Tag: top-stories
Mother Storm: Sarah Paulson Takes Over for Claire Foy in Joines/Crouse’s “Dust”
First presented as a potential Claire Foy-starring project, we'll now see Sarah Paulson topline Will Joines and Karrie Crouse's directorial debut. Backed by Searchlight...
2022 Venice Intl. Film Critics’ Week: Debuts Films From Philippe Petit & Yasmine Benkiran
Announced very early this morning, we've had some time to take the plunge into the lucky seven feature films (plus opener and closer) selections...
Bringing Up Baby: Guillaume Nicloux Taps Fabrice Luchini for “La petite”
As we patiently wait for La Tour to drop (formerly known as La Tour d'Assitan, the film will have a November domestic release in...
2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 100 Predictions (Part III) Chen, Frears, Zeller, Lafleur, Spielberg & Polley
And here we are with the third part in our top 100 predictions.
Chad Chenouga's third feature film Le Principal might be one of those...
Nope | Review
Goodbye, Horses: Peele Elevates Creature Feature in Nostalgia Tinged Horror
Jordan Peele continues his distinctive mixture of mainstream aesthetics and unconventional tangential elements with his...
2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 100 Predictions (Part II) Schanelec, Akin, Polak & Maria Schrader
With Michael Grandage's My Policeman now being confirmed as a non-Venice title (it was just been announced as a World Premiere selection) we now...
2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 100 Predictions (Part I) Berger, Wilde, Mendes & Nattiv
As we enthusiastically await the make-up of the major fall film festivals there is one theory that is being advanced: the "Festival of Festivals"...
2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part II) Aroonpheng, Lindholm, Hogg & Rolf de Heer
Only hours before TIFF unveil what should be a sizeable amount of their line-up (and in the same sweeping motion confirm a lot of...
2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part I) Iñárritu, Dominik, Zlotowski & Escalante
This week we throw ourselves into predicting the world premiere options for both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals. We begin by looking...
Rungano Nyoni Takes Flight on “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”
She blasted onto the scene when she returned to the Directors' Fortnight section in 2017 with I Am Not A Witch and it now...
Gone in the Night | Review
Rental Condition: Horowitz Navigates Eerie Scenario in Patchwork Psych Thriller
Gwen Guthrie famously crooned, “Ain’t nothin’ goin on but the rent,” back in 1986, but...
Girlhood Uninterrupted: Corsini Begins Pre-production on “Le retour”
After performing a full on physical and medical examination of the societal woes in her native France by way of a hospital emergency room...
2022 Venice Film Festival: Céline Sciamma Tapped as President of Giornate degli Autori Jury
While we eagerly anticipate the unveiling of the films that will make up all parts of the Venice Film Festival, one person who will...
Interview: Mounia Akl – Costa Brava, Lebanon
Arriving at TIFF after having premiered at the Venice Film Festival, first-time Lebanese filmmaker Mounia Akl who actually penned the screenplay with Clara Roquet...
Earwig | Review
Earsatz: Hadzihalilovic Sinks Her Teeth In Ambiguous Menace
For her highly anticipated third feature, France’s Lucile Hadzihalilovic resorts to adaptation with the enigmatic Earwig, based...
Cannes Bromance: Sideshow & Janus Films Join Forces for “The Eight Mountains”
A late entry in the Palme d'Or race and a surprise Jury Prize winner (tied with Eo) at the last Cannes edition, Felix van...
Channel Surfing: Production Begins on Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow”
After delivering one of the more remarkable micro-indie items of 2021 in We're All Going to the World's Fair, Jane Schoenbrun is (via the...
Who you Gonna Call? Finn Wolfhard & Billy Bryk to Co-Direct “Hell of a Summer”
After acting in Jesse Eisenberg's directorial debut (When You Finish Saving the World), Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk will do the some of the...
Djama’s “A Quarter To Thursday In Algiers” & Lussi-Modeste’s “Pas de vague” Moving Forward
Always nuggets of great info when the CNC reveals what projects they are throwing their weight behind. Via Cineuropa we learn that Sofia Djama...
Street…Food for Thought: Shih-Ching Tsou Begins Production on “Left-Handed Girl”
One of the more important creative forces in filmmaker Sean Baker camp has began lensing on her solo feature debut. Almost two decades after...
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris | Review
Dior on the Floor: Fabian Spins Sweetness into Schmaltz with Anglophile Fairy Tale
It’s never too late to follow one’s dreams, as the truncated tagline...
Survival of the Fittest: Mareike Engelhardt Locks Up Megan Northam & Lubna Azabal for “Rabia”
Another feature film debut we've been tracking as of late (it was awarded some coin via the Arte Kino International Prize during Les Arcs...
Lunar Lunacy: Camila Beltrán Begins Production on “Mi Bestia”
A Colombian filmmaker we've been keeping track of every since she grabbed some production fund coin (winner of the Arte Kino Prize) at the...
Criterion Collection: Eyimofe (This is My Desire) | Blu-ray Review
Far from the complicated, distressed definition of the Nigerian film movement christened ‘Nollywood’ in the early 2000s, a new coterie of filmmakers have slowly...
Both Sides of the Blade | Review
Lover Come Back: Denis Lets the Dark Side in Relationship Melodrama
Three’s definitely a crowd in Both Sides of the Blade (Avec amour et acharnement),...
2022 Locarno Film Festival: Thomas Hardiman, Anna Gutto, Blandine Lenoir & Olivia Newman
Anna Gutto's directorial debut Paradise Highway (starring Juliette Binoche), Blandine Lenoir's third feature Annie Colère (starring Laure Calamy), Kilian Riedhof's sophomore film Vous n’aurez...
Arte France Cinéma Backs New Patricia Mazuy + Huppert, Finkiel, Salles & Payal Kapadia Projects
Late last week we learned that Arte France Cinéma are getting behind four projects - all noteworthy in our books. Patricia Mazuy will direct...
Valeska Grisebach Hits the Trail for “The Dreamt Adventurer”
We are big on film funding news as sometimes it gives us a first glimpse on new projects from some of our favorite auteurs...
Fire Island: Christian Petzold Begins Production on “The Red Sky” with Muse Paula Beer
A filmmaker with multiple irons in the fire has decided to go where the glow is. Thanks to our friends over at The Film...
Ghost Writers: Production Begins on Elise Girard’s “Sidonie au Japon” with Isabelle Huppert
The continuously busy Isabelle Huppert has booked her next flight. She'll be heading to Sidonie au Japon -- French filmmaker Élise Girard's third feature...
China White: Olivia Cooke, Hilary Swank & Jack Reynor are Hooked on Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s “Mother’s Milk”
A project that American indie helmer Miles Joris-Peyrafitte has had lingering around pretty much since the time he broke out with his debut film,...
Down with the King | Review
King Without a Crown: Ongaro Crafts a Rap Trap in Portrait of Creative Crisis
Fifteen years ago, Jay-Z defiantly declared “Thirty’s the new twenty” in...
Beauty | Review
It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay: Dosunmu Finds Fame is a Heartbreak Hotel in Familiar Melodrama
Destined to be the oddest entry in Andrew Dosunmu’s...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Winners [Video]
We cap off our coverage of every Cannes Film Festival edition with the press room presentations of all of the evening's winners. Swedish helmer...
Men with/out Guns: Robert Machoian Completing His “Characters in Desperation” Trilogy
We recently had the chance to speak to filmmaker Robert Machoian directly after the world premiere Tribeca Film Festival screening of his fifth feature...
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Review
Clam Happy: Fleischer-Camp Fleshes Out His Amusing/Absurd Sketch of a Precocious Mollusk
On paper, the inevitability of something like Marcel the Shell with Shoes On...
Lost Highway (1997) | Review
Fugue De Chao: Lynch Hits the Yellow Bricks in Masterful, Neglected Daymare
“I like to remember things my own way,” remarks the onerous protagonist of...
2022 Oxbelly Screenwriters/Directors Labs: Jeannie Sui Wonders, Andrew Norman Wilson, David Gutnik Among the Lucky 13
Easily the best summer camp for auteur filmmakers seeking guidance on what will be their first or second feature film projects, we have now...
Soul Patch: Nadia Tereszkiewicz & Benoît Magimel Topline Stéphanie Di Giusto’s “La Rosalie”
Clearly Stéphanie Di Giusto is inspired by real women trailblazers of sorts from a certain epoque. After setting up her directorial debut with Soko...
Lyna Khoudri & Anders Danielsen Lie Are Courted for Victoria Musiedlak’s “La vie sauvage”
We've got some early casting news for a project that'll begin filming only late in the year and one that combines the likes of...
A Bond That Breaks: Meryam Joobeur’s “Motherhood” Readying For Festival Launch in ’23
Pretty much a done deal for a major film festival launch in 2023 and sitting high up on our most anticipated list of directorial...
Cheat Sheet: 2013 Black List Fave “Holland, Michigan” Back in Circulation with Mimi Cave/Nicole Kidman
Scribe Andrew Sodroski might finally get to see the film project that gave him his big break in the business finally receive the big...
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Review
The Roman Spring of Emma Thompson: Hyde Demands Over Time in Sex Work Dramedy
One wonders what Camille Paglia might have to say about Good...
A24 and Sean Durkin Places “The Iron Claw” on Zac Efron, Mátyás Erdély
He might have been cursed trying to get the Janis Joplin biopic off the ground, but it now appears that Sean Durkin will hit...
Playa Del Carmen: Kino Lorber Cares For Manuela Martelli’s “1976”
A film that reminded me of Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman, both in tone and in accessing and assessing the protagonist's headspace, among one...
2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Competition
Armageddon Time - James Gray
Boy from Heaven - Tarik Saleh
Broker - Hirokazu Kore-eda
Frère et sœur - Arnaud Desplechin
Close - Lukas...
2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Un Certain Regard
All the People I'll Never Be - Davy Chou
The Blue Caftan - Maryam Touzani
Burning Days - Emin Alper
Butterfly Vision - Maksym Nakonechnyi
Corsage -...
2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Directors’ Fortnight
1976 - Manuela Martelli
Ashkal - Youssef Chebbi
The Dam - Ali Cherri
Continental Drift (South) - Lionel Baier
Enys Men - Mark Jenkin
De...
2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Critics’ Week
Aftersun - Charlotte Wells
Alma viva - Cristèle Alves Meira
Imagine - Ali Behrad
La jauría - Andrés Ramírez Pulido
Love According to Dalva - Emmanuelle...
Do Not Follow: Erwan Le Duc Pits Nahuel Pérez-Biscayart & Maud Wyler in “La fille de son père”
Erwan Le Duc will be reuniting with his The Bare Necessity actress Maud Wyler and has set Nahuel Pérez-Biscayart BPM (Beats per Minute) as...
