Tag: top-stories
Interview: Daniel Brühl | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
An actor and swiss army knife multi-linguistic for almost three decades now with seminal films in Good Bye Lenin! (2003) and The Edukators (2004)...
Interview: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre – Mustang | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Having grown up on film sets and gradually making the move from in front of the camera, to a space where appears to have...
The Mustang | Review
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?: de Clermont-Tonnerre Leads Us to Water with Minimalist Melodrama
Animal love is at the heart of Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s directorial...
Knife + Heart | Review
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key Light: Gonzalez’s Queer Giallo a Dicey Mélange
Love as an overwhelming, all-consuming fire...
Ash Is Purest White | Review
Love is Like a Stove: Zhangke Tackles Genre in Time-Spanning Romance
Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke continues to experiment in tone and form with his latest...
3 Faces | Review
Faces, Places: Panahi Provokes the Patriarchy in Quiet Hybrid Drama
Now nearly half way through his twenty-year ban from filmmaking, (a damning sentence passed down...
Amanda | 2019 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Review
Be Kind Unwind: Radiant Performances Buoy Hers Powerful Drama
Unless we’re talking about heist films, preparedness is often a trait lacking in protagonists and when...
Gloria Bell | Review
I Think They Know Her Alias: Lelio Revisits His Breakout Title with English Language Remake
Chilean auteur Sebastian Lelio, who recently took home an Academy...
The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...
Woman at War | Review
Female Misbehavior: Erlingsson Explores Ecofeminism in Entertaining Character Portrait
After exploring the defining social elements between humans and their horses in his homegrown debut Of...
Son of a Gun: Colin Farrell Programmed for Kogonada’s ‘After Yang’ with A24
With packaging being put together this past summer, Kogonada sees the A24 folks reteam with actor Colin Farrell on his sophomore feature, After Yang....
Climax | Review
Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough: Noe Does Sensory Deception with Latest Dark Odyssey
Come again? Enfant terrible Gaspar Noe returns to cinema of...
Transit | Review
Those Who Leave: Petzold Collapses Past and Present with Holocaust Redux
Switching things up considerably compared to his previous offerings, German auteur Christian Petzold makes...
Video: Gaspar Noé’s Climax | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
In terms of the narrative, it might be his most minimalist and arguably, this stands as Gaspar Noé's best film to date. In terms of...
Interview: Christian Petzold – Transit
If we think more broadly about the possibilities for narrative cinema in the age of “post-cinema” we can certainly make a case in point...
Eternal Sunshined: Chad Hartigan Infected by ‘Little Fish’
Sundance Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award winning filmmaker Chad Hartigan flirted with some various projects post Morris from America (2016), and now he is setting up shop...
Mapplethorpe | Review
NY & Leather pants – Timoner Delivers by-the-numbers Biopic of Iconoclastic
With her seventh feature film, Ondi Timoner offers an effervescent biopic of iconic queer photographer. From the...
Greta | Review
She Will Always Beat You: Huppert Get Homicidal in Jordan’s B-Thriller
There’s more than one way to depend on the kindness of strangers, including using...
Criterion Collection: La Vérité (1960) | Blu-ray Review
What is the truth? And can you handle it? Notions of truth, perspective and judgment have long been staples of the courtroom drama, melded...
Interview: Madeleine Sackler – O.G. / It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t It
Known for her eye-opening documentaries, Emmy-winning producer/director Madeleine Sackler had not one but two films in 2018’s Tribeca Film Festival: It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t...
Interview: Barbara Cigarroa – El Otro Lado (The Other Side) | 2019 January Screenwriters Lab
Among those selected to take part in the Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab we find Barbara Cigarroa who brought - El Otro Lado (The...
Interview: Chantel Clark – Wit Gesigte (Pale Faces) | 2019 January Screenwriters Lab
Among those selected to take part in the Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab we find Chantel Clark who brought Wit Gesigte (Pale Faces) to...
Interview: Adrienne Rush – This Land is Your Land | 2019 January Screenwriters Lab
Among those selected to take part in the Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab we find Adrienne Rush who brought This Land is Your Land...
Interview: Nehir Tuna – Yurt (Dormitory) | 2019 January Screenwriters Lab
Among those selected to take part in the Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab we find Nehir Tuna who brought Yurt (Dormitory) to the Sundance...
Interview: Kobi Libii – The American Society of Magical Negroes | 2019 January Screenwriters Lab
Among those selected to take part in the Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab we find Kobi Libii who brought The American Society of Magical...
Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Once again placing his player(s) through the ringer, Alistair Banks Griffin moves from outdoorsy existentialism and moral quicksand in (2011's Two Gates of Sleep)...
Lucía Garibaldi’s The Sharks | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
We caught wind of Lucía Garibaldi when she wowed San Sebastián industry people winning top prize coin in the Films in Progress 32 Industry...
Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
When life gives you lemons, make a feature film out of it. A union that came about by a mutual appreciation artistic sensibilities, Alma...
2019 Sundance Film Fest Recap: Monos, We Are Little Zombies & Cold Case Hammarskjöld Lead Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10
Almost in direct response to critics’ grumblings—who claimed a lack of any true “hits” at Sundance ‘18—Sundance ’19 delivered a near-perfect batting average. The...
Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Brittany Runs a Marathon | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Rocket boosted out of obscurity with his audience-pleaser (U.S. Dramatic Audience Award Winner) debut, when we shed all the pounds, playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo's...
Patrick Brice’s Corporate Animals | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Working at almost a film per year pace since 2014's Creep, versatile in humor and horror, Corporate Animals is perhaps the best of both...
Criterion Collection: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) | Blu-ray Review
The crown jewel of the New Romanian Cinema was Cristian Mungiu’s controversial abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which took...
Kirill Mikhanovsky’s Give Me Liberty | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Juggling not one, but two current projects (the other being the Sundance Lab supported Coming to You), Kirill Mikhanovsky is at a special crux...
J.D. Dillard’s Sweetheart | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Seeing that he signed up for Sweetheart not that long after Sleight had premiered at Sundance in 2016, we now understand why the Blumhouse...
Mads Brügger’s Cold Case Hammarskjöld | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Remarkably still comfortable working with the confines of the gonzo investigative docu style of filmmaking, Mads Brügger comically addresses how storytelling can curtail and...
The Conversation: The Din in Berlin – Top 10 Best of the 69th Berlinale
The 69th Berlinale will be remembered as a rather curious transitional year for the festival, the final year of its 4th director, Dieter Kosslick,...
Video: Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra’s Birds of Passage | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
They tend to always begin with a strong section opening film, and Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra's Birds of Passage (review) did not disappoint as...
Interview: Liza Mandelup’s Jawline | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Who influences the influencers? Who’s really on the other side of the screen? Is there any hope for the wistful ideals of live-streaming culture?...
Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Stylish, slick and super sophisticated for a micro-indie of this scale, what works marvels is Tayarisha Poe's the film's narrative blue print and universe. Selah and...
Hotel by the River | Review
Heartbreak Hotel: Estrangement and Reunion Synchronize in Latest Sangsoo Slice of Life
It’s a short-lived distinction to be called the latest anything from South Korean...
Interview: Sacha Jenkins, RZA & Crew – Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (Documentary TV) | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
The Wu-Tang urban legend has been told again and again—but never before in such full scope as in Sacha Jenkins’s four-part doc, Wu-Tang Clan:...
McDormand on the Move: Fox Searchlight Packs Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’
Much like the invisible folks presented in this future film, Chloé Zhao was pretty much working off our radar with her third feature. A...
Interview: Daniel Scheinert & Cast – The Death of Dick Long | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
What do the DANIELS do in between, well, being the DANIELS? Daniel Scheinert, the self-proclaimed redneck half of the duo, answers this question with...
Interview: Marnie Ellen Hertzler – Crestone | 2018 US in Progress – American Film Festival in Wrocław
Currently making the rounds with her Locarno/Rotterdam selected short Hi I Need To Be Loved, Baltimorean video artist/filmmaker Marnie Ellen Hertzler will likely be...
Monsters. | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Time to Leave: Olteanu’s Debut Examines the Strain of Sacrifice in Studied Marital Drama
The relationship at the center of Romanian director Marius Olteanu’s carefully...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Emma Forrest’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: Emma Forrest – Untogether
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. This month, we feature journalist, novelist, screenwriter turned...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #1. Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow
First Cow
And the most anticipated American independent film project of 2019 belongs to Kelly Reichardt and what will be her eighth feature film. After...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #2. Josephine Decker’s Shirley
Shirley
Say we omit Josephine Decker's feature docu items Bi the Way and Flames, it's remarkably only with her third "narrative" feature film that becomes a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #3. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch
More croissant than cronut, Wes Anderson returns to the red, white and blue but of the Hotel Chevalier and Jacques Cousteau sort...
