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2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #4. Benedict Andrews – Against All Enemies
After making his debut entrance with Una (read our review), Australian theatre and filmmaker Benedict Andrews didn't waste much time moving directly into his sophomore gig with the...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #3. Rhys Ernst – Adam
A project that once had Desiree Akhavan attached to direct, Adam would land in the lap of "This Is Me" and "Transparent" producer-director Rhys Ernst somewhere in...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #2. Oualid Mouaness – 1982
He might be a first time feature filmmaker, but Oualid Mouaness, a Lebanese short film helmer firmly transplanted in the US has been patiently building...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #1. Matthew Rankin – The 20th Century
The prolific idiosyncratic experimental filmmaker in many things Canadiana. So after a decade in the short form, Matthew Rankin has been in post production with...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: 100 Titles the Programmers Might Be Considering
As per our pre-Thanksgiving tradition, we are attempting to give fans of the Sundance Film Festival a preview of what's to come via our...
European Film Promotion and the Hunt for the Foreign Language Oscar
Every year, the submission for Best Foreign Language entries from around the world seems to grow larger and more difficult to navigate. For the...
At Eternity’s Gate | Review
Pigments of Your Imagination: Inside Van Gogh’s Mind
Julian Schnabel’s aesthetically-spellbinding Vincent Van Gogh biopic, At Eternity’s Gate, places viewers inside the Dutch artist’s eye....
Video: Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Homes – 2017 Cannes Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
Vladimir de Fontenay premiered his debut film Mobile Homes in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Fest. Here is his post...
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Review
Six of the West: Coen Bros. Release Minor, Uneven Collection of Frontier Short Stories
In thinking about the anthology form in cinema, Joel and Ethan...
Distant Constellation | Review
Time Is Not On Our Side: Mizrahi Mesmerizes And Bemuses With Meditative Doc
The nature of time is undoubtedly one of the most abstruse themes...
A Private War | Review
War is War is War: Heineman Tackles the Controversial Marie Colvin in Narrative Debut
Oscar nominated documentarian Matthew Heineman (2015’s Cartel Land), follows up recent...
Her Old Joy: Kelly Reichardt Finds Oregon by Way of China in “First Cow”
When Todd Haynes introduced Kelly Reichardt to the work of Jonathan Raymond, it was the page turning exercise of The Half Life that set...
Criterion Collection: The Naked Prey (1965) | Blu-ray Review
When one thinks of Cornel Wilde, a veritable Hollywood everyman who was peppered across a variety of noir and studio productions throughout the 1940s...
Dovlatov | Review
Author! Author!: German Jr. Tackles a Week in the Life of a Dissident Writer
While it’s Alexey German Jr.’s (son of the equally idiosyncratic Alexey...
2018 American Film Festival Dailies: Visiting the Heart of Wroclaw and the … Heart of Fest | Day 2
Before heading off to do some American indie film festing (essentially playing catch up), AFF organizers offered a location scouting tour of Wroclaw. Meant...
Suspiria | Review
Dance the Dance of Another: Guadagnino Goes Deeper & Weirder in Ambitious Argento Remake.
Luca Guadagnino has always been a supremely divisive filmmaker, capable of...
Burning | Review
A Touch of Class: Chang-dong Returns with Masterful Class Clash
Puns concerns its slow build will be sincerely intended in forthcoming deliberations on South Korean...
Interview: Ali Abbasi – Border
Two years after Shelley, a horror film based on a Norse mythology and folktale, Ali Abbasi premiered the buzz heavy Border at the Cannes Film...
Video: Ali Abbassi’s Border | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
The surprise hit of the Un Certain Regard and kudos to the Benicio del Toro led jury on giving the section's top honors, Ali...
2018 American Film Festival Dailies: Red, White and …. Blue | Day 1
IONCINEMA.com arrived on day number two of the American Film Festival in Wrocław (pronounced var-SHAV-uh). The ninth edition is chock full in American Indie...
The Third Wife | 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Raise the Red Lanterns: Mayfair Falls Short on Accessing Modernity in Ancient Times
A new voice in Vietnamese cinema, Ash Mayfair's female-centric coming-of-age feature debut The...
Putting Lipstick on a Pig | 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Show Me The Money: Karrento Investigates the Hidden Side of Online Gambling
While the Nordic way of life is famous and possibly admired worldwide, some...
Nancy | 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Out of the Void: Chloe Embarks on Nuanced, Complex Search for Human Warmth
In Christina Choe’s first feature, Andrea Riseborough gives a subtle performance as...
Her Job | 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Scrubbing up: Labôt Debuts with Nuanced, Powerful Greek Drama of a Woman at Work
Her Job, Greek director Nikos Labôt's first feature roots its setting...
Mihkel | 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Of Children and Criminals: Magnússon Blends Family & Estonian History into Nordic Crime Drama
An artist and documentary filmmaker for more than two decades, Ari...
Alone at My Wedding | 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
A Lonely Flower Dress: Bergman Delivers Raw, Touching Romani Emancipation Drama
Marta Bergman’s feature debut depicts the struggle of Pamela (Alina Șerban), a young Romani...
Thou Shalt Not Kill | 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Biblical Activism: Romanian Directors on a Crusade Against Corruption
Gabi Virginia Șarga and Cătălin Rotaru's debut feature can be easily seen as part of the...
The Cacophony of Donbas | 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Dissected Symphony: Minaev Deconstructs Soviet Propaganda with a dose of Humanism
Finding the one and the only cause of a big historical event, especially when...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Onwards and Awards | Day 10
The intimacy of smaller film festivals allow for a closer proximity between between those who create and those who contextualize and critique art. My...
Video Interview: Elizabeth Chomko – What They Had
Compassionate, introspective and quietly in your face, What They Had makes a case for coming to terms....on your own terms. Films where the focal...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Borders & Boundaries in Seigner’s Los Silencios & Xue’s The Crossing | Day 9
These days, the notion of borders is commonly associated to building walls and keeping what some deem as social ills at arm's length. In...
What They Had | Review
Tragedy + Comedy = Family: Chomko’s Unforgettable Alzheimer's Story
In a year where so many films feel politically charged, What They Had is a refreshingly...
Interview: Elizabeth Chomko – What They Had | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Contrary to what some might say, not all projects that break into any of the Sundance Institute labs make the Advance to GO, collect...
The Price of Everything | Review
The Difference Between Price And Value: Kahn Seeks Answers To Unanswerable Questions
The modern art world has been inexorably bound to the whims of collectors...
On Her Shoulders | Review
Carry That Weight: Bombach Bares The Whole Yazidi Soul Through Murad’s Personal Hell
The copious trove of data involving the millions afflicted by the crimes...
Halloween | Review
To Grandmother’s House We Go: Green Succeeds with Obedient Resurrection of the Carpenter Classic
The original tagline for John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween, which...
The Guilty | Review
Right Man at the Wrong Desk: Gustav Möller Cracks the Case with Debut
You wouldn’t expect the tipping point of a thriller to be marked...
Video: Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s Caniba – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Just prior to heading over to NYFF and having just showed at the Venice Film Festival, via Andréa Picard's shrewd programming, the Wavelengths programme...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Birthplace of Ideas in Too Late to Die Young & Fenyang | Day 8
Moving into final stretch of the fest, day 8 was curiously bookended by the notion of the birthplace - either where a person is born...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Crossing into … Malaysia with Brooke | Day 7
I went into my second viewing of Yuan Qing's Three Adventures of Brooke (the Venice Days selected first time feature we raved about) prior...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Many Miles from Home with Paul Dano’s WildLife | Day 6
The yearly running joke among film journalists covering the festival beat is to identify the odd title that we somehow missed. In my case,...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Unhurried Hong Sang-Soo & Lee Chang-Dong | Day 5
I managed to miss the TIFF screening for Locarno premiered Hotel by the River (our Nicholas Bell has been on a steady pace of covering...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Cities of Last Things Inside the Ancient City | Day 4
The less than fifteen minutes flat walk from the hotel dwelling to festival venues is quite something to marvel in terms of passage of...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Blood Ties in “Dear Son” & “Cities of Last Things” | Day 3
We're still in time adjustment mode here at the Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Int. Film Festival but we managed to pack in a...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Celebrating Year To – Day 1
It occurred to me while kicking my heels for my connecting flight at the Beijing Intl. Airport (en route to the second edition of...
Interview: Jim Cummings – Thunder Road
He first came to our attention as one of the producers on Patrick Wang's The Grief of Others and Trey Edward Shults' Krisha, but...
2018 American Film Fest in Wrocław: Alverson, Guadagnino, Denis & Ross Perry Among Selections
Highlighting some of the best American indie offerings of 2018 from Sundance to Cannes and more recent offerings from TIFF and Venice, the ninth...
Criterion Collection: Cold Water (1994) | Blu-ray Review
Occasionally, a rare cinematic kernel lost to the ages due to whatever obsequious copyright or distributor issues, manages to resurface despite the odds. We...
Dark Money | Review
Follow The Money: Reed’s Financial Exposé Is Highly Significant Yet Somewhat Clumsy
The rise of unregulated campaign finance in American elections coinciding with the collapse...
Interview: Eva Vives – All About Nina
We sat down with first-time writer/director Eva Vives to discuss her Tribeca 2018 hit: the provocative love story All About Nina (interview below). Vives...
