As expected, master filmmakers both in the longstanding (Loach, Cronenberg, Reygadas, Haneke, Kiarostami) and relatively new (Matteo Garrone, Cristian Mungiu, Sergei Loznitsa) V.I.P members of...
Master filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan will be receiving this year's Directors' Fortnight Carrosse d'Or prize. In just a little over a decade, the Turkish...
The New York Film Festival revealed today that its Closing Night Gala film will be Alexander Payne’s ‘The Descendants,’ which reviewers have described as an adroit dramedy starring George Clooney about a man who takes his daughters on a road trip to find his wife’s lover.
Today's announcement for the 2011 Venice Film Festival lineup basically crosses off plenty of sure bets we had been anticipating and makes us circle a bunch of titles we thought had a chance for a 2011 showing but now become hot items for the 2012 campaign. Films such as Juan Diego Solanas' Upside Down, Rodrigo Cortés' Red Lights, Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Headshot, Brillante Mendoza's Prey look more and more like Cannes 2012 items, while acquisition titles such as Antonio Campos' Simon Killer and Nick Cassavetes' Yellow wouldn't be out of place for a Sundance showing.