Nicholas Bell

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Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #7. The Devil Between the Legs (El diablo entre las piernas) – Arturo Ripstein

The Devil Between the Legs (El diablo entre las piernas) Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein breaks a three year hiatus with his twenty-ninth feature, The Devil...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #8. Bergman Island – Mia Hansen-Løve

Bergman Island Mia Hansen-Løve continues her prolific output with the French-produced English language Bergman Island, her seventh feature in just a little over a decade...

Criterion Collection: Panique (1946) | Blu-ray Review

Initially a box office flop and critical failure, French auteur Julien Duvivier’s 1946 title Panique is now hailed as one of the great technician’s...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #9. The Tiger – Miroslav Slaboshpitsky

The Tiger Ukraine’s Miroslav Slaboshpitsky is finally set to commence on his sophomore effort, The Tiger, a project which has been in limbo since Darren...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #10. J’accuse – Roman Polanski

J’accuse Controversial director Roman Polanski embarks on his 22nd film production J’accuse this fall, a recuperation of the infamous Dreyfus Affair which he’s been working...

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Interview: Arab Nassar – Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Over the course of their three feature films, Gaza-born...

Interview: Tawfeek Barhom – I’m Glad You’re Dead Now (Short)

From Tarik Selah's Boy from Heaven (2022) to the...

Interview: Ali Asgari – Divine Comedy

Sometimes, in a landscape where censorship and endless approvals...

Interview: Hasan Hidi – The President’s Cake

Earlier this year, first-time filmmaker Hasan Hadi arrived in...
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