Tag: Matt Johnson

Matt and Mara | Review

Friends Forever: Radwanski Reteams With Deragh Campbell For Another Captivating Character Study In Close-Up The tension between a friendship that’s too close for comfort and...

Harvest | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Sheep, Sheep, Sheep: Tsangari’s Monotonous Treatise on Modernization Adapted from a novel by Jim Croce, Harvest is Greek auteur Athina Rachel Tsangari's third feature narrative,...

BlackBerry | Review

Hold the Phone: Johnson Delivers the Ballad of the BlackBerry Exposing the accidental alchemy which generated the titular BlackBerry, the world’s first Smartphone (and as...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #78. Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara

Matt and Mara A project that was shot a little bit under the radar, Torontonian Kazik Radwanski moved into production on his fourth feature this...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #104. Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry

BlackBerry The Dirties (2013) and Operation Avalanche (2016) filmmaker Matt Johnson makes his long awaited return to features with this blast to the past. Featuring...

2023 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: 75 Predictions!

The majority of the films to be presented at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival will be identified next Wednesday and for our regular readers,...

Video Interview: Kazik Radwanski – Anne at 13,000 ft

Making friends can be easy...unless you happen to be the central character in Radwanskian cinema. In Toronto-based filmmaker Kazik Radwanski's third feature film, we...

Anne at 13,000 Ft. | Review

Cyclo Maladroit: Social Safety Nets Deployed in Radwanski’s Latest A Canadian agit dramaturgist whose portraits can be described as deeply humanist, in his third feature...

Sundance ’16: Tim Sutton, Nicolas Pesce, Bernardo Britto, Matt Johnson & Anna Rose Holmer Break into NEXT section

We might look back to 2015's 10 film line-up as a true vintage year for the NEXT section. With the likes of Rick Alverson's...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kevin Smith & Co.’s Holidays

While TIFF is more inclusive to programming them, Sundance is not one to shy away from anthology horror films of the V/H/S type, so perhaps they'll...

The Dirties | Review

Masterfully taking on media-making headline subject matters of bullying and school shootings with the rarely witnessed buddy comedy swagger, Canadian writer/director/star Matt Johnson approaches sensitive...

Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos – ALPS

"When the end is here the ALPS are near." Concluding my trio of interviews with the folks from ALPS, we have acclaimed co-writer/director Yorgos...

Interview: Ariane Labed – ALPS

We can note that it wasn’t too shabby a year for Ariane Labed. The French non-actress barely spoke the Greek language when she won...

Interview: Aggeliki Papoulia – ALPS

First introduced to international auds as the eldest daughter in Yorgos Lanthimos’ freakshow family portrait known as Dogtooth (2009), Aggeliki Papoulia returns to the...

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