Tag: Philippe Lacôte
Black Tea | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew
The level of ineptitude apparent in every regard of Black Tea, Abderrahmane Sissako’s first narrative feature in...
Night of the Kings | Review
The Grift of Gab: Lacote Walks the Line of Escapism vs. Survival in Magical Sophomore Film
“You look like someone who should be condemned,” remarks...
2020 TIFF: Mundruczó, Franco, Rosi, Jasmila Zbanic & Chaitanya Tamhane Among High Profile Selections
With the red carpets remaining in storage this year and A-list players making no plans to quarantine for two full weeks in Canada's capitol,...
2020 Venice Film Festival: Michel Franco, Mona Fastvold, Jasmila Zbanic & Konchalovsky in Comp
Mona Fastvold, Emma Dante and Chloé Zhao were tipped for the comp months ago, but today heavyweights such as Jasmila Zbanic, Malgorzata Szumowska (Never...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #134. La Nuit des rois – Philippe Lacôte
La Nuit des rois
Six years after his 2014 debut Run, Ivory Coast director Philippe Lacôte returns with sophomore feature La Nuit des rois (Night...
Palme d’Or Winner, Studio Ghibli Pair, “St. Vincent” & “Song of the Sea” Among TIFF’s Final Wave Items
Bill Murray is coming to Toronto folks. Actually, the film he stars in (Theodore Melfi's St. Vincent) is having its official World Premiere launch at...
67th Cannes Film Festival: Ostlund, Alonso, Argento, Ferran, Hausner & Ryan Gosling Make the Cut
Best Director winner Mathieu Amalric moves down from the Main Comp, Ryan Gosling changes the title of his film, Ned Benson trims an hour...
Cannes’ L’Atelier 2012: Marco van Geffen and Mahmoud Al Massad Among 15 Selected
In the seven previous editions (with 2007 being the best crop of films with noteworthy titles such as Bertrand Bonello's De La Guerre, Michelangelo...