Tag: top-stories
Olivia (1951) | Review
Teacher Pets: Audry’s Lesbian Melodrama Reclaims the Spotlight in New Restoration
Returning to dispel the historical erasure of queer representation in cinema is Olivia, a...
Interview: Markus Schleinzer – Angelo | 2019 New Horizons Intl. Film Festival
Markus Schleinzer’s second feature Angelo (review) has had a long life on the festival circuit, premiering in Toronto (Platform section 2018) and giving wide...
Echo | 2019 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Last Word: Rúnarsson Sketches Mosaic of Modern Iceland in Varied Vignettes
Had each of the 56 segments of Echo, the third film from Iceland’s...
Maternal | 2019 Locarno Film Festival Review
Nun of Your Business: Delpero Explores Mothers and Others in Astute Debut
For her feature film debut, documentarian Maura Delpero observed young women in Buenos...
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? | Review
Fox and Her Friends: Linklater Falters on the Architecture of Blanchett in Bizarre, Uneven Dramedy
The boldest move made by Richard Linklater in his latest...
Interview: Roberto Minervini – What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?
Roberto Minervini’s What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? shines a resonant spotlight on life as an African American in New Orleans....
47 Meters Down: Uncaged | Review
Shark in the Dark: Roberts Returns to Aquatic Terror in Slapdash Sequel
The terror inspired by nature’s apex predators remains alive and well in a...
Criterion Collection: Klute (1971) | Blu-ray Review
“I have no idea what I’m going to do,” and “I have no idea what’s going to happen,” are among some of the lines...
If Only | 2019 Locarno Film Festival Review
Father of My Children: Elkann Siphons Lovingly from Familial Dysfunction for Debut
The holidays will always be rife for cinematic exploration of familial discord and...
After the Wedding | Review
Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Freundlich Updates Danish Drama with Gender Bending Twist
Just as Danish director Susanne Bier masters the art of cult filmmaker with...
The Kitchen | Review
The Kitchen, God’s Wife: Berloff Doesn’t Bring the Heat in Halting Melodrama
Hell may as yet have no fury like a woman scorned, but the...
Video: The Peanut Butter Falcon | 2019 SXSW Film Festival
Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s The Peanut Butter Falcon is a sweet, unpretentious and unexpectedly funny raft-trip movie set in a contemporary ode to...
The Peanut Butter Falcon | Review
Falcon Shows His Moves: Sincerity Sails Past Expectations
Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s The Peanut Butter Falcon is a refreshingly sincere, unexpectedly funny raft-trip movie...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Philippe Lesage’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? With this month's IONCINEPHILE we look back at...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Philippe Lesage – Genèse (Genesis)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. This month, we feature Canadian filmmaker Philippe Lesage...
Light of My Life | Review
If You’re a Boy or a Girl: Affleck Explores Gender in the Post-Apocalypse
Nearly a decade after his stunt documentary I’m Not Here (2010), actor...
The Nightingale | Review
Bloody White People: Kent Hits Hard with Brutal Revenge Trip
Jennifer Kent follows up her formidable debut The Babadook with a less inventive, but decidedly...
Coincoin and the Extra-Humans | Review
E.T. Clone Home: Dumont Gets Delirious in Sci-Fi Themed Series Sequel
Ever the nonconformist, French auteur Bruno Dumont seems to be in the midst of...
The Days to Come | 2019 New Horizons Intl. Film Festival Review
Becoming a We: Marques-Marcet Keeps it Real with a Micro-Drama of Love & Pregnancy
Completing a trilogy of sorts about life getting in the way...
Interview: Rick Alverson – The Mountain
The Mountain feels like a departure for Rick Alverson, whose brand of deliberately challenging and unconventional cinema is evolving beyond the scope of his...
The Mountain | Review
Who’s Wally?: Alverson Goes Retro with Punishing, Complex Period Drama
Always intent on making his audience do some of the work, American indie helmer Rick Alverson...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Review
California Dreamin’: Tarantino Dons Nostalgic Pastiche of Doomed Decadence
The lurid fascination and mildewed devotion for the transitional glory days of late 1960s Hollywood, informed...
2019 Giornate degli Autori: Dominik Moll, Fabienne Berthaud & Bustamante Among the Selections
After competing in Berlin earlier this year with Tremors, Guatemalan helmer Jayro Bustamante can say 2019 was a stupendous year (with two films premiering...
2019 TIFF: Fest Lands World Preems to Cretton, Crowley, Finley, Heller, Kurzel, Iannucci, Waititi & Winterbottom
Confirming what will show at Telluride and Venice, the 2019 edition of the Toronto Intl.Film Festival has managed to land several World Preem and...
The Conversation: Vying for Venice 2019 – Predictions!
Once again, Venice seems poised to make a killing by featuring a number of high-profile US auteurs in its line-up. Like last year’s program,...
The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!
The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...
A Faithful Man | Review
He’s an Easy Lover: Garrel Leans on Influences with Fitful Love Triangle(s)
Actor cum director Louis Garrel returns to a fussy triptych with his sophomore...
2019 Locarno Film Festival: Fabrice du Welz, Donzelli, Fukada, Ameur-Zaïmeche & Pedro Costa Selected
The first edition of the Locarno Film Festival under Lili Hinstin's leadership will include the world premiere to Fabrice du Welz's Adoration and Valérie...
Here’s Lookin’ at You, Visa: Petzold Posits New Fascism on Classic WWII Novel Transit | Blu-ray Review
Christian Petzold, the shining star of Germany’s Berlin School, unveiled his most provocative narrative reclamation yet with 2018’s Transit, adapted from Anna Segher’s 1942...
Ladies They Talk About: Panahi Explores Artistic Repression in 3 Faces (2018) | Blu-ray Review
Jafar Panahi won Best Screenplay at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for 3 Faces, his fourth feature since being banned from filmmaking by the...
Interview: Fernando Serrano – Bisbee ’17
When we look back at the year that was in docu film offerings for 2018, Robert Greene's timeless inquiry into how the present is...
The Conversation: Parasite Leads 2020 Best International Feature Film Hopefuls
With Locarno, Venice, TIFF, and San Sebastian still to come, a number of potential foreign film submissions may have yet to be unveiled, potentially....
Interview: Lulu Wang, Awkwafina & Diana Lin – The Farewell
“Based on an actual lie,” Lulu Wang’s The Farewell lifts events from her own complicated family history into the filmic sphere. In this captivating...
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...
