Tag: top-stories
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...
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...
