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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #88. Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea
Mediterranea
Director: Jonas Carpignano // Writer: Jonas Carpignano
Formerly going by A Chjàna, the same title as the short film (see pic above) on which this...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #89. Maiwenn’s Mon roi
Mon roi
Director: Maiwenn // Writers: Etienne Comar, Maiwenn
Actress turned director Maiwenn's last stint behind the camera won her the Jury Prize at Cannes 2011...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #90. Arnaud Desplechin’s Three Memories of Childhood
Three Memories of Childhood
Director: Arnaud Desplechin // Writer: Arnaud Desplechin
While we weren’t the greatest fans of Desplechin’s last film, 2013’s Jimmy P., which played...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #91. Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Treasure
The Treasure
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu // Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu
One of the frontrunners of the Romanian New Wave thanks to his 2006 debut 12:08 East of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #92. Hagar Ben Asher’s The Burglar
The Burglar
Director: Hagar Ben Asher // Writer: Hagar Ben Asher
Actress turned director Hagar Ben Asher’s first film, The Slut (2011) premiered at Cannes (we...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #94. Lisa Aschan’s White People
White People
Director: Lisa Aschan // Writer: Lisa Aschan
After nabbing several awards for her 2011 debut She Monkeys (see trailer below), Swedish director Lisa Aschan was...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #95. Brian Helgeland’s Legend
Legend
Director: Brian Helgeland // Writer: Brian Helgeland
There was initially a lot of promise for writer turned director Brian Helgeland’s career, his directorial debut was...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #96. Denis Dercourt’s En équilibre
En équilibre
Director: Denis Dercourt // Writer: Denis Dercourt
French director Denis Dercourt is generally underappreciated in the US, despite having helmed the superb 2006 film...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #97. Hugh Hudson’s Altamira
Altamira
Director: Hugh Hudson // Writers: Olivia Hetreed, José Luis López-Linares
Hudson, notably the director of 1981 Best Picture winner Chariots of Fire, hasn’t helmed a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #98. Radu Muntean’s One Floor Below
One Floor Below
Director: Radu Muntean // Writers: Radu Muntean, Rãzvan Rãdulescu, Alexandru Baciu.
With his four previous features, this Romanian director was flying under the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #99. Henrik Ruben Genz’s Tordenskiold
Tordenskiold
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz // Writer: Erlend Loe
Danish director Genz is best known for his 2008 film Terribly Happy, which earned him comparison to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #100. Stephane Brize’s A Simple Man
A Simple Man
Director: Stephane Brize // Writer: Stephane Brize
This will be the sixth film from director Stephane Brize, perhaps best known for his Cesar...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: (Picks 200-101)
They didn't make our final Top 100 cut, but here is a list of foreign film titles that are on our radar for 2015....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: An Introduction
In an effort to explain the criteria used to create our list of Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015, we must first...
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death | Review
Blitzkrieg Bop: Harper’s Demurely Serviceable Horror Sequel Revels in Cheap Thrills
Director James Watkins scored a sleeper hit with his 2012 sophomore film, The Woman...
Best of 2014: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 (Picks 10-1)
Nicholas Bell's Top 20 films of 2014...
#20. Madeleine Olnek's The Foxy Merkins
#19. Damien Chazelle's Whiplash
#18. Gillian Robespierre's Obvious Child
#17. Jennifer Kent's The Babadook
#16. Adam...
Best of 2014: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 (Picks 20-11)
As seems to be the usual case, many of my top 2014 theatrical releases were actually 2013 titles I caught on the festival circuit...
Li’l Quinquin | Review
Life of Quinquin: Dumont’s Foray into Miniseries Format Filled with His Brand of Peculiar Humor
Provocative auteur Bruno Dumont lets loose his comedic side with...
Rec 4: Apocalypse | Review
Wreckollect: Balaguero Returns to Famed Franchise for Gasping Final Chapter
The good news is that we’ve probably seen the last creative juice finally squeezed out...
Best of Fest – Docs: Citizenfour Wins Over Critics, While Dubai, Torino and EntreVues Wrap by Handing Out Awards (December 2014)
Academy Awards
On December 2, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that they'd whittled down the 134 eligible documentary submissions to a 15 film...
What’s Up Doc?: Latest from Psihoyos & Ross Bros. Lead Sundance Charge (December 2014)
The holidays are winding down and that means we at IONCINEMA.com are gearing up for our annual pilgrimage to Park City where an A-list...
A Most Violent Year | Review
Year of Living Stressfully: Chandor Returns with Slow-Boil Scald
Baby, it may be cold outside, but the climate’s sure changing in J.C. Chandor’s flashback to...
Unbroken | Review
Run Rabbit Run: Jolie’s Grimly Serious POW Reenactment
Beautifully, if sometimes too glossily mounted, Angelina Jolie’s sophomore effort as a director, Unbroken, is too poker...
Tip Top | Review
Vive La France!: Bozon Returns With a Strangeness
Actor turned director Serge Bozon is the most visible member of a small coterie of filmmakers operating...
Song of the Sea | Review
Of Myth and Men: Moore Dons Skin of the Irish Selkies To Craft Stunning Children's Tale of Family Heritage
You can probably count the number...
Selma | Review
Turnin’ the Beat Around: DuVernay’s Poignant, Passionate MLK Portrait Revitalizes Notions of Biopic
Eschewing what’s come to resemble a traditional route in downplaying both the...
Leviathan | Review
On the Waterfront: Zvyagintsev’s Sprawling Opus of a Modern, Devouring Regime
Back with his fourth feature, Leviathan, Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev succeeds in cinematic sublimity...
The Gambler | Review
Kens and Dolls: Wyatt Revamps Toback Prose for the Plastic Age
Working steadfastly against the success of Rupert Wyatt’s up-do of The Gambler, which was...
Big Eyes | Review
Soul Windows: Burton Returns to the Biopic with Flagging Interest
Long judged as a director clearly intent on recycling the same motif, themes, and...
Ask Me Anything | Review
Ask and You Shall Receive: Burnett’s Adaptation Buoyed By Arresting Performances
Landing somewhere on a spectrum of unraveling female adolescent prototypes that plays like one...
The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies
An Expected Finale: Jackson Brings Tolkien Saga to Thankful End
Upon reaching the end of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy with the third and final installment, renamed The Hobbit:...
Inherent Vice | Review
The Vice is Right: Anderson’s Inherently Incoherent Pynchon Trip
For his seventh film, auteur Paul Thomas Anderson stakes a claim as the first filmmaker to...
After the Fall | Review
Falling Down: Klein’s Debut Exploits Economic Realities for Mixed Crime Drama
Exploring the ravaged remnants of the façade once referred to as the American Dream,...
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks | Review
Dance, Fools, Dance: Performances Elevate Seidelman’s Stagnant Adaptation
Marking the fifth film collaboration between director Arthur Allan Seidelman and writer Richard Alfieri is Six Dance...
Exodus: Gods and Kings | Review
Death on the Nile: Scott’s Biblical Epic Unworthy of the Gods
Arriving just in time for ritual slaughter is Ridley Scott’s update on the Moses...
Criterion Collection: Safe | Blu-Ray Review
Todd Haynes receives his first entry in the Criterion collection with a beautiful restoration of his landmark 1995 sophomore feature, Safe, the film that launched...
Dying of the Light | Review
Does Not Go Quietly: Schrader’s Latest Tampered Product
Veteran film director and screenwriter Paul Schrader just can’t seem to catch a break. Much like the...
Fandor eh?: Discover Films from the NFB, Norman McLaren, Guy Maddin & Xavier Dolan
Our favorite online curator have offered us an interactive map on some of the top Canadian film spotlights (from Canuck/poutine filmmaker types) available over at...
Zero Motivation | Review #2
Band of Girls: Lavie’s Acerbic, Confident Debut
Exacerbated ennui is explored to comedic effect in Tayla Lavie’s striking directorial debut, Zero Motivation, which explores life...
Zero Motivation | Review
A "Staple" Female-centric Portrait: Lavie Adds Dark Charm to Bureaucratic Military Milieu
With a subject so entrenched with weight and political correctness, there seems to...
Sundance ’15: Zobel, Bujalski, Brice & Kris Swanberg Among U.S. Dramatic Competition
Last year, it was Damien Chazelle's richly texturized, foot-tapping, finger-snapping sophomore pic Whiplash that instantly became the "it" film to beat in the sixteen competition...
Black or White | Review
Black to Basics: Binder’s Safely Bland Racial Message Movie
The latest film from actor/director/screenwriter Mike Binder, Black or White presents us with the possibility of...
Video Interview: Krzysztof Zanussi (Foreign Body) – 2014 Toronto Int. Film Festival
We sat down with Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival after the premiere of his new film, Foreign Body....
Criterion Collection: Les Blank: Always for Pleasure | Blu-ray Review
Many people may know Les Blank most for his association with Werner Herzog, who he filmed while on the brink of creative madness in...
Pioneer | Review
Oil!: Skjoldbjaerg’s Latest an Icy Conspiracy Thriller
Norwegian director Erik Skjoldbjaerg has remained a hard director to peg ever since his celebrated 1997 debut, Insomnia,...
Miss Julie | Review
Touch of Class: Ullmann’s Update of Classic Text Ultimately Lifeless
There are a scant few equals to the texts of playwright August Strindberg’s, his 1888...
Life Partners | Review
She’s the One: Fogel’s Debut a Top Tier Examination of Co-Dependent Friendship
Borrowing shades of autobiographical instances from their own lives, director Susanna Fogel and...
The Foxy Merkins | Review
American Gigola: Olnek’s Hilarious Sophomore Film Reinvents the Masculine Realm of Hustler Bonding
Few filmmakers are able to successfully create a distinctly unique universe of...
Wild | Review #2
A Prayer for the Wild at Heart: Vallee Continues Reinvention of Lost Souls
Arriving at the end of star Reese Witherspoon’s auteur binge is one...
Wild | Review
Peaks and Vallée: Witherspoon Eats, Prays, Hikes
When Cheryl Strayed's memoir was released in 2012, the climate for gender politics was different. The book's popularity soared...
