Tag: Malgorzata Szumowska
2023 European Film Awards: The Zone of Interest & Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Lead New Noms
A pair of noteworthy Cannes titles in Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest and Tran Anh Hung's The Pot-au-Feu, some Locarno items such as...
Venice Film Festival 2023: All of IONCINEMA.com’s Movie Reviews
We came, we saw, we conquered. Our Nicholas Bell was in review overdrive assessing the entire competition and much more. We'll still have film...
Woman Of… | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Pieces of a Woman: Szumowska & Englert Compose Compassionate Portrait of Trans Woman
“Testosterone is power,” confirms one physician advising Andrzej, the protagonist of Malgorzata...
2023 Venice: Ava DuVernay, David Fincher, Agnieszka Holland, Malgorzata Szumowska & Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Comp Surprises!
We have twenty-three competition entries and all the America films that were tipped to compete for the Golden Lion have indeed stuck to their...
2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 100 Predictions (Part I) Berger, Wilde, Mendes & Nattiv
As we enthusiastically await the make-up of the major fall film festivals there is one theory that is being advanced: the "Festival of Festivals"...
Infinite Storm | Review
White Woman in a Blizzard: Szumowska Pitts Watts Against the Elements in True Life Trauma Drama
Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska unleashes her tenth narrative feature...
Never Gonna Snow Again | Review
Intimate Strangers: Szumowska & Englert Explore Despondency & Isolation
Our innate capacity for constructing the vehicles of our own alienation and ennui inform the backdrop...
You BETcha!: Nomadland is the Odds on Favorite for the 2020 Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion
With Cannes offering up a hypothetical edition and the Karlovy Varys and Locarnos conducting some form of film community outreach, the COVID-19 pandemic might...
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...
The Other Lamb | Review
Lamb Tied to (Mis)Take: Szumowska Gets Culty with English Language Debut
Cults seem to be making something of a comeback in popular film culture, which...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #46. All Inclusive – Malgorzata Szumowska
All Inclusive
Get ready for a deluge of new films from Poland’s Malgorzata Szumowska. 2019 saw her English language debut The Other Lamb (read review)...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #66. Wonder Zenia – Małgorzata Szumowska
Wonder Zenia
Get ready for a deluge of new films from Poland’s Małgorzata Szumowska. 2019 saw her English language debut The Other Lamb (read review)...
The Conversation: Bringing Up Berlin – Predictions for the 2020 Berlinale
Berlin becomes a septuagenarian in 2020. The significant European springboard will also receive a new facelift in the early dawn of the new decade,...
The Conversation: 10 Most Anticipated Films – TIFF 2019
Despite its various programming cutbacks over the past several years, TIFF remains an overwhelming buffet of juxtapositions. A marvelous chance to catch up on...
2019 TIFF: Fest Lands World Preems to Cretton, Crowley, Finley, Heller, Kurzel, Iannucci, Waititi & Winterbottom
Confirming what will show at Telluride and Venice, the 2019 edition of the Toronto Intl.Film Festival has managed to land several World Preem and...
The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!
The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...
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...
The Conversation: Finale of the Berlinale 2018
In what constitutes a rather curious and unpredictable session of the Berlin International Film Festival, the 68th edition of the festival ended with some...
Mug (Twarz) | 2018 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Eyes Without a Face: Szumowska Constructs a Christ Figure in Melancholic Farce
Love is a many splendored thing, albeit something often compromised or mutilated by...
The Conversation: Top 5 Most Anticipated 2018 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Offerings
On the surface, the competition lineup for Berlin 2018 seems demurer than the past several years. With the exception of the Wes Anderson opener...
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: #43. Malgorzata Szumowska’s Mug
Mug
Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska has been steadily making features since 2000, but her 2011 film Elles (read review) was an initial international breakout thanks to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #44. Malgorzata Szumowska’s Face
Face
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Writer: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska has been steadily making features since 2000, but her 2011 film Elles was an...
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...
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...