Tag: Anthony Chen
We Are All Strangers | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Strategy of Tragedy: Chen Overdoses on Drama in Sprawling Family Portrait
The most succinct aspect of Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen’s latest feature, We Are All...
You BETcha!: ‘Yellow Letters’, ‘Rose’ & ‘Queen at Sea’ are the Golden Bear Frontrunners
YouBETcha! is back, this time for our Berlinale edition, where we guess the odds of the films most likely to pick up the converted...
2026 Berlinale: Mundruczó, Çatak, Aïnouz, Schleinzer, Dulude-de Celles, Anthony Chen, Lance Hammer in Golden Bear Comp
There is a lot of unpack here with the official competition offerings which consists of two international premieres and twenty world premieres for a...
2023 TIFF: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ilker Çatak, Monia Chokri & Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir Selected
Last year the Contemporary World Cinema had plenty of Cannes Film Festival gems in Aftersun, Falcon Lake, R.M.N. and The Worst Ones. This year's...
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: Debut Films by Molly Manning Walker, Felipe Galvez & Delphine Deloget Sprinkle the Un Certain Regard Section
With the likes of Return to Seoul, Godland, Corsage, War Pony and The Worst Ones, last year's Un Certain Regard section was a vintage...
Poured Hot: Anthony Chen Adds Debut US-project “Heartbeat: A New York Story” to Busy Slate
He just premiered Drift at Sundance and mainland Chinese rom drama The Breaking Ice (among our most anticipated films for '23) is in the...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #101. Anthony Chen’s Drift
Drift
The second 2023 Anthony Chen film on our list (the other being The Breaking Ice at the #191 spot) is definitely more indie and...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #191. Anthony Chen’s The Breaking Ice
The Breaking Ice
His Camera d'Or winning Ilo Ilo (2013) and TIFF Platform section preemed Wet Season (2019) followed by his contribution with the Cannes...
2023 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: 75 Predictions!
The majority of the films to be presented at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival will be identified next Wednesday and for our regular readers,...
2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 100 Predictions (Part III) Chen, Frears, Zeller, Lafleur, Spielberg & Polley
And here we are with the third part in our top 100 predictions.
Chad Chenouga's third feature film Le Principal might be one of those...
Interview: Anthony Chen & Yann Yann Yeo – Wet Season
Hot news from PYIFF, Singapore’s Wet Season takes home a whopping three awards, including the Cinephilia Critics’ Award, and two Fei Mu Awards for...
The Conversation: 10 Most Anticipated Films – TIFF 2019
Despite its various programming cutbacks over the past several years, TIFF remains an overwhelming buffet of juxtapositions. A marvelous chance to catch up on...
The Conversation: Vying for Venice 2019 – Predictions!
Once again, Venice seems poised to make a killing by featuring a number of high-profile US auteurs in its line-up. Like last year’s program,...
The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...
Ilo Ilo | Review
Singapore Slump: Economics Brushed Aside in Chen's Gem Debut
In his autobiographical debut Ilo Ilo, young Singaporean helmer Anthony Chen delivers a beautifully simple story...
2013 TIFF’s Discovery Section Includes Nieto’s The Militant, Cannes Winner Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo & Coppola’s Palo Alto
In the last wave of TIFF announcements, it's the Discovery section that we're most curious about as it normally is loaded up with the...
Film Movement Form Unique Bond with Camera d’Or Winning “Ilo Ilo”
It's not often when Singaporean cinema manages to break into our news headline stream, but on the heals of his Camera d'Or win (best debut...
Directors’ Fortnight Loads Up on: Jodorowsky, Jeremy Saulnier, Ruairi Robinson, Clio Barnard, Serge Bozon and Lynne Ramsay
Heavy on the French film items and with a side dish of Chilean influence, this year's Directors' Fortnight also known as the Quinzaine des...
