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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Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! | Review

Reviews

Eric Lavallée - September 24, 2026

Strictly Soft Gloom: Wladyka's Bereft Bliss Puts Spotlight on Rinko Kikuchi Healing comes in baby steps — and dance steps in Josef Kubota Wladyka’s warm...

Children of the Monkey (I figli della scimmia) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

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Eric Lavallée - September 17, 2026

The Favorited Son: Landucci Looks at How Love Can Tear Us Apart While it never explicitly dwells on the feeling that the film's patriarch may...

2026 TIFF Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet for Ghasideh Golmakani’s ‘Head to Head’ (Discovery Programme)

Foreign Film News

Eric Lavallée - September 8, 2026

Among the directorial debuts loading up this year’s Discovery programme at this year's Toronto Intl. Film Festival we find the boldly titled Head to...

Un détour par Diane | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

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Eric Lavallée - September 5, 2026

Even Cowgirls Gets the Clues: Sirot/Balboni Rewrite the Past...in the Future Belgium tandem Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni take the machinery of the western —...

The City of the Living | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

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Eric Lavallée - September 4, 2026

Autopsy Audit: Gabbriellini Examines the Choices Before the Mistakes Those left behind to pick up the pieces are rarely the center of film dramas —...

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Oscar Aitchison - November 9, 2026

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.