Tag: top-stories
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Eva Vives (All About Nina)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This past April at the Tribeca Film Festival, Eva...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Eva Vives’ 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...
Video: Steve Loveridge’s Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
A docu project shrouded in controversy, and perhaps mystery, several including the singer/songwriter subject of the film (and perhaps even the filmmaker himself Steve...
The Oath | Review
We Will Never Be Loyals: Barinholtz Gets Guignol in Acerbic Political Satire
Actor/comedian Ike Barinholtz uses gleeful absurdity to provide some food for thought on...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Sibel
Our final portrait before we go "mute", Franco-Turkish filmmaker team Çagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti made their way from Locarno Film Fest into TIFF's...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Saf
Filmmaker Ali Vatansever arrived at TIFF (a Discovery programme selection) with his sophomore film --- a feature that our Nicholas Bell suggested "should be classified as...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Blind Spot
With acting and filmmaking in her blood, is was perhaps only a matter of time when Tuva Novotny would make the move behind the...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles)
An official selection at the Karlovy Vary, Sébastien Pilote's The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) would receive its North American showcase at...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Twin Flower (Fiore Gemello)
Italian helmer Laura Luchetti's coming-of-ager both pairs and juxtaposes the harshness and beauty of the backdrop with the realities of displacement, running towards and away...
2018 Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Intl. Film Fest: Lav Diaz & Lee Chang-Dong Among Highlights
Selections have been announced for the second edition of the Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Int. Film Festival. The brainchild of former Venice Film...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: In Fabric
It was a major coup for TIFF to nab the world premiere for Peter Strickland's fourth feature film. Selected for the Midnight Madness programme, In...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: The Good Girls
Her feature debut Semana Santa was selected for the 2015 edition of TIFF, and so it was a special homecoming of sorts for her...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Mothers’ Instinct (Duelles)
A dozen years after he premiered his directorial debut in Cages (2006) at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, Olivier Masset-Depasse reteamed with his muse Anne...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #7. Daryl Wein (White Rabbit)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”
Daryl Wein: 1. Clean My Mac 3 - a program that frees up storage space...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #6. Vivian Bang (White Rabbit)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Vivian Bang: The Third Industrial Revolution - Office of Jeremy Rifkin
Naomi Klein’s : NO IS...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Maya
In a creative spurt that will have given us give her seminal film Things to Come (review) in 2016, the TIFF world preemed Maya (2018)...
Bel Canto | Review
Music Makes the People Come Together: Weitz Hits False Notes in Hostage Drama
If ever an aria could conjure the essence of camp, it would...
The House with a Clock in Its Walls | Review
Clockwatchers: Roth Goes YA Route with Surprisingly Sweet Results
It goes without saying, horror director Eli Roth, once part of the perversely coined Splat Pack...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Float Like a Butterfly
Receiving some major acknowledgment in the form of the FIPRESCI Prize at TIFF (a Discovery Programme prize), Carmel Winters’ sophomore project comes eight years...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Vita & Virginia
My favorite sub-genre in cinema happens to be films about filmmaking and second place, before the biopic, are films about the lives of authors,...
Colette | Review
Elle Époch: Westmoreland Recuperates a Literary Giant in Appealingly Frank Biopic
After winning the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for the 2005 breakout film Quinceañera, co-directors...
Lizzie | Review
Walk Away Genet: Macneill Revisits the Lurid Case of Lizzie Borden in Fascinating, Empowering Psychological Portrait
For true crime aficionados, there is perhaps no figure...
Hal | Review
My Friend Hal: Scott Redefines the Showbiz Doc With Show-Stopping Debut Feature
Hal Ashby was one of the finest cinematic craftsmen who ever lived, with...
Five Fingers for Marseilles | Review
Finger Food: Matthews Attempts to Mount a Western in Modern Colonialist Trauma
Kudos to director Michael Matthews and screenwriter Sean Drummond for taking the time...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: The Chambermaid
This year's TIFF presented two portraits about Mexico's working class. We have Alfonso Cuaron's take and then we have theatre director turned filmmaker Lila...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Before the Frost
Making it two for two, with the premiere of Before the Frost following 2017's Papillon as TIFF premieres, Michael Noer landed in Toronto with players...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Phoenix (Føniks)
Up until the inception of the naughts, Camilla Strøm Henriksen was a face we'd find on television and she would parlay this experience in front of...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Hidden Man
We first discovered Jiang Wen in Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum (1988), and so it was with a certain delight when TIFF announced that Yimou’s...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Girl
The first in our Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series is Belgium's Foreign Language Oscar nom in Lukas Dhont's Girl. The Un Certain Regard...
The Conversation: Vox Lux Leads Best of TIFF 2018
As the Toronto International Film Festival continues to downsize its programming and say adieu to CEO and Director Piers Handling for its 2018 edition,...
Retrospekt | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Domestic Disturbance: Rots Presents a Puzzle with Portrait of Troubled Woman
Female agency and fractured fellowship form the basis of Dutch director Esther Rots’ sophomore...
Maya | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Maya Love is Your Love: Hansen-Love Stumbles with Sluggish Romantic Drama
Following on the heels of her most widely acclaimed feature to date, 2016’s Things...
Saf | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
This Land is Our Land: Vatansever Presents Caustic Portrait of Urban Gentrification
Politically and economically motivated displacement is at the heart of Turkish director Ali...
Angel (Un Ange) | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Wheels of Desire: Mortier Breaks Silence with Funereal Portrait of Dead Celebrity
It was a major punchline in Mike Nichols’ version of The Birdcage (1996)...
Where Hands Touch | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
I See a Dark Stranger: Asante Examines Obscured Holocaust Perspective in Anglo Period Piece
British director Amma Asante rounds out a thematic trilogy of sorts...
Angelo | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
The Moor the Merrier: Schleinzer Returns with Incendiary Portrait of Indentured Servitude
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer returns with his long-awaited sophomore film Angelo, a follow-up...
Sew the Winter to My Skin | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Or Else It Gets the Hose Again: Qubeka Recuperates a Rebel from Apartheid South Africa
South Africa’s film industry remains somewhat on the fringe of...
One Last Deal | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Art to Art: Haro Conjures Another Character Study in Crowd-pleasing Drama
Much like his contemporary Dome Karukoski, Finnish director Klaus Härö is one of his...
The Vice of Hope | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Hope to It: De Angelis Tackles Child Trafficking in Latest Neapolitan Drama
Life may be bleak, but it’s also textured with fascinating possibilities in the...
The River | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Bury the Sins & Wash Them Clean: Baigazin Presents the Dysfunction of Isolation in Simmering Drama
Over the last decade, several prominent voices out of...
Three Adventures of Brooke | 2018 Venice Film Festival Review
Of Time and the City: Yuan Qing Delights with Tender, Dainty Rohmerian Debut
An airy, relaxed tale of meandering bliss and the pursuit of meaning...
The Conversation: High Life Leads Top Ten Most Anticipated 2018 TIFF Titles
Sifting through the pu-pu platter of cinematic offerings in the Toronto International Film Festival’s program is no small feat, even after the venue has...
Let the Corpses Tan! | Review
All that Glitters: Cattet & Forzani Cut Stylish Swath Through Arid Neo-Western
For their third film, Let the Corpses Tan!, another heavily styled recalibration of...
Tumbbad | 2018 Venice Film Festival Review
Greedy Monster: Rahi Anil Barve’s Uneven Attempt at Horror-Fantasy Indian Epic
A debut feature for both Rahi Anil Barve and his co-director Adesh Prasad,...
2018 Venice Film Festival – Tommaso’s Top 5 Most Anticipated: Guadagnino, Loznitsa, Mieli, Nugroho & Corbet
It’s a particularly rich programme in Venice for the 2018 edition of the Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica. Director Alberto Barbera certainly got the attention...
Interview: Aneesh Chaganty, Sev Ohanian & Natalie Qasabian – Searching
Search—an absorbing thriller set entirely on computer screens—took home three awards at Sundance ‘18. I sat down for an interview with three of the...
Searching | Review
The Search is Over: Chaganty Transcends ‘found-footage’ and then some with Debut
Aneesh Chaganty’s absorbing feature debut Searching follows a desperate father’s hunt for his missing daughter—set...
Crime + Punishment | Review
Do The Crime Or Take Your Punishment: Maing Exposes Inherent Abusive Police Culture
The ever-present reality of police overreach in the United States has hit...
Support the Girls | 2018 SXSW Film Festival Review
Give a Hoot: Regina Hall shines in Bujalski’s latest Slice of Life
Andrew Bujalski is one of those quintessential American independent filmmakers whose mature work...
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection | Review
It’s Your Serve: Faraut Extends the Cut With McEnroe Metacinematic Retrospective
John McEnroe has been considered (and possibly always will be) one of the greatest...
