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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Woody replaces Kidman by Unknown Lucy Punch

Two weeks after announcing that Nicole Kidman would not be part of the stellar Woody Allen film lineup, the director has finally found his (call) girl.

Portman to Portray a Warrior Princess in ‘Your Highness’

A-lister Natalie Portman has signed on to join the Pineapple Express' duo of James Franco and Danny McBride in Your Highness with production set to begin this summer in the U.K.

IFC Films Warms Up Bruno Podalydes’ Park Benches

Filled to the gills in French thesp talants (Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni and Emmanuelle Devos - just to name four), it was a surprise to see Bruno Podalydes’ Park Benches not make some sort of Cannes competition or non-comp appearance.

IFC Films ‘Don’t Look Back’ to Cannes Critical Reception

With across the board poor ratings from the critics (dozen or so polled in Le Film Francais) who saw the film at Cannes, if there is a reason why IFC Films have gone and picked up Marina de Van's out of competition psychodrama, it is because of the silver screen vixen pairing of Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci in doppelganger mode.

Strand Releasing Captures ‘Spring Fever’

Meet with a sea of boos when it won the Best Screenplay Prize at Cannes (the boos came from the adjacent theater where a live broadcast was being watched by critics), the helmer behind Suzhou River, Purple Butterfly and Summer Palace (the film that saw motherland China place a ban on the filmmaker from filmmaking, which not surprisingly didn't really work) has found a suitor for a film that plenty, including myself, were indifferent towards.

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