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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‘8’ is Enough for Van Sant, Nair, Campion, Bernal et al.

Cannes presented themselves with a 60th birthday present called Chacun son cinema, the city of lights sent itself a postcard with plenty of X's and O's with Paris, je t'aime and more recently, NYC served as the backdrop for bite-sized morsels of life in New York, I Love You.

You and I: What Happened to Roland Joffe?

The last two films have represented an odd choice in directing choices for two-time Oscar nominated for Best Director Roland Joffe. With a career path that includes The Killing Fields and The Mission, Joffe with the backing of Russian production company RAMCO has gone into fair that is aimed at the younger demographics.

Cassavetes sisters join the Hughes bros. and Caouette on Four Sketch project

Perhaps the families were formally introduced during the production of the New York, I Love You project and now, the Cassavetes name and Hughes bros. are once again participating on a short film collective.

Dub-ya: A Tragedy of Words to be Played out on the Big Screen

The heavyweight bout to take place on the 4th of November finally has its pair of marquee names, and with the forthcoming six months-worth of trash talk between the Obama/McCain camps, the media are likely going to place less emphasis on the person exiting the Oval office.

Bowing out with a Money Maker? Picturehouse sets ‘The Women’ in Motion

Packing more estrogen than the current Sex and the City: The Movie, it's no accident that the almost clinically dead Picturehouse Films (who fall into the same WB umbrella as the soon to be dearly departed outfits of New Line and WIP) are getting a leg up on promoting the next chick flick The Women.

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