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2018 TIFF: Corbet’s “Vox Lux” & Neil Jordan’s “Greta” Added + Discovery Section Unveiled
His double Venice film festival award winning The Childhood of a Leader was mysteriously a no-show for the 2015 edition, but TIFF programmers decided Vox...
The Conversation: Producer Michel Merkt
Swiss producer Michel Merkt, who runs his own company KNM alongside his wife and often produces noted international projects with Said Ben Said of...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #11. Jeremiah Zagar (We the Animals)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Jeremiah Zagar: Foxtrot, Big Mouth, Pattie Cake$
Lavallee: It's rare to see book to micro-indie adaptations,...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #12. Sheila Vand (We the Animals)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Sheila Vand: Cardi B, Ta-Nehisi Coates, New Mexican deserts.
Lavallee: As a filmmaker, Jeremiah comes from...
Minding the Gap | Review
Skating on Thin Ice: Bing Liu’s Powerful, Autobiographical Domestic Abuse Doc
Bing Liu’s documentary Minding The Gap contains more entertainment—and more authenticity—than most narrative features...
Criterion Collection: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | Blu-ray Review
Criterion revisits the neglected 1982 indie classic from Robert M. Young, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, a revisionist, recuperative Western which formulated the tragic...
2018 TIFF: Saulnier, Lelio, Keshavarz, Sam Taylor-Johnson Plus Debuts From Minghella & Jonah Hill Stack SP & Galas
Wrapping up the selections for glitzy Galas and Special Presentations programmes (the break down is: 44 World Premieres, 9 International Premieres, 12 North American...
The Meg | Review
Tonight, She Chums: Turteltaub Unleashes Somnambulistic Creature Feature
Fans of Deep Blue Sea or one of the various Jaws sequels may have their pleasure sensors...
BlacKkKlansman | Review
Klan Destiny: Lee Returns with Strongest Joint in Years
Although not as finely wrought as his subversive (and underrated) 2015 Chi-raq, Spike Lee returns with...
Interview: Josephine Decker – Madeline’s Madeline
Artistic ambition, hierarchy within matriarchy, heightened psychosis and hormonal pushback act as a sort of microfibre in a dramedy about the individual being a product...
Video: Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Madeline's Madeline is the reason why I love the programming for the Sundance's NEXT section. Madeline's Madeline is the reason why I love micro-indie....
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #13. Josephine Decker (Madeline’s Madeline)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Josephine Decker: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (book), Giant, 1956...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #15. Helena Howard (Madeline’s Madeline)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Helena Howard: Zen Chai - 94 Rivington Ave, New York, NY 10002, New York City, Street...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #16. Harrison Atkins (Madeline’s Madeline)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Harrison Atkins: Twin Peaks: The Return is at the top of my list. Also been...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #14. Ashley Connor (Madeline’s Madeline)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Ashley Connor: 1. Twin Peaks - "The Return" 2. "Wild Horses" by Prefab Sprout 3....
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #22. Crystal Moselle (Skate Kitchen)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Crystal Moselle: #1. I have been a fan of Nicolas Jaar for many years, but...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #21. Rachelle Vinberg (Skate Kitchen)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Rachelle Vinberg: - The Alchemist: Shuffling through the books on my friends bookshelf last January,...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #20. Aska Matsumiya (Skate Kitchen)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Aska Matsumiya: 1. A Life in Waves. A documentary that explores the life and innovations of electronic music...
Video: RKSS – Summer of ’84 | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Sundance put them on the map when they invited their directorial debut Turbo Kid, and when the Quebecois trio known as RKSS made the...
2018 TIFF: Alex Ross Perry, Tim Sutton, Karyn Kusama Part of the Platform Programme
The Toronto Intl. Film Festival have unveiled the dozen titles for their Platform Programme. Now in its fourth year, this year's offerings are for...
A Prayer Before Dawn | Review
Break the Dawn: Sauvaire Browbeats with Violent, Grim Prison Drama
Although a simple plot synopsis tends to glorify the perilous pugilism which provides the bizarre...
Interview: Andrew Haigh – Lean on Pete
Moving from deep conversations and casual sex (Weekend) to a couple's disentangle and a woman's profound change (45 Years), Andrew Haigh returns to the familiar...
Walsh Gets Wacky in ‘The Revolt of Mamie Stover’ (1956) | Blu-ray Review
In hindsight, something as tawdry and salacious as The Revolt of Mamie Stover seems to have been enhanced by the severe restrictions of the...
Desplechin gets Ish with “Ismael’s Ghosts” | DVD Review
A star-studded cast can’t quite save Arnaud Desplechin’s troubled dramedy Ismael’s Ghosts, which opened the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as an out-of-competition entry (a...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #10. Jordana Spiro (Night Comes On)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Jordana Spiro: Medium format camera with actual film. One More Time With Feeling - Nick...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #9. Dominique Fishback (Night Comes On)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Dominique Fishback: Vivien Leigh in "Gone with the wind"; A collection of mortifying diaries that I...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #8. Tatum Hall (Night Comes On)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Tatum Hall: I am really into jewelry and accessories, and I found a shop in...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #23. Alvaro R. Valente (Night Comes On)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Alvaro R. Valente: I’ve always been a fan of animated movies and although I’m generally...
2018 New Horizons IFF Dailies: Fuga | Day 7 of IONCINEMA in Wroclaw
An eventful final evening in Wrocław, where plans to spend the last few digital points on my Nowe Horyzonty account to see Nicolas Pesce’s...
Video: Aneesh Chaganty’s Searching | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
A desktop dramatic thriller that works as a relatable and palpable cautionary tale, on paper and conceptually speaking, Aneesh Chaganty's debut film should be...
Interview: Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, Emily Skeggs & Melanie Ehrlich – The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post—Desiree Akhvan’s tender tale set in a gay conversion therapy camp—took home the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance ’18. The...
Interview: Desiree Akhavan & Emily M. Danforth – The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Director Desiree Akhavan’s tender and funny second feature The Miseducation of Cameron Post won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance ’18. Based on Emily...
Interview: Ewa Banaszkiewicz & Mateusz Dymek – My Friend the Polish Girl
After a Rotterdam (IFFR) premiere and further UK exposure through the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival, the directing duo of Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Bing Liu’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: Bing Liu (Minding the Gap)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This past January at Sundance, we were introduced...
2018 New Horizons IFF Dailies: Heatwave | Day 6 of IONCINEMA in Wroclaw
As temperatures in Wrocław - and the rest of Europe - remain unusually high, I retreated to the comfort of Nowe Horyzonty’s retrospectives and...
2018 New Horizons IFF Dailies: Nocturnal | Day 5 of IONCINEMA in Wroclaw
Almost a year after I couldn’t get to Venice in time for the opening screening, Nowe Horyzonty finally gave me the chance to see...
Nico, 1988 | Review
What Costume Shall the Poor Girl Wear?: Nicchiarelli Knits Stellar Portrait of a Troubled Artist
“I’ve been at the bottom and I’ve been at the...
Baronesa | 2018 New Horizons Intl. Film Festival Review
A Song for Everyday Life: Antunes Looks at Womanhood in the Favelas
Set in the favela near Belo Horizonte, Brazil, this feature debut from Juliana...
Interview: Paul Schrader & Cedric Kyles – First Reformed
A pastiche of Diary of a Country Priest and Winter Light, Paul Schrader latest film, First Reformed (read our ★★★★ review), follows the plot structure that made...
2018 New Horizons IFF Dailies: Weekend Blues | Day 4 of IONCINEMA in Wroclaw
The futsal Wrocław Cup is suddenly over - a group of workers dismantling the pitch and the stands in front of me as I...
2018 New Horizons IFF Dailies: Perspective is Everything | Day 3 of IONCINEMA in Wroclaw
The OP ENHEIM festival space is today’s discovery at Nowe Horyzonty. This recently renovated seven-storey building, so narrow that you might be forgiven for...
2018 New Horizons IFF Dailies: Boa Sorte ou Boa Morte | Day 2 of IONCINEMA in Wroclaw
I’m writing this from a bagel joint located on the bustling side street next to Kino Nowe Horyzonty, which is a comforting discovery and...
Good Manners | Review
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf Mother?: Dutra & Rojas Spin Magical Spell with Subversive Class Commentary Horror
As its title would indicate, social etiquette and...
2018 New Horizons IFF Dailies: City of Bridges | Day 1 of IONCINEMA in Wroclaw
After landing in Wrocław, Poland for the 18th edition of the Nowe Horyzonty International Film Festival, I step outside the modestly-sized but impeccably organized...
Reinventing Marvin | 2018 Outfest Film Festival Review
Jewel of Denial: Fontaine Focuses on Class and Queerness in Coming-Out Portrait
French director Anne Fontaine continues to surprise with her varied filmography, turning her...
2018 Venice Film Festival: Jennifer Kent, Alverson, Corbet, Schnabel & Coen Bros. in Comp
Surprise, surprise. At the end of the day, Ethan and Joel Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a feature film (not a series)...
The Conversation: Looking Towards the Lido
With less than ten hours separating us from the Venice Film Festival selections, the 2018 edition is one of the most anticipated competitions for...
Criterion Collection: Dragon Inn (1967) | Blu-ray Review
If martial arts could be spliced into opera, it would look something like King Hu’s 1967 cult classic Dragon Inn, the second of his...
The Third Murder | Review
Murder Was the Case That They Gave Him: Kore-eda Mounts Philosophical Crime Thriller
Revered for his finely hewn dramas so often navigating the subtle isolation...
