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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Fox Searchlight Finds a Number One Fan in Witherspoon

Seltzer (who hasn't seen a produced screenplay since One Fine Day) sold Rule #1 to Fox Searchlight - the company who is currently seeing red with the horribly conceived Amelia.

Lorber Finds a ‘Home’ for Switzerland’s Foreign Oscar Entry

I ultimately thought that helmer Ursula Meier didn't know how to work beyond a paper-thin narrative and relied way too much on metaphor and symbolism.

Top French Thesps ‘Figure’ in Ozon’s Potiche

Coming off the recent, critically well-received, smaller in scale Le Refuge (a drama that initially is conceived as an addiction drama but is better labeled as a film about yearning and loneliness, François Ozon has commenced shooting his 12th feature titled Potiche.

Abu-Assad and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are the New ‘Courier’

What an odd move it would make to see Hany Abu-Assad (who has been waiting, and waiting some more for his next project to unfold) to move from Paradise Now onto a screenplay written from the pair who gave us 3:10 to Yuma, currently lensing The A-Team and the "Wanted" franchise.

Foreign Oscar Nom ‘The Wind Journeys’ Travels to Film Movement

Film Movement have nabbed the North American rights to Ciro Guerra's The Wind Journeys - a film that supported by Cannes Film Festival’s Atelier de la Cinefondation and which received its world premiere at the fest last May before heading out onto the fall film festival circuit (TIFF, San Sebastian, London).

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