There's plenty of reasons to be excited for where Jeff Nichols will venture to next. His sophomore film, Take Shelter is high up on our must see list for this upcoming Sundance Film Festvial edition and from what I gather, it'll lyrically share some of the DNA we found in his debut film Shotgun Stories.
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of favorite films. We cap off the year with Ry Russo-Young, whose Sundance Film Festival selected and Gotham Award winner YOU WONT MISS finally receives a December 10th release followed by a nationwide roll out.
When we consider that classic films such as Max Ophuls' La Ronde, and Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut were both based on Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler’s 1900 play Reigen, then my thoughts on Fernando Meirelles taking on 360 and fitting and re-teaming with Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener duo) are...milk this for all its worth.
Romanian cinema at 58th San Sebastian Festival will be represented by Principles of Life (Principii de viață). Constantin Popescu's sophomore feature has been selected to compete in the Zabaltegi-New Directors Section. The film examines the rapport between father and son, and in a nutshell is about the generation gaps and the inability to communicate.
After holding back for about a month's time, today at 10:00 a.m. EST, Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling will announce the first wave of films to be part of the 35th festival edition and with Venice releasing their list tomorrow, TIFF will measure up by throwing out some huge red-carpet titles (25 to be exact). Tweeted by Bailey, 8 Gala World Premiere titles and 17 Special Presentation World Premiere titles are expected to be mentioned at the press conference.