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Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #147. Sous le ciel d’Alice – Chloé Mazlo
Sous le ciel d'Alice
For her directorial debut, celebrated short film director Chloé Mazlo will have Sous le ciel d’Alice (translated as Under Alice’s Sky) on...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #148. Exil – Visar Morina
Exil
Kosovo’s Visar Morina embarks on another co-production (Kosovo/Germany/Belgium) for sophomore feature, Exil, a project produced by the high-profile trio of Janine Jackowski (we profiled...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #149. Garçon chiffon – Nicolas Maury
Garçon chiffon
Actor Nicolas Maury makes his directorial debut with Garçon chiffon (in which he also stars and co-wrote), assembling a notable cast consisting of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #150. Operation Mincemeat – John Madden
Operation Mincemeat
Moving into his fourth decade of filmmaking, British director John Madden returns with a major pull the rug WWII drama in Operation Mincemeat....
Introducing Our Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: A Precursor (Picks 300 to 151)
As we wave au revoir to a year in cinema that gave us the Berlinale Golden Bear winner Synonyms, the Cannes Palme d'Or winner...
Richard Jewell | Video Review
The Secret in Their Lies: Eastwood Explores Media Martyrdom in Shallow Expose
To be certain, Richard Jewell, the latest offering from Clint Eastwood in his...
Interview: Gitanjali Rao – Bombay Rose | 2019 International Film Festival • Macao (IFFAM)
Love is a lingering suggestion examined through various ages and art forms in Gitanjali Rao’s feature debut Bombay Rose, an exquisite Indian animated film...
The Europeans (1979) | Review
Munster’s Ball: Ivory’s First Crack at James is Ripe for Restoration
Arguably, Henry James, the famed American author whose most notable acclaim was received in...
Interview: Producer Jay Van Hoy | 2019 American Film Festival in Wroclaw (Indie Star Award)
A quiet but influential presence in the North-American indie scene, producer Jay Van Hoy has built an impressive filmography since he started Parts &...
Criterion Collection: Now, Voyager (1942) | Blu-ray Review
It ends with one of cinema’s most quotable lines of dialogue, as a chain-smoking Bette Davis slyly slows a Paul Henreid in his lukewarm...
The Conversation: Bringing Up Berlin – Predictions for the 2020 Berlinale
Berlin becomes a septuagenarian in 2020. The significant European springboard will also receive a new facelift in the early dawn of the new decade,...
Interview: Johnny Ma – To Live to Sing | 2019 International Film Festival • Macao (IFFAM)
Art and legacy clash with progress and commerce in a lightly dramatized account of life as one of the few remaining Sichuan Opera troupes...
Bombshell | Review
All the Network Allows: Roach Gets Righteous with Topical Melodrama
They’re mad as hell and they just might not take it anymore. So could...
Interview: Céline Sciamma – Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Cannes 2019 marked an important step in the career of Céline Sciamma, who took home a Best Screenplay Award from her impressive premiere in...
Interview: Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour
For his sophomore feature, Alistair Banks Griffin proposes a phobia friendly transgressive and forbidding drama that makes strange bedfellows out of the process of...
Interview: Jennifer Reeder – Knives and Skin
Following her sophomore feature, Signature Move (SXSW '17) and capping off a remarkably fruitful decade in filmmaking with this neon-coated, Solondz-esque meets Lynchian icing...
Video Interview: Peter Strickland – In Fabric
We sat with filmmaker Peter Strickland following the premiere of his latest film In Fabric at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Strickland shares...
The Wolf Hour | Review
Watts the Matter with Naomi?: Griffin Mines Madness in All-Consuming Character Study
Director Alistair Banks Griffin revisits one helluva hot summer in the city with...
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Review
Paint it Bright: Sciamma Dazzles with Career-Best, Ardent Period Drama
You only need a few seconds to fall in line with Céline Sciamma’s commanding directorial...
In Fabric | Review
Dress to Kill: Strickland Strikes Again in Luscious Homage to 70s Cinema
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the...
Little Joe | Review
Stamen Alive: Hausner Examines the Pursuit of Happiness in Cerebral Sci-Fi
It was “the nightmare that threatened the world” and something that came from “deep...
The Kindness of Strangers | Review
Strife Itself: Scherfig Delivers Major Misfire with Manhattan Set Melodrama
Lest we forget, it was Blanche Dubois, the broken seductress of Tennessee Williams’ classic A...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, David Bruckner’s The Night House & Bill Benz’s The Nowhere Inn in Midnight Section
Last year's Midnight section gave us Greener Grass, The Lodge and Sweetheart. In 2020, it appears that the section is more "worldly" with four...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Omniboat, Lawrence Michael Levine, Heidi Ewing & Danny Madden in the NEXT Section
The Death of Dick Long, Give Me Liberty, Selah and the Spades and Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour (which is receiving its theatrical...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Tom Quinn’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? Earlier this year Tom Quinn's long awaited sophomore...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Tom Quinn – Colewell
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. This month, we feature filmmaker Tom Quinn who...
Interview: Andrew Hevia – Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window | 2019 American Film Festival in Wroclaw
A producer on Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight and a Miami native with a hand in building up the city’s festival/collective Borscht Corporation, Andrew Hevia flew...
Wisdom Tooth | 2019 PYIFF Review
A seductive debut film, Liang Ming’s Wisdom Tooth is a bildungsroman, both understated and immersive. Vividly rendered characters, organic humor plus a splash of...
Interview: Riley Stearns – The Art of Self-Defense | 2019 American Film Festival in Wroclaw
A meek, introverted loner turns to karate as a way of coping with trauma after being violently attacked in Riley Stearns follow-up to 2014’s...
Exclusive: KimStim Gets Medieval on Dumont – Capture “Joan of Arc” for Summer 2020 Release
After grabbing Cannes' Un Certain Regard preemed Oliver Laxe’s Fire Will Come earlier this month, the Brooklyn based distrib KimStim have gone back to...
Mickey and the Bear | Review
A Bear to Care: Attanasio Scores Modest, Sincere Debut
Although lacking in originality and narrative energy, director Annabelle Attanasio more often than not makes up...
Dark Waters | Review
Far From Heaven: Haynes Mounts Modest Environmental Drama
In the oft-prestigious subgenre of environmental thrillers, particularly those detailing the grossly inhuman actions of powerful...
Interview: Annabelle Attanasio – Mickey and the Bear
How does free will exist when moral responsibility, opportunity and happenstance constantly impede on an individual's further actions? Blending themes of attachment, addiction and...
Rebel Spirit: The Films of Patricia Mazuy
Patricia Mazuy is back! And who is Patricia Mazuy, many English language cinephiles may ask? For the past thirty years, Mazuy has steadily built...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Leon, Benh Zeitlin, Jim Cummings, Sara Colangelo
Untitled Adam Leon Project
Gimme the Loot (2012) and Tramps (2016) filmmaker Adam Leon hasn't made a jump to Sundance yet, but that could very...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jérémie Guez, Sophie Dupuis, Eugene Ashe, Michael Almereyda, Alan Ball
Son of the South
Spike Lee's longtime film editor Barry Alexander Brown has been in the director's chair on more than one occasion, but this...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brandon Cronenberg, Lila Neugebauer, Dave Franco, Josephine Decker
The Owners
French television director Julius Berg moved into feature filmmaking with Game of Thrones Maisie Williams toplining the English language tale about a group...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sean Durkin, Eliza Hittman, Chloé Zhao
Mughal Mowgli
Moving from the docu form (2013's These Birds Walk and 2019's Ghosts Of Sugar Land) into fiction, Bassam Tariq lassoed Riz Ahmed for...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Clara Roquet, Chad Hartigan, Lee Isaac Chung, Ana Lily Amirpour
Libertad
A burgeoning screenwriter on such films as 10,000 Km (2014) and Jaime Rosales' excellent Petra (2018), Clara Roquet workshopped this project at the 2019...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stephen Karam, Jon Stewart, Eric Wareheim, Miranda July
Horse Girl
Can Jeff Baena make it four for four? Having presented 2014's Life After Beth, 2016's Joshy and 2017's The Little Hours at the...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Claudia Llosa, Alice Wu, Radha Blank
False Positive
Working mostly in television with the only exception being Pee-wee's Big Holiday, John Lee grabbed the director's chair for the March New Orleans...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Maimouna Doucoure, Laura Baumeister, Nicholas Jarecki & Autumn de Wilde
Cuties
French filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré already has deep ties to the Sundance Film Festival. She won the Global Filmmaking Award at the Sundance Film Festival...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lawrence Michael Levine, Malik Vitthal & Michael Dowse
Black Bear
Gabi on the Roof in July (2010) and 2014's Wild Canaries (review) filmmaker Lawrence Michael Levine landed the likes of Sarah Gadon, Aubrey...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: 100 Predictions From Kogonada’s “After Yang” to Janicza Bravo’s “Zola”
It's that time of year again: our pre-Thanksgiving Park City prognostications! If my intel serves me right, the Sundance Film Festival will ring in...
Honey Boy | Review
Tears of a Clown: Har’el and LaBoeuf Exorcise Demons
Honey Boy is a shockingly personal movie where Shia LaBoeuf plays his own dad. If that...
Doctor Sleep | Review
No Rest for the Wicked: Flanagan Shines with Sprawling King Sequel
Director Mike Flanagan achieves the impossible with Doctor Sleep, a cohesive and effective sequel...
Interview: Filmmaker Andrew Renzi & Subject Hector Barajas – Ready for War
What does it mean to be stuck behind enemy lines? For his third docu feature, Andrew Renzi (Fishtail, The Benefactor, They Fight) adds a...
Interview: Benjamín Naishtat – Rojo
Selected for the Platform section competition at TIFF and San Sebastian (winner of the Silver Shell for Best Director, the Silver Shell for Best...
