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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...
Queen of Hearts | Review
The Sorrows of Milf: Dyrholm Puts the Extra in Extra-Marital as the Star of el-Toukhy’s Uncomfortable Drama
Danish director May el-Toukhy crafts a compelling melodrama...
Harriet | Review
A Road Less Traveled: Lemmons Lionizes Historical Icon Harriet Tubman in Safe Biopic
As the arrival of the first theatrical feature to properly pay homage...
The Irishman | Review
Benjamin Button-Man: Scorsese's Oldfellas Still Got It
A spiritual sequel to Goodfellas—with the black humor of The Wolf of Wall Street and the moral...
Interview: Carlo Sironi – Sole | 2019 PYIFF
Italian filmmaker Carlo Sironi — whose shorts have already brought him attention at Venice and Locarno — has now given us a striking first...
Interview: Aoqian Sun – Over the Sea | 2019 PYIFF
Before first-time Chinese filmmaker Sun Aoqian became a ravenous student of cinema, he was born to a family of farmers. Much of his childhood...
Frankie | Review
A Death in the Family: Sachs Sacks Huppert in Sun Dappled Soap Opera
The latest film from American director Ira Sachs is set in the...
Synonyms | Review
Lost in Translation: Lapid Languishes in Enigmatic, Complex Study on Cultural Identities
The rejection of self and the adoption of persona are prominent themes pouring...
Criterion Collection: Fists in the Pocket | Blu-ray Review
Criterion re-releases the mordant directorial debut of Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, Fists in the Pocket (1965), just as the perennial filmmaker ends his sixth...
2019 PYIFF / Day 9: It’s a Wrap!
On Day 9 of the festival, PYIFF organized a special excursion for foreign press: a day trip to An Ze, a mountain known for...
Sister | 2019 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Little Women: Tsotsorkova Poetic Study of Female Solidarity
Svetla Tsotsorkova’s assured sophomore feature proves that the Bulgarian filmmaker has an unparalleled eye for the raw,...
Never Happened | 2019 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Rewriting History: Bereznakova Presents Fresh View on Two Decade Poli-Scandal
After working short documentaries, experimental and television film formats, Slovak director and video artist Barbora...
The Lighthouse | Review
I Can Hear the Mermaids Singing: Eggers Unleashes a Hyper-Stylized Portrait of Nautical Madness
Virginia Woolf (who, having known something about the subject and its...
Interview: Producer Natalie Metzger – Greener Grass
The old adage “behind every great man there’s a great woman” feels outdated in 2019. Nowadays, men are lucky to stand side-by-side with a...
Eli | Review
Devil May Care: Foy Falters with Campy Horror Flick
Director Ciarán Foy continues with genre in third narrative feature, Eli, a B-grade horror film...
Babak Anvari’s Wounds | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Celebrated debut film Under the Shadow set in the war-torn Tehran of the 1980s has a lot of things going for it beyond the...
Criterion Collection: Cluny Brown (1946) | Blu-ray Review
Criterion resurrects Ernst Lubitsch’s final completed film Cluny Brown (1946), a post-war comedy about pre-WWII class divisions in 1938 England. Headlined by Jennifer Jones,...
Curator | 2019 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Minimizing Style to Maximize Effect: Levchenko Goes Deep in Russian Murder Drama
According to the Cambridge English Dictionary the curator is a person who is in...
Invisible | 2019 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Hidden Treasure: Jonynas Stages Greek Tragedy against Backdrop of Eastern Europe
A student of Krzysztof Zanussi, Lithuanian director Ignas Jonynas infuses his third feature film...
Cat in the Wall | 2019 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Walls of existence: Politics & Pettiness find a Way Through the Cracks of Everyday Life in Bulgarian Debut
Bulgarian duo Vesela Kazakova and Mina Mileva’s...
Carturan | 2019 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Pray the Lord My Soul To Take: Sandulescu’s Poignant and Witty Meditation on Mortality
Liviu Săndulescu’s Carturan is a tale about bribery, the uncaring bureaucratic...
Interview: Ulrich Köhler – In My Room
Coming seven years after 2011's Sleeping Sickness (Schlafkrankheit) and his longest time off between features, after his feverish study of settler psychology in West...
Joker | 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
The Day the Clown Cried: Phillips Tries to Provoke the Herd in Adult Comic Book Origin Story
As another cinematic iteration of the eponymous Joker...
Lucy in the Sky | Review
Loosey Goosey: Hawley Gets Histrionic with Uneven Melodrama
At the end of Now, Voyager (1942) the chain-smoking Bette Davis delivers her iconic line to Paul...
Criterion Collection: Do the Right Thing (1989) | Blu-ray Review
Just in time for the film’s thirtieth anniversary, the Criterion Collection resurrects Spike Lee’s masterpiece Do the Right Thing with a 4K restoration for...
Criterion Collection: A Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman | Blu-ray Review
Criterion re-releases restorations of three Ingmar Bergman titles with A Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman, the collection’s first presentation of the Swedish auteurs works originally...
Sister Aimee | Review
If You Seek Aimee: Buck & Schlingmann Resurrect a Fallen Angel
Directors Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann succeed with one overarching point in their indie-ensconced...
The Day Shall Come | Review
Fooling the Children of the Revolution: Morris Returns with Dark, Political Satire
Stakes are perhaps too high for writer-director Christopher Morris’s sophomore film following the...
The Golden Glove | Review
No Glove No Love: Akin Revels in Garish Grotesqueries with Squalid Period Piece
Turkish-German director Fatih Akin resurrects the obscure German serial killer Fritz Honka...
Video Interview: Phuttiphong Aroonpheng – Manta Ray
As ubiquitous on the fall festival circuit as it is excellent, Thai border drama Manta Ray ticks all the boxes: it’s an accomplished arthouse...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Ognjen Glavonić’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Ognjen Glavonić – The Load
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. This month, we feature Ognjen Glavonić who saw...
