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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2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Pulling the Plug on Michel Franco’s “Chronic”

It's a Tim Roth lead Un Certain Regard jury that awarded Michel Franco with the highest honor of the section. Michel Franco has moved...

2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Does Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Killer Instinct Found in “The Assassin”

Taking a page from WKW, Taiwanese master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien took a full eight years working on martial arts film, The Assassin. He first...

2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Audiard Goes Off Deep-end with “Dheepan”

We'll be better able to assess whether this Jacques Audiard's seventh feature film was triumphant, faltered or flatlined when more results trickle in, but...

2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8 & 9: Between a Rock & a Hard R Place for Noé’s “Love”

It's only his fourth feature film, but his eighth trip to Cannes, Gaspar Noé hasn't let go of the short or long format. He...

2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Zhangke’s “Mountains May Depart” Sees “The World” as Capitalist

Almost splitting his time equally between the Lido and the Croisette, with almost a dozen features in (a mix of fiction and docus), Jia...

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