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 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: George Amponsah’s Down by Law

Festival Predictions

Eric Lavallée - November 12, 2014

Garnering fund and lab support on both sides of the Atlantic, Down By Law has been tailored with BFI coin support and with the...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yael Melamede’s (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies

Festival Predictions

Eric Lavallée - November 12, 2014

When you think of the overall Sundance docu selections, programmers may want to balance the hard-hitting slate with this, the curiously titled (Dis)Honesty: The Truth...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Digging For Fire

Festival Predictions

Eric Lavallée - November 12, 2014

Guess who's turning 10? Joe Swanberg has had a "fire" in his belly for, give or take a decade, and his latest in the...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marielle Heller’s Diary of a Teenage Girl

Festival Predictions

Eric Lavallée - November 12, 2014

We'd be hard pressed to find more of an enraptured superfan of Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel than Marielle Heller. The actress adapted Diary of...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zoe Cassavetes’ Day Out of Days

Festival Predictions

Eric Lavallée - November 11, 2014

It's not uncommon to see a filmmaker essentially break out with a hit film (in baseball lingo this wasn't a home run, but an...

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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

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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.