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1 week ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg
There is a lot to learn about the film industry, and not all of it is taught at films schools. Festivals like Palm Springs Shortfest fill the gap, especially from the business side, with knowledge essential to all emerging filmmakers, on how ot navigate this complicated art form on both the creative and business side. The ShortFest Forum has some exicted panels and discussions to those attending, or who are thinking about attending. Details are below and on the festival website.
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1 week ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Biopics usually follow one of two structures: the majority giving a general, sweeping account of a person's life, with various scenes focusing on 'important' events that would likely already be known by the audience; these are stories or breadth, not depth, and usually don't really help us understand the biopic's subject since it ends up being a rather superficial overview.
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1 week ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg
"Just ignore them and they'll leave you alone;" "They're just insecure;" "Stand up for yourself and they'll go away:" Society has a lot of advice for how to deal with bullying, most of which relies on the victim of the bullying to do something, rather than punishing those who either perpetrate the physical and/or psychological violence, or those who stand by without intervening.
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2 weeks ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg
In the 'not horror' section of Stephen King's work, are a selection of narratives that often still tease at horror (Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption), while at the same aim to present stories that speak to moments that make us/reflect who we are. King's short stories have often been his undersung literary achievements, that nonetheless find their home on the big screen, for the reason mentioned.
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2 weeks ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Short films still remain a vital part of cinema. Yes, they can be so-called calling cards for filmmakers, an entry point to making a feature. But they are also a mode until themselves; some stories just work better in the short form, often greater risks can be taken in narrative and performance. Experimental cinema, in both content and creation, can happen in shorts.
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3 weeks ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg
We're most of us hard up for money these days, so much so that we're willing to compromise a little in order to earn a little, for some basic survival or to hold on to our housing. But maybe some compromises are not worth it. That's what this protagonist seems to be about to find out in the upcoming thriller, The Man in My Basement.
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3 weeks ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg
We've likely all had very strange reactions to a great trauma in our lives, be it the death of a loved one, the loss of a treasured lover, intimate abuse. Or at least we might have thought about doing something crazy, or even becoming someone else. Letting someone else, some latent personality traits take over to do those strange things that you don't feel capable of.
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4 weeks ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Giveaway time! The amazing folks at Vertical and Route 504 PR have graciously given ScreenAnarchy, 5 pairs of tickets to give away to our readers in Montreal, for an advance screening of the new horror comedy film, I Don't Understand You. Place: Cinéma Cineplex Forum, MontrealDate: Thursday, June 5thTime: 7:00pmSummer can have us thinking of wonderful European holidays, driving through rolling green hills, sipping delicious Italian wine, gorging on authentic pizza and pasta.
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1 month ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg
When most people think of American cinema of the 1970s, they focus on New Hollywood, the era of brash independent cinema that blew the roof off the old studio system and offered a more grimy, realistic, intimate look across a larger swatch of American life. That life, however, was still mostly white, and there was a small but growing rise of filmmakers who still were looking to make their voices, and the lives of their own people, known.
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1 month ago | 
screenanarchy.com | Shelagh Rowan-Legg
With Cannes about to begin, one of the films we're most excited about at ScreenAnarchy, is Julia Ducournau's Alpha. The filmmaker behind two titles that took the genre film world — well, the whole film world — by storm (Raw and the Palme d'or winner Titane), makes films that are violent, brutal, and very human. With Neon already set to release the film, they've dropped the first poster, as well as a brief synopsis of the story. Alpha, 13, is a troubled teenager who lives alone with her mother.
