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Posts by Kurt Halfyard

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GHOST ELEPHANTS Interview: Werner Herzog and Dr. Steve Boyes Speak of Dreams, Ritual, and the Vast Mondo Wilderness Werner Herzog needs no introduction. He has been one of cinema's most fascinating and deliberate risk-takers for over five decades of extraordinary cinema. The enlightenments he discovers through ...

Bucket-List interview! The legendary Werner Herzog & African Conservational Biologist Dr. Boyes (the subject at the heart of GHOST ELEPHANTS).

I do not post much on socials these days, particularly self-promotion, but I am genuinely pleased with how this went: screenanarchy.com/2026/03/ghos...

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Did you avoid the Montreal Ice Storm?

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Episode 345 – BLACK BAG, “The Lying Comes Honestly” Talkin’ Steven Soderbergh’s new film with Kurt Halfyard

New #Matineecast this morning - and a question:
Are you more likely to listen to a podcast BEFORE you see a film (especially a film you might not know about), or AFTER?
#FilmSky #PodcastSky
www.thematinee.ca/episode345/

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On David Lynch It's not often that the team at ScreenAnarchy feels a loss like we have with David Lynch. And we're not alone; since last Thursday, I've seen an outpouring of love, sadness, and rememberin...

Some of the @screenanarchy.bsky.social team got together and wrote our thoughts about David Lynch. From me, @ardvark23.bsky.social @triflic.bsky.social @anotherkylel.bsky.social & others screenanarchy.com/2025/01/on-d...

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Toronto 2024 Review: THE BRUTALIST, Grand and Unexpected Cinematic Epic Out of the gate with its Vista-Vision logo and overture, The Brutalist promises the kind of grand Hollywood epic, and old-school cinematic hubris, that more or less went away 40 years ago with Micheal Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate and Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A…
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Fantasia 2024: SINCOPAT, Short Film Short Review During the opening credits of short film, Sincopat, many festival laurels are initially displayed onscreen. Then, following a loud ‘bang’ on the soundtrack, several dozen more appear. This is a first for me, but it is in sync with the aural focus of the…
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Fantasia 2024 Review: SCARED SHITLESS, A Creature Feature Worth Taking The Plunge A friend of mine, an astute and well travelled film-lover, once told me their ‘big theory’ of audience engagement for most movies: The viewer will like the movie more if the main character is simply good at doing their job. In Scared Shitless, Don the…
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Friday One Sheet: THE SECOND This beautiful watercolour poster for Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos's The Second is hiding a subtle secret in plain sight. The short film centres around a pistols-at-dawn kind of duel, and the underlying complexity of motivations across two generations. The…
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Adam Wingard's fantastic "You're Next" is getting a new 4K Collectors Edition release from Second Sight in August - Steelbook Blu-ray News The brilliant You’re Next is getting the well-deserved Second Sight treatment with this new 4K release, due on August 19th. Pre-orders are live right now....

13 or so years ago l, Adam Wingard’s home invasion horror YOU’RE NEXT blew the roof off the RYERSON theatre. Ecstatic to contribute a booklet essay (along with @bonnequin.bsky.social and @suspirialexx.bsky.social ) for Second Sight’s 4K special edition.

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Fantasia 2024 Review: GHOST CAT ANZU, Farts in the General Direction of Studio Ghibli To the sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya leave the city by train to visit a countryside temple where the caretaker is the grandfather she has never met....

Perhaps worth sharing for its headline alone:

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Just cause:

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A still from the 1989 movie THE 'BURBS, in which neighbors Art and Ray scream in terror after finding a leg bone in the suspicious Klopeks' yard.

A still from the 1989 movie THE 'BURBS, in which neighbors Art and Ray scream in terror after finding a leg bone in the suspicious Klopeks' yard.

In today's blog, we celebrate the 35th anniversary of THE 'BURBS, Joe Dante's horror-farce of Cold War paranoia and un-neighborliness. Featuring selected works from @triflic.bsky.social / Brent Yergensen / Scott Haden Church / Angus McFadzean. #horror #joedante
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DUNE: PART TWO Review: Still Handsome. Still Obligatory. Stilgar. If it does nothing else, Dune: Part Two completes the circle of the Fatboy Slim-Arrakis EU.   By opening with Christopher Walken’s Emperor Of The Known Universe, this might just be the quirkiest, and most unexpectedly sly, thing about the movie — even if…
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Bailey could give up a portion of his ridiculously over priced salary for the organizations sustainability…

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THE PIGEON TUNNEL Review: Heady Swirl of Conversation on History and Lies
Errol Morris directs John le Carré's final and most personal interview. From @triflic.bsky.social screenanarchy.com/2023/10/the-...

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Glazer is a treasure. Can’t wait to see this next Thursday.

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