Tag: Abderrahmane Sissako

Black Tea | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew The level of ineptitude apparent in every regard of Black Tea, Abderrahmane Sissako’s first narrative feature in...

2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls

It's official folks! The drop date has been confirmed. There'll be a couple of films that trickle in a bit after the announcement is...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #43. Abderrahmane Sissako’s La Colline Parfumee

The Perfumed Hill A project that has been gestating perhaps not that long after the release of Timbuktu (2014), Mauritanian-born Malian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako was...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #36. Abderrahmane Sissako’s La Colline Parfumee

The Perfumed Hill Produced by Denis Freyd Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako Written by Abderrahmane Sissako Starring: Unknown. Cinematographer: Unknown. Release Date/Prediction: If production did take place, Abderrahmane Sissako...

Through the Looking Glass: The Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 – Picks #100 to #11

While we look forward to a plentiful 2019 as far as foreign cinema is concerned (of which we highlighted #300-151 and our countdown #150-1 to anticipate...

2018 PYIFF Dailies: Birthplace of Ideas in Too Late to Die Young & Fenyang | Day 8

Moving into final stretch of the fest, day 8 was curiously bookended by the notion of the birthplace - either where a person is born...

2014 NYFF: Chazelle, Broomfield, Bonello, Ferrara, Sang-soo, Hansen-Løve Make Cut

While Sundance (Damien Chazelle's Whiplash and Alex Ross Perry's Listen Up Philip) and Berlin (Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters, Yann Demange's ’71, Alain Resnais' Life...

2014 TIFF: Masters Section Has Your Usual Cannes & Venice Items and…Winterbottom & Bent Hamer World Preems

The Masters section is always a Croisette and Lido heavy selection and this year is no different. From Cannes we have Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to...

2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 1: Leigh Paints Strong Canvas with “Mr. Turner” & Sissako’s Mixes Humor & Sorrow in “Timbuktu”

According to our Cannes Critics' Panel, it may not top Topsy Turvy, but Mike Leigh's 2 plus hour portrait starring Timothy Stall paints a strong...

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