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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #78. Lech Majewski’s Valley of the Gods
Valley of the Gods
Polish writer/director Lech Majewski, who received story credit on Julian Schnabel’s 1996 Basquiat, has garnered acclaim for his own directorial efforts,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #79. Patricia Mazuy’s Paul Sanchez est revenu!
Paul Sanchez est revenu!
A noted but infrequently appearing cinematic presence, director Patricia Mazuy returns with her fifth feature, Paul Sanchez est revenu! (aka Paul...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #80. Jan Svankmajer’s The Insects
The Insects
Legendary Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer, at the age of 79, has been working what’s been announced as his last project The Insects for...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #81. Guillaume Nicloux’s Tassen (Les Confins du Monde)
Tassen (Les Confins du Monde)
The fast paced Guillaume Nicloux (who has premiered a new film project in succession from 2012 to 2016) filmed his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #82. Lav Diaz’s The Season of the Devil
The Season of the Devil
2016 was a watershed year for Filipino auteur Lav Diaz, who won the Alfred Bauer Award out of Berlin for...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #83. Sebastian Hofmann’s Time Share
Time Share
Mexican director Sebastian Hofmann’s debut Halley (read review), about a night guard at a 24-hour gym who begins to have trouble concealing the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #84. Michael Winterbottom’s The Wedding Guest
The Wedding Guest
British director Michael Winterbottom has directed over twenty-five narratives features, three documentaries, and a handful of television series/projects since he started out...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #85. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s Les Estivants
Les Estivants
Highly decorated French-Italian actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi has enjoyed a broadening reputation as a director in her own right over the past decade,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #86. Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s Black Circle
Black Circle
Mexican director Adrian Garcia Bogliano has become a favorite international genre auteur thanks to a variety of B-grade titles over the past decade....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #87. Koji Fukada’s The Man from the Sea
The Man from the Sea
Japan’s Koju Fukada scored his greatest international breakthrough to date when he took home the Jury Prize in Un Certain...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #88. Agnieszka Holland’s Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones
Polish auteur Agnieszka Holland shows no signs of slowing in her late 60s. The Oscar nominated director (1992’s Europa, Europa for Best Adapted...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #89. Armando Bo’s Animal
Animal
Oscar winning writer/director Armando Bo (Best Screenplay for 2014’s Birdman, which he co-wrote with writing partner Nicolas Giacobone) heads back to his native Argentina...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #90. Jose Padilha’s 7 Days in Entebbe
7 Days in Entebbe
Brazilian director Jose Padilha was one of many unfortunate foreign auteurs burned by the Hollywood studio system with his 2014 reboot...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #91. Agnès Jaoui’s Place Publique
Place Publique
The multi-faceted Agnès Jaoui is a highly decorated director/writer/actress with a commendable resume. Of her four Cesar wins, three have been for Best...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #92. Pablo Trapero’s La Quietud
La Quietud
Argentinean auteur Pablo Trapero has quickly readied his next production, an Argentine-French co-production, La Quietud, which unites France’s Berenice Bejo with Edgar Ramirez...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #93. Untitled Maxime Giroux Project
Quebecois director Maxime Giroux received his first international success with third feature Felix & Meira (2014), which won Best Canadian Film following its premiere...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #94. Zhang Yimou’s Shadow
Shadow
Zhang Yimou, one of China’s most prolific international mainstream successes, shows no signs of abandoning the historical adventure epics which up until recently proved...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #95. Eran Kolirin’s Let it Be Morning
Let it Be Morning
Israeli director Eran Kolirin returns to topical provocations with his fourth feature Let It Be Morning, which is based on the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #96. Martin Zandvliet’s The Outsider
The Outsider
Danish filmmaker Martin Zandvliet scored his first international success with his third feature, 2015’s tense WWII film Land of Mine (read review), which competed in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #97. Koen Mortier’s Angel
Angel
Flemish director Koen Mortier ends an eight-year hiatus with third feature Angel, which relates the unfortunate demise of famed Belgian cyclist Frank Vandenbroucke, who...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #98. Pedro Costa’s The Daughters of Fire
The Daughters of Fire
Portuguese director Pedro Costa is ready for his fire walk and back with his first narrative project since 2014’s Horse Money....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #99. Gerard Corbiau’s Saving Mozart
Saving Mozart
It’s been eighteen years since Belgian director Gerard Corbiau’s last theatrical feature The King is Dancing (2000). Although he’s unveiled some television and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #100. Mati Diop’s The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time
Our only directorial debut in the top 100, actress Mati Diop moves behind the camera in her long-gestating project, The Fire...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2018: DuVernay, McQueen & Scorsese Top the List
Looking forward to the theatrical pleasures of 2018, the Hollywood studio system seems mostly a foregone conclusion save for a handful of items which...
Video Countdown: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Films of 2017
Although we have another facetiously titled Michael Haneke film to ring in the New Year with, it is a decidedly unhappy end considering the...
Best of 2017: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Undistributed but not…Unloved
Prior to unveiling the top theatrical releases of 2017, here's a little love for some festival circuit being held for theatrical release next year...
The Two of Us | Review
If We Try: Berri’s Exceptional Debut Granted Sterling Restoration
Arriving just in time to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, French auteur Claude Berri’s 1967 directorial...
All the Money in the World | Review
A Buck or a Pound: Greed is Good Cinema in Scott’s Perverse Portrait of Capitalist Dysfunction
Perhaps it was ABBA, Sweden’s 1970s pop sensation,...
Criterion Collection: Desert Hearts (1985) | Blu-ray Review
As impressive a directorial debut as it is a cinematic landmark, Donna Deitch’s 1985 masterpiece Desert Hearts joins the ranks of the Criterion Collection...
Criterion Collection: Jabberwocky (1977) | Blu-ray Review
It was rather a rough start for Terry Gilliam’s solo directorial career. While 1975’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which Gilliam co-directed with...
Tuesday Blus: Max Ophüls’ Letter from an Unknown Woman, Nolan’s Dunkirk & Bigelow’s Detroit
This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Dunkirk (2017) - Warner Bros., Detroit (2017) - Twentieth Century Fox, Letter from an...
Interview: Joachim Trier – Thelma
Not unlike the festival strategy unveiling for Reprise back in 2006, the Toronto International Film Festival was the lieu for the North American premiere to...
The Leisure Seeker | Review
Enduring Love & Fading Memories: Disappointingly Competent Road Movie Via Virzì
Heavyweights Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland take center stage in this mildly entertaining dramedy about...
The Rape of Recy Taylor | Review
A Tale of Two Women: How Buirski Bumbled Taylor’s Essential Role in America
There are certain seminal butterfly effect individuals in this nation's complex history,...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks in Theaters this December: Foxtrot, I, Tonya & Happy End
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? Three...
Tracking Shot: Alistair Banks Griffin, Brady Corbet & Karyn Kusama Shooting in December
“Tracking Shot” is a top of month featurette here at IONCINEMA.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing and as...
The Disaster Artist | Review
A Room of One’s Own: Franco’s Sincere Paean to the Art of Failed Art
The notion “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” has assumed...
Wonder Wheel | Review #2
The Wheel of Their Discontent: Allen Stages Crumbling Marital Drama in the Dog Days of Coney Island
As impeccably administered as it is at times...
Video: James Franco’s The Disaster Artist – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Winner of the Best Actor award at the Gothams, there is a legit chance that James Franco might end up with another nom for...
The Shape of Water | Review
Creature from the Red Lagoon: Del Toro Gets Sentimental in Cold War Monster Drama
Monsters return as metaphors in Guillermo Del Toro’s latest, The Shape...
Wonder Wheel | Review #1
Woody Allen’s Wheel of Misfortunes: An Opera of Human Frailty
Year after year, films by the prolific Woody Allen seem to build on each...
Sundance ’18: Decker, Moselle, Spiro, Hosking & Zagar Among NEXT Selections
Last year's batch of ten included some primo items in David Lowery's A Ghost Story, Janicza Bravo's Lemon and Justin Chon's Gook (the Sundance...
The Work | Review
Walking the Line: McLeary Finds Freedom in Folsom
The barbed wire and prison walls of Folsom soar over inmates and visitors with a baleful presence,...
Tracking Shot: Reed Morano, Jim Cummings & Harmony Korine Shooting in November
“Tracking Shot” is a top of month featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing. Normally, we...
Giving Thanks: Sundance Film Festival Selection Predictions Recap
After cranberry sauce, stuffing, sweet potatoes and topical discussions along the lines of (did a human turkey just pardoned an actual turkey?), we'll soon...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Drake Doremus’ Zoe
We've now arrived to our 75 prediction destination with this final item. A Sundance personality who over time, has developed his own cult following in...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Paul Dano’s Wildlife
Once all the "dust" settled from the Venice and TIFF program announcements, the 2017 film festival calendar hourglass pretty much confirmed that Paul Dano's...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Elizabeth Chomko’s What They Had
In a move rarely seen these days, Bleecker Street's Andrew Karpen swooped in, preemptively landed the rights to What They Had before it even had...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy
We've kept our ears peeled to the ground and eyes glued since non-trade related film news began to trickle in 2013, but for the...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Kelly’s Welcome the Stranger
With a breakneck pace output, filmmaker Justin Kelly hasn't wasted much time between features since premiering his debut feature at I Am Michael (review) at...
