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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #99. Eugène Green’s Le fils de Joseph
Director: Eugène Green
Writer: Eugène Green
American born French director Eugène Green usually premieres his films at Locarno, though despite critical acclaim many fail to get considerable...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #100. Rachid Bouchareb’s La route des lacs
La route des lacs (Road to Istanbul)
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Writers: Rachid Bouchareb, Zoe Galeron, Yasmina Khadra, Olivier Lorelle
Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb continues a prolific shooting...
Our Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films: Villeneuve’s Story of Your Life Leads Class of 2016
Auteurs working within the confines of the studio system tend to disappoint, though we try to keep hope alive by anticipating the best for...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: Picks 200-101
It's become a great breaking in the new year traditional here at IONCINEMA.com. We begin our countdown to the our most anticipated foreign films...
Lamb | Review
Strangers With Cabins : Partridge’s Uncomfortable Sophomore Film
Returning behind the camera for the first time since his 2000 debut indie film Interstate 84, actor...
The Treasure | Review
Porumboiu, The Treasure Hunter: Yet Another Romanian Gem
As far as we're aware, no Romanian director has yet made a movie about staring at a stark,...
Anomalisa | Review
Re-Animators: Kaufman & Johnson Brilliantly Translates Kafkaesque 'Sound Play' From The Stage To Stop Motion
Springing from the mind that spewed an incredible string of transcendent work from Being...
Chimes at Midnight (1965) | Review
Sweet Creature of Bombast: Welles’ Restored Homage to Shakespeare’s Ultimate Clown
Before the world finally gets a chance to see Orson Welles’ last uncompleted film...
Yosemite | Review
Palo Alto 2: Demeestere Crafts Franco’s Prose for Portrait of Preadolescent Angst
Director Gabrielle Demeestere adapts James Franco’s A California Childhood for her directorial debut,...
Daddy’s Home | Review
That’s His Boy: Anders Brings Us Broken Homes for the Holidays with Flaccid Comedy
Chances are, you might not have been expecting much from Sean...
Joy | Review
Success is the Best Revenge: Russell’s Embellished Portrait of the Miracle Mop
Director David O. Russell has been often praised for the depictions of women...
Where To Invade Next | Review
It's been a relatively quiet six years since Michael Moore unleashed Capitalism: A Love Story back in 2009, but little did anyone know he's been...
45 Years | Review
The One You’re With: Haigh’s Superb Examination of Marriage and Things Left Unsaid
With imperceptible grace, 45 Years portrays the warping of a near half...
Sicario | Blu-ray Review
French Canadian auteur Denis Villeneuve scores another box office hit with critically acclaimed Sicario. The rare genre item to have had a successful premiere as a...
The Conversation: Top Ten Films of 2015 in…2016
As always, a number of deserving film festival entries are stragglers in need of distribution or funneled away by buyers to be released in...
The Hateful Eight | Review
For a Few Hours More: Tarantino’s Flamboyant Style Stamped onto a Salami Western
Quentin Tarantino returns with his latest feature, The Hateful Eight, another retro...
The Revenant | Review
Essential Killing: Inarritu’s Remarkable New Thanksgiving Film
After winning a trio of Academy Awards last year for Birdman (which took home Best Picture, Director, and...
Concussion | Review
Head in the Game: Landesman Continues to Plumb the Headlines
Films based on notable or landmark pieces of newsprint tend to face an uphill battle...
Sisters | Review
What the Devil Hath Joined Together: Moore Stages a Bacchanalian Bromide
Director Jason Moore, responsible for the sugary karaoke competition sleeper Pitch Perfect (2012), returns...
The Conversation: Best of 2015 – Top 10 Theatrical Releases
Diving into the hundreds of new theatrical releases, including large chunks of grueling, gluttonous marathons through world cinema’s greatest offerings from a variety of film...
Son of Saul | Review
Hell on Earth: Nemes’ Impressive, Unsettling Debut Plunges into the Darkness of WWII
Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes makes an impressive debut with Son of Saul,...
Don Verdean | Review
Going Clear: Hess’ Uncomfortable Religious Comedy Defuses Subversive Potential
Religion and comedy don’t make for comfortable bedfellows, at least not for films attempting to play...
Stinking Heaven | Review
A Place on Earth: Silver’s Period Commune Channels Cinema-Verite
While his 2014 title Uncertain Terms still awaits theatrical release as it makes the rounds of...
In the Heart of the Sea | Review
Two if by Sea: Howard’s Whaling Expedition Sinks to the Fathoms
Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is one of the seminal epics of American literature,...
Sundance ’16: Reichardt, Marston, Sachs, Solondz, Stillman & Lonergan Among Premieres
Sundance programmers have unveiled what is a jaw-dropping, savoury Premieres line-up. With names such as Asif Kapadia (Ali & Nino), Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women), Joshua...
The Girl King | Review
The Throne of Loneliness: Kaurismaki Cartoons Christina
Considering it’s been forty years since her last notable on screen incarnation, the time has come for a...
Krampus | Review
The Nightmare During Christmas: Doughtery’s Cutesy Morality Play on the Christmas Spirit
Exploring the adverse aspects of Christmas, one of the most cherished holidays...
Life | Review
Or Something Like It: Corbijn Resurrects Dean Without a Cause
Following his 2014 John Le Carre adaptation A Man Most Wanted, director Anton Corbijn delves...
Arabian Nights Trilogy | Review
Tales of a Tale of Tales: Gomes's Three-Part Epic Is A Monument To The Plight Of Portugal's Working Class
There may be more traditionally successful...
Sundance ’16: Antonio Campos, So Yong Kim, Elizabeth Wood & The Daniels Among U.S. Dramatic Competition
In last year's selection of sixteen U.S. Dramatic Competition offerings, it was Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's Me & Earl & the Dying Girl that landed both...
Sundance ’16: Felix van Groeningen, Rebecca Daly & Ana Katz Load Up World Dramatic Comp
In last year's section which included Ariel Kleiman's Partisan and Anne Sewitsky's Homesick, it was John Maclean's debut Slow West claimed the World Cinema...
Sundance ’16: Tim Sutton, Nicolas Pesce, Bernardo Britto, Matt Johnson & Anna Rose Holmer Break into NEXT section
We might look back to 2015's 10 film line-up as a true vintage year for the NEXT section. With the likes of Rick Alverson's...
Youth | Review
Oh, Youth and Beauty!: Sorrentino’s Shows Softer Side in Switzerland
Following the success of the snide yet undeniably eloquent 2013 title The Great Beauty, which...
Chi-raq | Review
Sexual Healing: Spike Lee’s New Joint Aims to Anoint
Provocateur Spike Lee continues to fling his ambition into surprising experimental formats and narratives. Following the...
Hitchcock/Truffaut | Review
Face-off: Kent Jones Unpacks The Bible Of Auteur Interviews
It's kind of odd to think that the Cohen Media Group picked up Kent Jones' slickly produced...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Shorts From Janicza Bravo, Calvin Reeder, Dustin Guy Defa & Boyd Holbrook
Last week, we had fun chiming in on how Sundance 2016 might look like with our Sundance predictions list. Our series was exactly one...
Criterion Collection: Dont Look Back | Blu-ray Review
Considered amongst the very greatest documentaries ever made and selected by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," D.A. Pennebaker's veritable...
The Mask (Eyes of Hell) | Blu-ray Review
After a restored print played for the first time at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival, Kino Lorber presents Julian Roffman’s 1961 vintage horror film...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Miguel Calderón’s Zeus
And finally, the last profile in our 75 film predictions list comes from our favorite sort of hodge-podge type filmmaker and while his name might not...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers
Having launched into a life of filmmaking with a seminal Sundance more than two decades back with Clerks (1994), while Park City is sacred...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kate & Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock
We have A Single Man to remind us skeptics that you can come from the world of clothing design and make lush contributions to...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bart Freundlich’s Wolves
This is what we can already confirm. 2016 will be an epic year for Michael Shannon and not because he just received an Indie Spirit...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Win It All
While his choice in look swings like a pendulum, there are several the more things change, the more they stay the same earmarks that...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Johnson’s Wilson
The work of Daniel Clowes already has a lineage with the Sundance Film Festival as it once served as the launchpad for the last "Clowes" graphic...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog
Of the seven feature films in his just under two decade filmography, Todd Solondz has landed in Park City twice with 1996's Welcome to...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Elizabeth Wood’s White Girl
While the issue of gender disparity in the film industry remains a hot topic issue, when it comes to the approach of Sundance Film...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Michael McDonagh’s War On Everyone
Littered with an international cast comprised of Theo James, Stephanie Sigman, Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Tessa Thompson and Caleb Landry Jones, while John Michael...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gary Michael Schultz’s Vincent-N-Roxxy
Half a dozen shorts, one unheard of horror feature film offering (2013's Devil In My Ride) and several indie producing creds most recently William...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gerardo Naranjo’s Viena and the Fantomes
Four features under his belt (2004's Malachance, 2006's Drama/Mex, 2008's I'm Gonna Explode and 2011's Miss Bala) and Gerardo Naranjo's only history with the Sundance film...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joshua Marston’s Complete Unknown
Remarkably in a career spanning more than a decade, this formerly untitled project counts as Joshua Marston's first feature in the English language and only third feature...
