This week we throw ourselves into predicting the world premiere options for both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals. We begin by looking...
Hovering around the eighteen to twenty film selection range, the Un Certain Regard section wasn't necessarily overhauled but there was an unofficial memo that...
Heroico
A longtime producer for Michel Franco's films, Mexican filmmaker David Zonana finally kicked off his feature filmmaking career with Workforce (Mano de obra) in...
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.