Screen Anarchy

Documentarian Ry Levey (Out in the Ring, Boutique: To Preserve and Collect) has a new documentary primed and ready to hit the festival.   Song Silenced: Coming Out in Christian Music will have its world premiere at the 50th Cleveland International Film Festival in April. On that announcement, the official trailer and poster were revealed today.    Song Silenced: Coming Out in Christian Music uncovers the untold stories of million-selling Christian music artists who bravely came out—only to have their careers cancelled or cut short by the industry they helped define. Alongside these silenced icons, the film spotlights a new generation of openly queer musicians reshaping faith-based music by bypassing traditional Christian radio and breaking through on platforms like iTunes and Spotify, where they are topping…

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Donna Davies’ documentary, 1000 Women in Horror, arrives on Shudder on March 20th. The trailer has arrived, and you can check it out below.    Celebrate Women’s History Month with a New Documentary Exploring How Women Pioneers Revolutionized Horror Cinema   Directed by Donna Davies   Based on the Book by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas   A deep dive into how women pioneers revolutionized horror cinema through their groundbreaking work as directors, actors, and creators since 1895, leaving an indelible mark on the genre’s evolution. Featuring interviews with Roxanne Benjamin, Akela Cooper, Mary Harron, Cerise Howard, Kier-La Janisse, Nikyatu Jusu, Roseanne Liang, Annalise Lockhart, Toby Poser, Sara Risher, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Kate Siegel, Jenn Wexler, and more.  …

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Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough star in this twisted psychological thriller.

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Not too long ago, Paul Giamatti was on a red carpet, and when asked what he would like to do, what he has not done yet, he replied that he would like to do a horror film. It created a tremor throughout the horror community because, well, he is Paul Giamatti. The Paul Giamatti.    The immediate question on everyone’s minds was, who would be the lucky filmmaker to have Giamatti involved with their project? Today, we have an answer from Deadline. It is Jim Gavin and his upcoming project, Boutique.    Giamatti will play American tourist Calvin who “journeys to the eerie English seaside town that inspired the work of his favorite reclusive author but instead gets entangled with a murderous secret society permeating…

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Plus: ‘Andre Is an Idiot’ and ‘Hoppers.’

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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 his pursuit of the “ecstatic truth” are often intense and absurd in varying measure. Well into his 80s at this point, he has not slowed down in his filmmaking, and seemed to have no reservations traipsing around the “terra incognito” of the rugged and uninhabited Angolan wilderness along with his current documentary subject, South African biological conservationist Dr. Steve Boyes.  Boyes has been an advocate and activist for the preservation of the lakes and flora and fauna of the Bié Plateau in Central Angola. Since 2015, Boyes has led the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, a collection of…

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As a Tunisian queer filmmaker, one must exercise particular care when addressing an issue that remains deeply taboo in society to this day. Yet this does not prevent Leyla Bouzid from boldly portraying the increasingly precarious reality faced by homosexual people within her community. With In a Whisper, she sets the story in her own former family home, revolving around three generations of women who inhabit the same space. During a roundtable discussion near the Berlinale Palast, Bouzid shared her personal perspective on the situation of queer people in Tunisia, as well as her understanding of the characters she created. In this half-suspense, half-drama story, she weaves what she witnessed growing up in a fairly conservative social environment into the fabric of the narrative. Screen Anarchy: Why…

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Crack jokes all you want about the concept of German comedy films, but they exists and are often quite good. Case in point: Florian Dietrich’s comedy No Hit Wonder, which played at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year and successfully charmed the audiences, turning into a surprise hit (haha) for the festival. In the film we follow Daniel Nowak, a singer who had a huge hit ages ago, and has been floating slowly downwards from that moment of fame. The concerts turn into brief appearances, he is turned into a joke, a caricature of himself, opening supermarkets and doing adverts to make a living. One night he is overwhelmed with self-pity and a failed suicide attempt lands him in the psychiatric ward of a…

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Most movies that go behind the scenes on a set to showcase the blood, sweat and tears that go into making movies treat filmmaking as a badge of honor.   Whether it’s a documentary — see Mark Borchardt in American Movie (1999) — or outright fiction –Bobby Bowfinger in Bowfinger (1999) — the end result is almost always a director’s triumphant victory lap that celebrates creativity and artistic expression against all odds.   And then there’s movies like Morgan Evans’ bitiing satire Micro Budget (2024), which treat filmmaking like an endurance test that not everyone has the fortitude for.   The very meta premise is a movie about a mockumentary about the making of a movie. The director here is Terry (Andrew Noth, giving off…

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Johnny’s violent rampage leads him to a summer camp, just as a young, outcast camper is forced to spend the night with his counsellor sister and her friends at their annual end-of-season party.

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