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Heroes Don’t Die | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Crimes of the Heart: Rapin Explores Mediums as Remembrance with Inquisitive Debut
The idea of reincarnation was once a virulent staple of American genre films,...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You
His fourteenth trip in the comp and with two Palme d'Or wins under his belt (for 2006's The Wind That Shakes the Barley and...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Mati Diop’s Atlantique
Technically speaking, Atlantique is the other feature debut in the main comp. With filmmaking in her family blood, Mati Diop the face is recognizable via Claire Denis'...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau
Technically their second film to compete in Cannes when you consider Production Designer Juliano Dornelles as a creative collaborator on Aquarius (which placed 2nd in the top vote-getters for...
Monia Chokri’s La Femme De Mon Frère | 2019 Cannes Film Festival
After dealing with separation necessity in her award-winning short Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire (2013), Monia Chokri's deals in separation anxiety with La Femme de mon frère (A Brother’s...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables
An actor whose appeared in both of Romain Gavras' outings as a director (he was one of the founding members of the collective Kourtrajmé best...
The Unknown Saint | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Gimme the Loot: Money is the Root of Good and Evil in Aljem’s Debut
Love the sinner and not the sin seems to be the...
Annie Silverstein’s Bull | 2019 Cannes Film Festival
Not officially opening the section, but nonetheless the first film out of the Un Certain Regard gate, Annie Silverstein presented her directorial debut Bull...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die
A long and rich history with the festival since 1984's Stranger Than Paradise premiered on the Croisette and won the Caméra d'or 1984, Jim...
Interview: Tina Charles – Charlie’s Records
Charlie’s Records is a classic immigration story turned personal. Director Tina Charles is a WNBA all star, Olympic gold medalist and first-time filmmaker. Her...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Dominga Sotomayor’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: Dominga Sotomayor – Too Late to Die Young
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. This month, we are pleased to introduce filmmaker...
Live from Cannes: 2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
While the competition jury have some major clout in the likes of Iñárritu, Lanthimos, Pawlikowski, Reichardt, Campillo, Alice Rohrwacher, Elle Fanning, Maimouna N’Diaye, and...
The Conversation: Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Most Anticipated Titles of Cannes 2019
It’s that time of year again, and the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival is about to begin. If last year’s main competition...
Our Struggles | 2019 Panorama Film Festival Review
Strife Sentence: Senez Presents Quietly Effective Domestic Drama
Director Guillaume Senez teams with writer Raphaëlle Desplechin (sister of Arnaud and Cesar winner for Mathieu Amalric’s...
Exclusive: Too Late To Die Young Trailer & Poster
Dominga Sotomayor's Too Late To Die Young (Tarde para morir joven) has been a festival darling since it premiere and won the Best Director...
Swallow | 2019 Tribeca Film Festival Review
Tough to Swallow, in a Good Way: Davis Offers Big Gulp Feminist Thriller
Carlo Mirabella Davis’ debut feature Swallow is a haunting study in gender politics in...
Criterion Collection: Diamonds of the Night (1964) | Blu-ray Review
There’s a reason director Jan Nemec’s name isn’t immediately conjures in superficial conversations on the Czech New Wave, despite his haunting 1964 debut Diamonds...
The Conversation: Producer Pascal Caucheteux
Producer Pascal Caucheteux has long been a fixture of French cinema (though in his early days he was an executive producer of Gregg Araki’s...
Non-Fiction | Review
The French Publisher’s Wife: Assayas Straddles Digital Criminals and Corporate Cannibals in Playful Bon Mot
Hardly a stranger to the back room wheeling and dealing...
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | Review
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kill Me: Berlinger Tackles Ted Bundy in Narrative Form
Revered documentarian Joe Berlinger, best known for his Paradise Lost trilogy, makes...
Quartet (1981) | Review
Of Human Bondage: Ivory Gets Art Deco Dysfunction in Underrated Rhys Adaptation
Merchant Ivory became the first major company to adapt the work of novelist...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks in Theaters this May: The Souvenir, Too Late to Die Young & Booksmart
IONCINEMA.com’s Top 3 Critics’ Picks offers a curated approach to the usual quandary: what would you recommend I see in theaters this month? While...
Rachel Lears’ Knock Down the House | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Knock Down the House is a rousing documentary about the future of our country, guided by the emboldened voices of four progressive female congressional...
2019 Cannes: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo & Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Added To Comp!
Cannes 2019 will be having it's own Blue Is the Warmest Color reunion or ... face-off as Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and now Abdellatif Kechiche will...
Long Shot | Review
It Happened One Election: Levine Finds Levity in Winning Political Rom-Com
While it arguably doesn’t go for broke and can’t quite shake the well-grooved...
The Conversation: Producer Rodrigo Teixeira
Brazilian based producer Rodrigo Teixeira established Sao Paolo company RT Features in 2005 and has become an increasingly notable major player in a broad array...
The White Crow | Review
Defector Becomes Him: Fiennes Revisits the Westernization of Rudolf Nureyev
There’s much to admire in the third directorial outing of actor Ralph Fiennes with The...
The Conversation: Last But Not Least for Cannes 2019
With the main competition and the sidebar programs all unveiled, we await news of one or potentially two last-minute titles added to the competition,...
2019 Cannes: Zlotowski, Bonello, Takashi Miike, Robert Eggers, Lav Diaz & Guadagnino in Fortnight
We waited for the other shoe to drop and this year's Directors' Fortnight is chockfull of directorial films with six of the twenty-three (twenty-four...
The Conversation: Producer Martin Gschlacht
Austrian producer Martin Gschlacht has been an active proponent of Austrian (and eventually Iranian) cinema since the late 1990s, and has quietly amassed a...
2019 Cannes: Adèle Haenel Owns the Croisette & Hafsia Herzi’s Debut in Critics’ Week
Critic's Week will be unveiling eleven feature films for the 2019 edition with 7 comp titles, and opener and a closer and a pair...
Under the Silver Lake | Review
Under the Sun of Satan: Mitchell’s Messy Neo Noir Revels in Elitist Superficiality
Look no further than David Robert Mitchell’s third feature, the labored neo...
Rafiki | Review
Let’s Be Friends: Kahiu Dares to Question Kenyan Conservatism
Social conventions always require such power and resistance that brave individuals must engage in a continuous...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Nia DaCosta – Ten Influential Films List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, Nia...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Nia DaCosta – Little Woods
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. This month, we are pleased to re-introduce writer...
Interview: Nia Dacosta – Little Woods
A New York-native, first time writer/director Nia DaCosta premiered her poignant family drama, Little Woods, on home turf at Tribeca 2018. Set in the...
Interview: Nia DaCosta – Little Woods | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Selected for the US Narrative Competition at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, we've been tracking Nia DaCosta's feature debut project since sitting down with...
2019 Cannes Film Festival: Mati Diop, Jessica Hausner & Céline Sciamma In Competition
Expect the unexpected. A mix of new faces and veteran filmmakers will make up the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival with first works...
Video: Penny Lane’s Hail Satan? | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
A fourth feature docu film in a half dozen years (Our Nixon, NUTS!, The Pain of Others), Penny Lane's delves into The Satanic Temple...
Hail Satan? | Review
The Politics of Evil: Lane makes Satanists of Us All with Amusing, Thought-Provoking Doc
Docu filmmaker Penny Lane explores the contradictions of society, religion and politics...
Criterion Collection: Japón (2002) | Blu-ray Review
Nearly two decades after the acclaim it received in Un Certain Regard at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Carlos Reygadas’ inexplicable debut Japón remains...
Wild Nights With Emily | Review
The Exorcism of Emily D: Olnek Goes ‘Rowing in Eden’ with Affectionate Glance at Emily Dickinson
Her carriage apparently held more than just the morbid...
Video: Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Known has the 3D film (where glasses are applied around the midway point), the best film playing in Cannes this year and reserved for...
Interview: Marcello Fonte – Dogman
We witnessed a bridge with Italian cinemaʼs past with the pair of comp offerings in Cannes last year. Along with Happy as Lazarro, there...
Internsh*t: Kitty Green Finds Assistants in Macfadyen, Kristine Froseth & Makenzie Leigh
High up on our most anticipated American indie offerings for 2019, the probable gross "rite of passage" exposé of working under the indie...
Video Interview: Bi Gan – Long Day’s Journey Into Night
After the critical success of his poetically wistful debut Kaili Blues in 2015, 29-year old Chinese auteur Bi Gan has followed up with a...
Interview: Elizabeth Rao – Madeline’s Madeline
Flashback to one of the best films of 2018, we had the chance to meet Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline co-editor and producer Elizabeth Rao...
Top 10 Takeaways from the Mike Leigh Masterclass | 2019 Luxembourg City Film Festival
Sitting down with French critic Michel Ciment, Mike Leigh delivered last week a masterclass at the Luxembourg City Film Festival, touching on career milestones...
Native Son | Review
(Not So) Good Times: Johnson Stumbles with Modern Homage to Richard Wright
Marrying historical contexts to modern aesthetics is often an arresting avenue for consideration,...
