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) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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Film Movement Offers Home for Koji Fukuda’s ‘Hospitalité’

The Film Movement folks have picked up the theatrical rights to Koji Fukuda's 'Hospitalité' -- what appears to be an atypical, not your run-of-the-mill type comedy from Japan that has been showing up on the film festival circuit. the distrib are looking to a fourth quarter release -- so expect this one come November or December.

TIFF 2010: Interview with Mike Mills (Beginners)

Thumbsucker director Mike Mills' deeply touching representation on how the past, present and future offer oblique guides to defining the cycle of life and the father-son rapport, this just interpretation of what it looks like to commence a new chapter in one's life is a wonderfully constructed, highly personal and honest reflection that demonstrates how life and film can be calibrated to incorporate comedy in drama and drama in comedy.

Tracking Shot June 2011: Assayas, Brougher and Paul Thomas Anderson

At the beginning of every month, IONCINEMA.com's "Tracking Shot" features a handful of projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This June, we are keeping tabs on nine projects including the untitled, aka The Master from master filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.

Octopus-Like Domestic One Sheets for Jean-Marc Vallée’s Café De Flore

With a pair of domestic poster releases, a possible Venice/Telluride/TIFF selection for Café De Flore [09.26 in Quebec] certainly appears to be in the cards. Jean-Marc Vallée whose fourth feature, the 2005 breakout film C.R.A.Z.Y. helped anchor interest from abroad and led to The Young Victoria, is most likely in the mixing stages with this Quebec-France co-production, which is only his second feature writing credit.

Top 3 Critic’s Picks In Theaters this June: Aurora, Beginners and Submarine

Usually a month where we tend to avoid the multiplex, the positive buzz on Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class and J.J. Abrams' Super 8 and the inclusion of Blacklist 2008 favorite Bad Teacher means we might be shifting between smaller and larger venues this June.

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