Tag: Steve McQueen
Blitz | Review
London Has Fallen: McQueen Explores Life During Wartime
Following his extensively researched 2023 documentary Occupied City, which details WWII atrocities waged against the Dutch during...
2024 NYFF: Steve McQueen’s Blitz Selected to Close 62nd Edition
After showcasing three of the five Small Axe films, Steve McQueen is set to have the international premiere of Blitz at the New York...
2023 NYFF: Trân Anh Hùng, Garth Davis, Hayao Miyazaki, Harmony Korine & Steve McQueen in Spotlight Section
Last year's Spotlight Section managed to nab pair of highly sought-after titles in Bones and All and Women Talking and a pair of world...
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
2023 Cannes: Steve McQueen, Takeshi Kitano & Victor Erice Featured in the Out of Comp Sections
Let it be known that Thierry Frémaux wanted Martin Scorsese in competition but instead, Killers of the Flower Moon will have been a firm...
Education | Review
School of Crock: McQueen Turns His Eyes to the Stars in Final Anthology Installment
Across five films spanning a period of 1969 to 1982, Steve...
Alex Wheatle | Review
Odds Against Tomorrow: McQueen’s Anthology Explores Tribulations of Famed Novelist
For the fourth installment of his five-title Small Axe anthology series, director Steve McQueen recuperates...
Red, White and Blue | Review
A Bridge Too Far: McQueen Explores the Inherent Sacrifice of Community Service in Straightforward Drama
With Red, White and Blue, the third film in Steve...
Lovers Rock | Review
Joyful Noise: McQueen Makes the People Come Together in First “Small Axe” Segment
Director Steve McQueen surprises with Lovers Rock, the second leg of his...
Mangrove | Review
All for Notting Hill: McQueen Paints the Power of Resistance in Period Courtroom Drama
The first of five installments from Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology,...
Descriptions added to the 56 Cannes Film Festival Selected Films for the 2020 Edition
Adding more value to their June 3rd unveiling, what went into this selection process and to be frank, some of these short descriptions will...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Sarah Daggar-Nickson’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? To celebrate the launch of her feature debut...
Going Dutch: Steve McQueen & Bianca Stigter Pair on The Occupied City
After mapping out the Chicagoan underworld in Widows, master British helmer Steve McQueen has teamed with his significant other in author / Dutch-born Bianca Stigter to...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions IV: Brit Helmers Leigh, Hogg & Strickland Lead Anglo Contingency
On the British side, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo was once assumedly a for sure thing (he won the Palme in 1996 for Secrets & Lies),...
Tuesday Blus: Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno & Delmer Daves’ The Hanging Tree
This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles:
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009)
Film Review: ★★★½/☆☆☆☆☆
Disc Review: ★★★★/☆☆☆☆☆
After Dante Alighieri but before Dario Argento and...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2018: DuVernay, McQueen & Scorsese Top the List
Looking forward to the theatrical pleasures of 2018, the Hollywood studio system seems mostly a foregone conclusion save for a handful of items which...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
Tracking Shot June: Steve McQueen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and John Carney Filming New Projects
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and...
Best of 2013: Jordan M. Smith’s Top 20 Films (Picks 5 to 1)
Continued from picks 10 to 6….
10. Blood Brother – Steve Hoover
9. Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley
8. Museum Hours – Jem Cohen
7. Her –...
Best of 2013: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Films (Picks 10 to 6)
Please note, the absence of titles like Spring Breakers, Paradise: Faith, Frances Ha, No, and The Place Beyond the Pines is due to the...
12 Years a Slave | Review
Reliving Dehumanization: McQueen Lenses Masterpiece of Repressed American History
For Steve McQueen, filmmaking has been a hard edged exercise in emotional archeology, burrowing into the...
Generation Z: 36th Mill Valley FF Features 12 Years A Slave, Effie Gray, Walter Mitty & Costa-Gavras Tribute
The 36th edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival (October 3rd-13th) has your usual mix of award season contenders, talent tribute and spotlights, a...
Toronto Pubic Speaks; 12 Years a Slave Claims Top Prize at TIFF 2013
Such as the case back in 2008 with Slumdog Millionaire, Fox Searchlight have a hit on their hands and if all goes according to...
TIFF’s Phat 2013 Line-up Includes Latest From: Chomet, Egoyan, Holofcener, Glazer, Gordon Green & Reichardt
With dramatic fare such as August: Osage County, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Dallas Buyers Club, 2013's Toronto Int. Film Festival once again...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years A Slave
#56. Steve McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave
Gist: After the divisive and award-winning Shame from 2011, McQueen's latest is a period piece set in the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #15. Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave
Director: Steve McQueen
Writer(s): McQueen & John Ridley
Producer(s): Anthony Katagas, Brad Pitt
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Paul...
