Tag: Arie Esiri

2026 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Ben’Imana, Congo Boy, House of the Wind & A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra in Competition

The year’s final major film festival has unveiled its lineup, and the 23rd Marrakech International Film Festival is serving up a cinephile’s feast of...

2026 NYFF: Schleinzer, Chang-dong, Sangsoo, Hamaguchi & Mani Haghighi (Surprise!) in Main Slate

As expected there was going to be a larger Cannes (including Quinzaine) cross-over than a Venice presence at this year's NYFF. While the Palme...

2026 TIFF: Peter Farrelly, Takashi Miike & Michael Dowse to World Preem in Special Presentations Programme

Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shinya Tsukamoto and Lee Chang-dong are the doing the Venice to Toronto double down, Jesse Eisenberg is sticking to a Telluride and...

2026 Cannes: Balagov, Radu Jude, July Jung, Lisandro Alonso, Barnard, Sotomayor and Dupieux Load Up Alluring Quinzaine Line-Up

Artistic Director Julien Rejl is poised to draw major crowds this year, as the selection committee makes a compelling case that the Théâtre Croisette...

Criterion Collection: Eyimofe (This is My Desire) | Blu-ray Review

Far from the complicated, distressed definition of the Nigerian film movement christened ‘Nollywood’ in the early 2000s, a new coterie of filmmakers have slowly...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Club Kid | Review

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Interview: Jordan Firstman – Club Kid

I first took notice of Jordan Firstman through his...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...