Tag: Michel Merkt
Rimini | Review
Bravo New World: Seidl Returns with Desolate Portrait of Fallen Hustler
There’s always a healthy thread of humor lurking under the despair of Ulrich Seidl’s...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #31. Ira Sachs’ Passages
Passages
A project we thought might drop in '22 is leading the gem offerings from the beginning of '23 instead. American indie filmmaker Ira Sachs...
Benedetta | Review
Blaspheme, Queen: Verhoeven Turns to Nunsploitation in Erotic Melodrama
Occupying a dazzling intersection of exploitation and queer historical recuperation is the long-awaited Benedetta from Dutch...
Martin Eden | Review
The Working Class Goes to Heaven: Marcello Retrofits London’s Ruminations on Superficial Social Status
Pietro Marcello brings his unconventional sensibilities to new heights with Martin...
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...
Beanpole | Review
Life After Wartime: Balagov Crafts Exemplary Portrait of Post-WWII Role of Women
In the words of Plato, “Only the dead have seen the end of...
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...
La femme de mon frère | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Is There a Doctorate in the House? Chokri Skids and Skates without Moving
Moving from her award-winning short Quelqu'un d’extraordinaire (2013) debut which dealt with...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau
Technically their second film to compete in Cannes when you consider Production Designer Juliano Dornelles as a creative collaborator on Aquarius (which placed 2nd in the top vote-getters for...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #3. Nighthawk (Bacurau) – Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles
Nighthawk (Bacurau)
Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho returns with his third feature, Nighthawk (aka Bacurau), recruiting his previous production designer Juliano Dornelles as co-director. Filho...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #22. Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due – Abdellatif Kechiche
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
We’re still waiting on the appearance of Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due, the follow-up to his 2017 first...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #37. Synonymes – Nadav Lapid
Synonymes
Israeli director Nadav Lapid breaks into French cinema with his long-gestating third feature Synonymes (Synonyms). Produced by Said Ben Said and Michel Merkt, the young cast...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #77. Les envoûtés – Pascal Bonitzer
Les amis des amis
French writer and director Pascal Bonitzer commences on his eighth feature, Les envoûtés (formerly titled Les amis des amis), which features...
Video Interview: Nadine Labaki – Capernaum
There is a sequence in Nadine Labaki's Capernaum where Zain (who now belongs to the Antoine Doinel film canon) proactively attempts to save the...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #66. Ritesh Batra – Photograph
Post The Lunchbox fame (his well traveled Film Fest favorite which was also shown at Sundance in 2014), Ritesh Batra hit a creative cluster mark with Our Souls...
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...
Zama | Review
Mortal Transfer: Martel Returns with Lush, Dark Comedy on Colonial Maneuvering
Unfairly disposed to doomed distribution prospects and perhaps unfortunate dismissal during its initial reception...
Interview: Samuel Maoz – Foxtrot
It's been almost a full decade since Venice Golden Lion 2009's Lebanon (check out our 2009 interview), so it was with considerable anticipation and curiosity as...
Video: Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot: 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Among the fivesome of nominees for Best Foreign Language Film for this weekend's Oscars, Foxtrot finally makes its way into theatres this weekend via Sony Pictures Classics...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #3. Paul Verhoeven’s Elle
Elle
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writers: David Birke, Harold Manning
Words cannot describe how excited we are to see the pairing of Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #10. Lucrecia Martel’s Zama
Zama
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writer: Lucrecia Martel
Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel has become one of her country’s most prolific filmmakers with three outstanding titles to her name,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #78. Pascal Bonitzer’s Tout de suite maintenant
Tout de suite maintenant
Director: Pascal Bonitzer
Writers: Pascal Bonitzer, Agnes de Sacy
The multifaceted Cesar Award nominee Pascal Bonitzer is best known as a screenwriter, specifically...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Deb Shoval’s AWOL
With one of last year's Sundance intoxicatingly cute natured discoveries in Lola Kirke (from Noah Baumbach's Mistress America) toplining, the reasonable five-year morphing phase into a...
2015 Champs-Élysées Film Fest: Another Evil, AWOL & Porto Mon Amour Among USIP Selected Projects
Deb Shoval's adaptation of her award-winning short (AWOL), Carson Mell's feature film debut (Another Evil) and Gabe Klinger's Porto, Mon Amour starring Anton Yelchin...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #12. David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars
Maps to the Stars
Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: Bruce Wagner
Producers: Said Ben Said, Martin Katz, Michel Merkt
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Julianne Moore,...
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