Screen Anarchy Whether the prolific Filipino auteur Lav Diaz is the crown prince of slow cinema or not, his position and contribution remain inalienable. Diaz´s black and white revenge drama Woman Who Left, clocking 228 minutes, took the top prize in Venice in 2016. This year, his latest oeuvre Genus Pan — with a rather […]

Screen Anarchy As we announced just a few loooooong weeks ago our friends at the Telluride Horror Show have gone digital this year with their Shelter-in-Place edition. Today they have announced the first wave of titles and there is a nice mix of circuit faves, really cool events and short films.  We all agree that […]

Screen Anarchy The 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival has unfolded with more than one comeback. After the Greek New Wave made a splash again in the Orrizonti section with Apples, Iranian filmmaker Shahram Mokri returned on the turf of his past triumphs. Mokri’s feature-length debut, 2009´s Ashkan, The Charmed Ring And Other Stories, […]

Screen Anarchy Anyone who’s been following these pages has come across the works of Les Films de la Mouche, a French collective of talented filmmakers sure to make a splash with a notable debut feature in the not too distant future. Until that day comes, they keep turning out wonderful shorts. The most recent one, […]

Screen Anarchy Packed to the brim with historical documents and recently declassified materials, Sam Pollard, documentarian and editor of Spike Lee’s films, among many others (Mo’ Better Blues, 4 Little Girls, Chisholm ’72, Venus and Serena), brings us MLK/FBI, a searing indictment of government surveillance and a smear campaign on one of the most revered […]

Screen Anarchy Part World War II aerial action thriller, part creature feature, and one hundred percent disinterested in reality or physics, Roseanne Liang’s Shadow in the Cloud is a boisterous adventure bound to delight audiences, as long as they don’t think too hard. Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) is Maude Garrett, an Air Force officer hitching […]

Screen Anarchy Thomas Vinterberg’s latest comedy of manners is as bourgeoisie-punk as ever. He leaped onto the global stage, along with Lars von Trier, with the collaborative manifesto Dogme95, and its first film Festen (The Celebration), which re-wrote the design rules of conventionally lit and produced cinema, via an upper-crust family meltdown. Many years, and […]

Screen Anarchy Poor Paco needs a cigarette. Badly. After arguing with his girlfriend, Flora, and fighting with Waze and Wifi they eventually arrive in the remote Mexican village of her childhood, only to find her parents not to be around. The house is tightly locked up. This is not a good start to Paco’s meet-the-parents […]

Screen Anarchy The Calming, like its title suggests, is a quiet contemplation of life and on our relationship with nature. Song Fang, who played the Chinese film student nanny role in Hou Hsiao Hsien’s Flight of the Red Balloon, is a gifted director with gentle sensibilities who has a great eye for landscapes reflecting the […]

Screen Anarchy One week from this coming Monday is the deadline for the BW Screenings section in the Blood Window Program at Ventana Sur in Beunos Aires, Argentina.  The section is for films near completion, that are in post, works in progress, or, are looking for a market premiere. This was where we caught early […]

Screen Anarchy Four years ago, only a few Obamaphiles knew who Pete Souza, then the senior White House photographer, was. With a career that began before Ronald Reagan arrived in the People’s House, through an extended stint as White House photographer under Reagan, through an assignment covering Senator-Elect Barack Obama and his family’s first year […]

Screen Anarchy When your name comes up on Death’s list, there’s not really much you can do, except wait for him to collect you. Well, maybe not quite for Eli Cody; he might have gotten his fatal diagnosis, but he’s not going out fast or easy, or without making sure he’s tied up every loose […]