Tag: Ben Rivers

2025 Locarno Film Festival: Radu Jude, Alexandre Koberidze, Ben Rivers, Abdellatif Kechiche & Maureen Fazendeiro in Comp

The field of Pardo d’Oro hopefuls will include the likes of Radu Jude, Alexandre Koberidze, Ben Rivers, Maureen Fazendeiro and (surprise surprise) Abdellatif Kechiche...

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

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