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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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff

Reichardt's modest and economical explorations of America's Western landscapes are a breath of fresh air.

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Alexander Payne’s The Descendants

Payne tried on the producer's hat and thankfully he put that aside to focus on what he does best. The source material and the screenplay (a very good read I might add) will only bring out his strong suit - as no one is more agile at poking fun at the middle-life crisis of upper middle-class America.

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Kornel Mundruczo’s The Frankenstein Project

A discovery I made at Cannes two years back, 2008's Delta's combined sheer beauty and poetic ugliness demonstrating the Hungarian filmmaker's unique voice and Malickian approach. Love the idea of making a teen out to be a classic monster, of course in a nonliteral sense.

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: An Introduction

This year I've decided to not include titles that were introduced in 2009 and are having their theatrical release this year: they include top of the list we find A Prophet and Fish Tank, a pair of cream of the crop titles showcased in Cannes, and films such as Dogtooth, Hadewijch, Tales From the Golden Age, Father of My Children, City of Life and Death, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tue ma mere), Mother, Mother and Child, Lebanon, Micmacs à tire-larigot are all worthy titles to look out for.

Sundance 2010: Interview with Diane Bell (Obselidia)

One of the keys to the look of the movie was that Zak used some old camera lenses that he’d picked up in the flea market, and they just give it this dreamy quality, totally not what you expect from HD!

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