Tag: Sam Pollard

Door Dashed: Netflix Puts the Cuffs on Geeta Gandbhir’s ‘The Perfect Neighbor’

It's early. Really early. But Netflix have a future repeat winner in The Perfect Neighbor - the buzz documentary out of this year's Sundance...

2021 Telluride Film Festival: World Preems for C’mon C’mon, King Richard, Cyrano, Belfast & One Mystery Film

The titles for the 48th edition of the Telluride Film Festival have been unveiled and Peter Hedges' low-budget zoom drama The Same Storm, Reinaldo Marcus...

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,...

Criterion Collection: Bamboozled (2000) | Blu-ray Review

That Spike Lee remains one of the true provocative soothsayers of cinema should come as no surprise, yet it’s an epiphany for those reconsidering...

Ewing/Grady, Morgen, Spurlock, Wiseman, Fiennes, Greg Barker & Chris Smith Shore Up at TIFF Docs

TIFF Docs programmer Thom Powers will have loaded up the '17 edition with an embarrassing amount of documentary film riches. Promising to harm the...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...