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Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #25. Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence

Published on March 5, 2014

The Look of Silence

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Writer: Joshua Oppenheimer
Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Receiving the stamp of approval from the likes of Werner Herzog and Errol Morris well before festival programmers and critics first laid eyes on it, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing might just be the best documentary film this decade will produce, and coincidentally as Oppenheimer told us in our interview with him, TAOK was born from the next project he originally set out to make – resiliency put to its ultimate test.

Gist: The Act of Killing is about the perpetrators — this is the other side of the story.

Release Date: The Cannes Film Festival is not an impossibility. Venice, TIFF, Telluride are all high probabilities, if this is a Croisette no-show.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).