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Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #133. Elisa & Marcela – Isabel Coixet
Elisa & Marcela
Spanish director Isabel Coixet turns to Netflix for her latest feature, Elisa & Marcela, a recuperation of queer history in its examination...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #134. Esau – Pavel Lungin
Esau
For his eleventh feature film, Russian director Pavel Lungin makes his English language debut with Esau. Produced by Lungin, Serafima Kohkanovskaya, Haim Mecklberg and...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #135. Walking to Paris – Peter Greenaway
Walking to Paris
It’s been four years and counting as we await the next feature from Peter Greenaway, Walking to Paris, which the director was...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #136. Lisa Redler – Nicole Garcia
Lisa Redler
Actress/director Nicole Garcia commences her ninth feature with Lisa Redler, returning to work with producers David Thion and Philippe Martin for Les Films...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #137. Suicide Tourist – Jonas Alexander Arnby
Suicide Tourist
Danish director Jonas Alexander Arnby assembles an impressive cast and crew for his sophomore feature Suicide Tourist. The Scandinvaian-German-French co-pro is produced by...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #138. One Second – Zhang Yimou
One Second
Following his well-received martial arts action comeback Shadow (2018), Zhang Yimou heads back to low-key period drama with his next project One Second....
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #139. Last Dear Bulgaria – Aleksey Fedorchenko
Last Dear Bulgaria
Russia’s Aleksey Fedorchenko is preparing his seventh feature, Last Dear Bulgaria, produced by the director himself alongside Andrey Saveliev, Artem Vassiliev (Dovlatov,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #140. The Beast in the Jungle – Clara van Gool
The Beast in the Jungle
Dutch director Clara van Gool tackles the Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle, adapting the text as a...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #141. The Lost Prince – Michel Hazanavicius
The Lost Prince
Oscar winning director Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist, 2011) embarks on his seventh feature, The Lost Prince (Le prince oublié), set to star...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #142. Celle que vous croyez – Safy Nebbou
Celle que vous croyez
For his sixth film, Celle que vous croyez, France’s Safy Nebbou assembles an all-star cast led by Juliette Binoche, Nicole Garcia,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #143. Sole – Carlo Sironi
Sole
Director Carlo Sironi makes his directorial debut with Sole, a project which was selected for several notable initiatives during its development, including Residence de...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #144. The Seven Last Words – Multiple Directors
The Seven Last Words
Canadian filmmaker, musician and composer Kaveh Nabatian assembles six directors beside himself for the multidisciplinary omnibus project The Seven Last Words....
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #145. Paradise Hills – Alice Waddington
Paradise Hills
Producer and editor Alice Waddington makes her directorial debut with the fantasy/sci-fi film Paradise Hills, a US-Spanish co-production which she wrote alongside Brian...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #146. I’m No Longer Here – Fernando Frias
I’m No Longer Here
Mexico City’s Fernando Frias has completed his sophomore feature Ya no estoy aqui (I’m No Longer Here), which was part of the 2014...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #147. Curiosa – Lou Jeunet
Curiosa
French director Lou Jeunet makes her directorial debut with Curiosa, produced by Olivier Delbosc for Curiosa Films. Lensed by Simon Roca (9 Fingers, 2017),...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #148. Koko-di Koko-da – Johannes Nyholm
Koko-di Koko-da
Sweden’s Johannes Nyholm returns with his highly anticipated sophomore film Koko-di Kojo-da, which the director produced alongside co-producer Maria Moller Christofferson. His cast...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #149. Misbehavior – Philippa Lowthorpe
Misbehavior
Celebrated British television director Philippa Lowthorpe (the first woman to win a BAFTA TV Award for Directing for 2012’s “Call the Midwife,” an award...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #150. Matthias & Maxime – Xavier Dolan
Matthias & Maxime
And we begin our count up with Quebecois director Xavier Dolan, who after working on his largest budget to date in 2017/18...
A Prelude to Our Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019 Countdown
For our annual list of most anticipated foreign films, we have compiled an expanded list, tacking on an extra hundred titles to our usual...
The Conversation: Bring Forth Berlin (Possible Contenders for the Competition)
As has been the Berlinale’s custom of years past, several early competition titles have been confirmed along with the 2019 opener, Lone Scherfig’s The...
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead | 2018 Intl. Film Festival & Awards Macao Review
New Year’s Evil: Wheatley Finds Humanity Amid Caustic Bickering
Shapeshifting his way along a varied filmography, Ben Wheatley is back after the tongue-in-cheek gunplay bonanza...
The Conversation: Top 10 American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action (Class of ’18)
Following up on our 2018 edition of international directors who have been missing in action for five years or more, we turn to a...
Destroyer | Review
Sabotage Triage: Kusama and Kidman Break the Bank in Riveting Revenge Thriller
Robert Burns’ eternal line “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/Gang aft...
The Favourite | Review
Courtship at Court: Lanthimos Delights with 18th-century Royal Love Triangle
At Her Majesty Queen Anne’s palace, its a disheveled state of affairs. There’s an ongoing...
Cold War | Review
The Most Important Thing is to Love: Pawlikowski Delivers Beautifully Wrought, Chilly Amour Fou
Polish auteur Pawel Pawlikowski has had a curious trek to international...
Video Interview: Maxime Giroux – The Great Darkened Days
From working with a text about a path that is crossed with improbable odds in Felix et Meira, to the alienating, but nonetheless road...
Video Interview: Tuva Novotny & Pia Tjelta – Blind Spot
A film about the invisible manifestation of pain and sufferance, a good title substitute for Annihilation actress-turned-filmmaker Tuva Novotny's debut would be along the notion of...
Video Interview: Alejandra Márquez Abella – The Good Girls
Following her debut film Semana Santa (also a TIFF selection in 2015), which deals with the absence of a boy's father, Alejandra Márquez Abella...
The Conversation: Top 10 World Cinema Filmmakers Missing in Action (Class of 2018)
With 2018 quickly winding down, it’s time to visit a new batch of international directors and auteurs who have been missing in action for...
IFFAM 2018: Interview with Artistic Director Mike Goodridge
Mike Goodridge is now into year 2 of his job as Artistic Director after coming on board to replace Marco Muller in 2017. With...
The Mule | Review
Two Kilos for Sister Sara: Eastwood Delivers Drugs and Good Deeds in Character Drama
In a role perfectly suited for him, and in what may...
Video Interview: Nadine Labaki – Capernaum
There is a sequence in Nadine Labaki's Capernaum where Zain (who now belongs to the Antoine Doinel film canon) proactively attempts to save the...
ROMA | Review
Going Home Again: Cuarón Aces Return to Mexico with Autobiographical, Intimate drama
From one woman reaching the shore to another going back to it, from...
If Beale Street Could Talk | Review
I Can Feel the Beale: Jenkins Does Justice to Classic Baldwin Novel
Following his history making Best Picture winner Moonlight, stakes are set high for...
Interview: Sebastián Silva – TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Over the past nine years, writer/director Sebastián Silva has completed his checklist, by premiering a film in all five categories of the Sundance narrative feature...
Interview: Christopher Abbott | Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Christopher Abbott is an actor known for his roles as Charlie Cattalo in Girls and as the titular character in the critically-acclaimed James White...
Interview: Jason Mitchell – Sebastián Silva’s TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Jason Mitchell first caught the mainstream eye in 2015 for his critically-acclaimed performance as an ill-fated rapper Eazy-E in the NWA biopic Straight Outta...
Interview: Artistic Director Christoph Terhechte | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
It's so incredibly difficult to press on the pause button for any major event, especially one that is dipped in gold type prestige. The...
The Conversation: The Top 20 Theatrical Releases of 2018 – Picks 10 to 1
continued from yesterday, Nicholas Bell's Top 20 theatrical releases of 2018.
#10. The House That Jack Built – Dir. Lars Von Trier
The film’s finale, which...
The Conversation: The Top 20 Theatrical Releases of 2018
It was a strong year for wicked and weird in cinema---if you knew where to look for it. A strong showing of women directors...
Suburban Birds | 2018 Intl. Film Festival & Awards Macao Review
Crumbling Memories: Qiu Sheng Puzzles & Dazzles with Promising, Bittersweet Debut
Making his feature debut after his five short films, director and screenwriter Qiu Sheng...
Criterion Collection: A Story from Chikamatsu | Blu-ray Review
Playing like the tortured precursor to Masahiro Shinoda’s similarly tragic tale of stymied romance with 1969’s Double Suicide is the great Kenji Mizoguchi’s late...
Mary Queen of Scots | Review
Two Queens Stand Before Me: Rourke’s Reticent Recapitulation of a Doomed Queen
Not since Charles Jarrott’s 1971 mounting of the infamous demise of Mary Stuart,...
Vox Lux | Review
A Star is Worn: Corbet Confirms his Talent with Daring Sophomore Effort
2015’s The Childhood of a Leader (review) was a surprising debut in many ways,...
The Mercy | Review
Come Sail Away: Marsh Gets Morose with Tale of Doomed Sailor
Director James Marsh tackles the tragedy of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst in The Mercy,...
Interview: John Maringouin & David Zellner – Ghostbox Cowboy
Ghostbox Cowboy might be John Maringouin's first foray into the narrative form, but there is a lineage to his previous docu features; best known for...
Ghostbox Cowboy | Review
Damn Sell: Maringouin’s No-Frills Pynchonian Mind-blowing Masterpiece
Unfolding like a Thomas Pynchon novel, John Maringouin’s latest oeuvre follows an American inventor-of-sorts who gets taken for...
Time Share (Tiempo Compartido) | Review
Meant to Be Spent Alone: Hofmann Returns with Cynical Comedy on Privileged Facades
If hell is other people, perhaps they signify an even hotter level...
Video: Romain Gavras’ The World is Yours (Le monde est à toi) | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
We haven't been bemused by gangsta comedy genre perhaps since Guy Ritchie's bumbling idiot films, and yet with this long anticipated sophomore film, Romain...
Bathtubs Over Broadway | Review
One Man’s Quest to Spotlight the Unsung Stars of Industrial Musicals
Comedy writer Steve Young’s fascination with a peculiar oddity takes him on a personally...
