South Korean filmmaker Jason Yu steps into the spotlight with his feature directorial debut Sleep, a taut psychological thriller that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023. Drawing from his experiences in his own marriage, cinema history, and his work as an […]
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Director Carlos Marques-Marcet offers an understated exploration of love, mortality, and the choices in facing life’s final passage, blending realism with poetic dance sequences.
RaMell Ross directed. For a subject this weighty, though, the aesthetics in ‘Nickel Boys’ don’t work.
(The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival ran September 5-15 and HtN has you covered once again. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s Cloud movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa has long been fascinated […]
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In the age of the Marvel multiverse, The Universal Theory, directed by Timm Kröger, is a breath of fresh air. Perhaps because it’s science fiction in the most traditional sense of the term, in the same way Frankenstein by Mary Shelley gave birth to the genre. Black and white, dramatic lighting, gorgeous cinematography, commendable score and sound editing. A German film set in the Swiss Alps. Physics. Johannes Leinert (Jan Bülow) is a young man travelling with his PhD supervisor to a congress. Dr. Strathen (Hanns Zischler) makes no secret of his disdain for Johannes thesis, a formula of some sort that explains, well, everything. Especially when things begin to get strange– a dead man is not dead, a mysterious pianist (Olivia Ross) knows about…
The best Christmas present of the year, after his biggest project yet with The Northman, Robert Eggers jumped quickly into his long-developing passion project: a new take on F. W. Murnau’s 1922 German Expressionist masterpiece Nosferatu, itself inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula. With a cast featuring Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, […]
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I can’t believe I’ve written a hundred of these, so allow me to indulge myself by looking at the past, present and future of the Sound and Vision. The Sound and Vision series started as a friendly conversation between me and fellow ScreenAnarchy-editor Ard Vijn. Ard and I knew each other through the Dutch film festival circuit, where we both were present a lot. We became colleagues later, both writing for the Dutch-language genre film magazine Schokkend Nieuws (which translates as “Shocking News”). During this time we started to have friendly conversations, mostly about film, and I told Ard about a side project I was working on. As an autistic person, I tend to have special interests. And one of those interests, just for my…
Terry Jacobs (Tom Welling) is a recently paroled felon forced to go undercover to bring down Griff (Cam Gigandet), the head of the most infamous mob syndicate in Italy. Scott Windhauser’s indie crime thriller, Mafia Wars, is coming to VOD & Digital on October 11th, from Saban Films. We have an exclusive clip to share with you today. In the clip Griff, played by Cam Gigandet, and Terry, played by Tom Welling, are speaking with Rinaldo, some low level gang underling who’s done something to offend Terry and Griff wants to be sure that he apologizes to Terry for the trouble. And, also remind him who’s the boss around these parts. You can also check out the official trailer below, as well. …
