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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TIFF 2009 Day 5: Atom Egoyan’s Chloe

Just plain silly from the get-go, Atom Egoyan's Chloe might be my guilty pleasure of this festival/year with its Fatal Attraction-esque nature and the film's foot soldiers Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried losing their clothes in a lust fest

Film Review: Paris

"While this is his most mature work to date, with Paris we get about a 120 minutes worth of a screenplay that skips along from one dramatic or comedic number usually finding the middle of intimate moment shared by two beings, but there is no strategic employment of the characters, no thematic cord that brings everything together..."

Paris | Review

Klapsich’s Paris is less about the place and more about the people

TIFF 2009 Day 4: Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon

Golden Lion-winning film Lebanon is an anti-war film from the earliest stages of the film, and is tense in a claustrophobic type of way - think Das Boot.

TIFF 2009 Day 4: Michael Moore’s Capitalism

Capitalism: A Love Story is good for a chuckle - there are ha-ha moments, not enough a-ha moments. Fans of the provocateur, agent of change and documentarian-comedian (I include myself a part of this group) might find that their isn't much of an argument here.

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Interview: Producer Ryan Martin Brown – The Scout

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Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! | Review

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Alpha Gang | 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review

Close Encounters Of The Biker Gang Kind: The Zellners’...
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