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Podcast

Dangerous Animals | Ballerina | Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)

On Truth & Movies this week, we dis­cuss Dan­ger­ous Ani­mals and Bal­le­ri­na, we speak to activist, pho­tog­ra­ph­er and film­mak­er Mis­an Har­ri­man about Shoot The Peo­ple, a doc­u­men­tary about his work. David speaks to Steven Leckart — the direc­tor of Stans, about the fer­vent fan­dom of Eminem, and final­ly, for film club we revis­it a video nasty with one hell of a shark scene in Zom­bie Flesh Eaters.
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Review

Dangerous Animals review – why sharks? They’re cinematic!

by Anton Bitel

Preda­tors and prey share the same ter­rain in this psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly twist­ed shark thriller from genre film­mak­er Sean Byrne.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Festivals

Animal instincts at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival

by Hannah Strong

One of the most well-regard­ed doc­u­men­tary film fes­ti­vals pro­vides a fas­ci­nat­ing insight into the grip that ani­mal sto­ries have over the doc­u­men­tary space.
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Review

Sasquatch Sunset – Gross-out larks with an anthropological twist

by David Jenkins

A fam­i­ly of myth­i­cal beasts are observed in their nat­ur­al habi­tat in com­ic por­trait of ani­mals and their instincts.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Long Read

Kelly Reichardt’s Animal Kingdom

by Bota Koilybayeva

With­in the gen­tle, nat­u­ral­is­tic films of Kel­ly Reichardt, domes­tic ani­mals are grant­ed the space to exist as they are – not as per­form­ers, but as companions.
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Festivals

Animal – first-look review

by Marina Ashioti

Dim­i­tra Vlagopoulou gives a knock­out per­for­mance in Sofia Exar­chou’s resort-set sec­ond fea­ture about a group of sea­son­al performers.
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Festivals

The Animal Kingdom – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Thomas Cail­ley presents a high­ly orig­i­nal sci-fi film that serves as an empa­thet­ic para­ble for real life intol­er­ance of phys­i­cal and neu­ro­log­i­cal otherness.
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Interviews

Animal Instincts: a conversation with Tang Wei

by David Jenkins

She deliv­ers arguably one of the great­est per­for­mances in a Park Chan-wook film, but how did Tang Wei build the enig­mat­ic sus­pect­ed mur­der­er, Seo-rae?
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What does “No animals were harmed” mean for filmmaking in 2022?

by Joseph Phelan

A short his­to­ry of ani­mal wel­fare in films, and whether more needs to be done to pro­tect the crea­tures who bring movies to life.
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Festivals

Everything Will Be OK – first-look review

by Matt Turner

Cam­bo­di­an film­mak­er Rithy Panh pon­ders a world where ani­mals have enslaved the human race in his lat­est exper­i­men­tal feature.