Tag: Denis Villeneuve

Dune | Review

Spice Up Your Life: Villeneuve Embarks with Somber Take on the Sci-Fi Classic The journey of Dune to the big screen has been an arduous...

2021 Venice Film Festival: Blonde is MIA, Franco’s Sundown, Vasyanovych’s Reflection, Frammartino’s The Hole, Larrain’s Spencer in COMP

While Netflix is present Andrew Dominik's Blonde and Claire Denis' Fire is nowhere to be found, the official selection for the 2021 edition of...

TIFF 2021: Wright’s Last Night in Soho & Davies’ Benediction Among 13 Titles Announced

With Theodore Melfi's The Starling and Antoine Fuqua's The Guilty among the thirteen titles that the Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled today we...

2018 Cannes Jury Duty: DuVernay, Villeneuve, Zvyagintsev & Kristen Stewart to Hand out Palme d’Or

Jury President Cate Blanchett will be surrounded by fellow thesps Chang Chen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, noteworthy filmmakers Ava DuVernay, Robert Guédiguian, Denis Villeneuve,...

Tuesday Blus: Intermezzo, Blade Runner: 2049 & Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Intermezzo (1939) Film Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆ Disc Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆ It’s a tale as old as time, more vintage than...

Blade Runner 2049 | Review

A Time to Brood: Villeneuve Delivers Sleek, Stylized Mood Noir with Sci-Fi Sequel Do androids dream of electric sheep? It’s a question never completely answered,...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: #1. Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049 Director: Denis Villeneuve Writers: Hampton Fancher, Michael Green At this time last year, Denis Villeneuve was at the top of our most anticipated Studio...

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...

Arrival | Review

Future Perfect: Villeneuve Crafts a Poetic Close Encounter Using language and communication as a fertile metaphor, Denis Villeneuve situates complex ideas into streamlined composition with...

The Conversation: Cinema Italiano – 2016 Venice Film Festival Predictions

Looking towards the Lido, we’re just over three months away before the fourth quarter Fall Festival circuit kick off, and the final prestigious competition...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #5. Denis Villeneuve’s Untitled Blade Runner Sequel

Untitled Blade Runner Sequel Director: Denis Villeneuve Writers: Hampton Fancher, Michael Green Following his expertly crafted studio pulp items such as Prisoners (2013) and this year’s Sicario,...

Our Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films: Villeneuve’s Story of Your Life Leads Class of 2016

Auteurs working within the confines of the studio system tend to disappoint, though we try to keep hope alive by anticipating the best for...

Sicario | Blu-ray Review

French Canadian auteur Denis Villeneuve scores another box office hit with critically acclaimed Sicario. The rare genre item to have had a successful premiere as a...

Sicario | Review

The Company of Wolves: Villeneuve’s Superb Packaging Enhances Customary Cartel Themes There’s much to be excited about with Sicario, the latest film from Quebecois director...

2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Villeneuve Takes Back Cannes with Sicario

In the beginning stages of his career (with the exception of Maelstrom showing in Berlin), Denis Villeneuve was an habitual of the Cannes Film...

Video Interview: Denis Villeneuve (Sicario)

While some filmmakers only find out the night before, Cannes Film Festival's Thierry Frémaux informed Denis Villeneuve that he'd be part of the Main Comp...

2015 Cannes Film Fest: Main Comp 1st Timers Include Kurzel, Lanthimos, Donzelli, Villeneuve, Brize, Joachim Trier & Laszlo Nemes

Returnee former Palme d'Or winners and their latest in Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre), Gus Van Sant (Sea Of Trees) are joined by several Main Comp...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: Picks 100 to 6

While DC and Marvel might already have a lock on several future release dates past the 2015 campaign with the Coen Bros. circling February...

Best of 2014: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 (Picks 10-1)

Nicholas Bell's Top 20 films of 2014... #20. Madeleine Olnek's The Foxy Merkins #19. Damien Chazelle's Whiplash #18. Gillian Robespierre's Obvious Child #17. Jennifer Kent's The Babadook #16. Adam...

Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Best of 2014 So Far…

#10. The Grand Budapest Hotel Without a doubt, Anderson’s darkest film to date, this also has to be the richest and most complex of his...

Tucson Toughie; Denis Villeneuve Corrals Emily Blunt to Topline “Sicario”

He premiered a pair of films at TIFF this past September, of course his latest film Enemy works in twos, and a rarity in...

Tongue Twister; Amy Adams Deciphers New Language for Villeneuve’s “Story of Your Life”

Spike Jonze. David O. Russell. Paul Thomas Anderson. And now Denis Villeneuve. Amy Adams has the pick of the auteur litter and according to...

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...

Enemy | Review

Identical/Identity: Villeneuve's Doppelganger Thriller a Kafkaesque Dead Ringer You can forget the pulpy throes of the dark hearted Prisoners, the recently released collaboration of Jake...

TIFF 2013 Puts Cuffs on Denis Villeneuve’s “Enemy” & Swears by Michael Dowse’s “The F Word”

This afternoon, with poutine and local wine to mark the occasion, the Toronto International Film Festival announced their Canadian film selections. Programmers Steve Gravestock...