Screen Anarchy

When you have a film as gorgeously composed and framed as one by Robin Campillo (120 BPM), and set in one of the most beautiful places on earth (Madagascar), one of the best practices is to simply use a frame as the key art. That is the case in this poster for Red Island, a semi-autobiographical account of Campillo’s childhood on a French military base in the 1970, where innocence is lost, and infidelity, colonialism, and coming-of-age are ground in the crucible of the tropical sun.

 A kind of Euro-Spielbergian tableaux, as the entire case is framed between the palms and the water, from behind, as the look up. The foliage offers a great spot to nestle the typography of a pull quote, and festival…

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Variety has reported that tonight, in the furture, in South Korea, Francis Galluppi’s crime thriller The Last Stop in Yuma County took home the top prize at BiFan (Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival) the Best of Buchean, and the Audience Award as well.    The Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF) Award for Best Asian Film went to Kazakh crime thriller Steppenwolf. A couple films that our intrepid ex-pats James and Pierce reviewed, Pig That Survived Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Idiot Girls and School Ghost: School Anniversary respectively, both won awards as well.    From the article at Variety,   “The Last Stop in Yuma County,” a crime thriller directed by Francis Galluppi and set around a restaurant in Arizona, won the KRW20 million ($14,500) Bucheon Choice feature award. The jury called…

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What can be said about UHF that hasn’t been said before? “Weird Al” Yankovic and his manager/the director of the film, Jay Levey, pulled off something that was originally released in 1989. Oh, simpler times. The film is a ridiculous, over-the-top film that has ascertained near-legendary cult status. The comedy features Yankovic as George Newman in a classic village idiot scenario — walking into opportunities that should never come to him, failing way, way up, and somehow coming up on top, because in America, chaos reigns. Because his rich uncle won a local TV station in a poker game and didn’t know what to do with it, he and his wife (really, the wife’s decision) gives it to Newman to manage.  At the same time,…

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Located just 30 miles from New York City on the Hudson River, the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a 200-year-old maximum security prison, incarcerates what the criminal (in)justice system considers the worst of the worst, repeat, violent offenders serving decades-long sentences. The men sentenced to Sing Sing are rarely if ever, seen as worthy of rehabilitation, let alone capable of rehabilitation and rejoining society one day. They were — and mostly still are — out of sight and out of mind where, to most, they belong. Something changed, however, when Katherine Vockins founded the RTA (Rehabilitation Through the Arts) program at Sing Sing prison in 1996. As the name implies, the program allows long-term inmates to find creative expression through the arts (performing, dancing, writing), in…

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As we continue to highlight Canadian short films playing at Fantasia as word gets to us, the next one on our list is Dirty Bad Wrong, from writer/director Erica Orofino. It is having its World Premiere on Monday, July 29th, during the shorts program, Perilous Ports: Tours of Northern Terrors 2024.    Desperate to keep her promise to host the best superhero party for her 6-year-old, young mother Sid, a sex worker, takes extreme measures and books a last-minute client with a dark fetish. Check out the small seletion of stills after the official announcement.    Erica Orofino (She Keeps Me, Tampon, and the upcoming short Internet Friend) is thrilled to announce that her short film, Dirty Bad Wrong, which she wrote and directed, will…

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The day that writer/director Stephen Cognetti makes a feature film that is anything but a new chapter of the Hell House LLC franchise would be a day that the horror community goes into a tail spin.   Okay, not really, but right now this faux doc/found footage gig of theirs is paying the mortage and earned them a tonne of fans around the world. Very popular, it is no wonder that Cognetti and Terror Films Releasing are working together once again on a fifth chapter, called Hell House LLC: Lineage.    Cognetti has provided a teaser for the next film, with no other details as to what it is about. Production begins this November. Stay tuned.    TERROR FILMS RELEASING Drops Teaser for “HELL HOUSE…

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Or, ‘How to Make a Mass Murderer,’ in a very dark action-adventure series, now streaming on Crunchyroll.

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The delightful comedy series follows a human after she starts working at a ramen shop run by cats. Now streaming on Crunchyroll.

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In a beautifully-crafted, slice-of-life series, two teens get to know each other after they start living together. Now streaming on Crunchyroll.

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Shudder have announced that they have acquired Jayro Bustamante’s latest pic Rita and will release it on the platform on November 22nd. Rita will have its World Premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival on Thursday, July 25th.    Thirteen-year-old Rita (Giuliana Santa Cruz) finds herself incarcerated in an all-girls protective custody facility, after fleeing a horrendously abusive home life to seek freedom in the city. The girls in her overcrowded section tell of a prophecy, that a warrior angel will arrive to free them all from a life of destitution, incarceration, and enforced prostitution. When she’s handed a pair of wings of her own, which all the girls in her quarters wear too, it’s up to Rita to work out whether she will fulfil the…

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