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: #148. Koko-di Koko-da – Johannes Nyholm

Koko-di Koko-da Sweden’s Johannes Nyholm returns with his highly anticipated sophomore film Koko-di Kojo-da, which the director produced alongside co-producer Maria Moller Christofferson. His cast...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #149. Misbehavior – Philippa Lowthorpe

Misbehavior Celebrated British television director Philippa Lowthorpe (the first woman to win a BAFTA TV Award for Directing for 2012’s “Call the Midwife,” an award...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #150. Matthias & Maxime – Xavier Dolan

Matthias & Maxime And we begin our count up with Quebecois director Xavier Dolan, who after working on his largest budget to date in 2017/18...

A Prelude to Our Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019 Countdown

For our annual list of most anticipated foreign films, we have compiled an expanded list, tacking on an extra hundred titles to our usual...

The Conversation: Bring Forth Berlin (Possible Contenders for the Competition)

As has been the Berlinale’s custom of years past, several early competition titles have been confirmed along with the 2019 opener, Lone Scherfig’s The...

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