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: Braden King’s Here

It's hard enough making an indie film, even more difficult to make an indie film in a country that doesn't have the infrastructure for filmmaking period. I imagine that the screenplay about a human connection between two people via a landscape that is foreign to them may be hold something special since it was workshopped and supported by Sundance, Tribeca and Cannes.

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam

I've been imagining Moretti play a shrink to the Pope ever since this project was announced. Never one to mince words, I appreciate his political sense of humor and matter of fact dialogue.

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: David O. Russell’s The Fighter

The rags-to-riches, come from behind boxing ring narrative has been overdone, and while nothing has come close to stealing the title away from the Jake La Motta biopic (Million Dollar Baby was crap folks), if the performances are spot on, if Russell gives this biography a different tapestry (apparently he shrunk the timeline from 30 to 3 years) then we'll gain more insight in why this originally attracted the Darren Aronofskys and the Brad Pitts).

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Jean-Luc Godard’s Socialisme

While Agatha Christie took to the locomotive, deep thinker, essay film specialist and grandfather of the French New Wave finds solace in the high seas. An ocean-liner is the lieu for what appears to more politically-driven, existentialist questions in a film that merges docu footage with actors in deliberate cue-card reading mode.

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies

French Canada's most talented filmmaker steps outside his bounds - adapting someone else's material and moving production outside of North America. The project which reunites Villeneuve with DP André Turpin (Un crabe dans la tête) should have a robust aesthetic, but also promises to have a more "layered" narrative than in his previous work.

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