Variety, “Korea Box Office: ‘Dunkirk’ Beats ‘Spider-Man’”
“Anarchist from Colony,” the only homegrown Korean movie in the Top 10 chart, took eighth place. The Lee Joon-ik drama earned $272,100 between Friday and Sunday and extended its total to $16.1 million after four weekends. Continue Reading
Slate, “How Paranoia Infiltrated the Movies”
Though the political casts of the designated villains fluctuate wildly according to the ideology of the country and period—ranging from the anarchist “vampire” gang to the red spies of Cold War thrillers, to the nearly invisible capitalist tycoons of Cutter’s Way (1981), to the smug government bureaucrats in The Ghost Writer (2010)—the evil designs remain […]
Broadly, “The Pioneering Filmmaker Known for Her Wild, Antifascist Sex Comedies”
In Love & Anarchy (1973), perhaps the greatest of Wertmüller’s films, Giannini plays Tunin, a young anarchist farmer who comes to Rome in the 1930s with a plan to assassinate Mussolini. His contacts set him up with Salomè (Melato), a radical prostitute whose work gives her access to plenty of high-level fascists. But he soon […]
Spin, “Rolling Stone Article About American Radicals Fighting ISIS to Become Jake Gyllenhaal Movie”
“The Anarchists vs. the Islamic State,” an incredible Rolling Stone piece published last month, is going to be a movie. The article centered around 27-year-old Brace Belden, an American “punk and pity criminal” better known as Twitter user @PissPigGrandad, who joined Kurdish militia YPG last year to fight ISIS in Syria. (It also followed several other volunteers of varied nationalities.) According […]
The Hollywood Reporter, “Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniel Espinosa Team Up for Middle Eastern Drama ‘Anarchists vs. ISIS'”
The Rolling Stone article, written by Seth Harp, tells the true story of a ragtag team of American volunteers, socialists and outcasts who are fighting alongside the Kurdish militia known as the YPG to beat ISIS in Syria and establish an anarchist collective amid the rubble of war. Continue Reading
Variety, “Jake Gyllenhaal, ‘Life’ Director Daniel Espinosa to Reteam on ‘The Anarchists vs ISIS’”
The article tells the true story of a ragtag team of American volunteers, socialists, and outcasts, who are fighting alongside the Kurdish militia, known as the YPG, to beat ISIS in Syria and establish an anarchist collective amid the rubble of war. Continue Reading
The New Yorker, “Isabelle Huppert’s Intellectual Sustenance in Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Things to Come””
En route to the classroom, she’s momentarily blocked by students protesting changes in the government’s retirement policy; inside, she gives a lesson that involves a quotation from Rousseau about democracy; and on the way out she’s visited by a former student, Fabien (Roman Kolinka), a talented young philosopher who writes for her monograph series but […]
Orlando Sentinel, “Anarchist films of Nick Macdonald from ’70s to get first Chicago showings”
The films are homemade in the most obvious ways, dominated by menu sign wordplay, sock puppets, newspaper clippings and first-person essayistic musings. They range in length from the four-minute “No More Leaders—t” (1971) to the 33-minute 1972 scenario “The Liberal War,” in which a future generation looks back at John F. Kennedy’s role in the […]
Flavorwire, “Progressive, Tea Party, or Anarchist: Whose Side Is Katniss Really On?” November 18, 2014
Progressive, Tea Party, or Anarchist: Whose Side Is Katniss Really On? Sarah Seltzer, Flavorwire, November 18, 2014 “Of course, if Katniss is a flinty anarchist with a libertarian streak (and Gale is a total mansplaining manarchist, albeit a hot one), then I’d have to say that Peeta is a kindly socialist who yearns to feed the […]
Margaret Killjoy: Night Moves (2013) and an interview with Jonathan Raymond
Reprinted with permission from Anarcho-Geek Review