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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Political Pleasures in Potter’s The Farmer’s Daughter (1947) | Blu-ray Review

Few of director H.C. Potter’s films seem to have endured the tests of time, at least as far as influence. Despite having directed several...

Post Rings Twice with Devious The Baby (1973) | Blu-ray Review

A prolific television director throughout the 1950s and 60s (the 1955 series “Waterfront” would land him a Primetime Emmy nod), Ted Post benefitted from...

Dumont’s a Delicacy with Childhood of a Martyr in Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc | Blu-ray Review

Nearly a year after its celebrated premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Bruno Dumont’s instant cult musical Jeannette: The Childhood...

Same Song Different Dinosaur in Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Blu-ray Review

While it took in over a billion dollars globally, nearly half of that at the domestic box office, J.A. Bayona’s addition to Spielberg’s dino...

Bel Canto | Review

Music Makes the People Come Together: Weitz Hits False Notes in Hostage Drama If ever an aria could conjure the essence of camp, it would...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.
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