Tag: Hans Block

2024 Sundance: “Ibelin”, “Black Box Diaries” & “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” in World Cinema Docu Comp

This year's World Cinema Docu Competition sees The Painter and the Thief (2020) filmmaker Benjamin Ree among the pack of ten. Here is the...

The Cleaners | 2018 Sundance Film Festival Review

Behind the Curtain: Block & Riesewieck Reveal the Trade of Internet Moderation For the past decade, censorship on social media has been an increasingly hot...

What’s Up Doc? Top 100: Park City, Psihoyos, Greene & Greenfield Launch 2018 Doc Season

Documentary filmmaking commonly doesn’t afford much celebrity status to its creators that works of fiction benefit from, this, combined with the scarcity of info...

Sundance ’18: Pozdorovkin, Mor Loushy, Sandi Tan & M.I.A. Pack the World Cinema Docu Comp

Last year's dozen selections included Rahul Jain's Machines (World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award), Adam Sobel's The Workers Cup and Feras Fayyad's searing World...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...