Tag: Maren Ade
Maria | Review
Songs from the Specious Floor: Larrain Imagines the Last Days of a Diva
A penny for the thoughts of Maria Callas regarding Pablo Larraín’s glossy...
Fourthcoming: Maren Ade Setting Up ‘Zauberwort’ for 2026 Shoot
Ulrike Ottinger came out of a long gestation period for The Blood Countess and now fellow female German filmmaker Maren Ade is in early...
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...
Corsage | Review
Waist of Time: Sissi is no Sissy in Kreutzer’s Rebel Biopic
The foreboding restraints of an upper body female garment figuratively represent the repression and...
35th European Film Awards: A Cannes Comp rematch for Ali Abbasi, Lukas Dhont & Ruben Ôstlund
Three huge winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival lead the noms for the 35th European Film Awards. Lukas Dhont’s Close, Ali Abbasi’s Holy...
Ahed’s Knee | Review
Kneedful Things: Lapid Highlights Complex Conflicts in Indignant Screech
The entirety of Ahed’s Knee, the fourth film from Israel’s Nadav Lapid, is formatted to aggravate...
AEIOU – A Quick Alphabet of Love | 2022 Berlin International Film Festival Review
The Consonants of Love: Krebitz Gets Caught in an Odd Romance
“It all begins with A,” so begins the omniscient third-person narration of Anna, an...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #23. Ildikó Enyedi’s The Story of My Wife
The Story of My Wife
Produced by Monika Mécs, András Muhi, Erno Mésterhazy, Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Flaminio Zadra and Pilar Saavedra Perrotta.
Directed...
Lost in Translation: Lapid Languishes in Enigmatic, Complex Study on Cultural Identities with “Synonyms” | Blu-ray Review
Winning the Golden Bear at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival, Nadav Lapid’s third film Synonyms was one of the best theatrical releases of...
Exil | 2020 Sundance Film Festival Review
Fugee Fugue: Perceptions and Paranoia Make Bitter Bedfellows in Morina’s Drama
For anyone who’s ever experienced the phenomenon of ‘otherness,’ Visar Morina’s terrific sophomore film...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #5. The Story of My Wife – Ildikó Enyedi
The Story of My Wife
Produced by Monika Mécs, András Muhi, Erno Mésterhazy, Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Flaminio Zadra and Pilar Saavedra Perrotta.
Directed...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #148. Exil – Visar Morina
Exil
Kosovo’s Visar Morina embarks on another co-production (Kosovo/Germany/Belgium) for sophomore feature, Exil, a project produced by the high-profile trio of Janine Jackowski (we profiled...
Synonyms | Review
Lost in Translation: Lapid Languishes in Enigmatic, Complex Study on Cultural Identities
The rejection of self and the adoption of persona are prominent themes pouring...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #47. The Passenger – Corneliu Porumboiu
The Passenger
Another New Romanian Wave essential, Corneliu Porumboiu borrows a moniker from Antonioni for his fifth feature, The Passenger (previously known as Gomera). A...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #83. Roads – Sebastian Schipper
Roads
It’s been four years since German director Sebastian Schipper’s single take thriller Victoria (2015), but he’ll back in 2019 with his first English language...
The Conversation: Producer Michel Merkt
Swiss producer Michel Merkt, who runs his own company KNM alongside his wife and often produces noted international projects with Said Ben Said of...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Iram Haq’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...
The Conversation: Producer Janine Jackowski
Producer Janine Jackowski has quietly fostered a new era of art-house German cinema off lauded output from directors Maren Ade and Ulrich Kohler (who...
Video: Palme d’Or Jury – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
The final day of the Cannes Film Festival is one of trepidation and tremendous release - and I'd argue, that this applies to the...
Best of 2016: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Theatrical Releases: Picks 10 to 1
Recapping yesterday's 20 to 11 countdown/up.
20. David Mackenzie's Hell or High Water
19. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Creepy
18. Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship
17. Anders Thomas Jensen's Men...
Toni Erdmann | Review
Tony Toni Tone: Maren Ade Returns with Profound Portrait of Estranged Family Members
Comedic films coming out of Germany, at least those nabbing international acclaim...
The Conversation: Top 10 Technicians Mid-Year Ranking
With directors and/or actors usurping most of the credit and acclaim for lauded film features, we chose to highlight a few of the behind-the-scenes...
The Conversation: Goodbye to Foreign Language
Nearing the second half of 2016, there’s much yet to be revealed in global cinema, with major platforms in Venice and TIFF likely to...
Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, Aquarius, Elle & Paterson Top our 2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel
Yesterday's George Miller led jury pronounced Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake as the best from the 2016 competition of twenty-one films, and they gave...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 12: Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann Leads Palme d’Or Predictions & Personal Palmes
The Cannes Film Festival is getting ready to bestow several awards, including the highest honor. Not surprisingly, the majority of the jury think that Maren Ade's...
It’s Not a Joke: SPC Isn’t Monkeying Around with Palme d’Or Favorite “Toni Erdmann”
Sony Pictures Classics might have nabbed this year's Palme d'Or winner. Of course, time (a little less than a week) will tell if Maren...