Nightstream Film Festival – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

NAME ABOVE TITLE (Nightstream Fest) – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

October 6, 2021October 10, 2021 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Carlos Conceição, giallo, Matthieu Charneau, Name Above Title, Nightstream Film Festival, Portuguese film

Name Above Title is bold, daring, wild, dark, sexy and perversely fun, all with an unexpected climactic twist that plants the film firmly in the territory of the audacious. Eurosleaze for a new generation, the spirit of neo-giallo is strong here, and along with filmmakers such as Yann Gonzalez, Nicolas Pesce, Peter Strickland, the Onetti brothers, and Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Conceição’s film is proof that neo-giallo – true neo-giallo – is a growing, enthralling, formally ambitious and conceptually dazzling terrain.

Festivals Reviews

THE GREENHOUSE – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (Nightstream Fest)

October 6, 2021October 10, 2021 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas australian film, Nightstream Film Festival, The Greenhouse, Thomas Wilson-White, time travel

Sometimes science fiction runs at you straight out of the gate, grabbing you by the throat with all the bells and whistles of its familiar iconography: spaceships! Nuclear monsters! Ray guns! And sometimes, those elements are so low-key that it is almost easy to miss that a film falls under the science fiction umbrella at all. It is in this second category that we find the melancholy reflection of grief, love, loss and letting go, The Greenhouse. A beautiful meditation on life, love, family and the fear of opening ourselves up to unknown futures, The Greenhouse is a confident, quiet treasure.

Festivals

Women at the Nightstream Film Festival – Report by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

September 29, 2021October 2, 2021 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Akela Cooper, Ash Blackwell, David Lowery, Greg Nicotero, horror genre, Nightstream Film Festival, The Future of Film is Female

In 2021, big name festivals hit the ground running to adapt to the practical demands of switching from in-person to online events. A group of smaller but highly reputable US genre festivals decided to use the challenges of the time to their advantage. And lo, the Nightstream Film Festival was born, a virtual collaborative event by the Boston Underground Film Festival, the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, North Bend Film Festival, and Overlook Film Festival.