Tag: top-stories
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...
Make No Promises: Virginie Efira & Arieh Worthalter Topline Kruithof’s ‘Les Braises’
In a double Virginie Efira casting news type of day, we learn that after dropping in Rebecca Zlotowski's Vie Privée, the actress will move...
Murder She Notes: Efira, Amalric, Lacoste & Luana Bajrami Join Zlotowski’s ‘Vie Privée’
Last week, we got the confirmation that Jodie Foster and Daniel Auteuil were toplining Rebecca Zlotowski’s Vie Privée and now we have a more...
Fourthcoming: Maren Ade Setting Up ‘Zauberwort’ for 2026 Shoot
Ulrike Ottinger came out of a long gestation period for The Blood Countess and now fellow female German filmmaker Maren Ade is in early...
We Were Two: Jodie Foster Joins Daniel Auteuil in Rebecca Zlotowski’s ‘Vie Privée’
She's coming off a career-best with Other People's Children (2022 Venice Film Festival selection) and recently was one of the scribes on Audrey Diwan's...
The Apprentice | Review
The Devil and Donald Trump: Abbasi Reconstructs the Rise of a Crony Capitalist
Among the many wise observations written by nineteenth century Englishman Lord Acton,...
Shoplifters Unite: Boots Riley Pickpockets Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield & Demi Moore for ‘I Love Boosters’
Musician turned filmmaker Boots Riley is set to begin production on that always critical sophomore feature with a quartet of players that include muse...
Prix Iris 2024: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person Leads “Quebec Oscars” Noms
Ariane Louis-Seize's Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (winner of the Director's Award at Giornate degli Autori section in Venice Film Festival last year)...
48th Résidence du Festival de Cannes: Animalia’s Sofia Alaoui Among the Half Dozen Invites
Franco-Moroccan filmmaker Sofia Alaoui (behind the brilliant Sundance Grand Prize-winning short So What If the Goats Die (2020) and the equally mystical supernatural bowl...
Combustible Substances: Pete Ohs Filmed ‘Erupcja’ with Charli XCX & Jeremy O. Harris in Poland
Micro-budget American indie filmmaker Pete Ohs really doesn't miss a beat. When he’s not directing—keeping up a steady pace with Youngstown (2021), Jethica (2022)...
Tennis Anyone?: Film Movement to Serve Leonardo Van Dijl’s Cannes Fave ‘Julie Keeps Quiet’
A new voice in Belgian cinema emerged earlier this year when the Cannes Critics' Week section premiered Julie Keeps Quiet - the directorial debut...
Poetic Justice: Blake Draper Unbottled in Patrick Wang’s ‘A. Rimbaud’
American micro-indie filmmaker Patrick Wang of 2011's In the Family (read review), The Grief of Others (2015), A Bread Factory (2018) parts I and...
Tropical Tapestry: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Won’t Shoot ‘The Fountains of Paradise’ before 2026
In an interview with Les Inrocks folks, Apichatpong Weerasethakul revealed that his upcoming project, the tentatively titled The Fountains of Paradise, is unlikely to...
Lingering Influence: Meryem Benm’Barek Filming ‘Behind the Palm Trees’
A project initially scheduled for a 2023 shoot has finally been greenlit, with Cineuropa confirming that Meryem Benm’Barek has been filming her sophomore feature...
Daaaaaali! | Review
Good Golly, It’s Dali: Dupieux Dreams Surreal in Distinctive Biopic
It seems surrealism’s pioneer Salvador Dali is experiencing something of a culturally concentric resurgence as...
A Pain That I’m Used To: Metrograph Pictures Tables Dea Kulumbegashvili’s ‘April’
Perhaps the landmark sophomore feature of 2024, Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili has found a safe space in the U.S. via newish distributor Metrograph Pictures...
Joker: Folie à Deux | Review
Joke’s On Us: Phillips Composes an Empty, Boring Spectacle
Kudos to Todd Phillips for forcing US audiences to be confronted with the intriguing subtitle...
Around the Horn: Claire Denis to Direct Matt Dillon, Riley Keough & Isaach de Bankolé in ‘Le Cri des Gardes’
ARTE France Cinéma is backing a quartet of projects and among them, we find the new Claire Denis project that she was possibly scouting...
2024 U.S. in Progress: Amanda Kramer, Pete Ohs, Mark Webber & Miles Levin Among 8 Selected
Following a standout 2023 edition, where critically acclaimed films like India Donaldson's Good One premiered at Sundance and Cannes, and Sarah Friedland's Familiar Touch...
Replacement Therapy: Dekanalog Sets Up a Date with Tsang’s ‘Blue Sun Palace’
When it came to American indie offering on the Croisette this year it is Anora and a pair of films in the Quinzaine section...
2024 San Sebastian Film Festival: Francisco Lezama & Sarah Miro Fischer Double Up at the Industry Awards
Blue Marks by German filmmaker Sarah Miro Fischer and The Two Landscapes by Argentinian filmmaker (and recent Berlinale Golden Bear winner) Francisco Lezama have...
2024 European Film Awards: Kulumbegashvili, Delpero, Tsangari, Zürcher, Almodóvar & Mike Leigh in Second Wave
The first batch of titles were announced in August, and now with Locarno and Venice firming up the selection process, we now have our...
Autonomy in Argentina: Lisandro Alonso Clears the Way with ‘La libertad doble’
Confirming what we had reported back in April, Variety confirms that Lisandro Alonso's next project will indeed be him revisiting the film character we...
First Time for Everything: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles Begins Production on ‘Petite rose’
After sliding back into the docu realm, French Canadian filmmaker Geneviève Dulude-De Celles has returned to fiction with Petite rose (formerly titled Fleur bleue)...
2025 Oscars Best International Film Race: Frontrunners Jacques Audiard, Walter Salles & Maura Delpero Added to Mix
Recent submissions for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards are quickly piling up. Jordan has entered My Sweet Land (Sheffield DocFest),...
The Universal Theory (Die Theorie Von Allem) | Review
Multiverse of Sadness: Kroger Captivates with Cryptic Cold War Sci-Fi Exploit
Although it will invariably be confused with the 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic, Timm Kröger’s...
Megalopolis | Review
Atlas Farted: Coppola’s Labor of Love a Lackluster Saga
While he’s one of the greatest film directors of all time, mostly thanks to a handful...
Interview: Bernardo Britto – Omni Loop
One of the projects at the Sundance Institute’s 2017 Screenwriters Lab was a film called 'Omni Loop Blues.' Flash forward into 2024 and Bernardo...
Day Moves: Josh O’Connor Toplines Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’
Keeping up with her pattern of releasing a film roughly every three years, Kelly Reichardt’s next project, The Mastermind, is one extra America indie...
Interview: Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
Whiplash receives a 10th Anniversary re-release - reissued with a new 4K DCP via Sony Pictures Classics and coming directly from a showcase at...
Exclusive Clip: Painted Birds in Elfar Adalsteins’ ‘Summerlight… and Then Comes the Night’
For his sophomore feature film, Icelandic filmmaker Elfar Adalsteins adapts from Icelandic author Jon Kalman Stefansson's novel. This comes after 2019's End of Sentence...
The Babadook | Review
Consequences of Grief: Kent’s Stunning Debut Wades Through Primordial Fears
Satisfying genre films are generally few and far between these days, so it’s with absolute...
Time for Change: Anna Cazenave Cambet Begins Production on ‘Love Me Tender’ with Vicky Krieps, Reinartz, Chokri & Ji-Min Park
French filmmaker Anna Cazenave Cambet was setting up shop for her sophomore feature with Vicky Krieps and Antoine Reinartz (Anatomy of a Fall fame)...
A Different Man | Review
The Face of Another: Schimberg Scrutinizes the Pratfalls of Face Value
Those familiar with his 2018 sophomore film Chained for Life will likely notate director...
Interview: Lisandro Alonso – Eureka
It would be the longest hap between films and certainly his most ambitious project to date (it was rumored to span all the continents...
Number Five: Alice Winocour is in Pre-Production on Paris-Based Young Adult Portrait
A recent casting notice reveals that French filmmaker Alice Winocour, whose last film Revoir Paris was selected for Directors' Fortnight in 2022, is in...
Matt and Mara | Review
Friends Forever: Radwanski Reteams With Deragh Campbell For Another Captivating Character Study In Close-Up
The tension between a friendship that’s too close for comfort and...
2024 TIFF Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet for Ana Endara’s ‘Beloved Tropic’ (Querido Trópico)
This marks the world premiere week for Panama City-based Ana Endara's fiction feature debut at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (Centerpiece programme selection)...
Exclusive Clip: A Different Kind of Cohabitation in Elena Manrique’s ‘Fin De Fiesta’ (The Party’s Over) – TIFF 2024
After cutting her teeth for just under two decades with films such as The Orphanage (2007), Transsiberian (2008) and Cell 211 (2009), Spanish film...
Hard Truths | 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Take A Chance On Love: Mike Leigh Delivers A Late Career Powerhouse
You can’t help but wonder if Mike Leigh is making a sly joke...
2024 TIFF Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet for César Augusto Acevedo’s ‘Horizonte’
Today marks the world premiere of Colombian filmmaker César Augusto Acevedo's sophomore feature at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (Discovery section selection). Nearly...
Love (Kjærlighet) | Review
Ain’t Nothin’ But Sex Misspelled: Haugerud Continues Quiet, Earnest Talking Cure Trilogy
Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud continues his sexuality-themed film trilogy (Sex/Dreams/Love) in Love,...
Hoard | Review
M is for the Many Things You Gave Me: Grief Becomes the Remedy in Carmoon’s Debut
“Time heals all old pain, while it creates new...
Interview: Asmae El Moudir – The Mother of All Lies
It's a hybrid docu made on the small scale and dealing with a past that is pieced together through memory and a maquette, the...
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Review
Juice Cocktail: Burton Revamps His First Demon
There’s no way to reproduce the imaginative awe of Tim Burton’s 1988 idiosyncratic goth YA classic Beetlejuice. Or,...
Stranger Eyes | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
The Interest of Distance: Yeo Discovers the Masochistic Pleasures of a Surveillance State
“Strange feeling that someone is looking at me. I am clear, then...
Sicilian Letters (Iddu) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Letters to Daddy: Grassadonia & Piazza Continue Their Cosa Nostra Sagas
Italian directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza reimagine the circumstances surrounding yet another mafioso...
Exclusive Clip: Anders Danielsen Lie Doesn’t Hold Back in ‘Quisling – The Final Days’
You might be surprised to learn that the slang term quisling which means a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country...
