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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Hunger | Review

If these Walls Could Speak: McQueen’s debut demonstrates how the Battle was Brought Indoors.

Natasha Richardson (1963-2009): A Life in Posters

My first thoughts of Natasha Richardson are wrapped up in how much of a spectacle it was to see an adult daughter play alongside legendary actresses in her mother (Vanessa Redgrave) and her aunt (Lynn Redgrave) in James Ivory' The White Countess.

‘From Paris’ to Lionsgate for Morel’s Action Flick

Today, Lionsgate Films have picked up Pierre Morel's From Paris with Love (the third collaboration with Besson as the writer and Morel as director) and have pegged the action flick with car crashes for a February 19th release, which happens to be not that far off Morel's successful domestic release of Taken (starring Liam Nesson) this past January.

Killer Films is Looking to be Beat Again, Add Trio to ‘Darlings’

Will Killer Films once again find themselves in one of them conundrums where they come out second in dueling biopics portrayals? When Capote was first to be released theatrically, it sealed the fate for Killer Film's Infamous (WIP gave it the quick death in theaters). Though Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl focuses mostly on Ginsberg's later-in-life trials and tribulations, there is enough narrative overlap here and perhaps filmland can only have enough room for one Allen Ginsberg interpretation and not two.

From Nature Films to Amreeka for National Geographic

After slowly testing the grounds of the theatrical distribution game with a trio of documentary titles (March of the Penguins, U23D), National Geographic Entertainment have picked up a comedy?! Yes, a comedy. The company that we would normally associate with nature films and beautiful photography in its nearly century-old gold border magazine has picked up a bit of fiction in Cherien Dabis’ Amreeka.

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NAZA | Review

Digger | Review

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Interview: Arthur Harari – The Unknown

Three features in, Arthur Harari might be one of...

Primetime | Review

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