Tag: Ciro Guerra
Waiting for the Barbarians | Review
Enemy at the Gate: Guerra Heads to the International Frontier with Flat Coetzee Adaptation
The richness and heft of Ciro Guerra’s cinema gets lost somehow...
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,...
Video: Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra’s Birds of Passage | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
They tend to always begin with a strong section opening film, and Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra's Birds of Passage (review) did not disappoint as...
Birds of Passage | Review
Wayuu of the Gun: Greed’s No Good in Guerra & Gallego’s Ganja Saga
Crime doesn’t pay, at least not for the indigenous Wayuu people in...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #36. Waiting for the Barbarians – Ciro Guerra
Waiting for the Barbarians
Colombian auteur Ciro Guerra branches out into a high-profile international co-production for his fifth film, an adaptation of South African Nobel...
2018 Cannes: Ciro Guerra, Gaspar Noé, Romain Gavras, Jaime Rosales & Debra Granik Fill Directors’ Fortnight
Heavy on Spanish language films (including a Brazilian film not in its mother tongue) and the usual block of French film items, after seven years...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions I: North & South America
As we near the announcement of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival’s program next month (April 12th for Cannes, 16th for Critics' Week and possibly...
Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11
As we look forward to a plentiful year of new cinematic offerings in 2018, it’s also time to look even further into the horizon...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #71. Ciro Guerra & Cristina Gallegos’ Birds of Passage
Birds of Passage
Columbian director Ciro Guerra unveiled one of 2015’s best titles with his third film Embrace of the Serpent (read review), an Amazonian, post-colonial...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 97. Ciro Guerra’s Birds of Passage
Birds of Passage
Director: Ciro Guerra
Writer: Ciro Guerra
Ciro Guerra’s 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent won top honors out of Directors’ Fortnight and was the...
Embrace of the Serpent | Review
Hearts of Darkness: Guerra’s Exceptional Exploration of Ruinous Colonialization
Colombian director Ciro Guerra charts an enigmatic narrative of parallel odysseys through the Amazon with his...
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...
The Conversation: Finding Foreigners
Though there are many issues regarding the problematic process in deciding the roster of nominees for the annual onslaught known as the Academy Awards,...
2015 TIFF: Porumboiu, Muntean, Sewitsky & Tsangari Among Contemporary World Cinema Selections
Anne Sewitsky's Sundance preemed Homesick, Cannes preemed Romanian imports from Radu Muntean's One Floor Below and Corneliu Porumboiu's The Treasure along with Athina Rachel...
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...