Tag: top-stories
Power Dynamics: Sony Pictures Classics Takes a Seat in “The Teachers’ Lounge”
A major break-out film outside the competition of the Berlinale's Panorama section and a double winner of the Europa Cinemas Label award for Best...
Hot Tub Time Machine: Brizé’s Begins Production on “Hors saison” with Canet & Rohrwacher
Stéphane Brizé is set to begin production in Brittany this month. Our friends at Cineuropa confirmed that Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher are indeed...
2023 Sundance Institute Momentum Fellows: Charlotte Wells, Nikyatu Jusu & Francisca Alegria Among Selected 8
The Sundance Institute announced the eight participants selected for the fifth annual Momentum Fellowship with names such as Charlotte Wells, Nikyatu Jusu and Francisca...
Not so Recent Past: Cinedigm Gives a Second Chance to Foumbi’s “Our Father, the Devil”
With Independent Spirit festivities only days away, the Cinedigm folks have landed the North American rights to the surprise film nominated in the Best...
Loose Pages: Sideshow and Janus Films Scoop up Petzold’s “Afire”
After landing Lila Avilés’ Tótem, Sideshow and Janus Films returned to the same Berlinale competition well and scooped up their second title in just...
2023 Berlin International Film Festival Coverage Wrap-Up
The 2023 edition of the Berlin International Film Festival has come and gone (we got plenty more to insert here), but here are some...
2023 New Directors/New Films: Avilés’ Tótem, Abbruzzese’s Disco Boy & Leaf’s Earth Mama Among Highlights
Lassoing international film titles as far back as last year's Manuela Martelli's Chile ’76 and Saim Sadiq's Joyland and as recent as Berlinale's Abbruzzese's...
House Hold: Sideshow & Janus Films Move into Berlinale Fave “Tótem”
Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize and easily among the top films at this year's Berlinale, Lila Avilés' sophomore feature Tótem had already racked...
Till the End of the Night | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
Night Boos: Hochhäusler Bungles Black Market Crime Thriller
Blending fatal romanticism and B-movie genre tropes, it’s not difficult to see where a certain Fassbinder sensibility...
The Survival of Kindness | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
Lady in a Cage: de Heer’s Dystopia Explores the Enduring Echoes of Colonialism
Dutch-born director Rolf de Heer has been a mainstay of Australian cinema...
Living Bad (Viver Mal) | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
The Mirror Has Two Faces: Canijo’s Customers Are Always Blight with Inverse Melodrama
“Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it...
Bad Living | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
The Best Exotic Portugal Hotel: Canijo Examines Motherhood as Misanthropy in Masterful Familial Miasma
The women handling the specialty boutique hotel in Joao Canijo’s Mal...
Le grand chariot (The Plough) | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
Father Knows Best: Garrel’s Family Affair Flounders in Banality
Although co-credited to the late, great Jean-Claude Carrière and starring a whole gaggle of the Garrel...
Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
Road to Nowhere: Von Trotta Presents the Basics on Bachmann
Throughout her career, Margarethe Von Trotta, a key figure from the New German Wave of...
The Teachers’ Lounge | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
Dangerous Finds: Catak Mines the Impossibility of Idealism in Departmental Dilemma
Sometimes maintaining the semblance of a ‘safe space’ means sublimating self-righteousness, a lesson learned...
The Beast in the Jungle | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
Waiting for the Stars to Align: Chiha Finds Fruit Rotting on the Vine
“Good things come to those who wait” might be a commonly bastardized...
Return to Seoul | Review
Do You Know Where You’re Going To?: Chou Explores Identity & Adoption Through Complex Character Portrait
Davy Chou returns with an intimate, unpredictable portrait of...
Pacifiction (Tourment sur les îles) | Review
Tropical Malady: Control is an Illusion in Serra’s Colonialist Quagmire
Literally and figuratively, Pacifiction (Tourment sur les îles), the latest from the cerebral Spanish director Albert...
Interview: Robert Machoian – The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
Robert Machoian’s The Integrity of Joseph Chambers is a meticulous, farcical character study of the titular anti-hero (repeat collaborator Clayne Crawford), who tries to...
A Radiant Girl (Une jeune fille qui va bien) | Review
Games of Hate & Chance: Kiberlain Curates Characterization with Tragic Wartime Portrait
In the eye of a swiftly gathering storm in the summer of 1942,...
Interview: Reema Maya – Nocturnal Burger (Short)
Each year, Sundance receives more than ten thousand short film submissions, making it nearly impossible to secure a spot. However, for Mumbai-based filmmaker Reema...
Interview: Shaunak Sen – All That Breathes
Painterly and humour-filled, All That Breathes is poetic lyricism rendered on both the micro and the macro level. Weaving together philosophical, political, economic challenges...
Interview: Lukas Dhont – Close
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize (tied with Claire Denis) at this year's Cannes Film Festival, with his sophomore feature, Lukas Dhont has cemented...
Close | Review
The Children’s Hour: Dhont Explores Unspoken Realities in Masterful Drama
The essence of Close, the sophomore film from Belgium’s Lukas Dhont, is akin to the...
Un beau matin (One Fine Morning) | Review
All the Mornings in the World: Seydoux Burns Bright in Hansen-Love’s Moving Drama
Hannah Arendt succinctly remarked on the inference between 'doing' and 'understanding' in...
Cairo Conspiracy | Review
You Gotta Have Faith: Saleh Explores Corruption of Institutions in Procedural Thriller
“Power is a double edged sword. Sometimes it cuts the hand that wields...
Nostalgia | Review
You Can’t Go Home Again: Martone’s Latest Asserts the Past is a Dangerous Place
In yet another foray into the teeming possibilities of Naples, Mario...
When You Finish Saving the World | Review
A Tube with a View: Eisenberg Debuts Gentle Narrative on Misplaced Intentions
‘Familiarity breeds contempt,’ could have been the tagline for Jesse Eisenberg’s lovely, low-key...
The Son | Review
The Tragedy of Privilege: Zeller’s Familial Identity Trilogy Continues with Maudlin Chapter
The highly revered and internationally renowned playwright Florian Zeller has a formidable talent...
Interview: David Zonana – Heroic
In his sophomore feature, David Zonana plunges into the dark underpinnings that propel military college-type institutions in Mexico (not much different around the world)...
World Cinema Report: The Philippines – Most Anticipated for 2023
In 2022, the Philippines was on quite a roll on the international cinematic arena with local films gaining critical acclaim and Filipino talents getting...
Infinity Pool | Review
The Dualists: Cronenberg Doubles Down on Class Cliches
“Sorrow is concealed in gilded places, and there’s no escaping it,” wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in his...
Through the Looking Glass: Top 10 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2024
As we do every year, after we've unveiled our massive top list for the upcoming year (check out our Top 200) we like to...
When It Melts | 2023 Sundance Film Festival Review
Vengeance on a Wet Afternoon: Baetens Prepares a Fatal Reckoning in Grim Debut
Home is most certainly not where the heart is in When It...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #11. Yorgos Lanthimos’ AND
AND
A year-end item that squeezed itself at the top of our list is Greek helmer Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest project which sees him reteam with...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #12. Christian Petzold’s Afire
Afire
So deserving and so close at cracking our top 10, the great German filmmaker Christian Petzold continues at his break-neck speed of quantity and...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #13. Marco Bellocchio’s La conversione
La conversione
The true story has put the fear of god in the directors who consider making it, but finally, it was Italian maestro Marco...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #14. Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel
The Royal Hotel
A favorite of ours amongst working female directors always surprising us with her ingenuity, originality and formal rigueur as witnessed in the...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #15. Robin Campillo’s Red Island
Vazaha (Les Blancs)
Forget about the numerous title changes, it appears that it took a little bit more time with detours due to the pandemic...
