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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...
2019 Sundance Film Festival: Berlinger, Estes, Clermont-Tonnerre, Scott Z. Burns & Wnendt in Premieres section
Last year's Premieres section gave us offerings such as the Zellner Bros.' Damsel, Debra Granik's Leave No Trace and Elizabeth Chomko's What They Had....
2019 Sundance Film Festival: Green’s Premature, Poe’s Selah and the Spades & Griffin’s The Wolf Hour in the NEXT section
Last year's NEXT section offerings gave us Madeline's Madeline, Night Comes On, Search and We the Animals. This year we have Rashaad Ernesto Green's...
2019 Sundance Film Festival: Lane’s Hail Satan, Wang’s One Child Nation and Tyrnauer’s Where’s My Roy Cohn? in U.S. Docu Comp
Last year's U.S. Documentary Competition gave us offerings such as mind blowing films such as Bisbee '17, Minding the Gap, Three Identical Strangers and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival: Har’el’s Honey Boy, Bianco’s Share & Chon’s Ms. Purple in the U.S. Dramatic Comp
Last year's U.S. Dramatic Competition gave us offerings such as Bart Layton's American Animals, Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade, Paul Dano's Wildlife and the section...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: The Scorecard Before the Announcements
Later today, the Sundance Film Fest unveil their 2019 line-up. Taking a Thierry Fremaux Cannes approach, the fest will be annoucing their programming offerings...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #100. Alex Winter – Zappa
With Sundance having premiered Thorsten Schütte's Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words just a couple of years back, perhaps they'll not...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #99. Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour
Shooting took place in November of 2017 on Alistair Banks Griffin's sophomore feature and a cast of Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr.,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #97. & #98. Richard Linklater – Where’d You Go, Bernadette & Untitled Moon Landing Project
In an almost film per eighteen months pace, Richard Linklater might have not one, but two features released in 2019....and perhaps the filmmaker will...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #96. Benh Zeitlin – Wendy
With the amount of time being put into the post production portion of the process, I doubt that sophomore jinx will be applicable here. Wendy is...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #95. Trey Edward Shults – Waves
Trey Edward Shults blasted onto the scene with his award winning SXSW, Cannes debut Krisha (2015) which was followed up with It Comes at...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #94. Untitled Roger Ross Williams – Apollo Theater Docu
A celebrated docu filmmaker (his 2010 short Music by Prudence won Oscar) outside of the festival, Roger Ross Williams' second home is indeed Park...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #93. Untitled Penny Lane – Religious Activism Documentary
Proselytism can sometimes send people to canoe to remote islands with inhospitable tribe habitants. Penny Lane has found some docu zealots among programmers (her...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #92. Untitled Noah Baumbach Comedy
While Netflix held off at showing the pic during the fall season, there is no reason to think that they won't premiere in early...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #91. Untitled Miranda July Crime Drama
We're not sure if the Madeline's Madeline experience put Miranda July into the let's make a movie spirit, but shortly after premiering last January...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #90. Untitled Lulu Wang Comedy
Her debut film in 2014's Posthumous (Jack Huston and Brit Marling) went mostly unseen, but something tells me this currently untitled American-Asian family comedy...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #89. Untitled Christopher Morris Comedy
Christopher Morris brought Four Lions to Sundance in 2010, and his follow up went into production in the summer of 2017 in the Dominican...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #88. Untitled Alex Lehmann Duplass Brothers/Ray Romano Comedy
Part of the larger Duplass Bros. family that keeps growing, Alex Lehmann saw his directorial debut Blue Jay get launched at TIFF and shortly...
