Tag: Steven Rales

Aristobrats: Alice Rohrwacher Lands Josh O’Connor, Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan & Jessie Buckley for ‘Three Incestuous Sisters’

Major world cinema news lands on a Friday afternoon: Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher, arguably riding the high of her finest feature yet with La...

The Phoenician Scheme | Review

Much Ado About Fussing: Anderson Spills More Twee The Wes Anderson devotee cult has been searching for a way to justify his cinematic sainthood following...

2024 Sundance: A Different Man, The Outrun, Winner & Sasquatch Sunset Among Premieres

Sundance Film Festival's Premiere section (a mix of fiction and docs) will have some biggie titles to contend with the likes of Aaron Schimberg's...

Asteroid City | Review

The Lost City of Twee: Anderson Continues Quest of Counterfeit Sentiments Somewhere along the way, over the past twenty years, Wes Anderson’s style completely...

The French Dispatch | Review

Repetition Commission: Anderson Flatlines with Twee Aesthetic Since cinema requires a semblance of participation by the audience, a passive relationship of sorts, the latest curio...

Isle of Dogs | Review

A Dog’s Tale: Anderson Returns to Animation with Scruffy, Eclectic Fantasy We’ve come to expect a certain technical formality from Wes Anderson, even across a...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...