Tag: The Secret Agent
2026 Oscars: ‘Sinners’ Lands Most Noms, but ‘One Battle After Another’ & ‘Sentimental Value’ are the Frontrunners
It was a great morning for the folks at Warner Bros. A really solid morning. With a record-breaking sixteen nominations, Ryan Coogler's Sinners might...
2026 Oscars: Trier, Filho, Panahi, Laxe & Hania Nominated for Best International Feature Film
The NEON folks have four Cannes competition film horses in the race and the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion winner completes the quintet of...
2026 Lumières Awards: François Ozon’s ‘The Stranger’ Sweeps “France’s Golden Globes” with Trio of Awards
Five weeks before the César Awards ceremony, we find The Stranger (aka L'étranger) possibly emerging as the possible favorite with François Ozon landing Best...
2026 ICS: ‘One Battle After Another’ Finds the Rendezvous Point — Nabs Dozen Noms
Leading with a dozen noms, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another nunchuked the hell out of the upcoming International Cinephile Society awards landing...
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Mischief, Thou Art Afoot: Filho Captivates with Seductive, Furtive Period Thriller
Pregnant with dread and jam-packed with homage to the tone and time of sweaty,...
Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Winner of the Best Director and Best Actor prizes at Cannes Film Festival, The Secret Agent brought together Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura...
2025 Gothams: Studio-Backed ‘One Battle After Another’ Takes on True Indies; Lands Six Noms
In a cinematic landscape increasingly dominated by gargantuan, risk-averse budgets, the upcoming Gotham Awards have set the stage for a compelling David vs. Goliath...
2026 Oscars: NEON Has Lock on Best Intl. Feature Film Category with Filho’s ‘The Secret Agent’ Repping Brazil
In any given year, a film such as Venice Film Fest's Marianna Brennand's Manas or Berlinale Silver Bear winning The Blue Trail by Gabriel...
2025 NYFF: Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai, Claire Denis’ The Fence & No Other Choice Among Main Slate Selections
A dash of Sundance, a pinch of the Berlinale, a sprinkling of Cannes and a good number of Venice Film Festival items (Duse, Jay...
2025 TIFF: World Premieres Include Gavras’ ”Sacrifice’, Michôd’s ‘Christy’, Vanderbilt’s ‘Nuremberg’ & Winocour’s ‘Couture’
The Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled the heavy-hitters populating their Gala and Special Presentations sections making what sounds like an alluring line-up for...
2025 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]
The jury of Juliette Binoche, Alba Rohrwacher, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, thesps Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, South Korean auteur...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Laxe, Mendonça Filho, Panahi & Trier Reign Supreme
The final grades trickled in and finally, our top three has slightly changed. Instead of a firm trio, we now have a foursome as...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just an Accident’ Wins the Palme d’Or
He won Venice. He won the Berlinale. He now wins the Palme. With strong competition from the likes of Kleber Mendonça Filho, Oliver Laxe...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ‘The Secret Agent’
A favorite filmmaker of the festival, and perhaps the best Brazilian filmmaker currently working, Kleber Mendonça Filho has been to Cannes on many occasions....
Live From Cannes!!! Meet the Jury For Our 2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel
IONCINEMA.com has been gauging the pulse of the Palme d’Or competition since 2011. We first jumped into the water when trades such as Screen...
2025 Cannes: New Palme d’Or Comp Faces in Ari Aster, Hafsia, Hayakawa, Hermanus, Laxe, Carla Simón & Mascha Schilinski!
Gone are the days of the old boys club (although the Dardenne Bros will be attempting to win the record-breaking third Palme), and there...
