Eric Lavallée

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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Lou Taylor Pucci Leads Foursome in Indie Drama ‘All Together Now’

He might not have broken out like the Joseph Gordon Levitts in the biz, but for Lou Taylor Pucci, Hollywood's loss, is indie world's win. Along with often used indie film role actor (who we recently spotted in Mike Mills' Beginners), we find Stella Maeve, James Duval and Nora Kirkpatrick in Alexander Tavitian's debut film.

IFC Serve Themselves a Plate of Winterbottom’s ‘The Trip’

As of late, IFC have food some comfort food in the works of Michel Winterbottom. The filmmaker who is now tackling the well versed in the mass media tale of the Amanda Knox Murder Case, had recently delivered a two-hour cut of The Trip at TIFF --- a downsized version from 6 television episodes that has or is about to air in the U.K.

Recommended Viewing: HBO’s Sins of My Father & PBS’ A Letter to Elia

Tonite, you've got the choice of not one, but two documentary films making their television premieres. After Venice, Telluride and NYFF premieres, PBS are wasting no time in releasing Martin Scorsese/Kent Jones documentary A Letter To Elia on American Masters [9:00-10:30 PM/ET].

Ariane Labed and Aggeliki Papoulia Like View From the ‘Alps’

Thesps Aggeliki Papoulia (Dogtooth) and Ariane Labed (the recent winner for Best Actress at Venice Int. Film Festival for Attenberg) will topline Giorgos Lanthimos' third film, Alps.

Tracking Shot October 2010: 2 Days In New York, Alps, Rampart, Shanghai, I Love You

At the beginning of every month, IONCINEMA.com's "Tracking Shot" features a handful of projects that we feel are worth signaling out and that are moments away from lensing. This October we find the very last batch of titles that could be potentially ready for next May (I see a pair of films mentioned below that are possible Cannes birth qualifiers) and we find our usual mix of items: from mid-range indie budget flicks (4 million to 8 million range) to the pricey popcorn films.

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