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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...
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...
