Tag: top-stories
2024 World Cinema Fund: New Lisandro Alonso & Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese Projects Backed
Last year the likes of Nara Normande and Tião (Venice 2023 selected Sem Coração) and Mo Harawe's (Cannes 2024 selected The Village next to...
2024 TIFF: Valchanov/Grozeva, Nacho Vigalondo, Carlos Marqués-Marcet & Rodrigo Prieto in Platform Programme
Named after the influential film Platform (2000) by the great "Sixth Generation" master filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke, it'll soon be a decade since TIFF introduced...
2024 Venice: Corbet, Guadagnino, Haugerud, Kulumbegashvili, Salles, Tsangari & Yeo Siew Hua In Golden Lion Competition
21 films were selected for the 2024 Venice Film Festival competition and in the pack we find some surprises and several shoe-ins for the...
2024 Venice: Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Fabrice du Welz, Asif Kapadia, Errol Morris & Harmony Korine Out of Comp
While we might still be on the fence about what is being described as a first-person shooter-type experience in Harmony Korine's Baby Invasion, but...
2024 Venice: Avranas, Alex Ross Perry, Rosenberg, Kerekes, Friedland, Neo Sora & Elizabeth Lo in Orizzonti Selections!
The Un Certain Regard section in Venice, recent winners of the Horizons (Orizzonti) section include Gábor Reisz's Explanation for Everything, Houman Seyyedi's World War...
2024 TIFF: 10 Key Take-Aways From Gala & Special Presentations Announcement
The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its Gala and Special Presentations programs and now have have confirmations not only...
2024 NYFF: RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” Selected as Opening Night Film…Heading to Telluride/Venice?
London BFI have Steve McQueen's Blitz and San Sebastian Film Festival tied up Audrey Diwan's Emmanuelle, we now have the NYFF folks pitching their...
2024 Venice: Aude Léa Rapin & Lawrence Valin Bookend + Bernhard Wenger, Alexandra Simpson & Muhammed Hamdy in Venice Intl. Critics’ Week Comp
While tomorrow is the big daddy of announcements for the fall film festival season, this morning, we learn the identity of the nine feature...
2024 Venice: Valerio Mastandrea’s “Nonostante” & Tim Fehlbaum’s “September 5” Horizons Sections Openers
The full line-up will be unveiled on Tuesday, but we got a little Lido appetizer pair this morning. Opening the Horizons (aka Orrizonti) section...
2024 Venice: Jan-Willem Van Ewijk, Isabella Torre & Jiang Xiaoxuan in Giornate Degli Autori Line-Up
The first feature films of the 2024 Venice Film Festival lineup have been unveiled through the Giornate Degli Autori section. Artistic Director Gaia Furrer's...
2024 Venice Film Festival Predictions: Luca Guadagnino, Brady Corbet & Dea Kulumbegashvili
Pedro Paramo
Dir. Rodrigo Prieto
Prod: Rafael Ley, Stacy Perskie, Francisco Ramos
A Netflix backed project that went into production in March of last year, Mexican cinematographer...
2024 Venice Film Festival Predictions: Todd Phillips, Fabrice Du Welz & Pablo Larraín
Joker: Folie a Deux
Dir. Todd Phillips
Prod: Todd Phillips, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Joseph Garner
It would be kind of neat if the head jury person of...
2024 Venice Film Festival Predictions: Walter Salles, Athina Rachel Tsangari & Harmony Korine
So here we are. The programming teams headed by Artistic Directors Gaia Furrer (Giornate degli Autori), Beatrice Fiorentino (Settimana Internazionale della Critica) and Alberto...
Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret Prefer “Ma frère”, Emmanuel Marre Goes Solo on “Notre salut”
As usual, the folks at Cineuropa get the dibs on CNC’s advance receipt news and today we learn that The Worst Ones (Les Pires)...
2024 TIFF/Venice: David Gordon Green “Nutcrackers” Opens Toronto, Almodóvar a Lock for Venice?
Sundance has Sebastian Silva. Cannes has the Dardenne Bros. And at this point, we can call him a VIP guest at Toronto Intl. Film...
Teaser for Chloé Robichaud’s “Deux femmes en or”
We've got the first (really early) look at Chloé Robichaud's fourth feature film -- which is set to drop next summer (domestic Quebec release)...
Lynne Ramsay Re-Teams with “We Need to Talk About Kevin” Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey on “Die, My Love”
Filming is imminent for Lynne Ramsay's highly anticipated fifth feature, and we just learned that a key creative member in cinematographer Seamus McGarvey from...
The Deep Blue V: Sophie Letourneur Sets Sails for “L’Aventura”
Savory wine, blissful beaches, rugged topography, and an elusive Philippe Katerine who plays Jean-Philippe -- we've been keeping close tabs on what will be...
Interview: Yann Mounir Demange & Rosa Attab – Dammi (short)
Yann Mounir Demange quite literally blasted onto the scene back in 2014 with his feature debut about a stranded British soldier (Jack O'Connell) with...
2024 Locarno Film Festival: César Díaz, Simon Jaquemet & Tarsem Singh in Piazza Grande
It has to be among the best open-air public spaces at any festival to premiere a film and it also counts as a safe...
Two for 2025?: Xavier Giannoli’s “Jean et Corinne Luchaire” & Rebecca Zlotowski’s “Vie privée” Receive CNC Support
We have the first details on the next feature films from a pair of French auteurs who arguably are both coming off what might...
2024 Locarno Film Festival: Ramon Zürcher, Kurdwin Ayub, Hong Sangsoo & Pia Marais in Pardo d’Oro Comp
Former Pardo d’Oro champs Hong Sangsoo (Right Now, Wrong Then - 2015) and Wang Bing (Mrs. Fang - 2017) will be measuring up against...
2024 TIFF: Anderson .Paak, John Crowley & Sophie Deraspe World Preems Added to Line-Up
After the first sextet of titles released back in the middle of June, the Toronto International Film Festival are throwing us another fivesome of...
Third Time’s A Charm: Dupieux & Exarchopoulos Re-team on “L’Avant-dernière séance”
After collaborating with the other half of the Blue is the Warmest Color tandem, Quentin Dupieux is re-teaming with actress Adèle Exarchopoulos for L’Avant-dernière...
Newark Confiture: Balagov’s “Butterfly Jam” Set for a September Start Date
In what promises to be a vintage 2025 year for auteur cinema, Kantemir Balagov's next might also join the fray. Originally titled "Monica" and...
Interview: Monia Chokri & Magalie Lépine Blondeau – The Nature of Love
In a creative output that saw her add a harvest of three feature films in the last five years, after 2019's A Brother's Love...
The Nature of Love | Review
Heart in the Right Place: Chokri Lets the Body & the Camera Do the Talking in Rom Dramedy
French Canadian filmmaker Monia Chokri adds another...
MaXXXine | Review
A Touch of Minx: West Concludes Ersatz ‘Trilogy’ with a Moan
It’s an impressive endeavor to unleash three consecutive, thematically related films within the span...
Music | Review
Oedipus Shrugged: Schanelec Finds Tragedy is the Song That Doesn’t End
There’s little use clinging to the description of Angela Schanelec’s latest film Music as...
2024 Venice Gap-Financing Market: Ulrike Ottinger, Aga Woszczyńska, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Erige Sehiri & Theo Court Among Selected Projects
The projects for the upcoming Venice Gap-Financing Market have been unveiled (27 feature-length fiction) and there'll be several listed here projects that we'll discuss...
Last Summer (L’Été dernier) | Review
One Deadly Summer: Breillat Agitates Another Sexual Taboo
Suddenly, last summer, a successful lawyer who has it all risks throwing her life away with an...
2024 Eurimages: Visar Morina, Hlynur Pálmason, Nadav Lapid, Valentyn Vasyanovych & Dardennes Receive Support
The results of the second Eurimages Project Evaluation Session for 2024 have just been announced and we are finding some major projects in the...
Interview: Léa Drucker – Last Summer (L’été dernier)
She was pulled from obscurity (or non-retirement since her last feature was 2013's Abuse of Weakness) when Saïd Ben Saïd optioned the rights to...
20,000 Species of Bees | Review
The Secret Life of Bees: Solaguren’s Warm Debut Explores the Communal Dictation of Gender Identity
Our relationship to our gender and sexual identities is...
The Vourdalak | Review
Love in the Blood: Beau Resurrects Russian Vampire Clan in Eccentric Genre Throwback
Chuck Palahniuk wrote it best, referencing an ‘old saying’ in his 1996...
Interview: Ariane Louis-Seize – Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
After being feted on the Lido (winner of the Director's Award in the Giornate degli Autori section - we were there) and being showcased...
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Review
Sentimental Succubus: Louis-Seize Finds Love is All Consuming in Vampire Rom-Com
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry” read the tagline for the quintessential...
Green Border | Review
The Good Pole: Holland’s Humanitarian Drama a Steady Drizzle of Misery Porn
The difference between an exploitation vs. a social issue film can sometimes be...
Kinds of Kindness | Review
Bounds of Boundaries: Lanthimos Entertains Himself with Bizarre Triptych
It’s safe to say Yorgos Lanthimos has undoubtedly entered the oblivious, self-indulgent era of his career...
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...
Interview: Sofia Alaoui – Animalia
When the balance of the universe is disturbed, the hierarchy of nature's totem can be reconfigured. If the earth's creatures are more closely attuned...
Under Communist Rule: Cristi Puiu’s “La Saint-André des loups” Set for Spring Shoot
Pre-pandemic, Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu had been working on "Hora staccato," set in May 1950 Bucharest, where police rounded up dignitaries and imprisoned them....
Seed of Doubt: Noémie Merlant & Léa Drucker Topline Laura Wandel’s “L’intérêt d’Adam”
Among the most anticipated sophomore features we'll already look forward to for the 2025 campaign received a Cannes blurb update in the Le film...
Girlhood, Interrupted: Carolina Cavalli Set to Trace “The Kidnapping of Arabella”
After grabbing the international film festival circuit by storm with her directorial debut in Amanda (2022 Venice, TIFF) and to an extent Babak Jalali's...
Firebrand | Review
One Survived: Ainouz Attempts to Give a Queen Her Due
The Tudor era has maintained public fascination for the past five hundred years, a linchpin...
2024 Sundance Institute Producers Lab: Tara Sheffer (Rubber Hut) & Mireia Vilanova (Silence Sometimes) Selected
The Sundance Institute today announced the 10 producers selected to participate in its annual Producers Lab and we find a 5/5 split. Fellows in...
Laying Brick: Robin Campillo to Shoot “Enzo” this Month
The passing of the torch was confirmed around Cannes, and rather than what might have been an August shoot, Les Films de Pierre producer...
Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything | Review
Goodbye, First Love: Atef Explores Pangs of Passion Amidst Detached Reunification
For her sixth feature film, Germany’s Emily Atef returns to themes of circumstance...
Banel & Adama | Review
A Place in the Sun: Sy’s Fascinating Debut on Ruinous Social Obligations
It takes a village…to put you in your place, or so it...
Death Proof: Stepanyan Certifies Camille Cottin & Zar Amir Ebrahimi for Fiction Debut
Earlier today, Cineuropa's Fabien Lemercier revealed an alluring-sounding project that we'll be keeping a close eye on. Heading into production this week, Armenia-born, Lebanese...
