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FYC
2023 Le prix André Bazin: Pham Thiên Ân’s “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” Takes Unique Prize
December 15, 2023It’s year two for the prix André Bazin by les Cahiers du Cinéma folks and the...
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Film Festivals
2023 Gan Film Foundation: Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux’s “La couleuvre noire” & Louise Hémon’s L’engloutie Land Coveted Prize
December 14, 2023The Gan Film Foundation has been supporting first and second screenplays for more than three decades...
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Film Festivals
2024 Lumières Awards: Anatomy Of A Fall, The Animal Kingdom, Last Summer & Disco Boy Land Noms
December 14, 2023Naturally, all focus and the most nominations would go to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall...
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Film Festivals
2024 Berlinale: Jane Schoenbrun, Nora Fingscheidt, Jérémy Clapin & Carmen Jaquier in Panorama Sidebar
December 14, 2023The first batch of titles for the Panorama sidebar section for the 2024 Berlin Film Festival...
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Film Festivals
2024 Cannes: Mumblecore to Barbie to the Croisette: Greta Gerwig is Jury President
December 14, 2023In a bold, refreshing move, Thierry Frémaux’s first decision for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival is...
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Reviews
Poor Things | Review
December 13, 2023The Story of O: Lanthimos Mesmerizes with Fiercely Compelling Frankenstein Tale “Men have constructed female sexuality...
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Reviews
The Zone of Interest | Review
December 13, 2023Verboten Zone: Glazer Returns with Historical Horror It’s impossible to contemplate Jonathan Glazer’s fourth feature, The...
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Film Festivals
2023 Prix Iris: Stéphane Lafleur’s Viking Dominates “Quebec Oscars”
December 12, 2023Stéphane Lafleur‘s masterwork Viking (a 2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival selection) cleaned up in multiple categories...
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Film Festivals
2024 Sundance: Palme d’Or Winner Flóra Anna Buda, The Procedure’s Carlos A.F. Lopez & Malia Ann Among Short Films Selections
December 12, 2023The chances of having your short film selected for Sundance Film Festival’s Short Film program is...
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Film Festivals
2023 Critics’ Week’s Next Step: Zou Jing, Nans Laborde-Jourdàa & Andrea Slaviček Among Lucky Ten
December 11, 2023Nans Laborde-Jourdàa whose short “Bolero” competed at Critics’ Week 2023 and claimed some major wins (we...
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Interviews
Interview: Albert Birney – Obex (Work in Progress)
December 10, 2023After popular (co-signed with Kentucker Audley) feature film projects of Sylvio (2017) and Strawberry Mansion (2021),...
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Interviews
Interview: Edson Jean – Know Me (Work in Progress)
December 7, 2023In 2021, Miami-based filmmaker Edson Jean arrives with his SXSW preemed feature debut in Ludi, the...
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Film Festivals
2024 Sundance: A Different Man, The Outrun, Winner & Sasquatch Sunset Among Premieres
December 6, 2023Sundance Film Festival’s Premiere section (a mix of fiction and docs) will have some biggie titles...
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Film Festivals
2024 Sundance: Scott Cummings’ REALM OF SATAN & Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s Tendaberry Among NEXT Items
December 6, 2023Long-time editor (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) and director (Buffalo Juggalos – short) Scott Cummings and a...
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Film Festivals
2024 Sundance: Michael Dweck, Jeff Zimbalist, Stephen Maing & Brett Story in the U.S. Docu Comp
December 6, 2023It’ll be highly likely that we’ll be talking about these docu films by the end of...
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Film Festivals
2024 Sundance: Amachoukeli, Molly Manning Walker, Linklater & Asmae El Moudir in Spotlight Section
December 6, 2023The Spotlight section is a quartet of items with two heavy-hitters from the Cannes Un Certain...
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Film Festivals
2024 Sundance: Daniel Hoesl, Klaudia Reynicke & Thea Hvistendahl in World Cinema Dramatic Comp
December 6, 2023Daniel Hoesl’s Veni Vidi Vici, Klaudia Reynicke’s Reinas and Thea Hvistendahl’s Handling the Undead are among...
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Film Festivals
2024 Sundance: Jesse Eisenberg, Sean Wang, Laura Chinn, India Donaldson & Zucheros in U.S. Dramatic Comp
December 6, 2023The big surprise for the U.S. Dramatic Competition this year is they shaved off two titles...
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Film Festivals
2024 Sundance: Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” & Rose Glass’ “Love Lies Bleeding” Among Midnight Selections
December 6, 2023The Midnight section offering eight items and floating to the top on pretty much everyone’s list...
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Film Festivals
2024 Sundance: “Ibelin”, “Black Box Diaries” & “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” in World Cinema Docu Comp
December 6, 2023This year’s World Cinema Docu Competition sees The Painter and the Thief (2020) filmmaker Benjamin Ree...
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Interviews
Interview: Anu Valia – We Strangers (Work in Progress)
December 5, 2023Sundance Film Festival short film award-winning filmmaker Anu Valia (2017’s Lucia, Before and After) has been...
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Interviews
Interview: Cutter Hodierne – Cold Wallet (Work in Progress)
December 4, 2023He wasn’t the first and certainly will not be the last to launch big at Sundance...
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Interviews
Interview: Sarah Friedland – Familiar Touch (Work in Progress)
November 29, 2023With a fascinating professional roadmap as a filmmaker, choreographer and teaching artist, Sarah Friedland is set...
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Reviews
La syndicaliste | Review
November 27, 2023Comedy of Power: Huppert Shines in Whistleblower Expose from Salomé Making a rare appearance in a...
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Interviews
Interview: Mel Eslyn – Biosphere
November 26, 2023The symbiotic relationship between Mel Eslyn and Mark Duplass is akin to the dynamic between Mario...
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Interviews
Interview: Summer Shelton – You & I
November 25, 2023Not unlike how a young Athina Rachel Tsangari ended up being part of a Richard Linklater...
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Film Festivals
2023 Prix Louis-Delluc: Justine Triet, Catherine Breillat & Thomas Cailley Among 9 Noms
November 24, 2023Only days after it won the Jean Vigo prize, Dominique Marchais‘ La Rivière will face off...
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Reviews
Monster | Review
November 23, 2023The Children’s Hour: Kore-eda Crafts a Melodramatic Puzzle Returning to his native Japan after venturing out...
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Reviews
Maestro | Review
November 22, 2023The Music Man: Coopers Conducts Intimate Portrait of Leonard Bernstein For his sophomore directorial effort, Bradley...
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Interviews
Interview: João Canijo – Bad Living (Mal Viver)
November 20, 2023Taking home the Jury Prize at the 2023 Berlinale, Portuguese auteur João Canijo‘s latest Bad Living...
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Interviews
Interview: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel & Vera Gemma – Vera
November 20, 2023Premiering at the 2022 Venice Film Festival in the Horizons sidebar (where it was awarded Best...
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Interviews
Interview: Tinatin Kajrishvili & Lasha Khalvashi – Citizen Saint
November 19, 2023Premiering in competition at this year’s Karlovy Film Festival, Tinatin Karishvili‘s third feature Citizen Saint is...
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Reviews
May December | Review
November 17, 2023Tarnished Angels: Haynes Curates a New Dazzling Cult Classic Had Brian De Palma been keen on...
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Reviews
Fallen Leaves | Review
November 17, 2023All the Leaves Are Brown: Kaurismaki’s Song for the Lonely Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki adds a...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kyle Mooney’s Y2K
November 17, 2023With so many A24 items looking for 2024 positioning, we wouldn’t be surprised if Kyle Mooney‘s...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Michôd’s Wizards!
November 17, 2023Could David Michôd be returning to the fest where he launched Animal Kingdom back in 2010?...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Susanna Fogel’s Winner
November 17, 2023Berlinale gave us Reality earlier this year and next January we think we might be seeing...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anu Valia’s We Strangers
November 17, 2023She pretty much began her film career with a bang winning Sundance’s Jury Prize for US...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joel Potrykus’ Vulcanizadora
November 17, 2023A filmmaker synonymous with American indie film but hasn’t been picked by Sundance in his first...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Pesce’s Visitation
November 17, 2023Both his directorial debut in the glorious micro-budgeted B&W house-of-horrors and in the Portuguese language The...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Trey Edward Shults Film with The Weeknd
November 17, 2023After Krisha (2015), It Comes at Night (2017) and Waves (2019), American indie filmmaker Trey Edward...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Pavement / Alex Ross Perry Film
November 17, 2023He might be technically retired from what we consider regular fiction filmmaking, but since his TIFF...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
November 17, 2023Our most anticipated feature debut films for this year is indeed ready but it’ll be dropping...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Laura Chinn’s Suncoast
November 17, 2023A recent 2020 Black List ranked un-produced screenplay that quickly moved into production with the support...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ruben Amar & Lola Bessis’ Silver Star
November 16, 2023Next up in our predictions list is a filmmaker tandem that gave us micro indie Swim...