Tag: Ava DuVernay

Origin | Review

Caste of the Unjust: DuVernay’s Scholarly Drama Traces the Universal Social Ills of Hierarchy For her fifth narrative feature, Origin, Ava DuVernay takes an inventive...

Venice Film Festival 2023: All of IONCINEMA.com’s Movie Reviews

We came, we saw, we conquered. Our Nicholas Bell was in review overdrive assessing the entire competition and much more. We'll still have film...

2023 Venice: Ava DuVernay, David Fincher, Agnieszka Holland, Malgorzata Szumowska & Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Comp Surprises!

We have twenty-three competition entries and all the America films that were tipped to compete for the Golden Lion have indeed stuck to their...

The White Tiger [Video Review]

Caste Him If You Can: Bahrani Returns with Genre-Tinged Social Issue Saga American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani remains an unpredictable cinematic master, a signature of his...

2018 Cannes Jury Duty: DuVernay, Villeneuve, Zvyagintsev & Kristen Stewart to Hand out Palme d’Or

Jury President Cate Blanchett will be surrounded by fellow thesps Chang Chen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, noteworthy filmmakers Ava DuVernay, Robert Guédiguian, Denis Villeneuve,...

Top 50 Future TV Binge List: Cannes Vets Coen Bros., Refn & Haneke Top Inaugural Chart

With TV being the new orange, it's becoming increasing difficult to keep tabs on what our filmmaker favorite are up to and while we...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2018: DuVernay, McQueen & Scorsese Top the List

Looking forward to the theatrical pleasures of 2018, the Hollywood studio system seems mostly a foregone conclusion save for a handful of items which...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #6. Ava Duvernay’s A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time Director: Ava DuVernay Writer: Jennifer Lee Years from now, director Ava DuVernay will continually be referenced for a dizzying amount of incredible firsts...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction

As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...

Best of 2014: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 (Picks 10-1)

Nicholas Bell's Top 20 films of 2014... #20. Madeleine Olnek's The Foxy Merkins #19. Damien Chazelle's Whiplash #18. Gillian Robespierre's Obvious Child #17. Jennifer Kent's The Babadook #16. Adam...

Selma | Review

Turnin’ the Beat Around: DuVernay’s Poignant, Passionate MLK Portrait Revitalizes Notions of Biopic Eschewing what’s come to resemble a traditional route in downplaying both the...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #16. Ava DuVernay’s Selma

Selma Director: Ava DuVernay Writers: Ava DuVernay, Paul Webb Producers: Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: David Oyelowo In July of 2013, it...

2013 Independent Film Forum: Keynote Speaker Ava DuVernay

For its 9th annual schedule of events, the 2013 Film Independent Forum, a nonprofit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards as...

Venus Vs. | 2013 LAFF Review

Men Are From Mars: DuVernay’s Fascinating Sports Doc Focuses on Elusive Williams Sister Director Ava DuVernay further displays the fascinating reaches of her talents with...

Silver Linings Playbook Has Great Juju at the 2013 Independent Spirit Awards

It would be the film with the juju in David O. Russell's zany black comedy that was the toast of the  28th Independent Spirit Awards...

Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Films of 2012: Strong Year for U.S. Indie – DuVernay, Batmanglij & Zobel Among Picks 10-6

10. Elena – Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev (Russia) Of my theatrical releases, two of these made waves in 2011 on the festival circuit, such as Russian...

Middle of Nowhere | Review

The Trap of Love: DuVernay's Follows Up Impressive Debut, with Solid Sophomore Effort Director Ava DuVernay returns with her sophomore feature, Middle of Nowhere, less...

Interview: Ava DuVernay, David Oyelowo, Emayatzy Corinealdi and Omari Hardwick (Middle of Nowhere)

We sat down with director Ava DuVernay and three of the cast members (David Oyelowo, Emayatzy Corinealdi and Omari Hardwick) from her new film,...

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