As a filmmaker, Anna Biller is an obsessive. She holds a staggering 10 credits on “The Love Witch,” an homage to genres as diffuse as 1970s-era sexploitation films and 1960s-set Giallo features, that ...
With intentionally stilted acting, cliché-saturated dialogue and costumes that are straight out of "Scooby-Doo," "Viva" packs an ample supply of snark. Watching the "Austin Powers"-like send-up of ...
There were plenty of films that came out around a certain time -- late '60s to early '70s -- that had a certain appearance, certain plot points, certain flowery curtains and avocado-hued kitchens and ...
Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino. They all wish they could re-create the look and feel of ’60s and ’70s cinema as convincingly as Anna Biller does. Biller’s debut feature, ...
Anna Biller is known for her lavish use of color, her original brand of narcissistic feminism and her witty imitations of old Hollywood spectacle and genre movies. She has completed several short ...
Where have all the flowers gone? Viva, the 2007 New York Underground Film Festival‘s opening night (tonight) film, perhaps provides incriminating evidence that the current crop of underground ...