Tag: Susanna Nicchiarelli
Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
If we don't count the pandemic year, it will be four consecutive showings in Cannes for the maestro. The Traitor was in competition in...
Kidnapped (Rapito) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Soul to Take: Bellocchio Deliriously Dissects a Papal Delictum
Marco Bellocchio has lost none of his flair nor his energetic zest in his latest...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #13. Marco Bellocchio’s La conversione
La conversione
The true story has put the fear of god in the directors who consider making it, but finally, it was Italian maestro Marco...
Chiara | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
Sister and Her Sisters: Nicchiarelli Salutes a Saint in Solemn, Dull Period Reenactment
The friendship between Saint Francis of Assisi and his obscured female counterpart...
2022 Venice Film Festival: Alice Diop, Poitras, Panahi & Iñárritu Among Front-Runners for the Golden Lion!
With only one title left to be unveiled (for the time being, let's call it the August 30th pre-opener as it will be actually...
2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part I) Iñárritu, Dominik, Zlotowski & Escalante
This week we throw ourselves into predicting the world premiere options for both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals. We begin by looking...
You BETcha!: Nomadland is the Odds on Favorite for the 2020 Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion
With Cannes offering up a hypothetical edition and the Karlovy Varys and Locarnos conducting some form of film community outreach, the COVID-19 pandemic might...
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...
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...
Nico, 1988 | Review
What Costume Shall the Poor Girl Wear?: Nicchiarelli Knits Stellar Portrait of a Troubled Artist
“I’ve been at the bottom and I’ve been at the...
2018 Tribeca Film Fest’s Spotlight Narrative includes: Emma Forrest, Marianna Palka, Award Winners Sebastian Lelio & Desiree Akhavan
Film items we've seen at TIFF back in September in Haifaa Al Mansour's Mary Shelley and Sebastian Lelio's Disobedience, to Sundance's top prize winner...
Venice 2017: Weiwei, Haigh, Maoz, Doueiri & Kechiche Compete for Golden Lion
Despite the number of spoilers in TIFF announcements less than 48 hours back, the are some top filmmaker names and highly anticipated film items...
Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: Picks 200 to 101
As we unveil our first tier of two hundred notable foreign film projects to be potentially unveiled in 2017, the coming year promises to...
