Tag: top-stories
We Need to Talk About Jennifer: Lawrence Returning to Indie Roots with Possible Lynne Ramsay Project
Currently in London to promote Lila Neugebauer’s Causeway at the London BFI, Jennifer Lawrence let slip that she has been developing a new project...
An Affair to Remember: Magalie Lépine Blondeau Toplines Monia Chokri’s “Simple Comme Sylvain”
Coming off the still-fresh release of her sophomore film in Babysitter (it was a Sundance world preem albeit virtual edition), production has already begun...
Tár | Review
Notes on a Scandal: Blanchett Swallows Berlin in Exceptional Psychological Drama from Field
It’s been sixteen years since Todd Field’s last film, the arduous Academy...
Tip of the Iceberg: Manuela Martelli Currently Setting Up “The Meltdown”
As we impatiently await to see which film will represent Chile for the upcoming Oscars, we learn that Manuela Martelli (who could be that...
Triangle of Sadness | Review
Voyage of the Damned: Östlund Frowns Down Upon Hardwired Human Folly in Devious Satire
Ruben Östlund has built an impressive filmography satirizing social norms, with...
Habitat For Humanity: “Human Flowers Of Flesh” Shipped Off to The Cinema Guild
The Cinema Guild folks have just netted the popular Locarno comp title by Helena Wittmann. Her sophomore feature Human Flowers Of Flesh will continue...
On the Fritz: Von Erich Clan Filling out for Sean Durkin’s “The Iron Claw”
Sean Durkin's The Iron Claw has found its patriarch. Deadline reports that Holt McCallany has been added to the Von Erich clan and current...
Criterion Collection: Mr. Klein (1976) | Blu-ray Review
In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Chinese Roulette (1976), a venomous marital melodrama, a character played by Margit Carstensen provocatively inquires, “Who would this person have...
In the Loop: Liliana Cavani Takes a Seat at the Table in “L’ordine del tempo”
First we have Catherine Breillat getting back in the saddle, and now we have some great news coming out of Italy with Liliana Cavani...
Times Squared: Focus Features Have Penthouse View of Vasilis Katsoupis’ “Inside”
A title that we thought might break into Cannes or Venice will probably instead be considered for the upcoming Sundance or Berlinale line-ups as...
Mitterrand Mindset: KimStim Brings Mikhaël Hers’ “The Passengers Of The Night” into the Family
Proving it's not too late for some Berlinale shopping, Deadline reports that the KimStim folks landed comp title Les Passagers de la nuit -...
Arte France Cinéma Backs Thierry de Peretti’s “À son image” & Vladimir Perisic’s “La honte”
Reported by our friends at Cineuropa, Arte France Cinéma are getting behind a quartet of new projects - a pair that are on our...
2022 American Film Fest in Wroclaw: Julia Halperin & Jason Cortlund, Lucy Kerr Among Lucky 8 at US in Progress
Next month, the American Film Festival in Wroclaw will hold its 13th edition and an integral part of the fest is the annual U.S....
Corsica Consciousness: Esther Gohourou & Suzy Bemba Join Corsini’s “Le retour”
Casting is complete and cameras are currently rolling on Catherine Corsini's Le retour. We recently reported that Aïssatou Diallo Sagna was the first to...
Kusijanović Teaming with Yinuo Wang on Next Project
In a small piece of next project news we've been sitting on this since the summer, while Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović was doing the press...
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon | Review
The Moon in the Gutter: Amirpour Shoots for the Moon and Misses
For her third directorial outing, Ana Lily Amirpour remains fascinated with B-movie grunge...
God’s Creatures | Review
Come On, Aileen: Holmer & Davis Craft Old-Fashioned, Straightforward Thriller
Parents lying to protect their children’s potentially heinous crimes is a popular motif in arthouse...
The Good House | Review
Days of Wine & Mortgage: Weaver Soars in Drama on Denial & Redemption
“It always begins with denial,” Hildy Good announces in the opening frames...
Argentina, 1985 | Review
Orders from Above: Mitre Recounts Landmark Trial in Lengthy Courtroom Procedural
In 1976, Isabel Perón, wife of the deceased Juan Perón, was deposed as the...
Basic Instincts: Rebecca Zlotowski’s Moving into Erotic Thriller Terrain
In heavy press mode commencing first at the Venice Film Festival moving to the French media outlets for the France domestic release and finally...
Winter Girl: Chiara Mastroianni & Nina Hoss Get Schooled in Claire Burger’s “Langue étrangère”
Party Girl (2014) and C'est ça l'amour (2018) filmmaker Claire Burger has been slowly mounting her next feature a Franco-German portrait of youth and...
Summer Awakening: Aïssatou Diallo Sagna Returns to Corsini and “Le retour”
Back in July, we learned that Catherine Corsini was moving on to her next feature and now we've learned that she plucked a key...
Gettin’ Gig Wit It: KimStim is Enceinte with Huang Ji/Ryuji Otsuka’s “Stonewalling”
Real-life partners and filmmakers Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsukahave been riding the autumn film festival wave of Venice (Giornate degli Autori), Toronto's TIFF and...
2022 San Sebastian Film Festival: Laura Mora’s “Kings of the World” Claims the Golden Shell
A film that we thought had a chance to preem in Cannes, Venice and even TIFF was now crowned Best Film at the San...
Hired Help: Super Ltd. Corner Zachary Wigon’s “Sanctuary”
In cinema, 2022 will be remembered as the year of the donkey and perhaps power moves between the sexes in out of all places...
Music Box Films Has Flashback to Alice Winocour’s “Paris Memories”
Another feature that was in the final five possible contenders for France's Oscar selection, Alice Winocour's fifth feature film, Revoir Paris (Paris Memories) was...
Maid in Paris: Music Box Films Works Overtime for Eric Gravel’s “Full-Time“
France's pick to represent the country at the Oscars is in, but Music Box Films had gone ahead and landed the well-received Venice title...
Oscilloscope Isn’t Horsing Around with Ann Oren’s “Piaffe”
This week the Oscilloscope folks went shopping adding a Locarno comp title to their future slate. The company lands Ann Oren's Piaffe - which...
Don’t Worry Darling | Review
Die, Die, My Darling: Wilde Makes Utopia a Dirty Word in Sinister Thriller
“There’s beauty in control” affirms a suave Svengali at the center...
Petrov’s Flu | Review
Delirium Tremens: Serebrennikov Maddens with Post-Soviet Magical Realism
Historically, Russian cinema (and literature) always tends to go for broke. Challenging narratives, endless characters, and opulent...
Athena | Review
The World is (Not) Yours: Gavras Clumsily Tackles Civil Unrest, Police Brutality
Recalling elements of his father Costa-Gavras’ most iconic film, Z (1969), Romain Gavras...
Dirty Dane: Emil Johnsen Confronts Painful Past in Isabella Eklöf’s “Kalak”
In terms of new trauma triggering old trauma experiences, her debut film Holiday was no walk in the park and now for Isabella Eklöf's...
Charcoal | 2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Business (Wo)Man: Rural Brazil Opt to Pray & Prey in Markowicz’s Debut
If God isn’t listening, maybe the devil is. It’s a compelling idea, and...
The Silent Twins | Review
Sistas With(out) Voices: Smoczynska Revisits Case Study of Antisocial Twins
Poland’s Agnieszka Smoczynska makes her English language debut with third feature The Silent Twins, based...
Blonde | Review
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl: Dominik Explores Our Assassination of Iconicity
There’s no human who’s quite bedazzled the zeitgeist like Marilyn Monroe, the most...
La Gravité | 2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Planet Alignment: Ito Brings Sci-fi to banlieue Drama
A standard issue banlieue crime pic is mashed up with thinly developed sci-fi elements in The Gravity...
Runner | 2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Making Room: Mathias Unfolds The Fleeting Moments of a Relationship in Elegant Debut
Amidst the unsparing and barren landscape of a Midwestern winter, delicate tendrils...
Thunder (Foudre) | 2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Jaquier’s Exploration of Spiritual and Sexual Awakening is a Divine Debut
Work, marriage, death. These pastoral images of peasant women by long forgotten Swiss painters...
Chiara | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
Sister and Her Sisters: Nicchiarelli Salutes a Saint in Solemn, Dull Period Reenactment
The friendship between Saint Francis of Assisi and his obscured female counterpart...
Our Ties (Les Miens) | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
Fit to Be Tied: Zem Scuffles with Family Matters in Slight Drama
For his sixth film as director, celebrated actor Roschdy Zem assembles a notable...
The Listener | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
Phone Call from a Stranger: Buscemi Conducts a Conduit of Trauma in Striking One-Woman Show
Conjuring everything from Jean Cocteau to T.S. Eliot, Steve Buscemi...
The Damned Don’t Cry | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
A Boy’s Best Friend is His Mother: Boulifa Explores Complex Symbiosis in Mother-Son Drama
Although it’s cribbing the title of a 1950 Joan Crawford starrer,...
IONCINEMA x Sala Web x Festivalscope
We are happy to partner once again with the Festivalscope folks for the Sala Web - which returns to the 79th Venice International Film...
Beyond the Wall | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
Blind Man’s Bluff: Jalilvand Plays Cheap Tricks with Overwrought Melodrama
To crib from (of all people) Margaret Thatcher, no one would remember the Good...
Lord of the Ants (Il signore delle formiche) | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
Triumph of the (Court's) Will: Amelio Delves into Infamously Homophobic Italian Court Case
Perennial Italian auteur Gianni Amelio goes back to the contentious political climate...
Speak No Evil | Review
Dial M for Manners: Tafdrup Uses Cruel Intentions to Play Funny Games
Oftentimes the simplest, most realistic scenarios breaking through the veneer of contentment and...
When the Waves Are Gone | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
When Fair is Foul: Diaz Attempts Neo-Noir in Interminable Derivatives
In the twenty plus features Filipino auteur Lav Diaz has premiered over the past two...
Wolf and Dog (Lobo e Cão) | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
Dog Gone: Varejão Explores the Stifling Conditions of Traditions in the Portugal Archipelago
Portuguese documentary filmmaker Cláudia Varejão crosses completely into narrative territory with her...
Ordinary Failures | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
It’s Only the End of the World: Groșan Navigates a Triptych of Displaced Women in Pre-Apocalyptic Intersection
What’s perhaps most fitting about the commonalities between...
L’immensità | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
This Boy’s Life: Crialese Cuts Corners in Well-Meant Trans Coming-of-Age Drama
Director Emanuele Crialese explores the slow disintegration of a dysfunctional family in 1970s Rome...
