Tag: top-stories
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...
Video: Michel Franco – April’s Daughter (Las hijas de abril) – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
While some could say he was relegated or took a step down from the prestige of the Official Comp, the Cannes Film Festival has...
Video: Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Received with a rather chilly reception, the final film and press conference of the fest was for the non comp item closer by Roman...
Video: Belle de Jour (1967) | Jean-Claude Carrière – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
It's a section I rarely allow myself to venture towards during the madness of what is the Cannes film fest, but in most cases...
Video: Sean Baker’s The Florida Project – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
His first trip on the Croisette, Sean Baker's The Florida Project was presented in the Directors' Fortnight section as a world premiere screening. In...
Video: Chloé Zhao’s The Rider – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Here is pre-screening presentations for The Rider - the Directors' Fortnight selected film. Filmmaker Chloé Zhao and cast were present for her sophomore film world...
Video: Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra – 2017 Cannes Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
After premiering his debut film at the Venice Film Festival, Édouard Waintrop's Directors' Fortnight would beat out Critic's Week for the right to show...
Video: 2017 Cannes Press Conference Intro: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless
Before we leap ahead into the fall, we're looking back at some of our favorite moments on the Croisette. One of the most anticipated...
Video: Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"I was lucky to put their own words into the film" - Matt Ruskin
It was an emotional world premiere screening at the Library especially...
Interview: Janicza Bravo & Brett Gelman (Lemon)
I've been a fan of her work since being exposed to her gleefully sardonic award-winning short film Gregory Go Boom at Sundance back in 2014....
Video: Geremy Jasper’s Patti Cake$ – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"Patti is my alter-ego". - Geremy Jasper
A project that was nurtured via the various Sundance labs, Patti Cake$ played like gangbusters during its world premiere...
Top 5 Most Anticipated Venice Film Festival Picks: Ming-liang, Roskam, Pallaoro, Ferrara & Paravel/Castaing-Taylor
Keeping up its reputation as an awards season launchpad while not compromising on its recent philosophy of eclectic and daring competition programming, the Venice...
Interview: David Lowery (A Ghost Story)
Just prior to immersing himself into editing dock mode with the feature he shot earlier this summer (Old Man and the Gun - with...
Interview: Ana Asensio (Most Beautiful Island)
Winner of the 2017 Grand Jury Award at the SXSW film festival, I got to sit down with writer-director, producer and lead actress Ana Asensio at...
Video: Michael Almereyda’s Marjorie Prime – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
“We got drunk in a bar last year and talked a lot about holograms.” – Michael Almereyda on his conversation with playwright Jordan Harrison.
Just...
Video: Janicza Bravo’s Lemon – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
“We wrote it together and we ....share a bed.” – Janicza Bravo
Creative partners in crime and the most fashionable "it" couple I ran into...
The Wound | Review
Go Tell It on the Mountain: Trengove Recruits Nakhane Toure for Defiant, Profound Debut
South African director John Trengove tackles the compelling subject of black...
