Tag: top-stories
Interview: Natalia López Gallardo – Robe of Gems (Manto de Gemas)
Largely known as a film editor for having worked with partner Carlos Reygadas on 2007 masterwork Silent Light and with further collaborations with the...
Unifrance Launches MyMetaStories – New Online Film Festival
The folks at Unifrance (supported by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission) have launched MyMetaStories -- a new, online European film festival...
Without Air | 2023 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
A Teacher Fights For Her Job In Katalin Moldovai’s Simmering Indictment of Hungary’s Culture Wars
Agnieszka Holland’s largely forgotten (and quite awful) 1995 biopic Total...
Hors-saison | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Lover Come Back: Romance Rekindles in Brizé’s Elegant Exploration of Regret
The universal dilemma of romantic regret is wondering ‘what could have been’ based on...
Woman Of… | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Pieces of a Woman: Szumowska & Englert Compose Compassionate Portrait of Trans Woman
“Testosterone is power,” confirms one physician advising Andrzej, the protagonist of Malgorzata...
Lubo | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Children of a Lesser God: Diritti Highlights Swiss War Crimes in Prolonged Drama
The actual history being explored in Giorgio Diritti’s three-hour drama Lubo is...
Holly | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
The Girl with All the Gifts: Torch Tiptoes into Genre with Aloof Drama
Belgian director Fien Troch has built a steadfast filmography on quietly painful...
The Summer With Carmen | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
The Write Stuff: Life Becomes Art in Mavroeidis Sun Dappled Debut
Hindsight is 20/20, especially when it comes to using romantic liaisons as creative fodder...
Following the Sound | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Not in the Script: Sugita’s New Form of Companionship Takes on Heartaches and Heartbreaks
Rewriting the notion of what it truly means to follow someone...
Enea | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Deal or No Deal: Castellitto Distracted by Design in Drug Pusher Drama
Director Pietro Castellitto embarks on a familial affair with sophomore film Enea, in...
The Palace | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
It’s Only the End of the World: Polanski Checks Out with Broad Satire
As many are likely to avoid The Palace, the latest film from persona...
Making Of | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
The Working Class Goes to the Back Lot: Kahn Prosaically Processes a Director’s Strife
What should cinema be and who should it be made for?...
Love Is a Gun | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Lucky Number Seven: The Grabbing Hands Grab All They Can in Lee Hong-Chi’s Debut
Working as both a crime film (non-gangster former life) and drama-soaked...
Vermines | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
The Spider’s Stratagem: Vanicek Weaves Familiar Web with Debut Creature Feature
Creature features have an odd way of satisfying a variety of our escapist desires,...
Adagio | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Rome, Smoking City: Sollima Languorous Thriller Tiresomely Tests Narrative Cliches
The most apropos element of Stefano Sollima’s Adagio is the title itself, as it’s two-hour-plus...
Sobre todo la noche (Foremost the Night) | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Other Mothers: Iriarte’s Debut a Murky Mix of Neo Noir and Melodrama
For his film debut Foremost the Night, Víctor Iriarte frames his peculiarly staged...
Interview: Jennifer Reeder – Perpetrator
With an output of three feature films in just four years and several short films in-between, a purveyor in Feminist horror cinema genre, American...
Exclusive: Céline Rouzet’s Clips for En attendant la nuit (For Night Will Come)- 2023 Venice Film Festival
Among the four (at last count) vampire-related titles to surface on the Lido this year we find the Orizzonti selected En attendant la nuit...
Finalmente L’Alba (Finally Dawn) | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Cruel Intentions: Costanzo Pays Homage to the Demi-Monde of the Italian Film Industry
After adapting Elena Ferrante’s "My Brilliant Friend" for television, Saverio Costanzo returns...
Sidonie au Japon | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Second Chance Romance: Girard Haunts Huppert in Erstwhile Ghost Story
Isabelle Huppert conjoins two of her most recent recurring cinematic themes with Sidonie in Japan,...
Exclusive Poster: Pondering the Future in Nehir Tuna’s “Dormitory”
Selected as a competition offering in the Venice Film Festival's Orizzonti section, Nehir Tuna's lands a prestige spot to showcase his directorial debut film...
Bastarden (The Promised Land) | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
The Good Earth: Arcel Inherits the Wind with Romanticized Historical Recuperation
After making his English language debut with the imperiled Stephen King adaptation The Dark...
L’ordine del tempo | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Time After Time: Cavani Commits Time Crimes in Overwrought Farce
What does time mean when we’re all out of it? Thus is the quagmire...
Comandante | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
And the Sea Will Tell: De Angelis Sells the Soft Side of Fascism
Napolitano director Edoardo De Angelis embarks on his most lavish offering to...
Exclusive: Clip for Andrés Peyrot’s God is a Woman – 2023 Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week
Tomorrow the Venice International Film Festival sets its sails on its 80th edition and among the treasures in the Venice Critics’ Week we find...
Exclusive: Clips for Héléna Klotz’s Spirit of Ecstasy – 2023 TIFF Platform Programme
Among the ten competition films selected for TIFF's prestige Platform programme, Héléna Klotz makes her long-awaited return to features with Spirit of Ecstasy (aka...
2023 San Sebastián: Xavier Legrand, Isabella Eklöf, Kitty Green & Christos Nikou Added to Comp
Two surprise world premieres (highly anticipated sophomore features) are part of the last batch of competition film title announcements duking it out for the...
2024 Oscars: Felipe Gálvez’ “The Settlers” is Chile’s Nomination for Best International Film
Canada announced Zaynê Akyol's Rokej, Germany announced Ilker Çatak's The Teachers Lounge (a future SPC release) and Chile ended up selecting a film that...
Nothing for Nathan: Producer Saïd Ben Saïd Reteams with Paul Verhoeven for “Sans compter”
French film producer Saïd Ben Saïd sort of resurrected the career of Paul Verhoeven with the release of Elle (2016), and he had been...
Interview: Ellie Foumbi & Joe Mastantuono – Our Father, the Devil
Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father, the Devil (Mon Père, le Diable) is an exceptionally haunting, masterful film. A highlight from both Venice (a Biennale College...
Piaffe | Review
Horse Girl: Oren Gets Hot to Trot in Strange, Alluring Debut
What is it about horses, exactly, and their tacit parallels with subterranean conduits of...
2024 Oscars: Anna Hints’ “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” is Estonia’s Nomination for Best International Film
The first docu to throw their hat into the derby, the Sundance break-out hit Smoke Sauna Sisterhood by Anna Hints becomes Estonia's nomination to...
2023 NYFF: Trân Anh Hùng, Garth Davis, Hayao Miyazaki, Harmony Korine & Steve McQueen in Spotlight Section
Last year's Spotlight Section managed to nab pair of highly sought-after titles in Bones and All and Women Talking and a pair of world...
2023 NYFF: Bradley Cooper’s Maestro Selected as Spotlight Gala
To premiere on the Lido (Saturday, September 2nd) smack dab when Telluride is up and running, it is finally the New York Film Festival...
I Dig Your Eyes: Big World Pictures Arrests Giacomo Abbruzzese’s “Disco Boy”
Finally, it is Big World Pictures that have landed one of the best films from the 2023 edition of the Berlinale. Featuring Franz Rogowski,...
Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation | Review
Death in the Garden: Chebbi Debuts Eerie, Nuanced Murder Mystery
In a supremely frightening sense, the events transpiring in Ashkal (which means ‘shapes’ in Arabic) recalls...
2023 TIFF: Radu Jude, Denis Côté, Kleber Mendonça Filho & Phạm Thiên An Cement Wavelengths
And now we can officially state that the TIFF selections are now complete with the Wavelengths programme being unveiled. A mix of Berlin, Cannes...
Love Life | Review
Love the One You’re With: Fukada Explores Love and Death as Unhappy Accidents
The instability of romance is the only real given in the intimate...
Stepne | 2023 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Land That Time Forgot: Vroda Mines Eroding Memories in Speculative Debut
Thomas Wolfe meant You Can’t Go Home Again metaphorically, but such might literally...
2023 TIFF: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ilker Çatak, Monia Chokri & Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir Selected
Last year the Contemporary World Cinema had plenty of Cannes Film Festival gems in Aftersun, Falcon Lake, R.M.N. and The Worst Ones. This year's...
2023 TIFF: Mackenzie Davis, Yann Demange, Ana Cristina Barragán & Cannes Winners Fill Short Cuts Programme
With only the Contemporary World Cinema and Wavelengths left on the scorecard, TIFF has now dropped the Short Cuts programme and we've got plenty...
2023 World Cinema Fund (WCF): Lucía Garibaldi, Nara Normande + Tião & Abinash Bikram Shah Receive Coin
Uruguayan filmmaker Lucía Garibaldi (who premiered The Sharks at Sundance in 2019), Abinash Bikram Shah (short film winner in Cannes 2022), Burak Cevik (one...
2023 NYFF: Haigh, Hamaguchi, Lanthimos, Triet, Glazer and Annie Baker in Main Slate
We were scratching our heads on where films such as Andrew Haigh's (retitled) All of Us Strangers and the under-the-radar A24 film by Annie...
Always on the Run: Karim Aïnouz Checks into “Motel Destino”
Before moving on to his next weighty film project in Rosebushpruning (set for Spring 2024), Karim Aïnouz has already begun filming his next feature...
2024 Oscars: Carmen Jaquier’s “Thunder” is Switzerland’s Nomination for Best International Film
Switzerland is the first country out of the gate to select the film that will represent one of the almost 90+ film nation options...
Animal | 2023 Locarno Film Festival Review
Boogie Nights: Exarchou Doses Summertime Sadness in Achy Melodrama
For anyone who’s ever wondered what life might be like for employees at any tourist trap...
2023 TIFF: Larry Charles, Harmony Korine, Finn Wolfhard + Billy Bryk Lock Up Midnight Madness Slots
A bit of Cannes (Weston Razooli's Riddle of Fire and Jason Yu's Sleep), one significant title heading over to Venice in Harmony Korine's AGGRO...
2023 TIFF: Patricia Arquette, Mehdi Fikri, Ninna Pálmadóttir & Molly Manning Walker Line Up Discovery Programme
With the exception of a trio of titles including the big Un Certain Regard winner in Molly Manning Walker's How to Have Sex, this...
2023 San Sebastián: Lila Avilés, Felipe Galvez, David Zonana & Carolina Markowicz Fill Horizontes Latinos Section
A dozen film titles with items dating back to this year's Sundance (David Zonana's Heroic), Berlinale (Lila Aviles' Totem and Tatiana Huezo's The Echo)...
2023 TIFF: Tarsem Singh, Kristoffer Borgli, Nora El Hourch & Héléna Klotz Among 10 Platform Selections
We now know the identity of the Platform programme -- what we still consider the premium section destination at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival....
