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The Power of Few | Review
Meaningless Affect: Marucci’s Interactive Film Project a Dreadful Observation of Social Awareness Moments into Leone Marucci’s incomprehensibly obnoxious new film, The Power of Few should have one pondering not only how some of the
Read MoreBest of Fest: Sundance 2013′s Top 10 New Faces
It was a longer process than we had anticipated, but post Sundance, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell and I weighed in on the best of the fest (tomorrow we launch our Top 20 New
Read MoreAmerican Promise | Sundance 2013 Review
An Education: Brewster and Stephenson’s 12 Year Docu Documentarians Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson have been investigating the multicultural divide that pervades American culture for years, but when they decided to take a step
Read MoreCriterion Collection: The Kid with a Bike | Blu-ray Review
There’s an extraordinary moment in Rosetta, the Dardenne Brothers’ Palme d’Or winning slice of grungy life from 1999. About 22 minutes in, Emilie Dequenne’s sooty faced street urchin turns her ballistics up to eleven,
Read MoreCriterion Collection: Pina | Blu-ray Review
Wim Wenders’ long imagined a Pina Bausch documentary with Bausch herself, a dear friend of the director, personally collaborating on the project. It was originally conceived as a way to solidify the legendary modern
Read MoreKeep the Lights On | Blu-ray Review
With his latest, director Ira Sachs provides further proof of his narrative proficiency while delving into the most personal aspects of his previous long term relationship which crumbled in the hands of indecision and
Read MoreICS Awards: Leos Carax’s Holy Motors Clear Favorite of 2012
Holy Motors might have left Cannes empty-handed but Leos Carax free-form shape-shifter of a film was far from overlooked by the critics who voted for this year’s International Cinephile Society awards. The celebrated pic
Read MoreOff the Beat Track: First Run Features Grab Docu on Paul Bowles
Not sure if anyone has referred to him as the Stuart Sutcliffe of the Beat Gen, but Paul Bowles will receive some posthumous affection from Docu distributor First Run Features who picked up Daniel
Read MoreCohen Media Group Takes a Ride with Emmanuelle Bercot’s “On My Way”
Cohen Media Group are making a ballsy acquisition move at this year’s Berlin Film Festival – picking up Emmanuelle Bercot’s comp film Elle S’en Va (On My Way) hours before it world premiere screening.
Read MoreMarkus Blunder’s “Autumn Blood” Spills onto Paladin
It has yet to premiere at a major film festival, but Markus Blunder’s Autumn Blood starring up-and-comer actress Sophie Lowe (Two Mothers) and vet Peter Stormare (Fargo) will have drawn some early support from Mark
Read MoreInterview: Alejandro Landes (Porfirio)
[Editor's note: This interview was originally conducted by Blake Williams at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival - Magic Lantern released the film at MoMA Feb 8-14, 2013] Every year, about a week after Cannes’
Read MoreThe Playroom | Review
Played Out: Dyer’s Sophomore Feature Overly Familiar and Underwhelming Director Julia Dyer, again teaming with screenwriter sister Gretchen, mount their first project since their successfully received 1996 independent feature, Late Bloomers, with a 1970s
Read MoreBest of Fest: Eric’s Top Five Films from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
Not taking into consideration the films that were featured in Sundance’s Spotlight section/sidebar which I’ve previously seen on the festival circuit and that would easily place within this top five (Pablo Larrain’s No (Directors’
Read MoreIn Fear | Sundance 2013 Review
Fear Me Not: Lovering Terrorizes Our Time, Not Our Senses in Feature Debut After working quite regularly in television since the mid 90s, British director Jeremy Lovering debuts an experimentally filmed horror title, In
Read MoreIONCINEPHILE: Matt Boyd’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of
Read MoreIONCINEPHILE of the Month: Matt Boyd
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This February, we feature Matt Boyd, an independent filmmaker whose debut docu feature, A Rubberband Is an Unlikely
Read MoreA Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III | Review
Relapse/Recovery: Sheen’s Demure Turn Wallows In Coppola’s Schizophrenic Film Gesture Fans of Joseph Losey’s 1966 failed experiment, Modesty Blaise, (of which there are quite a few), may find something to rejoice in with Roman
Read MoreMagic Magic | Sundance 2013 Review
Identikit: Silva’s Eerie Genre Effort an Unsettling Throwback Harkening back to a genre of women and madness features that populated plenty of classic titles from the late 60s and 70s, Sebastian Silva’s second film
Read MoreThe Rambler | Sundance 2013 Review
Aimlessly Devoted To You: Reeder Culls More Stars and Less Sense for Sophomore Film More proof that horror as a genre has been hedged out of midnight movie programming in favor of meandering strangeness
Read MoreLovelace | Sundance 2013 Review
Deep Throat’s Journey: Epstein & Friedman’s Porn Star Biopic By-the-Numbers In their first outing not placing significant focus on the recuperation of queer subjects or thematics, filmmaking duo Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman turn
Read MoreInterview: Alex Gibney (Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God)
A crime story that spans decades, takes place on multiple continents and sees the most noble of authority figures involved in a vast cover-up. This isn’t an Agatha Christie novel, but perhaps the largest
Read MoreBefore Midnight | Sundance 2013 Review
Bewitching Hour: Linklater Scores Greatest Hour Yet with Trilogy Cap Nearly another decade has passed, and Richard Linklater has finally treated us to what seems to be the final chapter of Jesse and Celine,
Read MoreThe Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear | Sundance 2013 Review
Gurchiani’s Lens Acts As A Georgian Confessional With a solid background in psychology and a foundation in direction via the University of Film and Television Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany, the Georgian born director
Read MoreAfternoon Delight | Sundance 2013 Review
Slight Delight: Soloway’s Debut an Overly Familiar Dessert Television writer/producer Jill Soloway makes her directorial debut with Afternoon Delight, a sometimes successfully coordinated comedic vehicle that finally gives Kathryn Hahn a worthy leading role.
Read MoreCitizen Koch | 2013 Sundance Review
Corporations Are People: Lessin and Deal Question Why Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s Citizen Koch looks to shine a light on the political upheaval going on in Wisconsin due to covert corporate concessions and
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