“By featuring a wide variety of animated works from both young and experienced filmmakers, Animafest showed it has the reach to bring together great talents through a stimulating environment.”
“With their uncomfortable blend of sexual politics, dark comedy, quirky star power and social and moral critique, it’s no wonder moviegoers didn’t know what to make of Kaplan’s satirical stories when they were first released.”
“Communication — or the lack thereof — is key to ‘Black Moon.’”
“Altman balances searing interpersonal conflicts with a visual rhythm that’s downright whimsical.”
“In ‘Golden Exits,’ the miserable find company in the spaces they inhabit. Nothing is shared; nothing is collective.”
“Just as with life, ‘Mulholland Dr.’ is unexplainable.”
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“As the second last film in one of the great contemporary horror filmmaker’s careers, it’s an extraordinary example of artistic self-reflection and development.”
“How are we doing here, folks? Does any of this make a lick of sense?”
“‘Under the Shadow’ is an admirable film, albeit not wholly original.”
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“A comically surreal masterpiece, Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel proves an enduring and lighthearted experience, time after time, each viewing influenced by the last, and each new symbolic theory dashed moment by moment.”
“The realism of Los Olvidados is balanced by striking moments of subjectivity, and they’re crucial to the film’s particular representation of urban poverty.”
“With The Young One, Buñuel rejects the surrealism that would define his early films and almost all the European work that followed, presenting a rather straightforward narrative with superficial similarities to a Tennessee Williams screenplay.”
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“A sex comedy rooted in inequality, ‘Diary of a Chambermaid’ trades in traditional ideas about power dynamics for a twisted take on the absurdity of desire.”
