Tag: Paolo Virzí
2022 Venice Film Festival: Alice Diop, Poitras, Panahi & Iñárritu Among Front-Runners for the Golden Lion!
With only one title left to be unveiled (for the time being, let's call it the August 30th pre-opener as it will be actually...
2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part II) Aroonpheng, Lindholm, Hogg & Rolf de Heer
Only hours before TIFF unveil what should be a sizeable amount of their line-up (and in the same sweeping motion confirm a lot of...
The Leisure Seeker | Review
Enduring Love & Fading Memories: Disappointingly Competent Road Movie Via Virzì
Heavyweights Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland take center stage in this mildly entertaining dramedy about...
Venice 2017: Weiwei, Haigh, Maoz, Doueiri & Kechiche Compete for Golden Lion
Despite the number of spoilers in TIFF announcements less than 48 hours back, the are some top filmmaker names and highly anticipated film items...
The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex
As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell (2017 Edition)
It’s hard to believe, but we’re about five weeks away from the unveiling of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival lineup. After several months of...
Directors’ Fortnight: Larraín, Nguyen, Lafosse, Poitras, Kashyap, Schrader & Jodo Among 2016 Line-up
Three films from Italy, one posthumous offering from Solveig Anspach and plenty of robust, yet familiar "Quinzaine" faces figure among the eighteen selections announced...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: Picks 200-101
It's become a great breaking in the new year traditional here at IONCINEMA.com. We begin our countdown to the our most anticipated foreign films...
Human Capital | DVD Review
Receiving its North American premiere last spring at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, where it snagged a Best Actress award for Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Paolo...
Cinema Italiano: 2015 Venice Film Festival Predictions
Now that we’ve come out of the Cannes ether, we can examine several of the names glaringly absent from the lineup that may potentially...
Human Capital | Review
For What It’s Worth: Virzi’s Leftist Neo-Noir a Capitalistic Parable
Receiving its North American premiere last spring at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, where it...
European Film Awards: Vogt, Östlund, Pawlikowski, Zvyagintsev , Glazer & Ceylan Among 50 Contenders
This year’s European Film Awards are officially out of the gates with a not so lean 50 film submissions to select from. The 27th...