Tag: Ramon Zürcher
The Sparrow in the Chimney | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
There’s a Ghost in Me: Zurcher Explores the Necessity of Destruction
Amidst all the existential dread in Franz Kafka’s body of work, silver linings abound,...
2024 Locarno Film Festival: Ramon Zürcher, Kurdwin Ayub, Hong Sangsoo & Pia Marais in Pardo d’Oro Comp
Former Pardo d’Oro champs Hong Sangsoo (Right Now, Wrong Then - 2015) and Wang Bing (Mrs. Fang - 2017) will be measuring up against...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight
In their inaugural edition and first mandate, Artistic Director Julien Rejl oversaw a significant transformation of the Directors' Fortnight, not only altering its name...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #19. Ramon & Silvan Zürcher’s Der Spatz im Kamin
Der Spatz im Kamin
This latest micro indie film from Ramon and Silvan Zürcher titled Der Spatz im Kamin (which translates to The Sparrow in...
The Girl and the Spider | Review
A Roommate of One’s Own: The Zurcher Bros. Cast a Spell in Weirdo Existential Melodrama
The two central characters of Ramon and Silvan Zurcher’s enchantingly...
TIFF 2021: Titane Opens Midnight Madness / Quinzaine Fills Wavelengths & The Gravedigger’s Wife & Compartment No. 6 Among Prestige Items
With only one more Wednesday announcement left in the bank (competition Platform section and the shorts get announced next week) today we saw the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #40. Ramon Zürcher’s The Girl and the Spider
The Girl and the Spider
Produced by Aline Schmid, Adrian Blaser
Directed by Ramon Zürcher
Written by Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher
Starring: Henriette Confurius, Liliane Amuat, Ursina Lardi,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #12. The Girl and the Spider – Ramon Zürcher
Das Mädchen und die Spinne
Swiss director Ramon Zürcher at last returns with sophomore feature, Das Mädchen und die Spinne (The Girl and the Spider), a...
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 Strange Little Cat | DVD Review
Ramon Zürcher’s student project turned festival darling debut is an odd, wholly original work that bears little resemblance to anything of recent memory. Essentially...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks In Theaters this August: Ramon Zürcher’s The Strange Little Cat
The Strange Little Cat
NYC Release (Film Society of Lincoln Center) – August 1st
Distributor: Fandor
Awards & Fests: It debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in 2013, and...
The Strange Little Cat | Review
In a Word: Pulchritude
Buried in Cannes' most unassuming and roundly ignored sidebar, ACID (an acronym for what translates to "The Association for the Distribution...
Fandor Purrs to the Sound of Zürcher’s “The Strange Little Cat”
Just prior to its one week stint over at the FilmLinc in August, TheWrap reports that Fandor have put The Strange Little Cat in...
Tsai Ming-Liang, Cristi Puiu, Albert Serra & Philip Gröning Among Off-beat Offerings in TIFF’s Wavelengths
Programmer Andrea Picard can do no wrong. From the compiled short and medium film offerings (see listing below for huge sampling of renowned world...
