Tag: David Cronenberg

2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Fest: Neo Sora, Murat Fıratoğlu, Damian Kocur & Mo Harawe in Comp

The Marrakech International Film Festival have announced its complete line-up and in the official competition (first and second feature films) film titles we find...

2024 NYFF: Corbet, Tsangari, Baker, Lesage, Guiraudie Plus Surprise Devor & Loktev Titles in Main Slate

We got a nice sampling of Berlinale (e.g. the Golden Bear winner Dahomey) and Cannes (e.g. the Palme d'Or winner Anora) items with a...

2024 TIFF: 10 Key Take-Aways From Gala & Special Presentations Announcement

The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its Gala and Special Presentations programs and now have have confirmations not only...

David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7

In his late career resurgence with Crimes of the Future having been showcased in the comp in 2022, David Cronenberg makes his entrance with...

The Shrouds | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

Death Be Not Shroud: Cronenberg Hits Dead Ends in Sluggish Mystery The burial business serves as the battle ground for a complicated conundrum in David...

2024 Cannes Film Festival: Payal Kapadia, Lanthimos, Baker, Gomes & Agathe Riedinger’s Debut Vie for Palme d’Or

With today's announcement of nineteen competition titles aiming in contention of the Palme d'Or (note that we might add another pair or trio next...

2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 25 Possible Palme d’Or Competition Films

Usually in the twenty to twenty-two film range, the competition for the Palme d'Or has been a tad more inclusive in recent years in...

2023 NYFF: Trân Anh Hùng, Garth Davis, Hayao Miyazaki, Harmony Korine & Steve McQueen in Spotlight Section

Last year's Spotlight Section managed to nab pair of highly sought-after titles in Bones and All and Women Talking and a pair of world...

2023 Eurimages: Cronenberg, Serebrennikov, Nordahl & Agnieszka Holland Land Coin

The Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2023 have just been announced and among the 32 supported films we have some veteran filmmakers in David...

2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Competition

Armageddon Time - James Gray Boy from Heaven - Tarik Saleh Broker - Hirokazu Kore-eda Frère et sœur - Arnaud Desplechin Close - Lukas...

Crimes of the Future | Review

Origin of the Neo-Species: Cronenberg Crafts a Discourse on Human Evolution Whatever the evolution happening in the world of David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future,...

2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7- David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future

This year's Canadian entry has a touch of Greece in it as David Cronenberg shot his latest film with a whiff of the Aegean...

2022 Cannes: Abbasi, Dhont, Reichardt, Mungiu & Claire Denis Among 18 Titles Vying for Palme d’Or

The likes of first-time comp contenders Kelly Reichardt, Ali Abbasi and Lucas Dhont are joining former Palme d'Or winners Ruben Östlund, Kore-eda Hirokazu, the...

2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls

We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #15. David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future

Crimes of the Future Produced by Robert Lantos Directed by David Cronenberg Written by David Cronenberg Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, Don...

The Conversation: Producer Michel Merkt

Swiss producer Michel Merkt, who runs his own company KNM alongside his wife and often produces noted international projects with Said Ben Said of...

Rabid / Dead Ringers | Blu-ray Review

Shout Factory rejuvenates two titles from David Cronenberg’s prolific vault, his 1977 horror film Rabid, which featured adult film star Marilyn Chambers in her...

The Conversation: Producer Saïd Ben Saïd

For the past sixteen years, Franco-Tunisian producer Saïd Ben Saïd has been steadfastly supporting the works of many a European maverick auteur. Beginning in...

The Conversation: Producer Paulo Branco

One of the most prolific, contemporary European art-house producers has to be Paulo Branco, who has been fostering considerable auteur driven fare since 1975,...

Maps to the Stars | Review

What’s the Matter with Havana?: Cronenberg’s L.A. Story a Hot Mess of Tangled Ideas Couched within its episodic instances of harpooning Hollywood stereotypes, there is...

Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut | Blu-ray Review

Back in 1990, just prior to its release, 20th Century Fox recut Nightbreed drastically, attempting to shift its somewhat progressive, fantastical subtext into the...

2014 NYFF: Chazelle, Broomfield, Bonello, Ferrara, Sang-soo, Hansen-Løve Make Cut

While Sundance (Damien Chazelle's Whiplash and Alex Ross Perry's Listen Up Philip) and Berlin (Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters, Yann Demange's ’71, Alain Resnais' Life...

Latest From Ozon, Bahrani, Baumbach, Gordon Green, Petzold & Hansen-Løve Heading to TIFF…Telluride & Venice

Much like back to school sales in mid July, in our books, TIFF's first announcement wave reminds us that the end of summer is...