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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Lelouch Spans the Decades with ‘Ces amours-là’

This week Claude Lelouch began lensing Ces amours-là, his 45th film is you can believe that. Filmed in parts of the Beaune region in France and in Romania's Bucharest, the picture is said to be some using vintage footage that Lelouch filmed over the past decades to compliment a story about one woman's romantic life.

1st Look: Poster for Agnes Varda’s The Beaches of Agnes

Documentarian, feature filmmaker (Criterion put out a great four piece collection of hers titled 4 by Agnès Varda), wife of filmmaker Jacques Demy and la grand-maman of the French New Wave, permanent art-house resident Agnès Varda recently treated herself to a reflection on her life...in her own words. For the 80 year-old filmmaker, life is a beach, or perhaps a series of beaches and for French critics The Beaches of Agnès was a worthy enough to be crowned with the Cesar for Best Documentary and the Best Film of the Year by the French Critics’ Union.

Disneynature Sinks to the Depths of ‘OceanWorld 3D’

The underwater world in 3-D has become Jean-Jacques Mantello's domain, you've probably seen or heard one of his following films: Sharks 3D, Ocean Wonderland 3D or Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean. Word was that his latest feature OceanWorld 3D (technically his first feature length docu) was one of the more alluring titles from the Cannes Film Festival market this year.

Film Review: Tetro

One of the rare penned projects from the director of Apocalypse Now and The Godfather films, the micro-budgeted, monochromatic feature with flashes of color a la Rumble Fish asks viewers to engage in a read between-the-lines discussion on how sons eventually eclipse their father's legacy and standing in the world.

Project Redlight: The Prisoner

Based on the cult 17-episode, British television series created by Patrick McGoohan that went on air October 1st 1967 and lasted until the 4th of February the following year, there have been talks of seeing a feature length film version for the past four decades now, and previous mentions of the project in the last decade have sounded promising. So what the hell happened?

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