Tag: Matteo Garrone
Io Capitano | Review
Journey to Italy: Garrone Details Arduous Migrant Odyssey
It might be a rite of passage for contemporary Italian auteurs to examine the grueling adversity faced...
2023 European Film Awards: The Zone of Interest, Fallen Leaves & Anatomy of a Fall Grab Most Noms
The European Film Academy revealed the nominees for the main categories of the 36th European Film Awards and while Radu Jude's Do Not Expect Too...
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...
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...
2023 Venice Film Festival – 75 Predictions: Fien Troch, Ellen Kuras, Michel Franco, Jan P. Matuszyński…
Among yesterday's round of Venice Film Festival predictions we had the likes of Bertrand Bonello, Viggo Mortensen, Tarsem Singh, Ethan Coen, Pablo Larrain, Michael...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
It's official folks! The drop date has been confirmed. There'll be a couple of films that trickle in a bit after the announcement is...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #47. Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano
Io Capitano
After 2018's Dogman and then 2019's Pinocchio, Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone stirs his ship towards coming-of-age adventure drama territory. Filmed in Italy, Morocco...
Pinocchio | Review
Nose the Ropes: Garrone Renovates Collodi’s Classic Children’s Text
Sometime over the past century, the cinematic conception of the fairy tale has enabled a movement...
Interview: Marcello Fonte – Dogman
We witnessed a bridge with Italian cinemaʼs past with the pair of comp offerings in Cannes last year. Along with Happy as Lazarro, there...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks in Theaters this April: High Life, Dogman & Long Day’s Journey Into Night
IONCINEMA.com’s Top 3 Critics’ Picks offers a curated approach to the usual quandary: what would you recommend I see in theaters this month? The...
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: Best Foreign Language Oscar Contenders
While we’ve yet to see what will take home the Golden Lion out of Venice this September, many of the contenders for what will...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Matteo Garrone’s Dogman
After 2002’s The Embalmer and 2004’s First Love, Matteo Garrone would receive proper international acclaim with Gomorrah - winning the Grand Prix for the...
Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...
The Conversation: Producer Jean Labadie
Jean Labadie is a name which perhaps remains a tad obscured despite his formidable influence on the French film industry. In 1986, Labadie founded...
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: #30. Matteo Garrone’s Dogman
Dogman
Pinocchio seems to be a cursed property. With both Guillermo Del Toro and Matteo Garrone’s plans derailed for a new adaptation of the famed...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
Tale of Tales | Blu-ray Review
Italian auteur Matteo Garrone makes his English language debut with 2015’s Tale of Tales, a droll, visually captivating adaptation of classic fairytales from 17th...
The Conversation: A Cannes Opener… 2017 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
And as we await the unveiling of the Venice Film’s Festival’s 2016 program, we look ahead to what may be in store for the...
Tale of Tales | Review
Good Gaud: Garrone’s Critique of Aristocracy Goes Barely Skin-Deep
Italy’s film industry is enjoying something of a renaissance lately, though honestly it’d have to be...
The Conversation: To Cannes and Back
Unfortunately, this year’s main competition line-up at the Cannes Film Festival ended up being something of an easy target for jaded festival goers. An...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Lots to Munch on in “Tale of Tales”
Marking another strong year for Italian cinema vying for the Palme d'Or, Matteo Garrone is the first out of the gates for the green,...
2015 Cannes Film Fest: Main Comp 1st Timers Include Kurzel, Lanthimos, Donzelli, Villeneuve, Brize, Joachim Trier & Laszlo Nemes
Returnee former Palme d'Or winners and their latest in Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre), Gus Van Sant (Sea Of Trees) are joined by several Main Comp...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell… 2015 Cannes Film Fest Predictions
With the world’s most prestigious film festival just around the corner, cineastes have been lasciviously salivating about what’s going to show up at Cannes,...