Tag: Lorenzo Vigas
La caja (The Box) | Review
Father Knows Best: Vigas Caps His Father/Son Trilogy with Blunt Brutality
In his long-gestating follow-up to 2014 Golden Lion winner From Afar, Venezuela’s Lorenzo Vigas...
TIFF 2021: Titane Opens Midnight Madness / Quinzaine Fills Wavelengths & The Gravedigger’s Wife & Compartment No. 6 Among Prestige Items
With only one more Wednesday announcement left in the bank (competition Platform section and the shorts get announced next week) today we saw the...
TIFF 2021: Bouli Lanners, Ho Wi Ding, Nathalie Biancheri, Agustina San Martín & Stephen Karam to World Preem in Toronto
Cherry picking the better titles from Cannes (winning titles such as Murina, Unclenching The Fists) and Venice, today TIFF programmers beefed up their Special...
2021 Venice Film Festival: Blonde is MIA, Franco’s Sundown, Vasyanovych’s Reflection, Frammartino’s The Hole, Larrain’s Spencer in COMP
While Netflix is present Andrew Dominik's Blonde and Claire Denis' Fire is nowhere to be found, the official selection for the 2021 edition of...
New Order | Review
How Does It Feel, To Treat Me Like You Do?: Franco Flies Into Traumas of Totalitarianism
It’s a sign of the times, wherein an apocalyptic...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #28. Lorenzo Vigas’ The Box
The Box
Produced by Lorenzo Vigas, Michel Franco, Jorge Hernandez Aldana
Directed by Lorenzo Vigas
Starring: Hernan Mendoza, Hatzin Oscar Navarrete
Release Date/Prediction: We're looking at the...
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: #19. La caja – Lorenzo Vigas
La caja
Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas became an immediate international director of note after winning the Golden Lion at the 2015 Venice Film Festival for...
The Conversation: Vying for Venice 2019 – Predictions!
Once again, Venice seems poised to make a killing by featuring a number of high-profile US auteurs in its line-up. Like last year’s program,...
The Conversation: Last But Not Least for Cannes 2019
With the main competition and the sidebar programs all unveiled, we await news of one or potentially two last-minute titles added to the competition,...
Interview: Michel Franco – Las hijas de Abril | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
Having been ardent fan of this filmmaker since being introduced to his minimalist essay on how an assault on the affluent can infuse toxicity...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #51. The Box – Lorenzo Vigas
The Box
Lorenzo Vigas should finally be ready with his long-gestating sophomore feature The Box, which is meant to conclude his paternity-themed trilogy which began...
The Conversation: Bring Forth Berlin (Possible Contenders for the Competition)
As has been the Berlinale’s custom of years past, several early competition titles have been confirmed along with the 2019 opener, Lone Scherfig’s The...
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 2017: #32. Lorenzo Vigas’ The Box
The Box
Director: Lorenzo Vigas
Writer: Lorenzo Vigas
After becoming the first Venezuelan to win Venice with 2015’s From Afar, Lorenzo Vigas announced plans to complete his...
From Afar | Review
The Space Between Us: Vigas’ Debut a Somber, Compelling Character Portrait
Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas unveils a stellar debut with stark and subversive relationship drama...
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 Conversation: Top Ten Films of 2015 in…2016
As always, a number of deserving film festival entries are stragglers in need of distribution or funneled away by buyers to be released in...
AFI Fest 2015: Mediterranea, James White & Krisha Among New Auteurs and American Independents Films Lineup
A pair of sections that we've been covering almost since its inception, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced their selections for the New Auteurs...
The Conversation: 2015 TIFF Top 10 New Voices
Though it’s a harder film festival to regulate and therefore tabulate a comprehensively genuine list reflecting the totality of the fest’s offering per any...
The Conversation: The Totality of Toronto (Plus 2015 TIFF Top Ten)
In the nine consecutive years I’ve attended the Toronto International Film Festival, it remains an elusive monstrosity of an event. With its hundreds of...
2015 TIFF: Maris Curran, Thomas Bidegain & Josh Mond Among Discovery Programme Selections
With about two weeks left until the '15 edition kicks off, the festival heads at TIFF have made the final announcements to their upcoming edition...
2015 Venice Film Festival: Guadagnino, Sokurov, Kaufman, Bellocchio & Fukunaga Compete for Golden Lion
With the exception of Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation and Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl, the nineteen other films in Venice Film Festival's...
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