Tag: top-stories
Audio Interview: Jens Assur – Ravens
Moving from photo journalism to the short form with sobering portraits in The Last Dog in Rwanda (2006) and one of the best shorts...
Interview: Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
Trust your gut and listen to your instincts. Selected in Competition for Cannes 2017 with a print that was still wet, it's with her...
Salome (2013) & Wilde Salome (2011) | Review
Love’s Labours Found: Pacino’s Wilde Meditations at Long Last Find Life
Oscar Wilde’s 1891 tragedy Salome (originally written in French) has generated countless resurrections since...
A Quiet Place | Review
The Parent Trap: Krasinski Explores a World on a Wire in Tense, Derivative Monster Movie
“If they hear you, they hunt you,” declares the tagline...
Video: Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
After being showcased at Venice, TIFF (where we were on hand) and SXSW, A24 releases Lean on Pete in theatres this weekend. There is not much horsing...
Interview: Suzanne Andrews Correa – The Huntress | 2018 January Screenwriters Lab
Selected as one of the participants for the 2018 January Screenwriters Lab, Columbia University grad Suzanne Andrews Correa is looking to set The Huntress, her feature...
Interview: Jakob Rørvik – Thomas in 10 Dimensions | 2018 January Screenwriters Lab
He has already cracked the code sorta speak with the short film form (his shorts have preemed at Cannes and SXSW), and now current...
Interview: Rachel Wolther & Alex H. Fischer – Nobody Nothing Nowhere | 2018 January Screenwriters Lab
Hopefully co-writer/co-director tandem Rachel Wolther (who produced micro indie gems See You Next Tuesday, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, and Stinking Heaven) & Alex H. Fischer...
Interview: C. Wrenn Ball – Katie Wright | 2018 January Screenwriters Lab
Last January I sat down with USC grad C. Wrenn Ball and his debut project which comes with some definite hype as it received...
Interview: Jonathan Minard & Scott Rashap – Archive | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
If the names of Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap ring a bell, it may be due to their breakout Toru - also known as the...
Interview: Yung Chang – Eggplant | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
If you know his filmography we get a strong sense of his pulse, where his interests might lie so it was nice to see...
Interview: Sophia Al-Maria – Beretta | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Sophia Al-Maria was already an accomplished, multi-disciplinarian artist, writer and author (The Girl Who Fell To Earth) prior to landing in the Screenwriters Lab...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks in Theaters this April: Lynne Ramsay, Lucrecia Martel & Claire Denis
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? Associated...
Top 50 Future TV Binge List: Cannes Vets Coen Bros., Refn & Haneke Top Inaugural Chart
With TV being the new orange, it's becoming increasing difficult to keep tabs on what our filmmaker favorite are up to and while we...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions II: La France
Perhaps more contentious than any other competition titles are the French language items jockeying for coveted slots which are announced last. Both Claire Denis...
Interview: Olivia Newman – First Match | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Selected for SXSW Film Festival's Narrative Feature Competition, Olivia Newman's First Match (read review) picked up an audience award before quickly bowing over at Netflix....
First Match | Review
Newman Delivers a Nuanced Portrayal of a Troubled Wrestling Prodigy
The physicality of wrestling lends itself to cinema, each movement part of a ballet. Matches...
The China Hustle | Review
Unmuddied Waters: Rothstein Exposes How Financial Loopholes Conned The World
The stock market’s vitality affects almost every aspect of everyday life, potentially changing national economies...
Tuesday Blus: Flowers of Taipei in Hsiao-hsien’s Daughter of the Nile (1987)
Although he’s most widely regarded for a cluster of films from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, it was the 1980s which remain...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions I: North & South America
As we near the announcement of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival’s program next month (April 12th for Cannes, 16th for Critics' Week and possibly...
Video: Shorts Program 1 | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Sundance’s Shorts Program 1 is often one of the festival’s very first screenings each year. In some ways, these short filmmakers get a chance...
Interview: Philip Gröning – My Brother’s Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot | 2018 Berlin Intl. Film Festival
Evoking narrative similarities to The Police Officer’s Wife (2013), Philip Gröning's seventh film, My Brother’s Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot is a marathon...
Interview: Thomas Stuber – In the Aisle | 2018 Berlin Intl. Film Festival
Continuing with some of his lost souls interests found in his award-winning TIFF debut A Heavy Heart (2015), Thomas Stuber's sophomore feature film focuses on characters who...
Back to Burgundy | Review
Days of Wine and More Wine: Klapisch Delivers a Weak Vintage with Sibling Saga
French director Cedric Klapisch has enjoyed something of a singular, sanctified...
Friday’s Child | 2018 SXSW Film Festival Review
Edward's Coming of Age Thriller on the Fringe is a Big Mood
Some films aren’t meant to be enjoyed, some instead exist to agitate and...
Isle of Dogs | Review
A Dog’s Tale: Anderson Returns to Animation with Scruffy, Eclectic Fantasy
We’ve come to expect a certain technical formality from Wes Anderson, even across a...
Interview: Samuel Maoz – Foxtrot
It's been almost a full decade since Venice Golden Lion 2009's Lebanon (check out our 2009 interview), so it was with considerable anticipation and curiosity as...
Video: Jim Hosking’s An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
The type of idiosyncratic creative that will likely polarize auds much in the same way Harmony Korine did, Jim Hosking's follow up to The...
Video: Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
The road trip movie is probably the most tired sub-genre after the coming of age film, and yet with a fresh coat of paint...
Beauty and the Dogs | Review
Body Talk: Ben Hania’s Troubled and Troubling Portrait of Sexual Assaul
Perfectly encapsulating, perhaps to the heights of exaggeration and exploitation, why victims of sexual...
Ismael’s Ghosts (Director’s Cut) | Review
Call Me, Ismael: Desplechin Presents Jumbled Portrait of the Artist as a Dulled Man
Perhaps not since the quill of Charles Dickens, wherein iconic Ebenezer...
Video: Sandi Tan’s Shirkers | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Sandi Tan's first (or second pending how categorize them) feature film is truly a masterclass in reappraising and reappropriating your own creative work arch....
Video: Andrew Heckler’s Burden | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
A long time in the making and perhaps the longest gestating film from the entire line-up all sections combined, starring Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker...
The New Romantic | 2018 SXSW Film Festival Review
You've Got Male: Stone Adds to the Win Column with Delightful Debut
The New Romantic is a dramedy for the next generation that poses a...
The Breaker Upperers | 2018 SXSW Film Festival Review
Conscious Coupling: Modern Day "Womance" via Kiwi Duo
Yes, there is an extra syllable in the Breaker Upperers, a title imbued with the fumblings of...
Interview: James Wilks – Louie Psihoyos’ The Game Changers
After the heavily trophied The Cove (2009) and his Mission Impossible styled eco-thriller Racing Extinction (2015), docu-helmer Louie Psihoyos once again takes aim at industry. Preeming...
Tomb Raider | Review
A Tomb of One’s Own: Uthuag Cracks a Croft Pot with Video Game Reboot
Norwegian helmer Roar Uthaug, who scored an international breakthrough with his...
Eighth Grade | Review
Grade A Time Capsule: Bo Burnham’s Offers Torturous Last Week of Middle School.
Eighth Grade is literally eighth grade in hyphenate-comedian Bo Burnham’s resonant directorial...
Hannah | Review
No Whale Out: Pallaoro Strikes Somber Chords with Pitch Perfect Rampling
You’ll be hard pressed to find another melodrama as inconspicuously tightlipped as Andrea Pallaoro’s...
The Cleaners | 2018 Sundance Film Festival Review
Behind the Curtain: Block & Riesewieck Reveal the Trade of Internet Moderation
For the past decade, censorship on social media has been an increasingly hot...
2018 SXSW Film Festival: Matt Delman’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
An almost masochistic and perhaps futile exercise, as per usual here on the site, we stick to the mandate of picking a lottery ticket...
Interview: Mani Haghighi – Pig | 2018 Berlin Intl. Film Festival
A thematic combination of his two last works A Dragon Arrives! (2016) and 50 Kilos of Sour Cherries (2016), Mani Haghighi's latest film follows the...
Interview: Bavo Defurne & Yves Verbraeken – Souvenir
We met with director Bavo Defurne and screenwriter Yves Verbraeken following the premiere of their sophomore collaboration Souvenir at the Toronto International Film Festival...
What’s Up Doc? Hao Wu, Khalik Allah & Jenny Murray Top March Must See Doc List
The year has already picked up significantly since Sundance, as eyes turn to this past weekend's True/False, SXSW, and Tribeca Film Festivals. Taking the...
Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10 Films of 2017
Some, including the American literary scholar James English, argue that artists shouldn’t care about awards like the Oscars. Author of “The Economy of Prestige,”...
Red Sparrow | Review
Bird of Prey: Lawrence Tries a Red Scare with Gritty Espionage Thriller
Like the Marquis de Sade outfitted for a contemporaneous tangent of the...
Foxtrot | Review
Dancing in Hollow: Maoz Moves Sharply between Shock, Grief & Absurdity
Israeli director Samuel Maoz was one of the most surprising Golden Lion winners in...
Death Wish | Review
Wish in One Hand…: Roth Revamps Urban Terror for the Neo-Privileged
Vigilantism isn’t perhaps the best narrative thrust for American audiences during the early days...
Video: Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot: 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Among the fivesome of nominees for Best Foreign Language Film for this weekend's Oscars, Foxtrot finally makes its way into theatres this weekend via Sony Pictures Classics...
The Conversation: Finale of the Berlinale 2018
In what constitutes a rather curious and unpredictable session of the Berlin International Film Festival, the 68th edition of the festival ended with some...
