Tag: Cristi Puiu

Under Communist Rule: Cristi Puiu’s “La Saint-André des loups” Set for Spring Shoot

Pre-pandemic, Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu had been working on "Hora staccato," set in May 1950 Bucharest, where police rounded up dignitaries and imprisoned them....

MMXX | 2023 San Sebastián Intl. Film Festival Review

Hindsight, 20/20: Puiu Contemplates the Comedy of Crisis Mercury is most definitely in retrograde for the four principal characters in MMXX, the latest foray into...

2023 San Sebastián: Cristi Puiu, Joachim Lafosse, Raven Jackson & María Alche + Benjamín Naishtat in Comp

Before Venice gets into go mode and unveil their line-up, Artistic Director José Luis Rebordinos has given us a sampling of the films that...

2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight

The Director's Fortnight didn't simply give itself a new coat of paint but rather a heart transplant. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs is now a thing...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #21. Cristi Puiu’s MMXX

MMXX With lengthy time between film projects it always feels like an event film when there is a new Cristi Puiu in the works. Best...

Malmkrog | Review

Ollie Ollie Oligarchy: Puiu Weighs the World That Was in Long Form For what stands as his sixth narrative feature, Malmkrog, Romanian New Wave auteur...

Exclusive: Poster for Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog

As we await the unveiling of the Golden Bear hopefuls, earlier today, the Berlin International Film Festival unveiled the fifteen features that will comprise...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #27. Malmkrog – Cristi Puiu

Malmkrog 2019 has come and gone, but we’ve yet to see the latest project from Cristi Puiu, which was reportedly completed sometime ago (with a...

The Conversation: Bringing Up Berlin – Predictions for the 2020 Berlinale

Berlin becomes a septuagenarian in 2020. The significant European springboard will also receive a new facelift in the early dawn of the new decade,...

The Conversation: Leaping to Locarno’s Leopard

Arriving August 7th and extending through August 17th, the Locarno Film Festival and its leaping Leopard is the final stepping stone before the grand...

The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions

For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...

Through the Looking Glass: The Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 – Picks #100 to #11

While we look forward to a plentiful 2019 as far as foreign cinema is concerned (of which we highlighted #300-151 and our countdown #150-1 to anticipate...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #25. Malmkrog – Cristi Puiu

Malmkrog As we await the production of Romanian auteur Cristi Puiu’s Hora Staccato (which was announced as a project around the same time Sieranevada went...

Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #10 to #6

#10. Pablo Aguero’s Witches’ Sabbath Argentinean director Pablo Aguero broke out with his third feature Eva Doesn’t Sleep in 2015, which featured Gael Garcia Bernal...

The Conversation: Producer Olivier Père

Since joining ARTE France Cinema in 2013, producer Olivier Père has become a prolific fixture on the Croisette. Making a bow in Un Certain...

The Conversation: Goodbye to Foreign Language

Nearing the second half of 2016, there’s much yet to be revealed in global cinema, with major platforms in Venice and TIFF likely to...

Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, Aquarius, Elle & Paterson Top our 2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel

Yesterday's George Miller led jury pronounced Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake as the best from the 2016 competition of twenty-one films, and they gave...

Sieranevada | 2016 Cannes Film Festival Review

Death in the Family: Puiu’s Grueling, Rewarding Portrait of Familial Strife People are never who they seem to be, at least until you get to...

2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Puiu Thinks of You, The Living with “Sieranevada”

Fans of Romanian cinema are well compensated this year with not one, but two comp offerings from the Eastern european nation: Cristian Mungiu is...

The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition

Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #13. Cristi Puiu’s Sierra-Nevada

Sierra-Nevada Director: Cristi Puiu Writer: Cristi Puiu Romanian New Wave master Cristi Puiu, has been almost absent from the cinema scene, whose memorable sophomore effort, 2005’s The...

A Cannes Opener: 2016 Cannes Film Festival Predictions

A furious slew of titles in the works would seem to prophesize a robust main competition slate for Cannes 2016. Though our initial list...

Good Grief: Mimi Brănescu Measures Brain Waves in Cristi Puiu’s “Sierra-Nevada”

Cristi Puiu has reteamed with his The Death of Mr. Lazarescu actor Mimi Brănescu on the filmmaker's fifth feature film currently filming in Bucharest...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #22. Cristi Puiu’s Sierra-Nevada

Sierra-Nevada Director: Cristi Puiu // Writer: Cristi Puiu Not much has been heard lately from Romanian New Wave master Cristi Puiu, whose memorable sophomore effort, 2005’s...

Most Anticipated Films for 2015: An Overview

Last month, we unveiled our all-encompassing, most anticipated films for the current year in film. Now we peer into a future that is a...