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“By turns fuzzy-dreamy and jarringly vivid” was how the Hollywood Reporter described Sarah’s cinematography on Flatland, Jenna Bass’ contemporary feminist western set in South Africa’s Karoo desert, which in 2019 opened the Panorama programme of the Berlinale and won best African feature at the Jo’burg International Film Festival. In 2017 Sarah’s 1st feature, Miguel Clara Vasconcelos’ Encontro Silencioso, won Best Portuguese Feature at IndieLisboa, the country’s largest national film festival. Her third feature,  The Banishing, is a UK production. Sarah’s work has scree...

We open on a gathering of the Scrappers Club, four women around a kitchen table pasting things into scrapbooks. The moment we hear one of them talking, we're not too surprised to learn that her name is Blanche Gunderson. Her sister Marge, the trooper, must have been the ambitious one. Not that Blanche isn't, just that she's relentlessly nice.

You may also know the sweet, dull pain of having to read many kids classics, like Goodnight Moon, approximately 100,0000 times. But a great picture book, one that works for all readers, can transcend time and culture in the best fashion. As Nobel-prizewinning author Olga Tokarczuk said, “I adore the picture book... For me it is a powerful, primeval way of telling a story that’s able to get through to anyone — regardless of age, cultural differences or level of education.” As picture books go, the Canadian-born Klassen is kind of a big deal. Ask any kid and their slightly freaked-out ...

2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror Directed by Kier-La Janisse. SYNOPSIS: Woodlands Dark Days and Days Bewitched is the first feature-length documentary on the history of folk horror, from the 1960s to today. There are few major film genres, if any, as stratified as horror, such that even the most diffuse of subgenres can merit studied dissection. Folk horror is certainly no small part of its rich history, though, and while it’s enjoyed a neat resurgence in recent years, its impact and influence feels largely downplayed in the wide...

'Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched' Review: A Diverting Survey of Folk-Horror Cinema and TV 'Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched' Review: A Diverting Survey of Folk-Horror Cinema and TV Kier-La Janisse's documentary provides an alluring international overview of macabre genre films drawn from folklore and superstition. Dennis Harvey, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Kier-La Janisse With: Piers Haggard, Lawrence Gordon Clark, Alice Lowe, Robert Eggers, Jonathan Rigby, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Mitch Horowitz, Maisha Wester, Mattie Do, Mariano Baino, Robin Hardy. (English, Portuguese ...