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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Sundance ’15: Amy Berg, Kirby Dick, Alex Gibney Fire Up Documentary Premieres Section

Film Festivals

Eric Lavallée - December 8, 2014

A section that throws the competitive spirit out the window, but actively becomes part of the year-end docu-talk, last year's dozen minus one offerings...

Sundance ’15: Baumbach, Fleck/Boden, Pulcini/Berman, Ponsoldt & Another Swanberg Among Premieres

Film Festivals

Eric Lavallée - December 8, 2014

Last year's slate of seventeen Narrative Premieres (excluding secret screenings of Boyhood and Nymphomaniac: Vol. I) refreshingly included works from first time filmmakers. I...

Real Deal: Safdies, Rivers/Russell & Glazer Among ’15 Cinema Eye Heterodox Award Noms

Film Award & Prize News

Eric Lavallée - December 8, 2014

When non-fiction and narrative film collide, how do we distinguish between the two? The Cinema Eye Honors' answer to this is that they do....and...

Sundance ’15: Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room Leads New Frontier Offerings

Film Festivals

Eric Lavallée - December 4, 2014

It's the fest's most overlooked section with its five offerings, and thankfully we didn't blink or else we would have missed out on A.J....

Sundance ’15: Bahrani, Slaboshpytskiy, Szifrón & Hansen-Løve Fill Spotlight

Film Festivals

Eric Lavallée - December 4, 2014

We've been appreciating the clearly defined, distributor friendly, solid eight Spotlight section since it's inception a couple of years back. In 2014 we had...

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The Devils (1971) | Review

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Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s...

Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Film Festivals November 8, 2026 0

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.