Tag: Amat Escalante
Perdidos en la noche (Lost in the Night) | Review
Night Moves: Escalante Cultivates a Moody, Capricious Mystery
Replete with a slew of customary features encountered in a fatalistic film noir, Amat Escalante’s fifth feature,...
Interview: Amat Escalante – Lost in the Night
From the very onset with his feature debut Sangre (2005), filmmaker Amat Escalante has proposed a cinema of provocation that simultaneously critiques corruption and...
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
2023 Cannes: Sauvaire’s Black Flies & Corsini’s Le retour in Palme Race; Escalante & Alonso in Cannes Premiere
Thierry Frémaux has circled Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's Black Flies (which we thought would have been an OOC offering) and the already battle-ready nouveau item by...
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...
2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part I) Iñárritu, Dominik, Zlotowski & Escalante
This week we throw ourselves into predicting the world premiere options for both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals. We begin by looking...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #2. Amat Escalante’s Perdidos en la Noche
El estado del imperio (Lost in the Night)
Produced by Nicolás Celis, Fernanda de la Peza.
Directed by Amat Escalante
Written by Amat Escalante, Martín Escalante, Paulina...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #2. Amat Escalante’s Perdidos en la Noche
Perdidos en la Noche
Produced by Nicolás Celis, Fernanda de la Peza.
Directed by Amat Escalante
Written by Amat Escalante, Martín Escalante, Paulina Mendoza
Starring: To be announced.
Release...
The Conversation: Through the Looking Glass – Top 10 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021
Looking past the dawn of the new decade, 2021 promises to unleash a host of projects from perennial auteurs and sleeping cinematic giants. Although...
Through the Looking Glass: Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 – Picks #10 to #6
New projects directed by auteurs from Mexico, Brazil, Ukraine, Thailand and Hungary make up slots 6 to 10 in our most anticipated foreign films...
The Conversation: Producer Jean Labadie
Jean Labadie is a name which perhaps remains a tad obscured despite his formidable influence on the French film industry. In 1986, Labadie founded...
Video Countdown: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Films of 2017
Although we have another facetiously titled Michael Haneke film to ring in the New Year with, it is a decidedly unhappy end considering the...
Interview: Amat Escalante (The Untamed)
After three features steeped in what would could describe as hyperrealism, Amat Escalante makes a slight deviation, introducing towards fantastical elements in his fourth feature film....
The Untamed | Review
The Pleasure Principle: Escalante Makes a Monster Mash with Distinctive Social Drama
The shadow of Andrzej Zulawski’s infamous erotic creature feature/divorce melodrama Possession (1981) looms...
The Conversation: Jenkins’ Moonlight, Escalante’s The Untamed & the Totality of TIFF ’16
As far as the matter of size goes, the Toronto International Film Festival continues to astound, with close to 300 plus titles amassed for...
The Conversation: Cinema Italiano – 2016 Venice Film Festival Predictions
Looking towards the Lido, we’re just over three months away before the fourth quarter Fall Festival circuit kick off, and the final prestigious competition...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #36. Amat Escalante’s The Untamed
The Untamed
Director: Amat Escalante
Writer: Amat Escalante and Gibran Portela
Amat Escalante, protégé of Carlos Reygadas, snagged the Best Director award at Cannes 2013 for his unpleasant...
Neon Bull: Carlos Reygadas to Mount “Donde nace la vida”
We can add one more iron to the Cannes fire...except this one will likely target the 2017 edition. Obviously nothing is official until the April announcement, but Jaime...
A Cannes Opener: 2016 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
A furious slew of titles in the works would seem to prophesize a robust main competition slate for Cannes 2016. Though our initial list...
Heli | Review
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: Escalante’s Mexico Still Suffering
Amat Escalante doesn’t fall far from his own tree with Heli, graphic violence once again...
2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Amat Escalante’s Heli
By the fest's end in about nine days from now, we might pointing to the first film that showed during the '13 edition as...
Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Amat Escalante’s Heli
Heli - Amat Escalante
Section: Main Competition
Buzz: Steadily guided by Cannes' fest head honcho Thierry Fremieux, Amat Escalante receives a major big stage showing for...
Escalante, Bruni-Tedeschi, Warmerdam & New Zhangke Crack 2013 Cannes Main Comp Line-Up
The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled and noticeable absentees in the list of 19 Main Comp films and...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Amat Escalante’s Heli
#21. Amat Escalante's Heli
Gist: Less encompassing than the Un Certain Regard selected Miss Bala, shot in various locations outside the city of Guanajuato, where...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #42. Amat Escalante’s Heli
Heli
Director: Amat Escalante
Writers: Escalante and Gabriel Reyes
Producer(s): Mantarraya
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: TBA
Information is so scarce on the production, yet I've been keeping tabs...
