Tag: Jennifer Kent
The Babadook | Review
Consequences of Grief: Kent’s Stunning Debut Wades Through Primordial Fears
Satisfying genre films are generally few and far between these days, so it’s with absolute...
The Nightingale | Review
Bloody White People: Kent Hits Hard with Brutal Revenge Trip
Jennifer Kent follows up her formidable debut The Babadook with a less inventive, but decidedly...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Emma Forrest’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
Through the Looking Glass: The Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 – Picks #100 to #11
While we look forward to a plentiful 2019 as far as foreign cinema is concerned (of which we highlighted #300-151 and our countdown #150-1 to anticipate...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #61. Jennifer Kent – The Nightingale
Sundance was a major launch pad for Jennifer Kent's The Babadook and it could be the lieu for the US premiere (nabbing one of...
2018 Venice Film Festival: Jennifer Kent, Alverson, Corbet, Schnabel & Coen Bros. in Comp
Surprise, surprise. At the end of the day, Ethan and Joel Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a feature film (not a series)...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions IV: Brit Helmers Leigh, Hogg & Strickland Lead Anglo Contingency
On the British side, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo was once assumedly a for sure thing (he won the Palme in 1996 for Secrets & Lies),...
Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11
As we look forward to a plentiful year of new cinematic offerings in 2018, it’s also time to look even further into the horizon...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #26. Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
The Nightingale
Responsible for one of the most successful debuts over the past decade with 2014’s The Babadook (read ★★★★ review), Australia’s Jennifer Kent is ready...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
A filmmaker who needs no introduction, the award-winning The Babadook (among our top 20 for 2014) is among the upper echelon titles that premiered at...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #17. Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
The Nightingale
Director: Jennifer Kent
Writer: Jennifer Kent
Before her notable 2014 debut The Babadook (which premiered to ecstatic review out of Sundance) had reached theatrical release,...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction
As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...
The Babadook | Blu-ray Review
Jennifer Kent’s disturbing directorial debut The Babadook arrives on Blu-ray this week, scoring some of the most critically acclaimed notices ever for a recent...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: #2. Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
The Nightingale
Director: Jennifer Kent // Writer: Jennifer Kent
As she basks in the positive fall out of her incredibly well received directorial debut, The Babadook,...
Best of 2014: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 (Picks 20-11)
As seems to be the usual case, many of my top 2014 theatrical releases were actually 2013 titles I caught on the festival circuit...
Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead) & Adam Wingard (The Guest) Make Return to Park City at Midnight Section
I had a hunch that Cooties (read here) and Adam Wingard's The Guest (read here) might make it into what appears to be a...