Tag: Lav Diaz
2024 Venice: Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Fabrice du Welz, Asif Kapadia, Errol Morris & Harmony Korine Out of Comp
While we might still be on the fence about what is being described as a first-person shooter-type experience in Harmony Korine's Baby Invasion, but...
2023 Locarno Intl Film Festival: Laura Ferrés, Sofia Exarchou, Radu Jude, Ena Sendijarević, Laura Luchetti & Quentin Dupieux Selected!
It's now Locarno Intl. Film Festival (August 2nd to the 12th) Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro's turn to launch us back into major film...
World Cinema Report: The Philippines – Most Anticipated for 2023
In 2022, the Philippines was on quite a roll on the international cinematic arena with local films gaining critical acclaim and Filipino talents getting...
When the Waves Are Gone | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
When Fair is Foul: Diaz Attempts Neo-Noir in Interminable Derivatives
In the twenty plus features Filipino auteur Lav Diaz has premiered over the past two...
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...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight
Last month we learned that the upcoming 2022 edition of Directors' Fortnight (aka Quinzaine) taking place between May 18th to the 27th will be...
Genus, Pan | Review
Three Amigos: Diaz Explores Featherless Bipeds in Latest Leisurely Expose on Baseness
Running time is always a point of contention when it comes the cinema...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #97. Lav Diaz’s When the Waves Are Gone
When the Waves Are Gone
Perennial Filipino auteur Lav Diaz seems set to debut three new features in 2021, including Henrico’s Farm, Servando Magdamag and...
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...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #52. When the Waves Are Gone – Lav Diaz
When the Waves Are Gone
Without taking a breath, Filipino auteur Lav Diaz should likely have latest feature When the Waves Are Gone ready for...
2019 Cannes: Zlotowski, Bonello, Takashi Miike, Robert Eggers, Lav Diaz & Guadagnino in Fortnight
We waited for the other shoe to drop and this year's Directors' Fortnight is chockfull of directorial films with six of the twenty-three (twenty-four...
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...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #60. 2019 – Lav Diaz
2019
The perennial Lav Diaz should be back in 2019 with a sci-fi political drama, provisionally titled 2019. A French-Filipino co-production between France’s ARP and...
2018 Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Intl. Film Fest: Lav Diaz & Lee Chang-Dong Among Highlights
Selections have been announced for the second edition of the Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Int. Film Festival. The brainchild of former Venice Film...
Interview: Lav Diaz – Season of the Devil (Ang Panahon ng Halimaw)
Economically shot by this auteur's standards (half the length of 2016's A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery), Lav Diaz's just under four opus cleverly...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #82. Lav Diaz’s The Season of the Devil
The Season of the Devil
2016 was a watershed year for Filipino auteur Lav Diaz, who won the Alfred Bauer Award out of Berlin for...
The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex
As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell (2017 Edition)
It’s hard to believe, but we’re about five weeks away from the unveiling of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival lineup. After several months of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 96. Lav Diaz’s When the Waves Are Gone
When the Waves Are Gone
Director: Lav Diaz
Writer: Lav Diaz
Lav Diaz had a sterling 2016. After winning the Alfred Bauer Award for his eight hour...
The Conversation: A Cannes Opener… 2017 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
And as we await the unveiling of the Venice Film’s Festival’s 2016 program, we look ahead to what may be in store for the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #50. Lav Diaz’s Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis
Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis
Director: Lav Diaz // Writer: Lav Diaz
The most notable auteur out of the Philippines in the last decade is Lav Diaz, whose...
2014 TIFF: From Locarno with Love…Wavelengths Offers Rich Programme with Diaz, Costa, Piñeiro & Ming-liang
Yesterday, TIFF’s Wavelengths program unveiled a Locarno-heavy line-up of feature-length films that all aim to push the cinematic medium to its breaking point. Highlights...
Norte, the End of History | Review
Crime & Punishment: Diaz’s Latest Epic Examines the Banality of Evil
For those accustomed to the cinema of Lav Diaz, the four hour running time...
The Cinema Guild Believe in Crime and Punishment; Grab Diaz’s 4-Hour, Cannes Preemed Norte, The End of History
We're not sure if Ryan Krivoshey's The Cinema Guild intends to supply snacks or bathrooms breaks during its 2014 theatrical run, but the great...
Asian Delights: TIFF Loads up Masters with Zhangke, Ki-duk, Lav Diaz & Sangsoo; Midnight Madness Grabs World Preem to Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching...
The coveted final spot in the Midnight Madness section, is a world premiere screening that belongs to Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching...
Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Lav Diaz’s Norte, the End of History
Norte, the End of History - Lav Diaz
Section: Un Certain Regard
Buzz: Buzz: Lav Diaz can get ghetto-ized as that Filipino director who makes obscenely...
2013’s Un Certain Regard Includes Plenty of Vets (Claire Denis, Rithy Panh, Rasoulof, Guiraudie, Abu-Assad) & Newbies too (Coogler)
2013's Un Certain Regard section carries a whopping five first time feature filmmakers that'll be measuring themselves up against auteur cinema heavyweights. While we...
