Tag: top-stories
Combustible Substances: Pete Ohs Filmed ‘Erupcja’ with Charli XCX & Jeremy O. Harris in Poland
Micro-budget American indie filmmaker Pete Ohs really doesn't miss a beat. When he’s not directing—keeping up a steady pace with Youngstown (2021), Jethica (2022)...
Tennis Anyone?: Film Movement to Serve Leonardo Van Dijl’s Cannes Fave ‘Julie Keeps Quiet’
A new voice in Belgian cinema emerged earlier this year when the Cannes Critics' Week section premiered Julie Keeps Quiet - the directorial debut...
Poetic Justice: Blake Draper Unbottled in Patrick Wang’s ‘A. Rimbaud’
American micro-indie filmmaker Patrick Wang of 2011's In the Family (read review), The Grief of Others (2015), A Bread Factory (2018) parts I and...
Tropical Tapestry: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Won’t Shoot ‘The Fountains of Paradise’ before 2026
In an interview with Les Inrocks folks, Apichatpong Weerasethakul revealed that his upcoming project, the tentatively titled The Fountains of Paradise, is unlikely to...
Lingering Influence: Meryem Benm’Barek Filming ‘Behind the Palm Trees’
A project initially scheduled for a 2023 shoot has finally been greenlit, with Cineuropa confirming that Meryem Benm’Barek has been filming her sophomore feature...
Daaaaaali! | Review
Good Golly, It’s Dali: Dupieux Dreams Surreal in Distinctive Biopic
It seems surrealism’s pioneer Salvador Dali is experiencing something of a culturally concentric resurgence as...
A Pain That I’m Used To: Metrograph Pictures Tables Dea Kulumbegashvili’s ‘April’
Perhaps the landmark sophomore feature of 2024, Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili has found a safe space in the U.S. via newish distributor Metrograph Pictures...
Joker: Folie à Deux | Review
Joke’s On Us: Phillips Composes an Empty, Boring Spectacle
Kudos to Todd Phillips for forcing US audiences to be confronted with the intriguing subtitle...
Around the Horn: Claire Denis to Direct Matt Dillon, Riley Keough & Isaach de Bankolé in ‘Le Cri des Gardes’
ARTE France Cinéma is backing a quartet of projects and among them, we find the new Claire Denis project that she was possibly scouting...
2024 U.S. in Progress: Amanda Kramer, Pete Ohs, Mark Webber & Miles Levin Among 8 Selected
Following a standout 2023 edition, where critically acclaimed films like India Donaldson's Good One premiered at Sundance and Cannes, and Sarah Friedland's Familiar Touch...
Replacement Therapy: Dekanalog Sets Up a Date with Tsang’s ‘Blue Sun Palace’
When it came to American indie offering on the Croisette this year it is Anora and a pair of films in the Quinzaine section...
2024 San Sebastian Film Festival: Francisco Lezama & Sarah Miro Fischer Double Up at the Industry Awards
Blue Marks by German filmmaker Sarah Miro Fischer and The Two Landscapes by Argentinian filmmaker (and recent Berlinale Golden Bear winner) Francisco Lezama have...
2024 European Film Awards: Kulumbegashvili, Delpero, Tsangari, Zürcher, Almodóvar & Mike Leigh in Second Wave
The first batch of titles were announced in August, and now with Locarno and Venice firming up the selection process, we now have our...
Autonomy in Argentina: Lisandro Alonso Clears the Way with ‘La libertad doble’
Confirming what we had reported back in April, Variety confirms that Lisandro Alonso's next project will indeed be him revisiting the film character we...
First Time for Everything: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles Begins Production on ‘Petite rose’
After sliding back into the docu realm, French Canadian filmmaker Geneviève Dulude-De Celles has returned to fiction with Petite rose (formerly titled Fleur bleue)...
2025 Oscars Best International Film Race: Frontrunners Jacques Audiard, Walter Salles & Maura Delpero Added to Mix
Recent submissions for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards are quickly piling up. Jordan has entered My Sweet Land (Sheffield DocFest),...
The Universal Theory (Die Theorie Von Allem) | Review
Multiverse of Sadness: Kroger Captivates with Cryptic Cold War Sci-Fi Exploit
Although it will invariably be confused with the 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic, Timm Kröger’s...
Megalopolis | Review
Atlas Farted: Coppola’s Labor of Love a Lackluster Saga
While he’s one of the greatest film directors of all time, mostly thanks to a handful...
The Substance | Review
Woman of Substance: Fargeat Rejuvenates Body Horror with Pulpy Parable
To borrow a succinct phrase from Beyonce, ‘pretty hurts,’ a sentiment quivering through Coraline Fargeat’s...
Interview: Bernardo Britto – Omni Loop
One of the projects at the Sundance Institute’s 2017 Screenwriters Lab was a film called 'Omni Loop Blues.' Flash forward into 2024 and Bernardo...
Day Moves: Josh O’Connor Toplines Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’
Keeping up with her pattern of releasing a film roughly every three years, Kelly Reichardt’s next project, The Mastermind, is one extra America indie...
Interview: Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
Whiplash receives a 10th Anniversary re-release - reissued with a new 4K DCP via Sony Pictures Classics and coming directly from a showcase at...
Exclusive Clip: Painted Birds in Elfar Adalsteins’ ‘Summerlight… and Then Comes the Night’
For his sophomore feature film, Icelandic filmmaker Elfar Adalsteins adapts from Icelandic author Jon Kalman Stefansson's novel. This comes after 2019's End of Sentence...
The Babadook | Review
Consequences of Grief: Kent’s Stunning Debut Wades Through Primordial Fears
Satisfying genre films are generally few and far between these days, so it’s with absolute...
Time for Change: Anna Cazenave Cambet Begins Production on ‘Love Me Tender’ with Vicky Krieps, Reinartz, Chokri & Ji-Min Park
French filmmaker Anna Cazenave Cambet was setting up shop for her sophomore feature with Vicky Krieps and Antoine Reinartz (Anatomy of a Fall fame)...
A Different Man | Review
The Face of Another: Schimberg Scrutinizes the Pratfalls of Face Value
Those familiar with his 2018 sophomore film Chained for Life will likely notate director...