Tag: top-stories
Nightbitch | Review
All About My Mother: Amy Adams Goes to the Dogs In Marielle Heller’s Barking Mad Dramedy
“Motherhood is fucking brutal,” Amy Adams’ unnamed Mother seethes...
The Girl with the Needle | Review
Casa de los Babys: von Horn Hits a Bleak Streak
You know you’re in for something dark and dreary when a film opens upon a...
Power Alley (Levante) | Review
That Time of the Month: Halla Offers Ringside Seats to the Courts - Both On and Off
In one’s timeline, it’s the pre-adulthood teenage years...
The Seed of the Sacred Fig | Review
Way of the Gun: Rasoulof’s Bold, Blunt Indictment of Iranian Regime
There’s been little opportunity for artists to clearly or critically speak truth to power...
Queer | Review
(Disem)Body Talk: Guadagnino Pays Homage to the Paradoxical Beat Pariah
If Ayn Rand had dared to write a character who was a genius gay white...
2024 Eurimages: Maryam Touzani, Emily Atef, May el-Toukhy & Kaouther Ben Hania Land Coin
The results of the third Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2024 have been unveiled and among the batch of filmmakers we find the likes...
Maria | Review
Songs from the Specious Floor: Larrain Imagines the Last Days of a Diva
A penny for the thoughts of Maria Callas regarding Pablo Larraín’s glossy...
2024 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award: No Other Land
Selected for this year's Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, winner of the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2024...
Gladiator II | Review
Eternity and a Day: Scott Rehashes the Dying Embers of an Empire
“The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty...
Interview: Julia Verdin, William Baldwin & Xander Berkeley – Americans with No Address
In conjunction with her new narrative feature No Address, which will be released in 2025, director Julia Verdin and co-director Stephen Wollwerth embarked on...
Stitched Together: Ella Rumpf, Louis Garrel & Garance Marillier Join ‘Coutures’
Production is officially underway on Alice Winocour's fifth feature film, Coutures aka Stitches, and the casting announcements keep getting bigger. Joining yesterday's reveal of...
Interview: Soi Cheang – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
We sat with director Soi Cheang to talk about his latest film, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, which premiered in the Midnight section...
Interview: Tia Kouvo – Family Time
We sat with director Tia Kouvo to talk about her directorial debut, Family Time, which premiered in the Encounters program of the 2024 Berlin...
Upcoming Collections: Angelina Jolie Strikes a Pose for Alice Winocour ‘Stitches’ (aka Coutures)
Back in September we reported that French filmmaker Alice Winocour had begun pre-production on her fifth feature film and a major casting announcement has...
2024 Prix Louis Delluc Awards: Miséricorde, Dahomey & Les Fantômes Nominated
It's awards season in France as well with today belonging to the Prix Louis Delluc awards. It's only a two category event, but it...
All We Imagine as Light | Review
The Big City: Kapadia Designs Lovely Portrait of Friendship and Free Will
Mumbai is a city of illusions, a character remarks in Payal Kapadia’s debut...
The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad) | Review
Agnes of God: Franz & Fiala’s Bleak Portrait of Women & Madness
“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” wrote...
The Black List 2024 Writers Lab Participants: Alexandra Qin (Thirstygirl) Among Six Selected Writers
Just ahead of the annual Black List (can you believe the list has been with us for two decades now) to be unveiled in...
2024 U.S. in Progress: Miles Levin’s ‘Under the Lights’ & Katarina Zhu’s ‘Bunnylovr’ Land Major Post-Prod Support
A total of seventeen awards were handed out at this year’s American Film Festival’s U.S. in Progress industry showcase, an event focused on connecting...
2024 U.S. in Progress: Filmmakers & Producers Present Selected Featured Films – Live in Wrocław!
At the American Film Festival in Wrocław, teams behind the projects selected for the U.S. in Progress—a festival industry event—pitched their films to potential...
2024 Les Arcs Film Festival: Sofia Alaoui, Claire Fowler & Anastasiia Solonevych Featured in Co-Prod Village
One of the more important recently new development labs on the film circuit have just unveiled their 2024 line-up. Les Arcs Film Festival's Co-Production...
Cheating Death: Michel Franco’s ‘Dreams’ Set for 2025 Major Film Fest Premiere
Despite having gone into production in the summer of 2023 (in Mexico City and San Francisco), Dreams was not a film that Michel Franco...
2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Fest: Neo Sora, Murat Fıratoğlu, Damian Kocur & Mo Harawe in Comp
The Marrakech International Film Festival have announced its complete line-up and in the official competition (first and second feature films) film titles we find...
Bird | Review
Dole Days: Arnold Flutters About with Strange Bedfellows
There’s certainly a definable emotional core in Andrea Arnold’s fifth narrative feature, Bird, but the ideas and...
Small Things like These | Review
All the Small Things: Mielants Mines the Evils of Complicity
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...
Youth (Homecoming) | Review
Last Train to Zhili: Bing Brings Youth Cycle to Circular Close
Wang Bing completes his ‘Youth’ trilogy with finale Youth (Homecoming), which features the most...
The Fix Is In: Dev Patel to Slice Serve Tarsem Singh’s ‘The Journeyman’
Coming off what could be a career-best in Dear Jassi and a recent 4K restoration of the passion project of all passion projects in...
Emilia Pérez | Review
Risky Business: Audiard Surprises with Vibrant Genre Musical
Although it’s assembled from unlikely, even questionable sources, Jacques Audiard’s latest feature, Emilia Pérez, a genre...
Blitz | Review
London Has Fallen: McQueen Explores Life During Wartime
Following his extensively researched 2023 documentary Occupied City, which details WWII atrocities waged against the Dutch during...
Youth (Hard Times) | Review
Make the Best of Us: Bing’s ‘Youth’ Cycle Expands Into the Gloom
The middle part of Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy, Youth (Hard Times) perhaps more...
Missing Without a Trace: Margaret Qualley Moves into Zachary Wigon’s ‘Victorian Psycho’
American indie filmmaker Zachary Wigon (2014's The Heart Machine and 2022's Sanctuary) is not wasting time getting back into the saddle -- Deadline reports...
2024 Gothams: Sean Baker’s Anora Lands Four Noms; Payal Kapadia & RaMell Ross in the Mix
The notoriously unpredictable and always confusing Gotham Awards revealed their nominations for the upcoming 34th gala, with Sean Baker’s Anora leading the pack. Anora...
Sweet Emotion: Zellner Bros.’ ‘Alpha Gang’ Back on Track with Bautista, Kravitz, Seydoux, Keough & Tatum
Zellner Bros. alumni Riley Keough and other A-listers Dave Bautista, Léa Seydoux, Blink Twice duet Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum have joined Alpha Gang—replacing...
Colonial Tensions: Olivia Wilde & Gael García Bernal Are Oblivious in Sarah Adina Smith’s ‘Monkey Hill’
Ever since breaking out twice with micro-indie The Midnight Swim and then with Buster's Mal Heart, filmmaker Sarah Adina Smith has been mixing it...
All in Agreement: A24 & Indie Players Get Behind Kyle Edward Ball’s ‘The Land of Nod’
Making huge waves with his nickel and dime debut in 2022's Skinamarink, Canadian filmmaker Kyle Edward Ball will have the backing of A24 and...
Get Out of the Kitchen: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Next Project in Development
Athina Rachel Tsangari's The Harvest is still touring the film festival circuit which began with a competition slot at Venice Film Festival followed by...
Rachel Rose Repurposes Alicia Vikander, Victoria Pedretti & Wagner Moura in ‘The Last Day’
Alicia Vikander, Victoria Pedretti and Wagner Moura have been confirmed as the trio of thesps on a new Killer Films project from a new...
2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Fest: Jeff Nichols Patron of Atlas Workshops / Nasser Bros., Benm’Barek, Lina Soualem & Cherien Dabis Selected
The 21st edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival is set to run from November 29th to December 7th and a highlight of the...
Dahomey | Review
Plunder Years: Diop Reflects on the Complex Realities of Reparation
The spirit of Ozymandias, the classic poem from Percy Bysshe Shelley, might rouse itself in...
Praise His Soul: Greta Lee Toys with Willem Dafoe in Kent Jones’ ‘Late Fame’
Six years after transitioning from film criticism, programming and docu features to narrative with Diane (2018), Kent Jones is gearing up for his sophomore...
2025 IFFR: First Wave of World Preems include Latest by Hicham Lasri, Daniel Hoesl & Alexander Kluge
Out of the gate early, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (30 January – 9 February 2025) have unveiled the first wave of titles that...
It’s Not All Black & White: Colman Domingo to Direct Sydney Sweeney & David Jonsson in ‘Scandalous’
As a filmmaker, you always want to have irons in the fire. So after an earlier in the year mention of making a Nat...
Ill Communication: Music Box Films Corners Jonathan Millet’s ‘Ghost Trail’
Late last week the Music Box Films people made a pick-up for a remarkable debut feature that kicked off last May's Critics' Week section...
Cold Feet: Philippe Falardeau Drives Away with ‘Mille secrets mille dangers’
There was a brief delay for the start of the production (originally they were circling a 2023 start), but finally French-Canadian filmmaker Philippe Falardeau...
2024 Prix Jean Vigo: Louise Courvoisier’s ‘Vingt Dieux’ Claims Top Prize
The annual Prix Jean Vigo, typically awarded to a rising French director, recently recognized talents like Sophie Letourneur for Énorme, Axelle Ropert for Petite...
Anora | Review
Fools Russia In: Baker’s Bangin’ Screwball Comedy
At this point in his career, filmmaker Sean Baker seems to have covered all the major facets of...
Down in the Dumps: Anne Émond Throws Patrick Hivon & Piper Perabo Together in ‘Adam’
French-Canadian filmmaker Anne Émond has begun production into her first foray into English-language cinema (we imagine that this will be a bilingual film) with...
American Indie Updates: More Casting News for Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’ & Borgli’s ‘The Drama’
Some casting news spread over the past 24 hours, Alana Haim is continuing her progression in cinema and working with choice auteurs climbing aboard...
Live Streams: Katarina Zhu’s ‘Bunnylovr’ Stars Austin Amelio, Perry Yung, Rachel Sennott & Jack Kilmer
Katarina Zhu's feature debut Bunnylovr has according to Deadline wrapped up production (they were shotting in NYC) - we learn that the drama heading...
Interview: Summer Shelton – You & I
Not unlike how a young Athina Rachel Tsangari ended up being part of a Richard Linklater film, Summer Shelton has been part of the...
