Tag: top-stories
Reviews & Reflections: Östlund’s The Square Leads Top 5 NYFF Films That Lived Up To The Hype
As the New York Film Festival comes to a close, so marks the end of the 2017 festival season: a year-long tsunami that began...
Guess Who’s Coming to the Awards Dinner? Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” Leads 2017 Gotham Award Noms
Today's Gotham Awards nominees announcement proves that the film's themselves have their own against all odds narratives. With the five noms for the Best...
Journeyman | 2017 BFI London Film Festival Review
Fading Bull: Considine’s Heartfelt Drama of an Incapacitated Boxer
Following his final championship match, a boxer suffers a serious head injury that alters his personality...
Montparnasse Bienvenue (Jeune Femme) | 2017 BFI London Film Festival Review
Wander Woman: Serraille’s Tantalizing Tale of Wayward Independence
Upon breaking up with her former lover, a youthful woman roams the streets of Paris with a...
Criterion Collection: Personal Shopper | Blu-ray Review
One of French auteur Olivier Assayas’ most divisive films to date (it drew jeers at its premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, but...
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women | Review
Women Wanted: Robinson Explores the Fascinating Origins of Wonder Woman in Solid Biopic
Truth may often be stranger than fiction, but it’s not always as...
Video: Michaël R. Roskam’s Racer and the Jailbird – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Our Tommaso Tocci caught up with Michaël R. Roskam's latest while at the Venice Film Festival calling his cinema "marked by reticence and doomed...
Video: Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
The pre-fest announcement that Louis C.K. had directed a project that went into production this summer and was going to be ready in September...
Video: Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game – 2017 TIFF Presentation
After Social Network, Moneyball, and Steve Jobs in the tens, Aaron Sorkin finally moves to the front of the camera with his directorial debut...
Blade Runner 2049 | Review
A Time to Brood: Villeneuve Delivers Sleek, Stylized Mood Noir with Sci-Fi Sequel
Do androids dream of electric sheep? It’s a question never completely answered,...
Criterion Collection: The Piano Teacher | Blu-ray Review
Rare are the performers who can surpass the sadistic tendencies of an oligarchically inclined auteur, but there exists no finer example of this than...
A Ghost Story | Blu-ray Review
With commendable marketing following the strong critical reception out of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, David Lowery’s enigmatic return to indie filmmaking paid off...
2017 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: Samuel Maoz & Andrea Pallaoro Lead Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
Naturally not by intent or design, this year my number of films viewed actually matched the festival edition number. My main takeaway from the...
Interview: Jesse Noah Klein (We’re Still Together)
"in finding each other, they begin to learn over the course of the film, how it is they should be communicating..." - Jesse Noah...
2017 Venice Film Festival: Kechiche, Mandico & Ming-liang in Tommaso Tocci’s Top Five
It’s been a good year on the Lido, with a balanced and compact Competition slate that avoided the rollercoaster feeling of recent years and...
Criterion Collection: Rebecca | Blu-ray Review
“Last night I dreamt of Manderley again,” opens the famous 1938 novel Rebecca by esteemed mystery writer Daphne Du Maurier, astutely mimicked in Alfred...
Bobbi Jene | Review
Art Meets Life: Lind Illustrates Why It Isn’t As Simple As It Seems
The world of modern dance is brutally competitive, artistically challenging, and both...
mother! | Review
Portrait of the Artist: Aronofsky Thrashes Wildly with Art-house Freak Show
Three years since his Biblical studio effort Noah, Darren Aronofsky is back in the...
Criterion Collection: Certain Women | Blu-ray Review
Kelly Reichardt scored her most triumphant success to date with sixth feature film, Certain Women, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Theo Anthony’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: Theo Anthony (Rat Film)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. Baltimore-based filmmaker Theo Anthony saw his feature debut...
The Conversation: Tying Down TIFF – The Top 10 From the 2017 Edition
And so, another edition of North America’s grandest film festival ends as the 42nd revolution of TIFF fades from memory and jumpstarts the beginning...
Luk’Luk’I | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Understanding the Ignored: Wapeemukwa Misfires But Manages to Deeply Move
The line between reality and fiction are difficult to separate in this Wayne Wapeemukwa’s feature...
The Motive | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Master of the Universe: Cuenca Returns with Predictable Exercise on the Writing Process
If you can’t find a muse, make one. Or so might be...
Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Tulip Fevered: Universality Found in Bulbs & Bicycle
In Dutch filmmaker Mike van Diem’s whimsical Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle, a young Canadian-Italian...
The Journey | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Salam Baghdad! Al-daradji Looks at Second Chances
A young woman walks into a crowded Baghdad train station, her finger poised on a detonator. Sara (played by newcomer...
Le Fidèle (Racer and the Jailbird) | Venice Film Festival Review
A Child’s Heart: Roskam Keeps Digging to Find What Lies Beneath Fast Cars & Bank Heists
From native Belgium to the States and back, Michaël...
Mademoiselle Paradis | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Paradis Regained: Albert Explores Thwarted Romantic Episode of Obscured Pianist
Austrian director Barbara Albert revisits 1770s high-society Vienna in her exploration of an attraction between...
It | Review
The Right Stuff: Muschietti’s Floats to the Top with a Crack at King
Often, cinema has not proven to be a kind vessel for the...
Number One | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
One is the Loneliest Number: Marshall Explores White Collar Gender Politics
Gender disparity in the workplace is hardly unique to the American job market, as...
Mrs. Fang | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Death Be Not Proud: Bing’s Chilly Portrait of Death a Cultural Critique of Contemporary China
Celebrated Chinese documentarian Wang Bing scored a major coup with...
Exclusive TIFF Clip: Moving Towards the Light in Hlynur Palmason’s “Winter Brothers”
Winner of Best Actor (Elliott Crosset) at its Locarno premiere and spotlighting here at TIFF, we got an exclusive clip ahead of the North...
Beyond Words | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Stranger in a Strange Land: Antoniak Explores the Black and White of the Refugee Crisis
The ongoing refugee crisis provides the framework of Urszula Antoniak’s...
Disappearance | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Terms of Estrangement: Koole Poses Familial Woes in Chilly Scenes of Winter
“Family is just accident…,” remarks one of the tortured characters in Marsha Norman’s...
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno | 2017 Venice Film Festival Review
A Summer of Love, One Dance at a Time: Kechiche’s Sprawling, Circular Poem Follows in the Footsteps of Blue
It’s only the first part for now...
The Price of Success | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
The Price of Life: Lussi-Modeste’s Modest Profile on the Sacrifice of Fame and Fortune
Director Teddy Lussi-Modeste scored positive notices for his 2011 debut Jimmy...
Trophy | Review
Crocodile Tears?: Clusiau and Schwarz Take Aim at Hunters & Conservationists
The ethical debate and moral implications on the industry that is trophy hunting have grown...
The Conversation: Tipping into TIFF (Top 5 Most Anticipated Films)
As we head into the 42nd edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, change is afoot. Earlier this year, it was confirmed the festival...
Castaway (1986) | Review
Castabout: Roeg’s Neglected Island Adventure Collapses Marriage and Misogyny
The Quad celebrates the career of renowned British auteur Nicolas Roeg in a week-long retrospective in...
The Villainess | Review
Born to Kill: Byung-gil Gets Blood Simple in Crackling Clash of Vengeance
Your eyes might feel bruised but your pulse will remain elevated throughout Jung...
Polina | Review
The Spurning Point: Preljocaj Does the Dance Divine with Sensible Debut
Famed French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj melds his modern rhythms with a classic bildungsroman structure...
Criterion Collection: La poison (1951) | Blu-ray Review
Groucho Marx once drolly remarked, “Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?” Such is the state of the...
Video: Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay / Actor
My personal Palme d'Or of the fest was the last in competition and we've yet to see where it'll land next. With Telluride still...
Video: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize
Sight unseen, it was a front runner for the Palme d'Or and leading up to the final day was being name dropped as a...
Video: François Ozon’s Amant Double – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Here is the press conference arrival for François Ozon's Amant Double starring Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset, Myriam Boyer and Dominique Reymond. The...
Video: Léonor Serraille’s Jeune femme (Montparnasse-Bienvenüe) – Camera d’Or Winner
The most fiercest battle on the Croisette is for the Camera d’Or - the best debut film that extends to all sections of the...
Video: Diane Kruger for In the Fade | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actress
The consensus thinking was a great performance in a mediocre Fatih Akin film, Diane Kruger's first role in her native German language in In...
Video: Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
A film that was highly anticipated and did not go unnoticed, shared with Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here, this was the press...
Video: Palme d’Or Jury – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
The final day of the Cannes Film Festival is one of trepidation and tremendous release - and I'd argue, that this applies to the...
Video: Un Certain Regard Winners – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
While Kantemir Balagov's Closeness counted as my revelation of Cannes 2017 and would have been my personal frontrunner for the Camera d'Or and Un...
