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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...
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American Indie Films News
Family Plot: John Patton Ford Moves into Sophomore Feature “Huntington”
March 10, 2023I recall researching filmmaker John Patton Ford for our Sundance predictions just prior to him launching...
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Foreign Film News
Syntexte: A Mystery “French” Project with Vincent Cassel, Louis Garrel & Diane Kruger
March 10, 2023In a television interview over a month ago, actress Diane Kruger mentioned that she was set...
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Foreign Film News
Honest Mistake: Samuel Theis’ Summons Valeria Bruni Tedeschi & Anaïs Demoustier for “Je le jure”
March 9, 2023Anaïs in Love pairing Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Anaïs Demoustier will once again be play partners...
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Foreign Film News
Leipzig love: Claire Burger Finds Lilith Grasmug for “Langue étrangère”
March 9, 2023While le film français folks believe they have exclusive news on Nina Hoss and Chiara Mastroianni...
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Interviews
Interview: Agnieszka Smoczynska – Fugue
March 7, 2023Agnieszka Smoczynska‘s 2015 The Lure was quite the sensation, having made a splash at Sundance and...
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Foreign Film News
Climate Changed: Aude Léa Rapin Begins “Planet B” with Exarchopoulos & Souheila Yacoub
March 6, 2023Introduced at the Berlinale’s EFM, production on Aude Léa Rapin‘s sophomore feature has officially begun with...
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Reviews
Fugue | Review
March 6, 2023Staring into the Known: Smoczyńska Offers Low-key, Uncompromising Sophomore Feature Surely not the follow up effort...
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Foreign Film News
Power Dynamics: Sony Pictures Classics Takes a Seat in “The Teachers’ Lounge”
March 3, 2023A major break-out film outside the competition of the Berlinale’s Panorama section and a double winner...
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Foreign Film News
Hot Tub Time Machine: Brizé’s Begins Production on “Hors saison” with Canet & Rohrwacher
March 3, 2023Stéphane Brizé is set to begin production in Brittany this month. Our friends at Cineuropa confirmed...
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Film Festivals
2023 Sundance Institute Momentum Fellows: Charlotte Wells, Nikyatu Jusu & Francisca Alegria Among Selected 8
March 2, 2023The Sundance Institute announced the eight participants selected for the fifth annual Momentum Fellowship with names...
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American Indie Films News
Not so Recent Past: Cinedigm Gives a Second Chance to Foumbi’s “Our Father, the Devil”
March 2, 2023With Independent Spirit festivities only days away, the Cinedigm folks have landed the North American rights...
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Foreign Film News
Loose Pages: Sideshow and Janus Films Scoop up Petzold’s “Afire”
March 2, 2023After landing Lila Avilés’ Tótem, Sideshow and Janus Films returned to the same Berlinale competition well...
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Film Festivals
2023 Berlin International Film Festival Coverage Wrap-Up
March 1, 2023The 2023 edition of the Berlin International Film Festival has come and gone (we got plenty...
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Film Festivals
2023 New Directors/New Films: Avilés’ Tótem, Abbruzzese’s Disco Boy & Leaf’s Earth Mama Among Highlights
March 1, 2023Lassoing international film titles as far back as last year’s Manuela Martelli’s Chile ’76 and Saim...
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World Cinema Report
World Cinema Report: Hong Kong – “To My Nineteen-Year-Old-Self” Opts out of the HKIFF Awards
March 1, 2023Hi eric.
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Foreign Film News
House Hold: Sideshow & Janus Films Move into Berlinale Fave “Tótem”
February 28, 2023Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize and easily among the top films at this year’s Berlinale,...
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Reviews
Till the End of the Night | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 24, 2023Night Boos: Hochhäusler Bungles Black Market Crime Thriller Blending fatal romanticism and B-movie genre tropes, it’s...
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Reviews
The Survival of Kindness | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 24, 2023Lady in a Cage: de Heer’s Dystopia Explores the Enduring Echoes of Colonialism Dutch-born director Rolf...
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Reviews
Living Bad (Viver Mal) | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 23, 2023The Mirror Has Two Faces: Canijo’s Customers Are Always Blight with Inverse Melodrama “Happiness consumes itself...
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Reviews
Bad Living | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 22, 2023The Best Exotic Portugal Hotel: Canijo Examines Motherhood as Misanthropy in Masterful Familial Miasma The women...
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Reviews
20,000 Species of Bees | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 22, 2023The Secret Life of Bees: Solaguren’s Warm Debut Explores the Communal Dictation of Gender Identity Our...
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Reviews
Music | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 22, 2023Oedipus Shrugged: Schanelec Finds Tragedy is the Song That Doesn’t End There’s little use clinging to...