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Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...
Interview: Paul Lieberstein – Song Of Back And Neck
Paul Lieberstein — perhaps better known as Toby Flenderson from NBC’s The Office—made his feature film debut at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival with...
Top 50 Future TV Binge List: Prepping for the Summer with Sharp Objects & Succession
Almost a dozen new entries have been added to Top 50 Future TV Binge List chart most notably Marco Bellocchio's Esterno, Notte - but...
The Conversation: Producer David Thion
French producer David Thion has spent the past eighteen years gambling on untested talents, fostering the filmography of several Gallic novices into full-fledged auteurs....
Maine | 2018 Tribeca Film Festival Review
Trail Mix: Brown Offers Ephemeral Romance on Appalachian Hike
The anti-thesis of a fight-against-the-elements type narrative a la Wild or Tracks, Maine unfolds quietly and emphasizes...
Interview: Andrea Pallaoro – Hannah
Rare are the film narratives that place so much emphasis on the backstory without...divulging it. Rare in cinema do we find unflappable and muted...
Backstabbing for Beginners | Review
The Oil and the Pussycat: Fly’s English Debut Sinks to the Bottom
Danish director Per Fly makes his English language debut with Backstabbing for...
Mrs. Hyde | Review
Sing the Body Electric: Huppert Glows in Bozon’s Eccentric Take on Robert Louis Stevenson
“Things one can’t do are the one I want to,” utters...
Interview: Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Kings)
We sat with Turkish-French director Deniz Gamze Ergüven after the premiere of her sophomore directorial effort Kings at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival....
Kings | Review
Ease on Down the Road: Ergűven Presents Tone-deaf, Head-Scratching Portrait of L.A. Race Riots
Joining Kathryn Bigelow (whose searing Detroit, depicting the 1967 riots of...
Interview: Sam Boyd – In A Relationship
An expansion of his 2015 short film starring Dakota Johnson that went viral due to some fortuitous timing, Sam Boyd's In A Relationship (which just had...
The Conversation: Producer Janine Jackowski
Producer Janine Jackowski has quietly fostered a new era of art-house German cinema off lauded output from directors Maren Ade and Ulrich Kohler (who...
Interview: Wim Wenders – Submergence
Globe-trotting, geopolitics and civil war are the wedges that place romantic connections in flux. No stranger to the human condition or working in a...
Interview: Michel Hazanavicius – Godard Mon Amour (aka Redoubtable)
Declared sacrilege the moment the project was announced, Michel Hazanavicius focuses on a critical, artistic, existential, and perhaps creative calamity period in both the masses...
Kodachrome | Review
Picture This: Raso’s Estranged Road Movie Wrecks At The Starting Gun
Coming across like a thin coat of bright paint over dated decorative wallpaper sans...
I Feel Pretty | Review
More Than a Feeling: Kohn & Silverstein Compose Meaningful, Imprecise Satire on Body Shaming
Screenwriters Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, known for adolescent minded portraits...
Exclusive: Poster & Trailer Premiere for Natalia Almada’s Everything Else
Via the arthouse label who gave us the Gastón Solnicki's Argentine gem Kékszakállú, the Cinema Tropical folks have provided us with the exclusive first...
Criterion Collection: Eclipse #46 – Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years | DVD Review
If her status as one of the most prominent fixtures of the Criterion Collection had been in contention before, Ingrid Bergman’s presence is now...
2018 Cannes: Ciro Guerra, Gaspar Noé, Romain Gavras, Jaime Rosales & Debra Granik Fill Directors’ Fortnight
Heavy on Spanish language films (including a Brazilian film not in its mother tongue) and the usual block of French film items, after seven years...
The Conversation: Producer Jean Labadie
Jean Labadie is a name which perhaps remains a tad obscured despite his formidable influence on the French film industry. In 1986, Labadie founded...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Week: Paul Dano’s Wildlife (Opener) & Agnieszka Smoczynska’s Fugue Selected
As per usual, Artistic Director Charles Tesson unveiled the line-up to the Cannes Critics' Week via the savoury film description friendly video. A program...
Zama | Review
Mortal Transfer: Martel Returns with Lush, Dark Comedy on Colonial Maneuvering
Unfairly disposed to doomed distribution prospects and perhaps unfortunate dismissal during its initial reception...
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc | Review
The Passion of the Joan: Dumont Approaches Ecclesiastical Fervor in Musical Comedy
If cinema could approach the same sacred realm as any pre-ordained religious doctrine,...
Come Sunday | Review
Preaching to the Choir: Marston Tackles Modern Heresy in Orthodox Glance at Evangelical Hypocrisy
There are numerous epithets various strands of Christianity tend to utilize...
Marrowbone | Review
Love & Marrow: Sanchez Rattles Familiar Skeletons in Vintage Themed Debut
Spanish screenwriter Sergio F. Sanchez consults the bones for his directorial debut, Marrowbone, an...
Wildling | Review
The Kids Are Not Alright: Böhm Bares His Fangs In Tepid Feral Frightfest
Children are scary enough without them being feral, and that fear is...
Beirut | Review
Going Hamm in Beirut: Sharply Written, Compelling, Old school Hostage Drama
Set in guess-where, Beirut is a snappy foreign diplomacy thriller so smart and steeped in detail...
Interview: Tony Gilroy & Jon Hamm – Brad Anderson’s Beirut | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Foreign diplomacy thriller Beirut might have been an unusual, counter-programming choice made by Sundance programmers, but it was the right project match and three person...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions VI: Middle East Repped by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jafar Panahi & Hiner Saleem
We can anticipate a handful of items from the Middle East, Africa, and India will populate several sidebars, if not the competition itself. Turkey,...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions V: Jia Zhangke & Kirill Serebrennikov Lead the Far East
Cannes 2017 had a strong crop of Russian titles on hand, and several 2018 possibilities could be poised for entry in this year’s program....
Video Interview: Laura Mora – Killing Jesus
They say write what you know, but to what degree and to what depths is a whole other issue. Colombian filmmaker Laura Mora's second...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions IV: Brit Helmers Leigh, Hogg & Strickland Lead Anglo Contingency
On the British side, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo was once assumedly a for sure thing (he won the Palme in 1996 for Secrets & Lies),...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions III: Italy’s Sorrentino, Garrone & Rohrwacher Lead Europa Europa
It’s less than a week before the official program is unveiled for Cannes 2018 and this year’s festival already promises to be one of...
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...
