Tag: top-stories
Train to Busan | Review
Here Comes the Train Again: Sang-ho’s Live Action Debut Heavy on Tropes
Zombie contagion sweeps over South Korea while a random band of survivors struggle...
2026 TIFF: World Preems for Bahman Ghobadi & Cody Fern, ‘Bucking Fastard’ Hits All 4 Fall Fests
The final titles have trickled in for the 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival and we can now confirm what are Telluride updates, and the...
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma | Review
The Story of O: Schoenbrun Approaches the Horrific Desire Inside Us All
The inextricable union of victim, victimizer, and witness becomes a metatextual balancing act...
‘Neon Bull’ & ‘The Blue Trail’ Gabriel Mascaro Launches Production Company
In a rather lengthy profile piece we learnt that fresh from his brilliant Berlinale winner The Blue Trail (read review), Gabriel Mascaro is opening...
2026 TIFF: Paolo Strippoli, Anna Biller, Matthew Rankin & Eugene Kotlyarenko in Midnight Madness Section
Last year, the Midnight Madness section received one heck of a thumbs up with Obsession landing a massive distribution deal. This edition, programmer Peter...
2026 TIFF: Yung Chang, Shaunak Sen & Zarrar Kahn in Short Cuts Competition
Leaning heavily on world premieres, TIFF's 2026 Short Cuts programme welcomes back familiar names such as Yung Chang, Shaunak Sen and Zarrar Kahn while...
2026 NYFF: Schleinzer, Chang-dong, Sangsoo, Hamaguchi & Mani Haghighi (Surprise!) in Main Slate
As expected there was going to be a larger Cannes (including Quinzaine) cross-over than a Venice presence at this year's NYFF. While the Palme...
2026 TIFF: Major Venice Titles Snubbed – Ashley Duong, Carol Nguyen & Sophie Deraspe Selected for TIFF Docus
Programming-wise, we expected a bit more of a copy-and-paste approach from Venice to Toronto this year. Instead, documentary programmer Thom Powers largely prioritized world...
2026 IFFR: Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir & Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy Receive Hubert Bals Funds
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)’s Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) has unveiled the 20 projects to receive a little coin help to develop their...
2026 TIFF: Lisandro Alonso, Radu Jude & Mariano Llinás in Wavelengths Programme
A sprinkling of Cannes, Locarno and Venice with a major awards contender from Sundance (and Directors' Fornight) in Once Upon a Time in Harlem...
2026 TIFF: Zou Jing, Marine Atlan, Sandra Wollner & Valeska Grisebach in Centerpiece Selections
Loads of savoury Cannes Film Festival titles, two dozen world premiere items, with some Venice Film Festival notables from Muayad Alayan, Rami Kodeih, Yonfan,...
Choosing My Religion: Merlant, Rossellini & Mark Strong Pray for David Lowery’s ‘Poor Clare’
Some Monday sleuthing from the folks at World of Reel again pin points to a totally under tha radar project mounted by David Lowery...
Interview: Sabrina Greco – Lockjaw (Work in Progress)
Every so often, cinema offers a glimpse into the experience of living with a speech impediment—one of my favorite portrayals being the chaotic struggle...
Journey Through Absence: Mathieu Volpe ‘L’Or Rouge’ to Feature Abou Sangaré & Seydou Sarr
Shaping up to be one of our most anticipated feature directorial debuts of 2027, Mathieu Volpe's transition into fiction arrives with an exceptional producing...
Nobody Knows: Marie Loustalot Edits Out Parents From Coming-of-Ager ‘Enfin seuls’
A small French indie debut that will certainly be offered to Cannes programmers in 2027, after cutting her teeth on the short form and...
2026 NYFF: Gilroy’s Behemoth! Takes Center Stage as Centerpiece Selection
For those taking notice, NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim has been increasingly moving towards giving indie studios an extra "option" for their world premiere...
Team Sport: Suzanne Lindon Places Pierfrancesco Favino in Thorny Situation in ‘L’Équipe’
With Gustave Kervern's Voilà, c'est fini and Guillaume Nicloux's Garde du corps set for the near future, Suzanne Lindon has been taking on some...
Her Private Hell | Review
What Have They Done to Your Daughters?: Refn Returns with Vacuous Vengeance
After disappearing into television for the past decade, Nicolas Winding Refn once again...
Sheep in the Box | Review
I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK: Koreeda Explores Cruise Control with AI
Somehow, despite being set in the ‘not too distant future,’ Hirokzau Kore-eda’s twee...
A Sad and Beautiful World | Review
No Man is an Island: Aris Explores Childhood, Couplehood and Parenthood with Flip Book Speeds
Lebanese filmmaker Cyril Aris utilizes the three distinct yet related...
Rosebush Pruning | Review
The Killing of a Sacred Dogtooth: Ainouz Paints with Contempt
Karim Aïnouz doesn’t so much eat the rich as he does regurgitate them in his...
2026 Venice: Gábor Reisz, Rami Kodeih, Paul Schrader & Gael García Bernal in Venice Spotlight/Venice Open
With a bit of rebranding (now sounds like a tennis ATP tour event) the Venice Open section which houses the non comp non-fiction films,...
2026 Venice: Gibney, Kopple, Kossakovsky, Loktev, Lorentzen, Dweck/Kershaw & Mariano Llinás in S-tier Level Docs Line-Up!
This is not hyperbole. The Venice Film Festival have unveiled perhaps the most stacked Out-of-Competition Non-Fiction line-up in decades. It's a who's who list...
2026 Venice: Anuparna Roy, Jacqueline Lentzou, Rubaiyat Hossain, Phuttiphong Aroonpheng & Robert Greene in Orizzonti Comp
Cannes have the Un Certain Regard section, and Venice has the Orizzonti. While we do find some fresh new voices from the nineteen films...
2026 Venice: Lee Chang-Dong, Werner Herzog & Martin McDonagh in Golden Lion Comp
As we had mentioned in our predictions piece over the weekend, the competition skews heavily dude-centric this year, with May El-Toukhy's Woman Unknown being...
Paris Nights, Sister Fights: Héléna Klotz to Direct Gina Jimenez in ‘Celles qui parlaient tout le temps’
Atomic Age and Spirit of Ecstasy's Héléna Klotz is getting ready to launch production on her third feature film. Cineuropa reports that French filmmaker...
2026 TIFF: Anna Foglietta, Alexandra Pechman & Ione Hernández in the Discovery Section
From yesterday's TIFF Platform section we now move to two dozen film offerings that populate the Discovery programme and at the top of the...
2026 Venice Film Festival: Lili Horvát, Nathalia Acevedo & Robert Guédiguian in Giornate Degli Autori
Hungarian filmmaker Lili Horvát, actress-turned filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo and veteran French filmmaker Robert Guédiguian are among the ten in the female-centric competition line-up. Horvát's...
2026 TIFF: Amanda Kernell, Irene Dionisio & John Trengove Films Among Dozen Platform Comp Selections
Earlier this year, the Academy Awards announced that the winner of TIFF’s Platform Award—alongside major prizes from other leading international festivals—would automatically qualify for...
2026 NYFF: Ava DuVernay Closes Fest with ’14th’ — a Decade After Opening with ’13th’
Last week, Netflix dropped that they were back in the Ava DuVernay business when it was announced that her new docu would open sometime...
2026 TIFF: Anton Corbijn, Chris Rock & Florian Zeller Selected for Gala Showcases
Anton Corbijn's A Talent for Murder, Chris Rock's Misty Green and Florian Zeller's Bunker will be receiving major showcases as they were selected as...
2026 TIFF: Peter Farrelly, Takashi Miike & Michael Dowse to World Preem in Special Presentations Programme
Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shinya Tsukamoto and Lee Chang-dong are the doing the Venice to Toronto double down, Jesse Eisenberg is sticking to a Telluride and...
2026 Venice Film Festival: Debuts From Shalini Adnani, Sebastián Múnera & Tommaso Usberti in International Critics’ Week
Venice's International Critics’ Week aka Settimana Internazionale della Critica have made their selections for their 41st edition and we've got some Sundance, Rotterdam and...
2026 Venice Film Festival: Projecting the Lido Lineup – 82 Titles in All!
Next week we will know the line ups for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, as well as the 41st International Critics’ Week picks...
Interview: Carolina Cavalli – The Kidnapping of Arabella
Using the road-movie narrative template to explore an unconventional form of companionship, The Kidnapping of Arabella is far from a typical coming-of-age film —...
Eyes on the Podium: Mary Bronstein Has Jenna Ortega & Rose Byrne as Rivals in ‘Nasty’
Warner Bros.’ indie label Clockwork lassoed the future cinema offerings from Sean Baker and Park Chan-Wook, and today they announce they're moving into production...
2026 TIFF: Naishtat, Rachel Morrison & Bassam Tariq World Premieres Added; Zellners Heading to Telluride
Five Special Presentations programme titles have been added to Toronto, four of them are world premieres and one is heading over to the Telluride....
2026 NYFF: James Gray’s Nightmarish American Dream ‘Paper Tiger’ to Open 64th Edition
James Gray’s Paper Tiger has been selected by the New York Film Festival as the Opening Night selection for the 64th edition. This is...
2026 Venice: Danny Boyle’s ‘Ink’ is the Opener for Golden Lion Competition
Danny Boyle's INK will indeed competition for the Golden Lion --- with the Venice Film Festival setting the control of free speech thriller as...
2026 Locarno Film Festival: Jury Duty for Fabrice Du Welz
Venice Film Festival just announced their jury, TIFF's Platform section trio should happen any day now, and we now have Locarno eyeballs on the...
2026 Venice Final Cut WIP Lab: Alaa Eddine Aljem, Sofia Djama & Bassel Ghandour Among Six Projects
Among the final stops on the road to their expected premieres at the major prestige film festivals of 2027 — most notably Cannes —...
The Pragmatic Mother: Carey Mulligan Cast in Sarah Polley’s ‘The Bell Jar’
Currently in production in Toronto, we now know the identity of who will play Mrs. Greenwood in the longest gestating feature film adaptation for...
2026 World Cinema Fund: Ana Cristina Barragán, Amanda Nell Eu & Lara Zeidan Receive Coin
Projects from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ecuador, Lebanon, Malaysia, Philippines, Senegal, and Turkey and up-and-comers Ana Cristina Barragán, Amanda Nell Eu and Lara Zeidan...
