Tag: Ruben Ostlund
Cabin Pressure: Keanu Reeves First Passenger to Board “The Entertainment System Is Down”
Following in the footsteps of Woody Harrelson, Keanu Reeves is the next actor in line for a special kind of miserablism reserved for air...
2023 Cannes: Palme Winner Julia Ducournau, Paul Dano & Rungano Nyoni Among Jury!
Ruben Östlund has a bunch of cinephile buddies to help him hand out the big daddy of all film prizes this May with the...
35th European Film Awards: A Cannes Comp rematch for Ali Abbasi, Lukas Dhont & Ruben Ôstlund
Three huge winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival lead the noms for the 35th European Film Awards. Lukas Dhont’s Close, Ali Abbasi’s Holy...
Triangle of Sadness | Review
Voyage of the Damned: Östlund Frowns Down Upon Hardwired Human Folly in Devious Satire
Ruben Östlund has built an impressive filmography satirizing social norms, with...
2022 European Film Awards: Alcarràs, Close, Triangle of Sadness, Corsage & Holy Spider on 30 Short List
It's that time of year again where Euro titles from Venice of the previous year duke it out with Euro Cannes film productions of...
2022 TIFF: Peter Farrelly, Hong Sang-soo & Tobias Lindholm to World Premiere in Toronto
The fun part about dissecting TIFF's Gala and Special Presentations unveiling are what titles are skipping TIFF, which titles are moving directly from Venice...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Winners [Video]
We cap off our coverage of every Cannes Film Festival edition with the press room presentations of all of the evening's winners. Swedish helmer...
2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Competition
Armageddon Time - James Gray
Boy from Heaven - Tarik Saleh
Broker - Hirokazu Kore-eda
Frère et sœur - Arnaud Desplechin
Close - Lukas...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness
With perhaps far more time in post than the other films vying for the Palme this year, Ruben Östlund goes off the deep end...
Come Fly With Me: Ruben Östlund’s Next Film Set on a Long-haul Flight
Unless you're in business class, the airline industry is keen on making your flying experience in a miserable one. Continuing with his fascination for...
2022 Cannes: Abbasi, Dhont, Reichardt, Mungiu & Claire Denis Among 18 Titles Vying for Palme d’Or
The likes of first-time comp contenders Kelly Reichardt, Ali Abbasi and Lucas Dhont are joining former Palme d'Or winners Ruben Östlund, Kore-eda Hirokazu, the...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #6. Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness
Triangle of Sadness
Produced by Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober
Directed by Ruben Östlund
Written by Ruben Östlund
Starring: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson
Cinematographer: Fredrik Wenzel
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...
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...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Iram Haq’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10 Films of 2017
Some, including the American literary scholar James English, argue that artists shouldn’t care about awards like the Oscars. Author of “The Economy of Prestige,”...
Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11
As we look forward to a plentiful year of new cinematic offerings in 2018, it’s also time to look even further into the horizon...
Video Countdown: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Films of 2017
Although we have another facetiously titled Michael Haneke film to ring in the New Year with, it is a decidedly unhappy end considering the...
Interview: Ruben Östlund (The Square)
This weekend, Magnolia Pictures release Swedish auteur Ruben Östlund's latest film, The Square. Winner of this year's Palme d'Or at the 70th Cannes Film...
Reviews & Reflections: Östlund’s The Square Leads Top 5 NYFF Films That Lived Up To The Hype
As the New York Film Festival comes to a close, so marks the end of the 2017 festival season: a year-long tsunami that began...
TIFF 2017: Special Presentations World Preem Status for Gillespie, Gomez-Rejon, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun & Sebastián Lelio
If Alexander Payne, Valerie Faris/Jonathan Dayton, Scott Cooper, Darren Aronofsky, Martin McDonagh, Stephen Frears, Greta Gerwig and George Clooney appear jetlagged its because they'll...
The Conversation: Top 20 Best Films of 2017 So Far …
At the mid-way point of 2017, the usual cinematic trends continue, with the best theatrical offerings from January through June mostly festival circuit offerings...
2017 Cannes Film Festival: How the “Toni Erdmann” Snub Help Land “The Square” the Palme d’Or
When surveilling the postscript and how the Pedro led jury handed out the awards, the consensus is: job well done. However, while we were...
The Conversation: What Cannes Do – Top 10 Favorites of the 2017 Edition
In one of the most cavalier Cannes juries of recent years, the Pedro Almodovar led voting body closed out the 2017 edition of the...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Ruben Ostlund Tumbles Up the Stairs with The Square
He received an earlier screening late last night and has been consider the buzz title (mostly for better) and mentioned in the same breathe...
The Square | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Attenberg Follies: Ostlund’s Meta Commentary Skewers Social Contrivances
Adding to a body of work which comically and obsessively examines the underbelly of human desires and...
The Conversation: Run the Comps – Top 5 Most Anticipated Main Comp Entries
It’s back to business as usual for the main competition contenders at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, with programmer Thierry Fremaux re-inviting a number...
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...
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...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction
As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...
A Cannes Opener: 2016 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
A furious slew of titles in the works would seem to prophesize a robust main competition slate for Cannes 2016. Though our initial list...
Involuntary | Review
Cold Cuts: Östlund Examines Behavior Unawares in Astute Sophomore Feature
While Ruben Östlund’s 2004 feature debut The Guitar Mongoloid first played with examinations of human...
The Guitar Mongoloid | Review
People Are Strange: Östlund’s Debut a Curio Set of Characters
Premiering domestically in late 2004 before snagging festival play at a handful of festivals, including...
In Case of No Emergency: The Films of Ruben Östlund
The first ever retrospective of Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund’s work which opens at the at the Film Society Lincoln Center this Wednesday and began its tour...
Video Interview: Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure)
I'd argue that he was a mostly known as a film festival favorite yet art-house oddity entity beforehand, which is certainly is no longer...
2014 Cannes Film Festival: Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure
With previous screenwriting-directing gigs in The Guitar Mongoloid (04), Un Certain Regard selected Involuntary (08), and the Directors' Fortnight selected Play (11), it is...
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...
Latest From Ozon, Bahrani, Baumbach, Gordon Green, Petzold & Hansen-Løve Heading to TIFF…Telluride & Venice
Much like back to school sales in mid July, in our books, TIFF's first announcement wave reminds us that the end of summer is...
Rohrwacher’s “The Wonders”, Östlund’s “Tourist” & Pawlikowski’s “Ida” Among Ten LUX Prize Finalists
With past winners being The Broken Circle Breakdown and Lorna's Silence and past finalists being 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Attenberg and...
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...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #3. Ruben Östlund’s Tourist
Tourist
Director: Ruben Östlund
Writer: Ruben Östlund
Producers: Plattform Produktion's Erik Hemmendorff (Bypass), Essential Film's Marie Kjellson, Film i Vast
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Johannes Bah Kuhnke,...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan Moves into “Winter Sleep” Mode, Ruben Ostlund Set for “Tourist”
A little bit of coin news from Europe's Eurimages Fund (support of 13 projects) in the same token drops a couple of hints on...
From Faith Akin to Craig Zobel: Our Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2014
Before we unleash the beast that is our annual Top 100 Most Anticipated Films List for 2013, we thought we'd give our readers an...
Interview: Ruben Ostlund (Play)
With the Un Certain Regard selected Involuntary, Swedish helmer Ruben Östlund examined the conflict of the individual within a group, three years later with...
