On May 30th, Scream Factory will release a 4K/Blu-ray combo of The People Under the Stairs. I’ve seen the horror-comedy a number of times. Even though it was first released in 1991, the socio-political element of the rich eating those...