Tag: top-stories
Criterion Collection: Dietrich and von Sternberg in Hollywood | Blu-ray Review
She would be revered as one of the most famous sex symbols of the twentieth century. He would become renowned as one of early...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Iram Haq’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...
Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti | Review
Tahitian Treat: Cassel Casts a Gloom in Sanitized Biopic of a Starving Artist
He’s one of the more notable post-Impressionists and for the first time...
Skyscraper | Review
The Air Up There: Thurber Fails to Elevate Everything in Derivative Action Popcorn Flick
Flying too close to the sun we know as Die Hard,...
Interview: Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
Hyphenate Bo Burnham is one of the rare comedians who can do just about anything he sets his mind to. In a dozen years...
Interview: Andréa Bescond & Eric Metayer – Little Tickles (Les chatouilles) | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
A creative collaboration that began in 2009 when Eric Métayer directed Andréa Bescond in her stage debut, the association proved fruitful as the pairing...
Under the Tree | Review
I Feel Petty: Sigurdsson Dispels the Myth of Polite Society with Sharp Social Satire
Hell may be other people, but it’s most certainly your...
Interview: Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte – The State Against Mandela And The Others | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
French-based docu filmmaker Gilles Porte (When the Sea Rises) teams with journalist Nicolas Champeaux to examine the landmark Rivonia Trial of 1963-64 in The...
2018 New Horizons Intl. Film Fest Unveil Programme! – Open with Labaki’s “Capharnaum” & Close with Rohrwacher’s “Happy As Lazzaro”
Now legal drinking age status, the New Horizons International Film Festival turns 18 this year and they'll be chock-full of offerings from the recent...
Interview: Irina Starshenbaum – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Leto | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Two years after premiering an overtly political film in The Student (Un Certain Regard 2016), the gifted Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov returns to the...
Sorry to Bother You | Review
Unbridled Creativity: No one is Safe from Riley’s Wackadoo Satire ... Himself Included
There is nothing subtle in Boots Riley's Sorry To Bother You. A singular,...
Interview: Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You
Writer/Director Boots Riley is no stranger to pushing boundaries. A longtime political activist-rapper, he has already made his bones in music, founding the renowned...
Interview: Omari Hardwick – Sorry to Bother You
Among the cast of misfit supporting characters in Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You we find Omari Hardwick's take on true corporate ladder machiavellianism...
Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You | 2018 Sundance Film Festival World Premiere
Perhaps the most hyped film to premiere at this year's Sundance film festival, the over-sold world preem screening at the Library had plenty of...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Iram Haq (What Will People Say)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This July, we profile Norwegian-Pakistani Iram Haq. Fairly new to...
The Conversation: Best Foreign Language Oscar Contenders
While we’ve yet to see what will take home the Golden Lion out of Venice this September, many of the contenders for what will...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks in Theaters this July: Denis Côté, Bo Burnham & Iram Haq
IONCINEMA.com’s Top 3 Critics’ Picks offers a curated approach to the usual quandary: what would you recommend I see in theaters this month? Just...
Interview: Meryem Benm’Barek – Sofia | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
By way of the young, unmarried Moroccan titular protagonist, Meryem Benm'Barek cuts her teeth with a piece that looks at the unwanted pregnancy under the...
The Cakemaker | Review
I’ll Never Have That Recipe Again: Graizer Glazes Quiet Drama with Bittersweet Longing
There’s an awful lot of complex intersectionality going on within Israeli director...
Video Interview: Xavier Legrand – Custody (Jusqu’à la garde)
Custody (also know as Jusqu'à la garde) posits the viewer in the fiery of domestic violence by way of its broken family of four....
Interview: Adilkhan Yerzhanov – The Gentle Indifference of the World
His sixth feature film in almost as many years, and second trip to the Croisette following in the footsteps of The Owners (2014), Kazakh...
Interview: Lukas Dhont – Girl | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
In the same year that the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner A Fantastic Woman visited themes of identity and transition, Lukas Dhont's directorial...
Victor Polster – Lukas Dhont’s Girl | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Lara is an adolescent committed to becoming a professional ballerina and with the support of her father, she sees no limits to her pursuing...
This Is Home | Review
Home is Where the Heart is? Shiva Shines a Light on Refugee Life in America
Raging into its sixth year, with roughly half a million...
Interview: Damsel’s Chris Ohlson & Mia Wasikowska | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
A creative collaboration that was cemented on the Zellner Bros.' previous film, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (check out our trading card profile) which premiered...
Video: Zellner Bros.’ Damsel | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Magnolia Pictures release Damsel in theatres tomorrow. Invited to the Berlin Film Festival shortly after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the Zellner Bros. were...
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Review
Thy Will Be Done: Bayona Burps a Blip in the Ongoing Dinosaur Franchise
Looking back, Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton had already marred the magic...
Criterion Collection: Manila in the Claws of Light | Blu-ray Review
Before a modern art-house renaissance of Filipino cinema thanks to the international acclaim of directors like Lav Diaz and Brillante Mendoza (who have dominated...
The Conversation: Top 10 Films Mid-Year Ranking for 2018
Although most of 2018’s greatest cinematic delights thus far are holdovers from the 2017 film festival circuit (which may be largely ignored or forgotten...
Blame Canada: NEON Prescribes Nia DaCosta’s “Little Woods”
With impressive grades from its Tribeca Film Festival showing, NEON have swooped in to grab the North American rights to a directorial debut that...
Interview: Christina Choe – Nancy
We often relate the notion of identity with DNA, our given name as spelled out on an envelope, the social media account profile we...
Hereditary | Review
Inherit the Wind: Aster Conjures a Horror Classic with Masterful Debut
For those familiar with director Ari Aster’s body of short films, beginning with his...
Interview: Michael Pearce & Jessie Buckley – Beast
Unveiled at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Platform section with additional premieres at Sundance and Rotterdam earlier this year, Michael Pearce's directorial...
Video: Luis Ortega’s El Angel | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
A shiny, glossy and slick Argentinian import with the Almodovar bros. as producers, the Un Certain Regard selected El Angel by helmer Luis Ortega...
Maria Monge’s Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs) | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Where Maria Monge's Treat Me Like Fire excels is in abiding by a frenetic fuelled street film that is more steeped in fantasy, than...
Video: Jaime Rosales’ Petra | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Know for his deliberately difficult art-house films it's with this move away tragi-drama bliss where we're left scratching our head thinking why the hell...
Criterion Collection: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Blu-ray Review
With unprecedented providence! Criterion re-releases Paul Schrader’s 1985 masterpiece Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters the same month the neglected auteur’s equally superb First...
Interview: Jennifer Fox – The Tale
Previously known for documentaries Beirut: The Last Home Movie (1987) and My Reincarnation (2011), producer and cinematographer Jennifer Fox just entered the narrative sphere....
On Chesil Beach | Review
On the Waterfront: Cooke’s Tender Adaptation of Sexual Aversion in 1960s England
A couple of newly weds hit an irresolvable and unpleasant barrier during their...
First Reformed | Review
Through a Glass Starkly: Schrader Delivers a Master Study on Despair and Extremism
Priests, and their psychic struggle with obligation to the cloth, have always...
Video: All the 2018 Cannes Film Festival Winners
After the ceremony is complete, the winners are shuttled from one last photo call and forwarded over to what is a quickie press conference...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Lee Chang-dong’s Burning & Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Tree Top Our Chart with 3.8
Lee Chang-dong's Burning topped Le Film Francais and Screen Daily charts, but here at IONCINEMA.com those top honors (with 3.8 scores) were shared with...
The Conversation: In the Cannes – 2018: Burning, Donbass & Climax Top the List
In a surprisingly unpredictable and overall enjoyable 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, the Cate Blanchett led jury awarded Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters the...
The House That Jack Built | 2018 Cannes Film Festival Review
Lars and the Unreal Girls: The Danish Provocateur Pushes Buttons in Cruel, Grotesque Portrait of a Serial Killer
“O Muse, Recount to me the Causes”...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Chang-dong’s Burning Wins Personal Palme, Labaki’s Capernaum Favorite to win Palme
Nadine Labaki's Capernaum is the overwhelming favorite to win the Palme d'Or in just a little over one hour from now, but if our...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 12 – Yann Gonzalez’s Knife + Heart
Only his second film, and Yann Gonzalez has broke into the festival on both occasions. His 2013 debut You and the Night shored up...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Nadine Labaki’s Capharnaum
The Lebanese writer-director-actress started in the Director's Fortnight with Caramel in 2007, moved up to the UCR section with Lebanon 2011's with Where Do...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Matteo Garrone’s Dogman
After 2002’s The Embalmer and 2004’s First Love, Matteo Garrone would receive proper international acclaim with Gomorrah - winning the Grand Prix for the...
The Gentle Indifference Of The World | 2018 Cannes Film Festival Review
World, Hold On: Yerzhanov Conjures Camus with Doomed Love Story
Kazakhstani director Adilkhan Yerzhanov continues his fascination with Albert Camus in his latest feature, The...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Lee Chang-dong’s Burning
The former high-school teacher and an acclaimed novelist makes his movies like he writes his books - Lee Chang-dong's films take their time to...
