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2019 New Horizons IFF: Céline Sciamma, Xavier Dolan & Quentin Tarantino Part of 19th Edition
The 19th New Horizons International Film Festival is opening with one of the best films from this past Cannes in Céline Sciamma's Portrait of...
Midsommar | Review
Secret Ceremony: Aster Gets Cruel for the Summer with Wicked Rituals
Director Ari Aster, who revitalized the potential of psychological horror with his phenomenal 2018...
The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) | Review
No Man of Her Own: Vigne’s Classic Medieval Identity Drama Resurrected
In the early 1980s, French director Daniel Vigne seemed poised to be one of...
The Conversation: Leaping to Locarno’s Leopard
Arriving August 7th and extending through August 17th, the Locarno Film Festival and its leaping Leopard is the final stepping stone before the grand...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Benjamín Naishtat’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 ask...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Benjamín Naishtat – Rojo
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging voice from the world of cinema. This month, we are pleased to introduce Argentinian...
Interview: Lila Avilés – The Chambermaid (La Camarista) | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
Going beyond dirty towels and fully stocked mini bars, Lila Avilés' The Chambermaid shines a white sheets bright light on an a workforce that...
Interview: Gabriela Cartol – The Chambermaid (La Camarista) | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
In the film festival year of 2018, there were a pair of films hailing from Mexico that broached a text that relates to elitism,...
Yesterday | Review
Never Underestimate Beatlemania: Boyle Is The Walrus
Like McCartney without Lennon, Danny Boyle’s Yesterday is long on whimsy, short on content—but it works. An entertaining one-note fantasy rom-com...
Criterion Collection: Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Blu-ray Review
Few queer films have pierced the contemporary cultural nexus as effectively as John Cameron Mitchell’s beloved 2001 directorial debut Hedwig and the Angry Inch,...
The Conversation: Top 10 of 2019 Thus Far …
Half-way through the last year of the decade, the same cinematic trends exist as far as theatrical releases in the US, those being the...
Criterion Collection: Funny Games (1997) Blu-ray Review
“Every act of violence brings us closer to death,” wrote bell hooks, who went on to list a variety of internal and external examples...
Interview: Carlos Reygadas – Our Time
Casting his wife, children and himself in his fifth feature film, Carlos Reygadas explores the tricky negotiations of being in an open relationship and...
Our Time | Review
Love Like Poison: Reygadas Returns with Frustrating but Forthright Marital Drama
Interminable? Yes. Navel-gazing? Perhaps. But furious in its candor? Absolutely. Carlos Reygadas returns for...
The Dead Don’t Die | Review
Fear the Mocking Dead: Jarmusch’s Zombie Sketch is DOA
“The world is perfect. Appreciate the details,” says deliveryman RZA (in one of the film’s many...
La femme de mon frère | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Is There a Doctorate in the House? Chokri Skids and Skates without Moving
Moving from her award-winning short Quelqu'un d’extraordinaire (2013) debut which dealt with...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lila Aviles’ 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 this...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lila Avilés – The Chambermaid
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. This June, we are pleased to introduce filmmaker...
Yomeddine | Review
Natural Selection: Shawky Shackled by Straight Story
Tackling notions of identity in both a figurative and transfigurative sense, Yomeddine teeters ever so lightly into fable terrain...
Criterion Collection: Let the Sunshine In | Blu-ray Review
Claire Denis had one of her most prominent showings in over a decade with her 2017 title Let the Sunshine In, a melancholy rom...
Lelio Runs Pell Mell with Ms. Gloria Bell (2018) | Blu-ray Review
Sebastián Lelio scored his best domestic box office success to date with Gloria Bell, his English language remake of 2013’s Gloria, clocking in at...
2019 Gala Quebec Cinema Awards (Quebec Oscars): Ricardo Trogi’s 1991 Wins Best Film
Ricardo Trogi's 1991 was the top prize winner at 2019 Gala Quebec Cinema Awards. Winning Best Film, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Sandrine...
Oleg | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Immigrant Song: Kursietis Explores a Modern Slave Trade in Sophomore Film
Latvian cinema seems on the verge of an international breakthrough, with various new directors...
Video Interview: Dominga Sotomayor – Too Late to Die Young
The hype machine officially began on Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor's third feature back in August when she won Best Director at Locarno. Since then,...
Domino | Review
They All Fall Down: De Palma Dallies in Inert ISIS Thriller
It’s hard to believe Domino, the latest film from legendary director Brian De Palma...
Ma | Review
Misery Loves Company: Spencer Reigns Supreme in Bizarre Portrait of Madness
“Hell hath no fury like a (black) woman scorned,” could have been a...
Diamantino | Review
Politicizing Camp: Abrantes & Schmidt Post a Win with Imaginative Soccer Satire
After a decade decade working in the short experimental form, festival faves Gabriel Abrantes...
The Proposal | Review
Bargaining for Barragan: Artist Jill Magid Offers Mystery-Thriller-Docu
Jill Magid is the director, subject, narrator, but above all else, she is a provocateur of a...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Our Jury Rank Parasite Top Film of Cannes Comp
We have a match! Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's jury and our 2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel agree that the best film of the 2019 comp selection...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 12 – Justine Triet’s Sibyl
And the final film to roll out of the competition this year belongs to that of Justine Triet. She came to fiction film by way...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 12 – Elia Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven
With a decade between features, Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman's has been a Cannes mainstay when you see that his four last film projects have...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 12 – Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo
Who knew that after claiming the top prize in 2013 with Blue is the Warmest Color that Abdellatif Kechiche would almost attain some sort...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor
Master filmmaker Marco Bellocchio returns to Cannes (he was last there for 2016’s Sweet Dreams - a Directors’ Fortnight entry) for what will be...
The Traitor | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Witness for the Prosecution: Bellocchio Delivers Vigorous Portrait of the Man Who Took Down the Cosa Nostra
Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, on the verge of...
Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Dancing…Yeah: Kechiche Spins Like a Record Round in Vacuous Sequel
The French-Tunisian director who won the 2013 Palme d’Or for Blue is the Warmest Color...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Arnaud Desplechin’s Oh Mercy!
After La sentinelle (1992), My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996), Esther Kahn (2000), A Christmas Tale (2008), Jimmy P:...
Sick, Sick, Sick | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Lover, Come Back: Furtado Hearts Hemoglobin in Sinister Debut
The heart is a lonely killer in Brazilian director Alice Furtado’s apprehensive narrative debut Sick, Sick,...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Xavier Dolan’s Matthias and Maxime
Twice in competition and twice a winner, after winning the Jury Prize (unofficial 3rd place) in 2014 for Mommy and the Grand Prix (unofficial...
Parasite | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Judgement in Stone: Joon ho Tackles Privilege in Black Comedy
Strident class disparities in South Korea provide Bong Joon-ho with a novel approach to...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite
He made his first trip to Cannes in 2006 with the Directors’ Fortnight selected The Host, and after being selected for the Un Certain...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Film geek personified, Quentin Tarantino's sixth trip to Cannes and his fourth competition film (comes a decade after showing with Inglourious Basterds). He won...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Ira Sachs’ Frankie
The French have a fondness for Americana from the likes of Clint Eastwood, James Gray, Sean Baker and Ira Sachs who for this seventh...
2019 Cannes Critics Panel: Day 8 – Dardenne Bros.’ Young Ahmed
Palme d’Or winners for 1999's Rosetta (review) and L’Enfant (2005), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have attempted to three-peat this past decade with 2011's The Kid...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life
After spending a whole bunch of time in post (sadly actors Michael Nyqvist and Bruno Ganz will have never had the chance to see their performances), Terrence Malick...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Shining bright like a diamond, Céline Sciamma makes her way into the comp for a first time with her fourth feature film. Portrait of a...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers
Making his way up the "Croisette ladder", Corneliu Porumboiu first arrived in Cannes (and helped launched what was known as the Romanian New Wave)...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Diao Yinan’s The Wild Goose Lake
A genre item that Chinese censors didn't take issue with, Diao Yinan who won big time in Berlin with his last picture Black Coal,...
The Orphanage | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Back in the U.S.S.R.: Sadat Goes Back to Soviet-Ruled Afghanistan in Amiable Sophomore Film
Following the success of her celebrated 2016 debut, Wolf and Sheep,...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory
Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory becomes the auteur's eighth trip to the Competition and already, comes positive buzz from way back in March having...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Jessica Hausner’s Little Joe
A staple figure of the Un Certain Regard section with three trips dating back to 2001's Lovely Rita and 2004's Hotel with her last...
