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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Major Awards Race Title Secured for 50th Anniversary Opener; Life of Pi is Shipwrecked at NYFF

He presented 1997's The Ice Storm as the NYFF opener back in 1997, and today's 50th anniversary opening film announcement see the return of...

Sight & Sound Magazine’s Gift to Cinephiles: The Hitch’s Vertigo vs. Welles’ Kane Debate

I fondly remember the glee I had at xeroxing from library archives a good chunk of Sight & Sound's top favorite list back in...

Strange by ‘Design’: Gondry’s part of Tôkyô! revealed

Via Director File (the one stop for Michel Gondry info on news), further details on Gondry's contribution to Tôkyô! have been revealed: actually we...

Short Film Corner: Interview with Andrew Renzi (The Fort)

This month's Short Film Corner we feature The Fort, the dozen minute short that premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival (more recently BamCinemafest)...

2012 Vanguard Section: Peaches, Jesper Ganslandt, Soi Cheang and Peter Strickland Make the Cut

Easily the section that this journalist feels the most at home with, this year's Vanguard section (programmed by such folk, among others Scandi-discoverer Steve...

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Interview: Benjamín Naishtat & Esteban Bigliardi – Glaxo

World premiering at the 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival,...

2026 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: New Projects by Sofia Alaoui, Yasmine Benkiran & Jessy Moussallem at the Atlas Workshops

Moroccan filmmakers Meryem Benm’barek, Sofia Alaoui and Yasmine Benkiran...

Club Kid | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

Sex, Drugs & Unexpected Parenting: Firstman’s Debut Creates an...

La bola negra | Review

The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the...
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