Tag: top-stories
2025 San Sebastian Film Festival: Pablo Stoll, Andrés Ramírez Pulido & Alvaro Brechner Among Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Projects
After Telluride, Venice and Toronto the next biggie film festival event will be the 73rd edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival (September 19-27)...
2025 NYFF: Cooper’s Springteen Biopic Strums into Fall Showcases
Making it a two Coopers are better than one edition, after nabbing the world premiere to Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On?, the New...
IndieSponge Episode: An Officer and a Spy (2025) Movie Review
As we slowly prepare for our official launch and the craziness of the fall film festival circuit , Kevin Jagernauth and I had the...
2025 TIFF: Idris Elba, Tawfeek Barhom, Hamel & Myotte Selected for Short Cuts Programme
The Toronto Intl. Film Festival unveiled their short film showcase with 48 selections spread out among the six programmes plus Strange Cuts section and...
2025 TIFF: Prime Venice Titles from Gianfranco Rosi, Lucrecia Martel & Poitras/Obenhaus Load up Docs Programme
The Toronto International Film Festival is nearing the completion of its 2025 lineup reveal—an always overwhelming endeavor, given the sheer volume of films featured....
2025 TIFF: Pete Ohs, Jan Komasa, Haifaa Al Mansour & Adam Carter Rehmeier World Preems in Centerpiece Programme
Dozens of Cannes Film Festival titles are among the 55 entries in the Centerpiece Programme and we find some anticipated world premiere items as...
2025 NYFF: Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai, Claire Denis’ The Fence & No Other Choice Among Main Slate Selections
A dash of Sundance, a pinch of the Berlinale, a sprinkling of Cannes and a good number of Venice Film Festival items (Duse, Jay...
By the Stream | Review
Right Sketch, Wrong Skit: Sangsoo Scans Patterns in Bittersweet Interludes
Perspectives of regret and the uncertain odyssey of retrospection emphasize the undertones of perennial auteur...
Good Four: India Donaldson Travels into Sophomore Project ‘Chaperones’
In what will be a highly anticipated sophomore feature in the American indie sphere, after slaying with her directorial debut (Sundance and Directors' Fortnight...
Souleymane’s Story | Review
Straightened Story: Lojkine’s Details Delivery App Woes to Application Process Lows
Standing on fertile creative ground, Boris Lojkine once again explores the narratives of individuals...
2026 Oscars: Murat Fıratoğlu’ ‘One of Those Days When Hemme Dies’ is Turkey’s Nomination for Best Intl. Feature Film
Murat Fıratoğlu's masterstroke directorial debut (winner of the Special Jury Prize a Venice last year in the Orizzonti aka Horizons section last year) is...
2025 NYFF: Bradley Cooper’s ‘Is This Thing On?’ Closing Night Selection (World Preem)
After Guadagnino (After the Hunt - opener) and Jarmusch (Father Mother Sister Brother - centerpiece) New York Film Festival's Artistic Director Dennis Lim has...
The Sparrow in the Chimney | Review
There’s a Ghost in Me: Zurcher Explores the Necessity of Destruction
Amidst all the existential dread in Franz Kafka’s body of work, silver linings abound,...
Architecton | Review
Judgment in Stone: Kossakovsky Gazes Into the Concrete Jungle
Celebrated documentarian Viktor Kossakovsky explores our complex relationship with concrete in the abstract visual feast, Architecton....
Exclusive Poster One-Sheet for Gianni Di Gregorio’s ‘Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t’ – 2025 Venice Film Festival
All eyes are on the upcoming Locarno Film Festival (Naomi Kawase was just added to the comp with Yakushima’s Illusion) but we are already...
Harvest | Review
Sheep, Sheep, Sheep: Tsangari’s Monotonous Treatise on Modernization
Adapted from a novel by Jim Croce, Harvest is Greek auteur Athina Rachel Tsangari's third feature narrative,...
Shosana | Review
Winterbottom Cranks Yet Out Another One, This Time A Forgettable Thriller With No Bite
Michael Winterbottom never stops. For over three decades, the filmmaker has...
2025 TIFF: World Preems by Bryan Fuller, Todd Rohal & Ben Wheatley Load Up Midnight Madness Programme
The Catechism Cataclysm's Todd Rohal, Kill List's Ben Wheatley and scribe Bryan Fuller's long-awaited directorial debut are part of the big surprises for this...
2025 Giornate Degli Autori: Vladlena Sandu, Damien Hauser & Cyril Aris in Competition
The last films for the Lido were announced this morning with the Giornate Degli Autori (aka Venice Days) folks unveiling their line-up with national...
2025 TIFF: Nadia Latif, Lucía Aleñar Iglesias & Zamo Mkhwanazi Selected for Discovery Programme
The section dedicated to dedicated to works by first and second-time filmmakers, Toronto International Film Festival have announced the twenty-three films in the Discovery...
2025 TIFF: Valentyn Vasyanovych, Tim Mielants & György Pálfi in the Platform Programme
TIFF is currently unwrapping their line-up these week in early August, and today we've got their competition Platform programme unveiling with a trio of...
2025 Venice: Fastvold, Lanthimos, Assayas, Baumbach, Chan-wook, del Toro, Bigelow, Ben Hania, Benny Safdie & Shu Qi in Golden Lion Comp
Valérie Donzelli (À Pied d’Oeuvre), Cai Shangjun (The Sun Rises on Us All), Kaouther Ben Hania (The Voice of Hind Rajab) and the directorial...
2025 Venice: Mark Jenkin, Kent Jones, Carolina Cavalli, Gastón Solnicki, Laura Samani & Teona Strugar Mitevska in Orizzonti
Teona Strugar Mitevska's Mother, the Macedonian's sixth feature film (which promises to shake up the mythical figure of Mother Teresa played by Noomi Rapace)...
2025 TIFF: World Premieres Include Gavras’ ”Sacrifice’, Michôd’s ‘Christy’, Vanderbilt’s ‘Nuremberg’ & Winocour’s ‘Couture’
The Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled the heavy-hitters populating their Gala and Special Presentations sections making what sounds like an alluring line-up for...
2025 Venice Critics’ Week: Caroline Deruas Peano, Julia Jackman & Evi Kalogiropoulou Among Selections
We begin the highly anticipated Lido selection announcements this week with the unveiling of the nine-title announcements for the 2025 Venice Critics’ Week with...
Company Policy: Stéphane Brizé Hired Alba Rohrwacher & Vincent Lindon for ‘Un Bon Petit Soldat’
Flying low on everyone's radar, Stéphane Brizé quietly filmed his eleventh feature film this past May and the Cineuropa folks confirm that the project...
No Sleep Till | Review
Eye of the Norm: Simpson Looks at Coastal Coasting with Minimalist, Passive POV
There is a new breed of emerging American indie filmmakers who are...
Drowning Dry | Review
Dry Spell: Bareiša Explores Trauma in the Abstract
Repetitive patterns once again provide the narrative parameters reinforcing oblique happenings for Lithuanian director Laurynas Bareiša in...
Eddington | Review
No Country for Smart Men: Aster Satirizes the Obvious
It would seem all is actually for naught in Eddington, Ari Aster’s sprawling, meandering fourth and...
London Calling: 1-2 Special Addicted to Harris Dickinson’s ‘Urchin’
Moments before it receives its North American premieres (Telluride, TIFF and NYFF are all in the cards), the Un Certain Regard winning title (Best...
2025 Final Cut In Venice: Sara Ishaq’s ‘The Station’ & Saeed Taji Farouky ‘Standing at the Ruins’ Among Selections
Erige Sehiri's Under the Fig Trees, Asmae El Moudir's The Mother of All Lies, Amjad Al Rasheed's Inshallah a Boy and Scandar Copti's Happy...
Daniel Tantalean & Ryan Bobkin Among Sundance Institute Names 2025 Producers Lab Fellows
Daniel Tantalean and Ryan Bobkin are part of the eleven up-and-comer indie film producers heading to the annual Sundance Institute Producers Labs next week....
A New Michel Franco Film Set for 2026 Launch?
“I already shot it and I’m editing now.” While Michel Franco is currently working on a documentary film in Poland, in a recent sit...
Wild Diamond (Diamant Brut) | Review
Teenage Wasteland: Riedinger’s Debut a Familiar Coming-of-Age Parade
All that glitters isn’t gold, but social media success can break the mould. At least that’s the...
2025 Locarno Film Festival: Radu Jude, Alexandre Koberidze, Ben Rivers, Abdellatif Kechiche & Maureen Fazendeiro in Comp
The field of Pardo d’Oro hopefuls will include the likes of Radu Jude, Alexandre Koberidze, Ben Rivers, Maureen Fazendeiro and (surprise surprise) Abdellatif Kechiche...
2025 Venice Gap-Financing Market: Ulrich Seidl, Sofia Alaoui, Emily Atef, Luis Ortega, Babak Jalali & Kamila Andini
The projects for the upcoming Venice Gap-Financing Market have been unveiled (32 feature-length fiction) and there’ll be several listed here projects that we’ll discuss...
Kill the Jockey | Review
They Kill Horse Riders, Don’t They?: Ortega Puzzles with Deadpan Metaphors
Nothing is what it appears to be in Argentinean Luis Ortega’s latest film Kill...
Hot Milk | Review
The Eternal Daughter: Lenkiewicz Ladles the Milk of Sorrows
Screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directorial debut with Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s comically...
Interview: Ariane Labed – September Says
A pivotal figure in the Greek Weird Wave, Ariane Labed first gained attention with her role in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth (2009) before delivering an...
Interview: Jessica Palud – Being Maria
In 2018, political journalist and writer Vanessa Schneider released Tu t'appelais Maria Schneider (My Cousin Maria Schneider), a deeply personal memoir exploring the turbulent...
Interview: Sarah Friedland & Kathleen Chalfant – Familiar Touch
A work-in-progress participant at the 2023 American Film Festival in Wroclaw (which turned out to be a vintage edition with Indie Donaldson's Good One...
Mister ‘October’ – Cory Michael Smith Toplines Jeremy Saulnier’s A24 Horror Thriller Project
Jeremy Saulnier's Rebel Ridge had a wonky production narrative with the pandemic slamming into it and causing delays but the film had its day...
IndieSponge Episode: Emmanuelle (2025) Movie Review
Before our official launch, Kevin Jagernauth and I had the chance to review Audrey Diwan’s third feature film, Emmanuelle —a NEON release under their...
Missed Connections: Nanni Moretti Enlists Louis Garrel & Jasmine Trinca for “Succederà questa notte”
Recovering from his health scare back in April, Nanni Moretti is moving back into the director's chair for Succederà questa notte (“It Will Happen...
Interview: Sarah Friedland – Familiar Touch (Work in Progress)
The folks at Music Box Films are releasing Sarah Friedland's award-winning Familiar Touch this Friday at the Film Forum in New York and then...
Early Sainthood: Bertrand Bonello’s Next Might be “Santo Subito”
Coming off what many consider his career best to date in The Beast (read our rare perfect ★★★★★ review), Bertrand Bonello recently spoke to...
