CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
Movies
Movies at Catastrophe Ballet covers European auteur cinema, intelligent genre film and underground works that share the site’s fascination with the dark and the strange. Coverage tracks reviews, festival news and releases drawn from a curated network of film press.
DER FAN Returns with a 4K Restoration Vengeance
NEVER AFTER DARK: Check Out The Official Trailer And Poster For “Dave Boyle’s ravishingly dark ghost story”
JACOB’S LADDER: The Haunting Nightmare Comes Home on 4K UHD
IT ENDS Review: Striking a Deep Chord
STARSUCKERS: Satirical Thriller to Have Canadian Premiere at Cinéfest
FRANZ Review: Embracing an Incomplete Life
THE OTHER PEOPLE Trailer: Release Date For Psychological Horror Thriller Announced by The Horror Collective (Exclusive)
This Dystopian Future: A Conversation with Tsai Ming-liang
In Praise of Hiroshi Teshigahara: Surveyor of the Abyss
Echoes: Why Is Horror the Most Untapped Genre in Lollywood?
I WANT YOUR SEX Review: Close Encounters of the Sexual Kind
SANGSTER DIRECTS HAMMER: Watch a Conversation with Severin’s David Gregory and Author / Filmmaker Marcus Hearn
SHEEP IN THE BOX Review: Tale of Not So Artificial Intelligence
VALLEY OF THE HORNTAK Teaser: Vernon Wells And Kathleen Kinmont Star in Folk Horror
Sound And Vision: AG Rojas
Karlovy Vary 2026 Interview: THE STORY OF DOCUMENTARY FILM – 1980s Director Mark Cousins on Cinema Canons, Generative AI, Docs in the Post-truth Age
AFTER DARK FOUR Collects Six Neo-Noir Gems from the 1990s
PRESIDENT CURTIS Review: This Is an Elected Official I Can Support
SHEEP IN THE BOX Interview: Hirokazu Kore-eda on the Future of AI Technology and Human Society
London’s New Silent Cinema Wave
Minor Keys and Major Unrest
CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH 4K Review: Anger and Desire in Post-War Japan
40 WATTS FROM NOWHERE Review: Pirate Radio Doc Highlights Long Lost Punk Era
STARSUCKERS: The Butler Brothers’ Dark Satire to Premiere at FrightFest 2026
Karlovy Vary 2026 Review: THE GUEST Serves Nordic Cringe as Family Dramedy
MUBI Podcast | “This Is England”: Shane Meadows’s 2-Toned Look at Skins and Ska (with Jack O’Connell)
NYAFF 2026 Review: COLONY Puts Yeon Song-ho Back In The Undead Driver’s Seat
WESTHAMPTON Review: Dry Humor, Bittersweet Irony, Inherently Messy
BUDDY Official Teaser: Caper Kelly’s Horror Comedy is Coming to Theaters on August 28th
Neuchatel 2026 Daily: From MORT UN DIMANCHE DE PLUIE to IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME to LIGHT PILLAR and More
Summertime Solitude: The Green Ray at 40
MUBI Podcast | Alejandro G. Iñárritu & Rodrigo Prieto look back on “Amores Perros”
Young, Wild, and Free: Bruno Dumont on “Red Rocks”
Our Hero, Balthazar review – perceptive dark comedy
3 Weeks After – first-look review
Rosebush Pruning review – a dark-hearted, button-pushing hoot
Pop-Stars Aren’t Born, They’re Made
A Cinema of Survivances: On Lucrecia Martel’s Nuestra tierra
Festivals ashore: Visual sovereignty and the urgency of Indigenous film festivals
Seven-Word Reviews | Il Cinema Ritrovato 2026
You, The Living
Nine Commercials by Roy Andersson
Karlovy Vary 2026 Exclusive: RAIN CATCHER Poster Premiere
Neuchatel 2026 Daily: FISH, FISTS AND AMBERGRIS to EVIL DEAD BURN to IKATAN DARAH
Life Without Principle: “I Understand Completely”
Human Poems: Roy Andersson’s Songs from the Second Floor
A Radical Resurgence from the Rubble: Duncan Reekie’s BOOM! The Exploding Cinema and the New London Underground
Through the Looking Glass: The Gold Diggers
