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Exclusive Poster: Falling for Laura Luchetti’s “The Beautiful Summer”
Earlier this week Variety premiered the official trailer and leading up to 2023 Locarno Film Festival world premiere of The Beautiful Summer (August 4th)...
Yellow Brick Road: Mubi Lands Ross Bros.’ “Gasoline Rainbow”
A surprise selection for Venice (only because it was off our radar), the debut fiction feature by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross (see...
Dusty Roads: Max Walker-Silverman Builds Towards Sophomore Feature
A Love Song(the much traveled and critically acclaimed Sundance 2022 title) filmmaker Max Walker-Silverman is back in his home state of Colorado for round...
Punk Not Dead: Gina Rodriguez To Topline Carlos López-Estrada “Kill Yr Idols”
Currently mounting Didi as a producer, if lady luck is on his Blindspotting filmmaker Carlos López-Estrada's side, he will direct his next feature film...
2023 Deauville: Celine Song, Marian Mathias, John Trengove, Hannah Peterson & Babak Jalali in Comp
One of the top three strictly American indie film festivals outside of the US, France’s Deauville American Film Festival has unveiled the fourteen titles...
2023 Giornate degli Autori: Élise Girard, Delphine Girard, Chong Keat Aun, Céline Sciamma & Teona Strugar Mitevska Populate Sidebar
The Giornate degli Autori folks will be celebrating the twentieth edition of the section and a pair of auteurs in Céline Sciamma and Teona...
Think Big: After “Yannick” and “Daaaaaali!”, Quentin Dupieux Looking to Film Next Feature in English
A small end of interview snip-it from the Troiscouleurs folks informs us that Quentin Dupieux is looking to switch things up a bit -...
2023 TIFF: Asmae El Moudir, Roger Ross Williams, Errol Morris, Raoul Peck & Wiseman Load Up TIFF Docs
TIFF Docs programming team announced some big guns in their line-up comprised of some high value world premieres and a sprinkling of North American...
Rodrigo Santoro Finds “Outro Lado do Céu” Deep in the Amazon
We saw that Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro was hard at work on a new fourth feature, and now we have the title, cast and...
2023 Venice: Mika Gustafson, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, Normande+Tiao, Nattiv+Ebrahimi & Ross Bros. in Orizzonti Program
Eighteen is the exact number of films selected last year, and will probably be the case for (the opener was not yet announced) the...
2023 Venice: Ava DuVernay, David Fincher, Agnieszka Holland, Malgorzata Szumowska & Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Comp Surprises!
We have twenty-three competition entries and all the America films that were tipped to compete for the Golden Lion have indeed stuck to their...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]
Ruben Östlund, Maryam Touzani, Denis Ménochet, Rungano Nyoni, Brie Larson, Paul Dano, Atiq Rahimi, Damián Szifron and Julia Ducournau put the cards on the...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]
This year's Un Certain Regard selection was a pretty sturdy class and the jury comprised of John C. Reilly, Alice Winocour, Paula Beer, Davy...
2023 TIFF: Rustin, The Holdovers, Memory, The Beast, NYAD, Fingernails, Hit Man & The Royal Hotel Get Confirmed Itineraries
With one announcement we got confirmations for films that will either exclusively play in Toronto or will hit either Telluride and/or Venice just prior....
2023 Venice Critics’ Week: Luna Carmoon, Lee Hong-Chi, Moin Hussain & Adrien Beau in Competition Lineup
Commencing the loaded week of Venice Film Festival announcements (Golden Lion hopefuls are being released tomorrow and the Giornate degli Autori section is dropping...
Guslagie Malanda Boards Joachim Lafosse’s “Les petits voleurs”
Over the past couple of weeks we've been reporting on a new Joachim Lafosse project. With an October production start date just around the...
2023 Venice: J.A. Bayona’s Dish Served Cold “Society of the Snow” to Close Festival
As we eagerly await for the major announcements next Tuesday and now that we cleared up the whole festival opener situation, we now learn...
Oppenheimer | Review
Bombs Away: How Christopher Nolan Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb
For his highly anticipated twelfth feature, Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan returns to the annals of...
2023 Venice: Challengers Out, Comandante In as Venice Film Festival Opener
While there are plenty of fall film festival subtractions behind the scenes, just this hour we learned that we have our first public casualty...
Return to Dust | Review
The Good Earth: Ruijun Crafts Poignant Portrait of Transformative Love
Director Li Ruijun returns to familiar themes in his sixth feature, Return to Dust, a...
The Beanie Bubble [Video Review]
Producers: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Karen Lunder
Executive Producers: Zach Galifianakis, Douglas S. Jones
Directors: Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash, Jr.
Writer: Kristin Gore.
Director of Photography: Steven...
2023 NYFF: Army Brat to Graceland – Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” is Centerpiece Selection
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla has been identified as New York Film Festival's Centerpiece Selection and receives the North American premiere status which indicates that the...
Fremont Flirt: Sean Wang Begins Production on Sundance-Labbed “Dìdi”
A relatively new filmmaker on the scene having premiered his pre-feature work at Sundance and SXSW, we learned that Sean Wang has begun production...
2023 TIFF: Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils to World Preem in Toronto
Shot in February-March range this year, Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils will have quickly jettisoned into a release in 2023 with Toronto Intl. Film Festival...
Chicano Trouble: Fernando Eimbcke Taps into Youth Portrait with “Olmo”
Duck Season (2004), Lake Tahoe (2008) and Club Sandwich (2013) Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke is set to move further up the border with his...
San Francisco Treat: Michel Franco Dreams of the West Coast with “Dos Lados”
Location, Location, Location. After the affluent neighbourhood somewhere in Mexico with New Order, the wasteland of Acapulco with Sundown and more recently, the New...
Barbie World: Sophie Fillières’ “Ma vie ma gueule” Ready for 2024
The Cineuropa folks confirm that production on Sophie Fillières' seventh feature film is now complete (production took place in Scotland) - which means we'll...
For the Cause: César Díaz Takes to the Streets for “Mexico 1986” with Bérénice Bejo
Belgian-Guatemalan Camera d'Or winning filmmaker César Díaz is finally moving into production on his sophomore film and we've just learned that Bérénice Bejo will...
Now in Production: Carlos Reygadas Currently Filming “Estela de sombra”
Carlos Reygadas is currently in production on his sixth feature film, Estela de sombra. We suspect that filming in taking place in his native...
Breast the Wave: Charlène Favier Prepping “Oxana”
Slalom (Cannes 2020 Label) and La fille qu'on appelle a television film (that we mislabeled) to be released in the fall (via ARTE) filmmaker...
House of Worship: Amalric & Françoise Lebrun Finalize Paul Dédalus Tale in Desplechin’s “Spectateurs”
Filming begins today on Spectateurs - a docu-fiction film that will see Cannes darling Arnaud Desplechin's complete his Paul Dédalus films which began with...
The Restless: Joachim Lafosse Prepping “Les petits voleurs”
Set to premiere A Silence (Un silence) (starring Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Devos) at the upcoming Donostia-San Sebastián (a world premiere could actually occur in...
Final Cut (Coupez!) | Review
Primetime Cut: Hazanavicius Returns to Absurdity with Overdone Zombie Remake
Michel Hazanavicius has certainly established his affection for the nonsensical, making a name for himself...
Afire | Review
Pleasure to Burn: Petzold Stokes the Flames in Diffident Drama
A fragile male ego finds itself dismantled in Afire (Roter Himmel), the second chapter...
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Review
Dead Again: McQuarrie Cruises Into the Eye of AI
For his seventh revolution around the sun as the indefatigable IMF agent Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise...
2023 Venice Film Festival – 75 Predictions: Élise Girard, Delphine Girard, Nara Normande / Tião, Purev-Ochir
And here is the last batch of film titles on our 2023 Venice Film Festival – 75 Predictions list.
Paradiset brinner
Dir. Mika Gustafson
Prod: Nima Yousefi
Paradiset...
2023 NYFF: Todd Haynes’ “Playfully Perverse” May December Selected as 61st Edition Opener
With Deauville still in the cards for a premiere, NYFF's Dennis Lim has beat to the punch the likes of Telluride and TIFF for...
2023 Venice Film Festival – 75 Predictions: Fien Troch, Ellen Kuras, Michel Franco, Jan P. Matuszyński…
Among yesterday's round of Venice Film Festival predictions we had the likes of Bertrand Bonello, Viggo Mortensen, Tarsem Singh, Ethan Coen, Pablo Larrain, Michael...
2023 Hubert Bals Fund+Europe: Payal Kapadia, Abinash Bikram Shah & Kim Torres Among Recipients of New Fund
Hubert Bals Fund now have the HBF+Europe fund which supports post-production support backing of the Creative Europe – MEDIA programme, allowing for four projects...
2023 Venice Film Festival – 75 Predictions: Bertrand Bonello, David Oelhoffen, Tarsem Singh & Viggo Mortensen…
Sure we are about two weeks away from the official announcements for the films that will premiere on the Lido, but we are very...
Interview: Carolina Cavalli – Amanda
A refreshing new voice on the Italian cinema scene popped up in the Orizzonti section (Venice Film Festival's parallel section to the comp) in...
2023 San Sebastián: Cristi Puiu, Joachim Lafosse, Raven Jackson & María Alche + Benjamín Naishtat in Comp
Before Venice gets into go mode and unveil their line-up, Artistic Director José Luis Rebordinos has given us a sampling of the films that...
2023 Venice: Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” is Game, Set, Match as Festival Opener
Tipped to be an out of competition selection for MGM/Amazon Studios once they moved back their August release date, Luca Guadagnino's Challengers will open...
2023 TIFF: Ladj Ly’s Les Indésirables to World Preem in Toronto
Unless Venice pulls the carpet from underneath them, Ladj Ly won't following Golden Lion comp preemed/penned Athena by Les Indésirables (aka Bâtiment 5). Instead,...
2023 Locarno Intl Film Festival: Laura Ferrés, Sofia Exarchou, Radu Jude, Ena Sendijarević, Laura Luchetti & Quentin Dupieux Selected!
It's now Locarno Intl. Film Festival (August 2nd to the 12th) Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro's turn to launch us back into major film...
2023 Eurimages: Oliver Laxe, Cherien Dabis, Anders Thomas Jensen, Ana Asensio, Jérémy Comte, Ariane Labed & Rúnar Rúnarsson Receive Coin
Eurimages have announced their second wave of projects receiving some co-production funding coin. Among the filmmakers and projects that caught our eye on we...
2023 Venice Gap-Financing Market: Annemarie Jacir, György Palfi, Minervini, Alves Jr. & Dulude-De Celles Projects Selected
Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, Canadian filmmaker Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, Brazilian filmmaker Ricardo Alves Jr., veteran Hungarian filmmaker György Palfi and Italian filmmaker Roberto Minervini...
In Not Just Another Country: Isabelle Huppert Takes a Third Trip with Hong Sang-soo
After teaming on In Another Country (2012) and Claire's Camera (2017) we've learned via a key internet sleuth that the two workhorses of actress...
Railing Against: Vincent Lindon & Benjamin Voisin Featured in Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s “À la hauteur”
The sister filmmaker tandem behind 17 filles (2011) and Voir du pays (2016) have put a bow on their latest feature film. The Cineuropa...
Outsmoked: Athina Rachel Tsangari Moving Towards Summer Shoot for “Harvest”
The backdrop of Oban, Scotland and Germany will be the lieu of location for Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari's next feature film. Production is...
