Tag: Ben Rivers
2024 Locarno Film Festival: Ramon Zürcher, Kurdwin Ayub, Hong Sangsoo & Pia Marais in Pardo d’Oro Comp
Former Pardo d’Oro champs Hong Sangsoo (Right Now, Wrong Then - 2015) and Wang Bing (Mrs. Fang - 2017) will be measuring up against...
What’s Up Doc?: Moore Docu Surprises, Locarno Begins, Telluride, Venice & TIFF Loom
The fall festival rush is upon us. Locarno is currently ramping up. Venice has released their line-up and Thom Powers and the Toronto International...
What’s Up Doc?: Wiseman Rises to New “Heights” & Rivers Shooting “The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers” in Morocco
It's been a surprisingly interesting month of moving and shaking in terms of doc development. Just a month after making his first public funding...
Real Deal: Safdies, Rivers/Russell & Glazer Among ’15 Cinema Eye Heterodox Award Noms
When non-fiction and narrative film collide, how do we distinguish between the two? The Cinema Eye Honors' answer to this is that they do....and...
A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness | Review
The Brothers Ben Find Supernal Solace On The Fringe
There are creative collaborations and there are perfect unions. The newly born cinematic relationship between experimental...
Jordan M. Smith’s Top 10 Best Docs of 2014 So Far
Thanks to the increase in access to small scale non-fiction films through the barrage of streaming services viewers now have access to - Netflix,...
Top 20 Alternative Picks for TIFF 2013: Ben Rivers & Ben Russell’s A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness
Ben Rivers & Ben Russell - A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness
Section: Wavelengths
Times: Saturday 7th, Monday 9th, Sunday 15th
Buzz: It’s very possible you’ve never...
Tsai Ming-Liang, Cristi Puiu, Albert Serra & Philip Gröning Among Off-beat Offerings in TIFF’s Wavelengths
Programmer Andrea Picard can do no wrong. From the compiled short and medium film offerings (see listing below for huge sampling of renowned world...
TIFF 2013: Latest From Alain Guiraudie, Cristi Puiu, Claire Denis & Catherine Breillat Added to Line-Up
Thanks to the inquisitive nature of one of our most unabashedly hardcore cinephile writers on the site (Blake you're a hawk!), we've uncovered a...
Two Years at Sea | DVD Review
As everyone knows, films are generally the product of a team of artisans and technicians, a conspicuous collaboration between the nebulous nature of art...