Tag: Gianfranco Rosi
2025 Venice Film Festival – Who Should Win? Who Will Win!
The verdict is in. The Alexander Payne-led jury has made its decisions, determining the fate of this year's Venice Film Festival competitors. While last...
Below the Clouds (Sotto le nuvole) | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review
Staples of Naples: Rosi Sifts Through Timeworn Sediments
The past informs the present of modern day Naples in Below the Clouds, the latest documentary from...
2025 TIFF: Prime Venice Titles from Gianfranco Rosi, Lucrecia Martel & Poitras/Obenhaus Load up Docs Programme
The Toronto International Film Festival is nearing the completion of its 2025 lineup reveal—an always overwhelming endeavor, given the sheer volume of films featured....
2025 NYFF: Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai, Claire Denis’ The Fence & No Other Choice Among Main Slate Selections
A dash of Sundance, a pinch of the Berlinale, a sprinkling of Cannes and a good number of Venice Film Festival items (Duse, Jay...
2025 Venice: Fastvold, Lanthimos, Assayas, Baumbach, Chan-wook, del Toro, Bigelow, Ben Hania, Benny Safdie & Shu Qi in Golden Lion Comp
Valérie Donzelli (À Pied d’Oeuvre), Cai Shangjun (The Sun Rises on Us All), Kaouther Ben Hania (The Voice of Hind Rajab) and the directorial...
2022 Venice Film Festival: Alice Diop, Poitras, Panahi & Iñárritu Among Front-Runners for the Golden Lion!
With only one title left to be unveiled (for the time being, let's call it the August 30th pre-opener as it will be actually...
Notturno | Review
Darkest Nocturne Before the Dawn: Rosi’s Vision of War-Torn Lives
Filmed on the borders of Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Kurdistan over the past three years,...
You BETcha!: Nomadland is the Odds on Favorite for the 2020 Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion
With Cannes offering up a hypothetical edition and the Karlovy Varys and Locarnos conducting some form of film community outreach, the COVID-19 pandemic might...
2020 TIFF: Mundruczó, Franco, Rosi, Jasmila Zbanic & Chaitanya Tamhane Among High Profile Selections
With the red carpets remaining in storage this year and A-list players making no plans to quarantine for two full weeks in Canada's capitol,...
2020 Venice Film Festival: Michel Franco, Mona Fastvold, Jasmila Zbanic & Konchalovsky in Comp
Mona Fastvold, Emma Dante and Chloé Zhao were tipped for the comp months ago, but today heavyweights such as Jasmila Zbanic, Malgorzata Szumowska (Never...
IndieSponge Episode: 14 – 2020 Venice Film Festival Predictions
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, I invited Tommaso Tocci to discuss the possible titles that might make it into the 2020 edition of...
What’s Up Doc? Hao Wu, Khalik Allah & Jenny Murray Top March Must See Doc List
The year has already picked up significantly since Sundance, as eyes turn to this past weekend's True/False, SXSW, and Tribeca Film Festivals. Taking the...
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...
The Conversation: Das ist Berlin
The Berlin International Film Festival continued to challenge expectations in its 66th edition, landing another auteur heavy competition line-up, albeit a slightly less sensational...
Cinema Italiano: 2015 Venice Film Festival Predictions
Now that we’ve come out of the Cannes ether, we can examine several of the names glaringly absent from the lineup that may potentially...
Stacked 2013 Venice Edition Includes Latest Miyazaki, Ki-Duk, Ming-liang, Dolan and Frederick Wiseman
With still several films not yet announced for the behemoth Toronto Int. Film Festival, it appears that 2013 will be a significant cross-over year...
