Tag: Markus Schleinzer
Rose | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
A Self-Made Man: Schleinzer Explores the Privilege of Pants
If there’s a trough line (beyond the eponymous titles) of Austrian director Markus Schleinzer’s films, it’s...
You BETcha!: ‘Yellow Letters’, ‘Rose’ & ‘Queen at Sea’ are the Golden Bear Frontrunners
YouBETcha! is back, this time for our Berlinale edition, where we guess the odds of the films most likely to pick up the converted...
2026 Berlinale: Mundruczó, Çatak, Aïnouz, Schleinzer, Dulude-de Celles, Anthony Chen, Lance Hammer in Golden Bear Comp
There is a lot of unpack here with the official competition offerings which consists of two international premieres and twenty world premieres for a...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Bi Gan, Lynne Ramsay, Nadav Lapid, Lucrecia Martel…Who Will Claim the Final Comp Spots?
The clock is ticking—it’s the eleventh hour. The Délégué général Thierry Frémaux is deep in the final throes of curating this year’s Competition lineup...
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Hafsia Herzi, Óliver Laxe & Rebecca Zlotowski?
La Petite Dernière
Hafsia Herzi
Producers: June Films' Naomi Denamur and Julie Billy
World Sales: mk2
In her first pair of attempts, actress-filmmaker Hafsia Herzi has managed to...
Veni Vidi Vici | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
Destroy Everything You Touch: Hoesl & Riemann Come to Conquer with Dark Satire
As ABBA once succinctly stated, “Money, money money/Must be funny/In a rich...
Dude (Looks Like A Lady): Sandra Hüller Toplines Markus Schleinzer’s Gender Bender “Rose”
Austrian filmmaker (and a supporting player on a slew of recent films) Markus Schleinzer is finally getting back into the director's chair and he...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #119. Frauke Finsterwalder’s Sisi & Ich
Sisi & I
Sisi became all the rage with Marie Kreutzer's Corsage but another "Sisi" film was also in the works. Topically we'd love to...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #169. Daniel Hoesl’s Veni Vidi Vici
Veni Vidi Vici
After checking in with the powerful elite with the '20 docu Davos, Daniel Hoesl moved into a screenplay that is not that...
Interview: Markus Schleinzer – Angelo | 2019 New Horizons Intl. Film Festival
Markus Schleinzer’s second feature Angelo (review) has had a long life on the festival circuit, premiering in Toronto (Platform section 2018) and giving wide...
Angelo | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
The Moor the Merrier: Schleinzer Returns with Incendiary Portrait of Indentured Servitude
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer returns with his long-awaited sophomore film Angelo, a follow-up...
2018 TIFF: Alex Ross Perry, Tim Sutton, Karyn Kusama Part of the Platform Programme
The Toronto Intl. Film Festival have unveiled the dozen titles for their Platform Programme. Now in its fourth year, this year's offerings are for...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions III: Italy’s Sorrentino, Garrone & Rohrwacher Lead Europa Europa
It’s less than a week before the official program is unveiled for Cannes 2018 and this year’s festival already promises to be one of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #50. Markus Schleinzer’s Angelo
Angelo
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer broke into the main competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival with his provocative 2011 debut, Michael (which plays like...
The Conversation: Top 10 World Cinema Filmmakers Missing in Action (Class of 2016)
Following on the heels of our list of US directors who’ve been AWOL for the past five years or more, we highlight ten international...
