The Anomaly film festival closes on Sunday, Nov. 7 with Junta Yamaguchi’s wacky, at times clunky, but ultimately endearing “Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes.”
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Anomaly film festival presents silly, nostalgic kung fu flick ‘New York Ninja’
With only the film negatives from the 1984 kung fu movie “New York Ninja” remaining, the newly reconstructed version retains the absurdity and nostalgia of the original.
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Anomaly film festival continues Friday with imaginative, wildly erotic ‘After Blue’
Bertrand Mandico’s imaginative, erotic film “After Blue” — which imagines a planet with only women — tries to be feminist but suffers from objectification.
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2021 Anomaly film festival opens with the sweet, strange ‘Strawberry Mansion’
The eccentric film “Strawberry Mansion” opens this year’s Anomaly film festival on Nov. 4. Co-director Albert Birney says the idea was born in Rochester.
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Anomaly film festival review: ‘The Columnist’
In Ivo van Aart’s dark comedy-horror film “The Columnist,” a newspaper journalist gets bloody revenge on her merciless internet trolls.
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Anomaly film festival review: ‘The Paper Tigers’
Quoc Bao Tran’s film is a fresh take on the action genre, following three former kung fu students avenging their master’s murder.
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Anomaly film festival review: ‘The Twentieth Century’
“The Twentieth Century,” an absurdist political fantasy depicting a dystopian Canada of the past, may have prescient lessons in the present.
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Jake reviews ‘Anomaly’
Well, that was a beautiful way to start my 2016 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival. A buzzing crowd filled the Strasenburgh Planetarium for a resurrection of “Anomaly,” which premiered to acclaim at the 2013 Fringe, and has already sold out its 2016 run. I wasn’t around for the program’s 2013 edition, but what I saw […]
