Tag: top-stories
Tchaikovsky’s Wife | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Lady Beard: Serebrennikov Delivers Extravagant Recuperation of a Woman Undone
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the 19th century’s most prolific composers, whose music remains an...
Esterno notte (Exterior Night) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Dead in Red: Bellocchio Returns to Infamous Kidnapping for Television Debut
In his continuation in recuperating fantastical elements of Italian political and criminal history, Marco...
2022 Cannes Film Festival: Eric Lavallée’s Top 5 Most Anticipated!
Yesterday we took a look at Nicholas Bell's top 5 most anticipated films for Cannes 2022. Now it's my turn.
Competition:
R.M.N.
He usually takes about a...
2022 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated!
It's the most important film event in the world and physically it stretches from the Grand Lumiere theatre (which houses plenty of films including...
Live from Cannes: 2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Last year's behemoth two dozen title competition saw Julia Ducournau’s Titane take the top honors landing the Palme d'Or but our jury of twenty...
Interview: RJ Cyler – Emergency
Carey Williams’ Emergency—with a script by KD Davila, adapted from Williams’ 2018 Sundance short—won the coveted Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance ’22 …...
Operation Mincemeat | Review
Get Them to the Greek: Madden Traipses Lightly Through Factual WWII Espionage
Despite it’s presentation as a frothy pseudo-comedy, the events transpiring in John...
Il Buco | Review
Frammartino Digs Deep, But Barely Scratches the Surface
Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il Buco (“The Hole”) is a meditative journey into the center of the earth,...
Nor’easter Retreat: Scoot McNairy, Jack Reynor & Emily Browning Check In to Lance Edmands’ “Brightwater”
Lance Edmands is finally set to direct his sophomore feature and he'll have Scoot McNairy, Jack Reynor and Emily Browning's moral compasses all misaligned...
Guilt Complex: Léa Drucker Toplines Catherine Breillat’s “L’été dernier”
Finally it will be Léa Drucker in the driver's seat (and not the originally attached Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) in Catherine Breillat's now titled L'été...
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Review
All About Steve: Raimi Returns with Pandering Franchise Fodder
While Marvel may have bombarded us into cultural submission through mainstream audience infatuation and growing critical...
Third Responder: Katherine Waterston Added to Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s “Black Flies”
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's Black Flies (a project that has been kicking around for a while now) has officially went into production this week in NYC...
Memory Bank: Rosalie Craig & Vinette Robinson Added to Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation
Rosalie Craig, Vinette Robinson and (a bit part for) Kathryn Hunter (The Tragedy of Macbeth actress) have been added to Sophie Barthes’ The Pod...
Reflection | Review
In the Fog Mirror: Vasyanovych Punishes with Numbing Exercise on War & Trauma
Following up on his international breakout, Atlantis (2019), Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych...
Human Factors | Review
The Discomfort of Strangers: Trocker Collapses Paranoia and Perspectives in Brooding Familial Drama
Communication, when you really think about it, is all but impossible. Words...
Lux Æterna | Review
Devil’s Familiars: Noé Stirs a Witches’ Brew in Latest Provocation
For those familiar with cult auteur Gaspar Noé, one either has a taste for his...
Criterion Collection: love jones (1997) | Blu-ray Review
An under-appreciated diamond in the rough which arrived during an explosion of Black indie cinema in the 1990s, love jones, the directorial debut...
Coal Miner’s Drifter: Ken Loach in Pre-Production with “The Old Oak”
International sales companies will be unveiling some of their new projects for the next couple of weeks and the Wild Bunch folks are back...
Anaïs in Love | Review
She’s Pure as New York Snow: Bourgeois-Tacquet Charms in Effortless, Effective Comedy
With her unexpectedly charming debut, Anaïs in Love, director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet presents the...
Vortex | Review
All That We See or Seem: Noe Delivers Devastation Through the Definitiveness of Death
There’s no pleasure to be had, whatsoever, in the experiencing...
Memory | Review
Still Liam: Campbell Eclipsed by the Neeson Blueprint in Middling Thriller
Now over a decade into the perennial routine of a yearly (sometimes quarterly) B-grade...
I Love America | Review
I Never Sang for My Mother: Azuelos Mines Own Experiences for Dynamic Melodrama
Presenting a narrative partially autobiographical in nature with her latest film, I...
Black Box | Review
Guilt By Aviation: Gozlan Delivers Intrigue with Paranoia Tinged Tech Thriller
Director Yann Gozlan returns to the realm of social pariahs in his fourth...
Intergalactic: Lily-Rose Depp & Anamaria Vartolomei Become Airborne in Dumont’s “L’Empire”
There was some speculation at the beginning of the year Fabrice Luchini, Lily-Rose Depp, Adèle Haenel and Virginie Efira were looking to board the...
Neon Checks Into Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel
The Neon folks are packing their backpacks for The Royal Hotel landing the North American rights to Kitty Green's new feature film that is...
2022 Cannes: Radu Jude Among Short Film Filmmakers in the Directors’ Fortnight
It's a compact ten offerings that make up the short films selection over at the Directors' Fortnight. The eyebrow-raiser goes to Radu Jude -...
Hatching | Review
The Egg & I: Bergholm Births Straightforward Tween Body Horror
Finland’s Hanna Bergholm makes a splash with her interesting, if ultimately one-note debut, Hatching,...
Firebird | Review
Bird on a Wire: Rebane Resurrects a Familiar Stymied Love Affair in Absurd Melodrama
Over a century ago, Lord Alfred Douglas coined the euphonious phrase...
2022 Cannes: Mathieu Vadepied’s “Father & Soldier” is the Un Certain Regard Opener
Mathieu Vadepied's Father & Soldier has been selected as the Un Certain Regard opener. A film that we had slotted for a release in...
Storage Units: Luna Carmoon Collects Hayley Squires, Leon & Quinn for “Hoard”
Screen Daily reports that Brit writer-director Luna Carmoon has begun production on her directorial debut and has enlisted the likes of Laura Lightfoot Leon,...
Cooking Up a Storm: Tran Anh Hung Puts Juliette Binoche & Benoit Magimel on “Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant” Menu
We're learning that Vietnamese-born French filmmaker Tran Anh Hung is well into production on what is his seventh feature film. Entering his fourth decade,...
The Duke | Review
The Goya Next Door: Michell’s Swan Song a Slender Thread of Anti-authoritarianism
We’re primed to believe in the importance of a film whenever we’re greeted...
Alonso Ruizpalacios Prepares New Dish “La Cocina” with Rooney Mara
Mexican auteur cinema appears to be moving northwards (more specifically, NYC) as Michel Franco will not be the only one to film there this...
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent | Review
The Cage Bird Sings: Gormican Gifts Nic Cage Meta Fan Fiction in Jaunty Caper
Not since Spike Jonze’s send-up of John Malkovich’s pomposity in Being...
Forever a Woman: Six Films by Kinuyo Tanaka Retrospective
One can’t dig too deep in Japan’s cinematic catalogue without confronting the talents of Kinuyo Tanaka. History has chosen to favor Tanaka’s career as...
2022 Cannes: Léonor Serraille, Maryam Touzani & Emily Atef Among 17 Items Added to the Line-Up
And so we might not find out anytime soon what the deal with David Lynch was, but we now know that the final tally...
2022 Cannes Film Festival: Eight Possible 11th Hour Film Options
Critics' Week made their line-up public yesterday. Directors' Fortnight topper Paolo Moretti mentioned that there is one title from Asia that they are still...
2022 Cannes: Goutte d’Or, Alma Viva & The Woodcutter Story Among Critics’ Week Selections
The newly minted "French Touch" award could easily define Critics' Week topper Ava Cahen's first line-up edition - as the 2022 slate is full...
NYC Staycation: Jessica Chastain & Peter Sarsgaard in New Michel Franco Film
We learned that Cannes and Venice winning filmmaker Michel Franco was possibly circling the country of Poland for his next project. Well, the filmmaker...
2022 Cannes: Hansen-Løve, Winocour, Léa Mysius & Anna Rose Holmer in the Directors’ Fortnight
Pietro Marcello will be joined by the likes of Mia Hansen-Løve, Alice Winocour with sophomore features from Léa Mysius & Anna Rose Holmer in...
The Northman | Review
Whisper Tales of Gore: Eggers Burns Trail to Valhalla in Viking Epic
In keeping with the time-hoary notion of revenge being a dish best served...
Come Fly With Me: Ruben Östlund’s Next Film Set on a Long-haul Flight
Unless you're in business class, the airline industry is keen on making your flying experience in a miserable one. Continuing with his fascination for...
2022 Cannes: Pietro Marcello’s L’envol (Scarlet) to Open the Directors’ Fortnight
A film that we wholeheartedly thought was going to be in the competition for the Palme, will instead be the highlight opening film for...
2022 Cannes: Abbasi, Dhont, Reichardt, Mungiu & Claire Denis Among 18 Titles Vying for Palme d’Or
The likes of first-time comp contenders Kelly Reichardt, Ali Abbasi and Lucas Dhont are joining former Palme d'Or winners Ruben Östlund, Kore-eda Hirokazu, the...
2022 Cannes: Quentin Dupieux, Panos H. Koutras, George Miller & Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes in Cannes Non-Comp
The best film from Sundance (Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes), the film that Sundance lost (Michel Hazanvicius' Final Cut), Quentin Dupieux's second film to...
The Tale of King Crab | Review
Shellfish People: Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis Craft Unique Narrative Steeped in Oral Tradition
For their directorial debut The Tale of King Crab, directors...
Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades) | Review
Same Old Song & Angst: Audiard Misfires with Millennial Love Tugs
Jacques Audiard turns to youth culture amour fou with his latest feature, Paris, 13th...
Aline | Review
The Face of Another: Lemercier Normalizes Weird Choices in Bizarre Biopic
Like something novel born out of a 30 Rock satire (remember the unauthorized Janis...
Youth in Asia: Jia Zhang-ke Among the Voice Cast for Liu Jian’s “The Artist 1994”
We finally have the answer as to why there haven't been any concrete updates on Liu Jian's third feature film - the one he...
It takes a village to raise a…: Hafsia Herzi & Moussa Mansaly Topline Stéphane Demoustier’s “Borgo”
Venice’s Critics’ Week, Berlinale and Locarno filmmaker Stéphane Demoustier is set to begin production on his fourth feature film which will film in May...
