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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Chris Rock to Spend ‘2 Days in New York’ with Delpy

Chris Rock, who already has a penchant for Euro cinema (he adapted the Rohmer film which gave us I Think I Love My Wife) will get to ask his director and co-lead Julie Delpy about working with the likes of Leos Carax, Schlöndorff and Krzysztof Kieslowski. Rock has been cast to play the American boyfriend role in the sequel to Delpy's 2 Days in Paris.

First Watch: Brady Kiernan’s Stuck Between Stations starring Sam Rosen, Zoe Lister Jones and Josh Hartnett

Thanks to an IONCINEMA.com reader, we've got your first glimpse into the look and feel for Stuck Between Stations - a low budget romantic drama by Brady Kiernan (see below), a first time helmer we featured in our American New Wave 25 series.

Fest Circuit Favorite Translates in The Cinema Guild Pick-Up for ‘Five Elephants’

When you have a distributor who brings to market a select few documentary items, then one would have to think that their might be something special about Vadim Jendreyko’s The Woman with the Five Elephants. The Cinema Guild have picked up the well travelled doc which was featured in the Hot Docs, Viennale, Locarno, Rotterdam and at the AFI/Discovery Channel Silverdocs Film Festival where it picked up the Sterling Award for a World Feature. Expect an early 2011 release.

Ryan Gosling Grudge Match Set for December: Magnolia Pictures Pics Up ‘All Good Things’

Andrew Jarecki's All Good Things - a dramatic murder mystery that was supposed to be released by the Weinsteins and finally boomeranged back to into the filmmaker's hands, will be distributed by Magnolia Pictures.

6 Faces of François Ozon’s Potiche

This set of six domestic French character posters for François Ozon's Potiche (featuring Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Lucchini, Karin Viard, Jérémie Renier and Judith Godreche) sells the film as a non-highbrow comedy, and is perhaps the first indication as to why Cannes was less welcoming to include the film in their main comp. Ozon was probably amongst the first to land spots in Venice and Toronto.

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