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Thelma | Review

Grandma Scamma: Margolin Steals a Win with Squibb Although there’s a prodigious sub-genre of kooky comedies featuring elderly resilient women (though more often in European...

2024 Sundance: A Different Man, The Outrun, Winner & Sasquatch Sunset Among Premieres

Sundance Film Festival's Premiere section (a mix of fiction and docs) will have some biggie titles to contend with the likes of Aaron Schimberg's...

2023 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 74 (Strictly) World Premiere Predictions!

It's not the opener. It's not the closer. But today the Toronto International Film Festival announced that Taika Waititi's long-gestating Next Goal Wins ...

Interview: Joachim Trier – Thelma

Not unlike the festival strategy unveiling for Reprise back in 2006, the Toronto International Film Festival was the lieu for the North American premiere to...

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: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex

As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...

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...

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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...