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GHOST ELEPHANTS Interview: Werner Herzog and Dr. Steve Boyes Speak of Dreams, Ritual, and the Vast Mondo Wilderness Werner Herzog needs no introduction. He has been one of cinema's most fascinating and deliberate risk-takers for over five decades of extraordinary cinema. The enlightenments he discovers through ...

Bucket-List interview! The legendary Werner Herzog & African Conservational Biologist Dr. Boyes (the subject at the heart of GHOST ELEPHANTS).

I do not post much on socials these days, particularly self-promotion, but I am genuinely pleased with how this went: screenanarchy.com/2026/03/ghos...

03.03.2026 22:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did you avoid the Montreal Ice Storm?

30.12.2025 14:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Episode 345 โ€“ BLACK BAG, โ€œThe Lying Comes Honestlyโ€ Talkinโ€™ Steven Soderberghโ€™s new film with Kurt Halfyard

New #Matineecast this morning - and a question:
Are you more likely to listen to a podcast BEFORE you see a film (especially a film you might not know about), or AFTER?
#FilmSky #PodcastSky
www.thematinee.ca/episode345/

31.03.2025 12:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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On David Lynch It's not often that the team at ScreenAnarchy feels a loss like we have with David Lynch. And we're not alone; since last Thursday, I've seen an outpouring of love, sadness, and rememberin...

Some of the @screenanarchy.bsky.social team got together and wrote our thoughts about David Lynch. From me, @ardvark23.bsky.social @triflic.bsky.social @anotherkylel.bsky.social & others screenanarchy.com/2025/01/on-d...

27.01.2025 17:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Toronto 2024 Review: THE BRUTALIST, Grand and Unexpected Cinematic Epic Out of the gate with its Vista-Vision logo and overture, The Brutalist promises the kind of grand Hollywood epic, and old-school cinematic hubris, that more or less went away 40 years ago with Micheal Ciminoโ€™s Heavenโ€™s Gate and Sergio Leoneโ€™s Once Upon Aโ€ฆ
07.09.2024 02:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fantasia 2024: SINCOPAT, Short Film Short Review During the opening credits of short film, Sincopat, many festival laurels are initially displayed onscreen. Then, following a loud โ€˜bangโ€™ on the soundtrack, several dozen more appear. This is a first for me, but it is in sync with the aural focus of theโ€ฆ
24.07.2024 14:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fantasia 2024 Review: SCARED SHITLESS, A Creature Feature Worth Taking The Plunge A friend of mine, an astute and well travelled film-lover, once told me their โ€˜big theoryโ€™ of audience engagement for most movies: The viewer will like the movie more if the main character is simply good at doing their job. In Scared Shitless, Don theโ€ฆ
23.07.2024 21:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Friday One Sheet: THE SECOND This beautiful watercolour poster for Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos'sย The Second is hiding a subtle secret in plain sight. The short film centres around a pistols-at-dawn kind of duel, and the underlying complexity of motivations across two generations. Theโ€ฆ
26.07.2024 16:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Adam Wingard's fantastic "You're Next" is getting a new 4K Collectors Edition release from Second Sight in August - Steelbook Blu-ray News The brilliant Youโ€™re Next is getting the well-deserved Second Sight treatment with this new 4K release, due on August 19th. Pre-orders are live right now....

13 or so years ago l, Adam Wingardโ€™s home invasion horror YOUโ€™RE NEXT blew the roof off the RYERSON theatre. Ecstatic to contribute a booklet essay (along with @bonnequin.bsky.social and @suspirialexx.bsky.social ) for Second Sightโ€™s 4K special edition.

www.steelbookbluray.com/adam-wingard...

25.07.2024 14:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fantasia 2024 Review: GHOST CAT ANZU, Farts in the General Direction of Studio Ghibli To the sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya leave the city by train to visit a countryside temple where the caretaker is the grandfather she has never met....

Perhaps worth sharing for its headline alone:

screenanarchy.com/2024/07/fant...

25.07.2024 03:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just cause:

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08.04.2024 18:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A still from the 1989 movie THE 'BURBS, in which neighbors Art and Ray scream in terror after finding a leg bone in the suspicious Klopeks' yard.

A still from the 1989 movie THE 'BURBS, in which neighbors Art and Ray scream in terror after finding a leg bone in the suspicious Klopeks' yard.

In today's blog, we celebrate the 35th anniversary of THE 'BURBS, Joe Dante's horror-farce of Cold War paranoia and un-neighborliness. Featuring selected works from @triflic.bsky.social / Brent Yergensen / Scott Haden Church / Angus McFadzean. #horror #joedante
horrorlex.com/blog/3-great...

24.02.2024 17:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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DUNE: PART TWO Review: Still Handsome. Still Obligatory. Stilgar. If it does nothing else, Dune: Part Two completes the circle of the Fatboy Slim-Arrakis EU. ย  By opening with Christopher Walkenโ€™s Emperor Of The Known Universe, this might just be the quirkiest, and most unexpectedly sly, thing about the movie โ€” even ifโ€ฆ
01.03.2024 16:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bailey could give up a portion of his ridiculously over priced salary for the organizations sustainabilityโ€ฆ

12.01.2024 05:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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THE PIGEON TUNNEL Review: Heady Swirl of Conversation on History and Lies
Errol Morris directs John le Carrรฉ's final and most personal interview. From @triflic.bsky.social screenanarchy.com/2023/10/the-...

19.10.2023 21:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Glazer is a treasure. Canโ€™t wait to see this next Thursday.

03.09.2023 16:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0