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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes: The Lucky 13 Critics’ Week Shorts Unveiled
April 19, 2023And in the Critics’ Week second wave of film announcements, we now draw our focus on...
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American Indie Films News
Elder Care: Hammer Begins Production on “Queen at Sea” with Juliette Binoche
April 18, 2023We were in almost in disbelief when Juliette Binoche casually mentioned back in January of last...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes: Cédric Kahn & Hong Sang-soo Bookend Directors’ Fortnight
April 18, 2023Quinzaine des Cinéastes Artistic Director Julien Rejl broke bread this morning with a camera shy live...
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American Indie Films News
Tallahassee Trippin’: Ethan Coen’s “Drive-Away Dolls” Set for Awards & Fest Season Spotlight
April 17, 2023And here we have it. It’s called Drive-Away Dolls. It’s dropping on September 22nd. Telluride, Venice...
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Foreign Film News
Export the Import: Sandrine Kiberlain & Laurent Lafitte Join Julie Delpy’s “Les barbares”
April 17, 2023Sandrine Kiberlain and Laurent Lafitte will re-team once again this time as the faces of surprise...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes: Amachoukeli, Stéphan Castang, Erwan Le Duc & Sirot+Balboni Load Up Critics’ Week
April 17, 2023She couldn’t have asked for a better way to begin her mandate as the Artistic Director...
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Reviews
Air | Review
April 15, 2023Sole Surfer: Affleck Revisits Impetus of Landmark Shoe Line It’s difficult to ascertain where Ben Affleck’s...
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Foreign Film News
Moving Ahead: Camélia Jordana, Sofiane Zermani & Damien Bonnard Housed in Manèle Labidi’s “Reine mère”
April 14, 2023Franco–Tunisian filmmaker Manèle Labidi who gave us the Venice Days selected Arab Blues (aka Un divan...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes: Steve McQueen, Takeshi Kitano & Victor Erice Featured in the Out of Comp Sections
April 13, 2023Let it be known that Thierry Frémaux wanted Martin Scorsese in competition but instead, Killers of...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes: Debut Films by Molly Manning Walker, Felipe Galvez & Delphine Deloget Sprinkle the Un Certain Regard Section
April 13, 2023With the likes of Return to Seoul, Godland, Corsage, War Pony and The Worst Ones, last...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes: Glazer, Ceylan, Rohrwacher, Haynes & Ramata-Toulaye Sy Competing for the Palme d’Or
April 13, 2023A surprise Wim Wenders project (Perfect Days), a rare directorial debut Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Banel et Adama)...
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Foreign Film News
Fontaine Pen: Elsa Zylberstein Isn’t Done with Simone…de Beauvoir
April 12, 2023After recently playing her in Olivier Dahan’s Simone: Woman of the Century, Elsa Zylberstein will have...
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Foreign Film News
Divine Company: Lou de Laâge, Daphné Patakia, Oulaya Amamra, Héloise Letissier & Déborah Lukumuena Topline Benyamina’s “Toutes pour une”
April 11, 2023There were the three musketeers and now…we can expect to see that number shoot up to...
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American Indie Films News
Toth 2.0: Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones & Joe Alwyn Confirmed for Corbet’s “The Brutalist”
April 11, 2023We knew there was a cosmetic change in terms of who might be part of the...
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Reviews
Showing Up | Review
April 7, 2023Bird is the Word: Reichardt Returns with Warm Portrait of Art and Ennui To some it...
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Film Festivals
2023 Rooftop Films’ Filmmakers Fund: Carlos López Estrada, Andrew Thomas Huang, Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli Receive Coin
April 6, 2023Rooftop Films folks have announced the grant recipients for the large swath of filmmakers’ funds and...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry is the Fest Opener – Will it Slip into Competition?
April 5, 2023Despite being selected for the competition (technically) on three occasions with 2011’s Polisse, 2015’s My King...
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Foreign Film News
Paris Sonata: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Mounting “Serpent’s Path” in the City of Lights
April 4, 2023We can expect a new Kiyoshi Kurosawa oeuvre in 2024 as the Japanese filmmaker has set...
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Film Festivals
2023 Eurimages: Cronenberg, Serebrennikov, Nordahl & Agnieszka Holland Land Coin
April 3, 2023The Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2023 have just been announced and among the 32 supported...
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Reviews
Smoking Causes Coughing | Review
March 31, 2023Vigilante Shanty: Kooky Becomes Dupieux in Latest Whimsy Quentin Dupieux’s penchant for absurdity shows no signs...
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Foreign Film News
You’re Dead to Me: Marcin Dorociński Toplines Jan P. Matuszyński’s “Minghun”
March 30, 2023Polish filmmaker Jan P. Matuszyński is deep in production with Minghun. Screen Daily reports that Marcin...
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American Indie Films News
Crypto Downfall: Cutter Hodierne Kidnaps Raúl Castillo & Melonie Diaz for “Cold Wallet”
March 29, 2023It’ll have been a long decade between debut and sophomore film projects but Fishing Without Nets...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
March 28, 2023It’s official folks! The drop date has been confirmed. There’ll be a couple of films that...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Out of Comp, Midnight, Special Screenings & Cannes Premiere
March 27, 2023The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 16th until the 27th) begins exactly fifty...
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Film Festivals
2023 TorinoFilmLab: Ognjen Glavonic, Makbul Mubarak & Anita Rocha da Silveira Among ScriptLab Participants
March 27, 2023The Loads‘ Ognjen Glavonic, Autobiography‘s Makbul Mubarak & Medusa‘s Anita Rocha da Silveira are among the...
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Foreign Film News
Be All You Can Be: Samuel Maoz’s Closing Out Trilogy with “It’s Good to Die For Your Country”
March 25, 2023We’re getting close to that eight-year mark between features and we’ve just learned that Samuel Maoz...
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Reviews
Tori et Lokita | Review
March 24, 2023Suffer the Children: The Dardenne Bros. Trend of Neorealism Continues in Dismal Portrait of Migrant Children...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard
March 23, 2023Last year’s Un Certain Regard was a vintage year. A trio of films in Return to...
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Reviews
Petite Solange | Review
March 23, 2023Bonjour Tristesse: Ropert Explores Rude Awakenings in Tender Coming-of-Age Portrait “What am I doing in this...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight
March 22, 2023The Director’s Fortnight didn’t simply give itself a new coat of paint but rather a heart...
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American Indie Films News
Minding the Crap: Bing Liu Preps Fiction Debut “Preparation for the Next Life”
March 21, 2023He has been testing the waters for some time now in terms of fiction (with Chinks...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Critics’ Week
March 21, 2023In a decade from now, we might be looking at all the offerings at last year’s...
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Reviews
Les Cinq diables (The Five Devils) | Review
March 21, 2023Devil May Care: Mysius Delivers Intriguing but Disappointing Romantic Genre Mishmash For her sophomore feature debut,...
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Foreign Film News
The Exiles: Ilker Çatak Travels to Turkish Backdrop for New Project “Yellow Letters”
March 20, 2023Striking while the iron is hot, multi Berlinale prize-winning filmmaker Ilker Çatak will be moving on...
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Reviews
Rimini | Review
March 16, 2023Bravo New World: Seidl Returns with Desolate Portrait of Fallen Hustler There’s always a healthy thread...
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Foreign Film News
Unboxed Bertha: Marie Amachoukeli Comfy with Animation in “Ama Gloria” & New Project “Happy End”
March 16, 2023As we eagerly await her sophomore feature Ama Gloria (currently in post but tipped to premiere...
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Reviews
Boston Strangler | Review
March 16, 2023Thank You for Choking: Ruskin Explores the Sordid Politics Behind Infamous Serial Killing Case The tribulations...
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Foreign Film News
First Aid: Carlos Marques-Marcet Setting Up “They Will Be Dust”
March 15, 2023Filmmaker Clara Roquet is a lucky star for several of her Spain filmmaker contemporaries as we...
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Foreign Film News
You’ve Got Mail: Garrel, Cassel & Kruger Pilot Pablo Agüero’s “Saint-Ex”
March 15, 2023A project that we were zeroing in on last week has finally been fully revealed. Louis...
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Reviews
Rodéo | Review
March 14, 2023All Gas No Brakes: Quivoron’s Debut Fails to Hit Pay Dirt Further exploring the dirt-bike sub-culture...
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Foreign Film News
Poured Hot: Anthony Chen Adds Debut US-project “Heartbeat: A New York Story” to Busy Slate
March 14, 2023He just premiered Drift at Sundance and mainland Chinese rom drama The Breaking Ice (among our...
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Film Festivals
SODEC 2023: Latest from Xavier Legrand, Sofia Bohdanowicz & Denis Côté Films Land Coin
March 13, 2023The folks at SODEC (Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles) the Quebec government agency that promotes...
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Reviews
Are You Lonesome Tonight? | Review
March 13, 2023Unhappy Together: Shipei Concocts Romantic Neo-noir Director Wen Shipei strikes an oddly satisfying balance between broody...
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Features
World Cinema Report: The Philippines – Lino Brocka Feted in Rotterdam & Berlinale + Sheron Dayoc Future Projects
March 12, 2023Hi eric.
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Foreign Film News
Irons in the Fire: Updates on Lynne Ramsay’s Stone Mattress, Polaris & Die, My Love
March 11, 2023She has been attached to several new projects since You Were Never Really Here was released...