Tag: Ariane Labed
The Vourdalak | Review
Love in the Blood: Beau Resurrects Russian Vampire Clan in Eccentric Genre Throwback
Chuck Palahniuk wrote it best, referencing an ‘old saying’ in his 1996...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Ariane Labed, Rungano Nyoni, Mo Harawe, Konstantin Bojanov & Roberto Minervini in Un Certain Regard
Actresses Ariane Labed and Laetitia Dosch, Halfdan Ullman Tondel, Mo Harawe, Louise Courvoisier and Julien Colonna are part of the half dozen selected filmmakers...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 25 Possible Palme d’Or Competition Films
Usually in the twenty to twenty-two film range, the competition for the Palme d'Or has been a tad more inclusive in recent years in...
Swimming Home | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Marriage Story: Justin Anderson Serves Up An Enigmatic Challenge Is His Feature Debut
A marriage in crisis cooks under the summer sun in filmmaker Justin...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Our most anticipated feature debut films for this year is indeed ready but it'll be dropping in 2024 instead. Perhaps a fest that is...
2023 Eurimages: Oliver Laxe, Cherien Dabis, Anders Thomas Jensen, Ana Asensio, Jérémy Comte, Ariane Labed & Rúnar Rúnarsson Receive Coin
Eurimages have announced their second wave of projects receiving some co-production funding coin. Among the filmmakers and projects that caught our eye on we...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #52. Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Swimming Home
In a surprising field of many first-time works on our list, this year's most anticipated directorial debut goes to commercials director Justin Anderson...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #186. Alice Zeniter & Benoît Volnais’ Before the Collapse
Avant l'effondrement
It wasn't quite ready for a '21 launch, but author Alice Zeniter & Benoît Volnais will see their co-directorial debut break bread in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #21. Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet
Flux Gourmet
Moving from the clothes we wear (with accompanying antagonist forces of everyday appliances) to the food we eat (or can't eat), Peter Strickland...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #98. Alice & Benoît Zeniter’s Avant l’effondrement
Avant l'effondrement
Writing her first novel when she was still a teen - the written word is definitely her strong suit and while Alice Zeniter...
Interview: Joanna Hogg & Honor Swinton Byrne – The Souvenir Part II
After premiering in the Directors' Fortnight and landing at the New York Film Festival, The Souvenir Part II - filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s highly-anticipated follow...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #12. Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir: Part II
The Souvenir: Part II
Produced by Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton, Luke Schiller.
Directed by Joanna Hogg
Written by Joanna Hogg
Starring: Honor Swinton-Byrne, Richard Ayoade, Ariane...
Video Interview: Ariane Labed & Balthazar Lab – Olla (Short Film) | 2020 Sundance Film Festival
After a whirlwind fest tour that began back in Cannes in the Directors' Fortnight section and ended just after Sundance with a showing at...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #13. The Souvenir: Part II – Joanna Hogg
The Souvenir: Part II
British director Joanna Hogg’s fourth feature The Souvenir finally brought her to much deserved international acclaim after premiering at the 2019...
2019 Cannes: Zlotowski, Bonello, Takashi Miike, Robert Eggers, Lav Diaz & Guadagnino in Fortnight
We waited for the other shoe to drop and this year's Directors' Fortnight is chockfull of directorial films with six of the twenty-three (twenty-four...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #44. The Souvenir – Joanna Hogg
The Souvenir
British director Joanna Hogg is due to break out in a big way with her fourth feature, The Souvenir, an ambitious, star-studded project...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #40. Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir: Part I
The Souvenir: Part 1
British director Joanna Hogg has remained one of the UK’s most underrated auteur assets since breaking out of television in the...
The Lobster | Review
Animal Farm: Lanthimos’ Dystopic Dip into RomCom
Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos makes an admirable English language debut with The Lobster, set within an original dystopic...
Malgré la nuit | 2016 Film Comment Selects Review
When the Night Has Come: Grandrieux Laments Lost Love
Seven years have passed since provocateur Philippe Grandrieux’s 2008 film Un Lac, and he remains somewhat...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: The Lobster Boils Over into Bunuelian Aura
Its much to early to crown him as the godfather of the Greek new wave, but there'll be mounds of further essays written on the tsunami-breaking...
A Place on Earth | Review
While You Were Peeping: Godet’s Elegy Brimming with Belabored Emotion
With his sophomore directorial effort, Fabienne Godet’s A Place on Earth (Une place sur...
Fidelio: Alice’s Journey | Palm Springs International Film Festival Review
Go Ask Alice: Borleteau’s Debut Examines Desire, Gender, and Maturity
Sure to be described as “European,” seemingly in the sense that it relays a familiar...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #4. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster
The Lobster
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos // Writers: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
With his third feature, 2009's Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos became the forefront of what's coming to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #52. Philippe Grandrieux’s Malgré la nuit
Malgré la nuit
Director: Philippe Grandrieux // Writer: Philippe Grandrieux
French provocateur Philippe Grandrieux may not be an auteur to everyone’s liking, but since debuting with...
Get Him to the Greek; John C. Reilly Completes Lanthimos’ “The Lobster” Ensemble
Supporting players in John C. Reilly, Ashley Jensen, Michael Smiley and Jessica Barden are joining the already cast, diverse set of Colin Farrell, Rachel...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #2. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster
The Lobster
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writer(s): Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou (both featured in pic above)
Producer(s): Lanthimos, Element Pictures' Lee Magiday & Ed Guiney, Scarlet Films'...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #152. Jasmila Zbanic’s Love Island
Love Island
Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Writers: Aleksandar Hemon, Jasmila Zbanic
Producers: Deblokada Produkcija, Komplizen Film, Okofilm Productions, Ziva Produkcija
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Ariane Labed, Franco Nero, Ada...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #32. Guy Maddin’s Spiritismes
Spiritismes
Director: Guy Maddin
Writer(s): Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk
Producer(s): Phyllis Laing
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Maria de Medeiros, Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Amira...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #41. Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight
Before Midnight
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer(s): Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Producer(s): Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Sara Woodhatch
U.S. Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Ariane...
Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos – ALPS
"When the end is here the ALPS are near." Concluding my trio of interviews with the folks from ALPS, we have acclaimed co-writer/director Yorgos...
Interview: Ariane Labed – ALPS
We can note that it wasn’t too shabby a year for Ariane Labed. The French non-actress barely spoke the Greek language when she won...
Interview: Aggeliki Papoulia – ALPS
First introduced to international auds as the eldest daughter in Yorgos Lanthimos’ freakshow family portrait known as Dogtooth (2009), Aggeliki Papoulia returns to the...
