Tag: Gael García Bernal
Colonial Tensions: Olivia Wilde & Gael García Bernal Are Oblivious in Sarah Adina Smith’s ‘Monkey Hill’
Ever since breaking out twice with micro-indie The Midnight Swim and then with Buster's Mal Heart, filmmaker Sarah Adina Smith has been mixing it...
Another End | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
The Power of Goodbye: Messina Gets Maudlin with Future Grief
The devil’s unfortunately absent in the details of Another End, a conceptual science fiction melodrama...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mimi Cave’s Holland, Michigan
Despite the pandemic nixing the physical edition and replacing it with the virtual one, it feels like it didn't snow on Mimi Cave's parade....
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Piero Messina’s Another End
It's been a long eight years between projects - but it might be worth the "wait" for this ambitious and stacked sophomore feature. Piero...
2022 San Sebastian: Europe-Latin America Co-prod Forum Includes Agustina San Martín, Beatriz Seigner & Sofía Quirós Úbeda
To Kill a Beast's Agustina San Martín, Los Silencios' Beatriz Seigner and Land of Ashes' Sofía Quirós Úbeda are some of the Latin filmmakers...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Roger Ross Williams’ Cassandro
Celebrated Oscar-winner and Sundance regular (for his docu output) with 2013's God Loves Uganda and 2016's Life, Animated, Roger Ross Williams made a curious...
Ema | Review
Dance, Fools, Dance: Larraín Dances to Delirium in Arthouse Soap Opera
Pablo Larraín returns to Chile to dance the body electric in Ema, a masquerade...
2019 Cannes: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo & Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Added To Comp!
Cannes 2019 will be having it's own Blue Is the Warmest Color reunion or ... face-off as Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and now Abdellatif Kechiche will...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #20. Wasp Network – Olivier Assayas
Wasp Network
French auteur Olivier Assayas (partner to Mia Hansen-Løve who we find on our list as well) shows no signs of slowing down (or for hopping...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #28. Ema – Pablo Larrain
Ema
Chilean director Pablo Larrain returns to Chile for his eighth feature, this time for his first contemporary set drama in his native country with...
Video: Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Vaguely familiar in its form, it was a definite case of deja vu as I've assisted at both world premiere screenings for the 2014...
Sundance ’18: Morano, Silva, Akhavan & Boots Riley Among U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher
An exciting, first feature film credit as a producer for Maggie Gyllenhaal (creatively she is at an important juncture) this could be the Israeli film...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #11. Pablo Larrain’s Neruda
Neruda
Director: Pablo Larrain
Writer: Guillermo Calderon
Pablo Larrain has quickly become one of the most important auteurs in the Chilean New Wave of the past decade...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #54. Werner Herzog’s Salt and Fire
Salt and Fire
Director: Werner Herzog
Writer: Werner Herzog
While universal disappointment has followed Herzog's 2015 Gertrude Bell biopic Queen of the Desert following its Berlin premiere...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bernal/Kashyap/Khan/Silva/Sono/Wasikowska’s Madly
Not your run-of-the-mill future film festival selection, filmmakers Gael García Bernal (Déficit), Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur), Sebastián Silva (Nasty Baby), Shion Sono (Suicide Club), Natasha Khan...
Sheeping with the Enemy: STX Entertainment Points Gun at Cuarón’s “Desierto”
Winner of the Special Presentation Prize from the International Federation of Film Critics, finally the household name of Cuarón made certain that this did not...
Rosewater | Review
Solitary Confinement Is Boring: Stewart's Adaptation Of Bahari's Lengthy Detainment is a Slick, Tame Affair
Jon Stewart’s first foray into the fictional film arena is...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonás Cuarón’s Forsaken
Due to the film's against all odds protagonist, look for Forsaken (formerly known as Desierto) to be mentioned as a reference point to Who is...
Criterion Collection: Y Tu Mamá También | Blu-ray Review
After a decade floating around the Hollywood back lots trading dignity for cash and technical experience on A Little Princess and Great Expectations, Alfonso...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #55. Pablo Fendrik’s The Ardor
The Ardor
Director: Pablo Fendrik
Writer(s): Pablo Fendrik
Producers: Juan Pablo Gugliotta, Nathalia Videla Peña, Gael García Bernal
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Alice Braga
In terms...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #106. Jonas Cuaron’s Desierto
Desierto
Director: Jonas Cuaron
Writers: Mateo Garcia, Jonas Cuaron
Producers: Alfonso Cuaron, Carlos Cuaron and Alex Garcia
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jonas Cuaron,...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jon Stewart’s Rosewater
He took a noticeable leave of absence from the Daily Show back in July to shoot a project close to his heart. With an...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Diego Luna’s Cesar Chavez: An American Hero
I originally included this in last year's predictions' list, but the team took their time in the post-production phase which might, in the end,...
