Tag: Chloe Zhao
Interview: Chloé Zhao & Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
In one of 2025’s most searing dramatic screen performances, Jessie Buckley embodies Agnes (the wife of William Shakespeare) with such fierce passion and unguarded...
Interview: Paul Mescal – Hamnet
It overpowered critics in Telluride, slayed Toronto audiences and has been on a rampage ever since winning audience film festival awards and catapulting itself...
2025 Marrakech Film Festival: Jarmusch, Panahi, Chan-wook, Enyedi, Chloé Zhao & Kaouther Ben Hania Among Selections
You can't get more of a best of the film festival circuit than what the Marrakech International Film Festival is offering this year. Opening...
2025 TIFF: Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ Wins TIFF People’s Choice Award Paving the Way to Oscar Gold
Building on Telluride buzz that preceded it, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet just lassoed the TIFF People’s Choice Award which makes it the bonafide top of...
2025 TIFF: World Premieres Include Gavras’ ”Sacrifice’, Michôd’s ‘Christy’, Vanderbilt’s ‘Nuremberg’ & Winocour’s ‘Couture’
The Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled the heavy-hitters populating their Gala and Special Presentations sections making what sounds like an alluring line-up for...
Nomadland | Review
Ballad of a Rolling Stone: Zhao Basks in the Beatitude of America’s Heartland
Director Chloé Zhao follows up her critically acclaimed 2018 sophomore feature The...
You BETcha!: Nomadland is the Odds on Favorite for the 2020 Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion
With Cannes offering up a hypothetical edition and the Karlovy Varys and Locarnos conducting some form of film community outreach, the COVID-19 pandemic might...
2020 Venice Film Festival: Michel Franco, Mona Fastvold, Jasmila Zbanic & Konchalovsky in Comp
Mona Fastvold, Emma Dante and Chloé Zhao were tipped for the comp months ago, but today heavyweights such as Jasmila Zbanic, Malgorzata Szumowska (Never...
IndieSponge Episode: 14 – 2020 Venice Film Festival Predictions
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, I invited Tommaso Tocci to discuss the possible titles that might make it into the 2020 edition of...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sean Durkin, Eliza Hittman, Chloé Zhao
Mughal Mowgli
Moving from the docu form (2013's These Birds Walk and 2019's Ghosts Of Sugar Land) into fiction, Bassam Tariq lassoed Riz Ahmed for...
The Conversation: Vying for Venice 2019 – Predictions!
Once again, Venice seems poised to make a killing by featuring a number of high-profile US auteurs in its line-up. Like last year’s program,...
The Conversation: Last But Not Least for Cannes 2019
With the main competition and the sidebar programs all unveiled, we await news of one or potentially two last-minute titles added to the competition,...
Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10 Theatrical Releases of 2018
Another year of Oscars. Another year of whitewashed, predominantly-male nominations; another year of passionate love/hate from film fans. And another year of small victories!...
McDormand on the Move: Fox Searchlight Packs Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’
Much like the invisible folks presented in this future film, Chloé Zhao was pretty much working off our radar with her third feature. A...
Sundance ’18: Lynne Ramsay, Armando Iannucci, Samuel Maoz & Chloé Zhao in the Spotlight
The best film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and this film critic's top film of 2017 will likely have its North American debut...
2018 Indie Spirit Noms: Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” Leads Pack with 6, Benny Safdie Lands 3
It's the head-scratching nominations process where Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is good enough for the Best Feature category and picks up four nominations in...
Reviews & Reflections: Östlund’s The Square Leads Top 5 NYFF Films That Lived Up To The Hype
As the New York Film Festival comes to a close, so marks the end of the 2017 festival season: a year-long tsunami that began...
Balagov’s “Closeness”, Olsson’s “That Summer” & Quinn’s “Eating Animals” Land in Telluride
While questions still surround when (and where) Abdellatif Kechiche's Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno and Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here will have...
Video: Chloé Zhao’s The Rider – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Here is pre-screening presentations for The Rider - the Directors' Fortnight selected film. Filmmaker Chloé Zhao and cast were present for her sophomore film world...
TIFF 2017: Special Presentations World Preem Status for Gillespie, Gomez-Rejon, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun & Sebastián Lelio
If Alexander Payne, Valerie Faris/Jonathan Dayton, Scott Cooper, Darren Aronofsky, Martin McDonagh, Stephen Frears, Greta Gerwig and George Clooney appear jetlagged its because they'll...
AFI Fest 2015: Mediterranea, James White & Krisha Among New Auteurs and American Independents Films Lineup
A pair of sections that we've been covering almost since its inception, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced their selections for the New Auteurs...
2015 Directors’ Fortnight: Saulnier’s Green Room & Bidegain’s Les Cowboys Among “Dope” Selections
Takashi Miike (Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War Of The Underworld), Fernando León de Aranoa (A Perfect Day starring Benicio del Toro, Tim Robbins, and Olga...
Ian Olds, Geremy Jasper, Boots Riley & Laure de Clermont Tonnerre Among SFFS / KRF Filmmaking Grant Finalists
If you're looking for a comprehensive overview of the not so distant future in American indie film, a reliable sampling is usually found in...
Sundance ’15: Zobel, Bujalski, Brice & Kris Swanberg Among U.S. Dramatic Competition
Last year, it was Damien Chazelle's richly texturized, foot-tapping, finger-snapping sophomore pic Whiplash that instantly became the "it" film to beat in the sixteen competition...
San Francisco Future Giants; Kris Swanberg, Chloé Zhao, Jonas Carpignano, Machoian/Ojeda-Beck Receive SFFS/KRF Coin
Announced earlier this evening, SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants have been awarded to potential 2015 Sundancers in the likes of Kris Swanberg, Chloé Zhao, Jonas Carpignano...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chloe Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me
More time in post-production means more time for nips, tucks, another Sundance lab (2014's Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound) and even...
Birds & the Bees…Boyhood Leads 24th Gotham Independent Film Award Noms
Deemed as his career best, Richard Linklater's Boyhood leads all nominations for the 24th Gotham Independent Film Awards with winks in the Best Feature,...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chloe Zhao’s Lee
Chances are slim that Chloe Zhao manages to break into the 2014 edition of the Sundance Film Festival and it isn't because there is...
