Tag: Jean Labadie

Fuori | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Hoosegow Girls: Martone Pays Delicate Tribute to Goliarda Sapienza “Never refuse to see the unpleasant aspects of life,” wrote Goliarda Sapienza in her widely...

Interview: Lisandro Alonso – Eureka

It would be the longest hap between films and certainly his most ambitious project to date (it was rumored to span all the continents...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #91. Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s As Bestas

As Bestas Spanish helmer Rodrigo Sorogoyen has been shooting up the charts with multiple projects for just over the past decade. Best known to international...

La Fracture | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review

Conqueror Worms: Corsini Juggles Metaphors in Strangely Asymmetrical Social Issue Film Director Catherine Corsini metastasizes an ensemble exercise for her eleventh feature, La Fracture, a...

Pinocchio | Review

Nose the Ropes: Garrone Renovates Collodi’s Classic Children’s Text Sometime over the past century, the cinematic conception of the fairy tale has enabled a movement...

Interview: Marcello Fonte – Dogman

We witnessed a bridge with Italian cinemaʼs past with the pair of comp offerings in Cannes last year. Along with Happy as Lazarro, there...

Criterion Collection: Beyond the Hills | Blu-ray Review

For his third film, and his follow-up to his 2007 Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu, titan of...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Club Kid | Review

Sex, Drugs & Unexpected Parenting: Firstman’s Debut Creates an...

Interview: Jordan Firstman – Club Kid

I first took notice of Jordan Firstman through his...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...