Screen Rats

F ounded in 1952, the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is one of Asia’s most prestigious film events. Its slogan from the Upanishads captures a truly global…

O utsider art comes in many forms. Often we think of it as primitive doodles for which the “artist” has employed found materials and is usually divorced from the fray …

C hristmas Bloody Christmas opens with a sequence of TV ads: a Yuletide malt beverage “for the entire family”; a slasher (Kill.Xmas: The Lester Lord Story) in which li…

M ost of the world had accepted that the Japanese animation great Hayao Miyazaki hung up his stylus after his last feature The Wind Rises , and resigned ourselves to …

F rom the outside, it can be easy to assume that all the important decisions in Hollywood are made by the same small collection of powerful men in suits. Recently, new…

D uring the summer I was 17, I watched a lot of movies and had an existential crisis. I had just graduated high school, where I was the perfect student who had achieve…

U nleashed in 1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B.Schoedsack’s King Kong was one of the first purely cinematic myths. Although it made glancing reference to Gabrielle-…

T empatures of -5°c couldn’t freeze the spirits of Europe’s cinema glitterati in Reykjavik, Iceland on the evening of December 9th 2022, as they descended on Iceland’s…

A s far as the cinematic canon of inspirational school teachers go, beanie-hatted paragon of chill, Deiter Bachmann, is right up there. This observational non-fiction …

A sk the average filmgoer what they think of 3D at the cinema, and the answer is likely to fall somewhere between “it’s fine but doesn’t add much” to “I hate it and wi…

W ith yesterday’s announcement of the Sundance Film Festival program comes the annual scrum for attention, as dozens of studios and sales agents race to drum up buzz f…