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God’s Own Country | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review
Gheorghe at the Farm: Lee’s Rustic Romantic Drama Hits the Requisite Notes
For those who have been yearning for a less angst-ridden and more contemporary...
Family Life | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review
Strangers When We Meet: Scherson and Jimenez Present Sibling Identity Exercise
Two members of Chile’s contemporary cinema scene join forces in co-directing Family Life, an...
Dayveon | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review
Thin Red Line: Abbasi Looks at Frame within the Portrait
While flesh lesions of the bullet wound type leave visible scares behind, within a certain...
Staying Vertical | Review
The Bipedal Advantage: Guiraudie Returns to Vaguely Pernicious Themes
After his 2013 breakout success with Stranger By the Lake, a nod to France’s Hitchcockian forefather...
2017 Sundance Film Festival: Eric Lavallee’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Here's the deal. Sundance is chock full of offerings and we could easily line-up the ten days of the fest with a solid four-five...
We Are the Flesh | Review
Live Flesh: Minter’s Perverts the Shadows in the Cave with Delirious Debut
Director Emiliano Rocha Minter (who was the still photographer on Gerardo Naranjo’s 2011...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: #1. Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Hampton Fancher, Michael Green
At this time last year, Denis Villeneuve was at the top of our most anticipated Studio...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: #2. Tomas Alfredson’s The Snowman
The Snowman
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Writer: Hossein Amini, Matthew Michael Carnhan
Swedish auteur Tomas Alfredson became immediately of note following his superb vampire film Let the Right...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: #3. Darren Aronofsky’s Mother
Mother
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Writer: Darren Aronofsky
We’re excited to see this for several reasons, primarily for Darren Aronofsky’s return to a smaller scale, psychological drama palette...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: #4. Nikolaj Arcel’s The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Writer: Nikolaj Arcel
It’s an undertaking years in the making, but 2017 will see the first cinematic adaptation of Stephen King’s...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: #5. Kathryn Bigelow’s Untitled Detroit Project
Untitled Detroit Project
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writer: Mark Boal
Kathryn Bigelow breaks a five year hiatus with her latest, the as yet unnamed Untitled Detroit Project, her...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: Picks #25 to #6
For our annual lineup of most anticipated studio films, our goal is to highlight auteurs (and other notable cinematic technicians) who have projects brewing...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #1. Lars Von Trier’s The House Jack Built
The House Jack Built
Director: Lars Von Trier
Writer: Lars Von Trier
Danish provocateur Lars Von Trier has been quiet for several years following his two part...
Son of Joseph | Review
Father Figure: Eugene Green’s Amusing Nature vs. Nurture Satire of the Holy Family
With his sixth feature film, Son of Joseph, New York born French-language...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #2. Claire Denis’ High Life
High Life
Director: Claire Denis
Writer: Claire Denis, Zadie Smith, Nick Laird, Jean-Pol Fargeau
Arguably the higher profile project from Claire Denis is her English language debut,...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #3. Claire Denis’ Black Glasses (Les Lunettes Noir)
Black Glasses (Les Lunettes Noir)
Director: Claire Denis
Writer: Claire Denis
Actress Juliette Binoche unveiled to the Hungarian press last October she was working on a new...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #4. Leos Carax’s Annette
Annette
Director: Leos Carax
Writer: Leos Carax
We’ve been following developments on this project for a while, as Leos Carax first mentioned an untitled musical project featuring...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #5. Christian Petzold’s Transit
Transit
Director: Christian Petzold
Writer: Christian Petzold
It’s already been four years since Christian Petzold unveiled his last masterwork, Phoenix, which (along with 2012’s Barbara) significantly elevated...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #6. Ava Duvernay’s A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time
Director: Ava DuVernay
Writer: Jennifer Lee
Years from now, director Ava DuVernay will continually be referenced for a dizzying amount of incredible firsts...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #7. Abel Ferrara’s Siberia
Siberia
Director: Abel Ferrara
Writer: Abel Ferrara
After a prolific return to form in 2014 with his Willem Dafoe starring Pasolini and one of the best films...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #8. Ulrike Ottinger’s The Beautiful Woman Sleeping
The Beautiful Woman Sleeping
Director: Ulrike Ottinger
Writer: Ulrike Ottinger, Elfriede Jelinek
At the beginning of 2016, we had listed The Beautiful Woman Sleeping, a new project...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #9. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Wild Pear Tree
Wild Pear Tree
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writer: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan happens to be one of the most lauded director working today....
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #10. Kelly Reichardt’s Undermajordomo Minor
Undermajordomo Minor
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Writer: Kelly Reichardt, Patrick DeWitt
With a little luck, we’ll see two adaptations of titles by novelist Patrick DeWitt, one being the...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
Paradise | 2017 Palm Springs Film Festival Review
The Mind is Its Own Place: Konchalovsky Returns with a Grueling, Haunting Holocaust Triptych
In all likelihood, there will never be an end to cinematic...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #1. Michael Haneke’s Happy End
Happy End
Director: Michael Haneke
Writer: Michael Haneke
At the end of 2015, after several mentions of a reunion from Isabelle Huppert, news broke of Michael Haneke’s...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #2. Carlos Reygadas’ Where Life is Born
Where Life is Born
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Writer: Carlos Reygadas
Open couples relationships and bull breeding ranches form the backdrop for the latest from Mexican auteur Carlos...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #3. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub is Mektoub
Mektoub is Mektoub
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Writer: Francois Begaudeau
French Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche stormed Cannes in 2013 with his controversial fifth film, Blue is the Warmest...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #4. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless
Loveless
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Writer: Oleg Nevin
One of the most notable contemporary Russian filmmakers, Andrey Zvyagintsev returns to the realm of the domestic drama for his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #5. Lucrecia Martel’s Zama
Zama
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writer: Lucrecia Martel
We’ve been waiting quite a while for Zama, and had high hopes this would appear at either Cannes or Venice...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #6. Bong Joon-ho’s Okja
Okja
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Writer: Bong Joon-ho, Jon Ronson
Fans of South Korean auteur Bong Joon-Ho’s 2013 English language debut Snowpiercer will most likely be excited to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #7. Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Director: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
Writer: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
Ukrainian director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky‘s debut, The Tribe, was one of the best titles out of Cannes 2014 (where it swept...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #8. Serge Bozon’s Madame Hyde
Madame Hyde
Director: Serge Bozon
Writer: Serge Bozon
Serge Bozon’s wonky sophomore effort Tip Top was a slapstick comedy skewering racial tension and police procedures in France...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #9. Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature
A Gentle Creature
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Writer: Sergei Loznitsa
Having completed three documentaries, plus several documentary shorts since his 2012 sophomore narrative feature In the Fog, Ukrainian...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #10. Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side of Hope
The Other Side of Hope (aka Refugee)
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Writer: Aki Kaurismaki
Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki scored some of the best notices of his impressive career...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #11. Benoit Jacquot’s Eva
Eva
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Writer: Benoit Jacquot, Gilles Taurand
Several months after premiering his Don DeLillo adaptation Never Ever out of competition in Venice last September, the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #12. Jean-Luc Godard’s Image Et Parole
Image Et Parole
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
Little is known about a new project from Nouvelle Vague icon Jean-Luc Godard, a project fleetingly announced in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #13. Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani’s Let the Bodies Sunbathe!
Let the Bodies Sunbathe!
Director: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Writer: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani
We’ve been tracking this latest project from Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani since...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #14. Ulrich Seidl’s Evil Games
Evil Games
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Writer: Ulrich Seidl
Since premiering his masterpiece Paradise trilogy across 2012 and 2013, the Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl has returned to heavy...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #15. Erick Zonca’s Black River
Black River
Director: Erick Zonca
Writer: Erick Zonca, Lou de Fanget Signolet
French director Erick Zonca scored his most critically acclaimed hit with his 1998 debut The...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #16. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos.
Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Following the success of 2015’s The Lobster, Greek Weird Wave forefather Yorgos Lanthimos...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #17. Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
The Nightingale
Director: Jennifer Kent
Writer: Jennifer Kent
Before her notable 2014 debut The Babadook (which premiered to ecstatic review out of Sundance) had reached theatrical release,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #18. Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story
Based on a True Story
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Olivier Assayas, Roman Polanski
After some more court related issues seemingly delayed his long gestating project The Dreyfus...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #19. Ruben Ostlund’s The Square
The Square
Director: Ruben Ostlund
Writer: Ruben Ostlund
While plans are underway for an English language remake of Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s internationally lauded Force Majeure (2014),...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #20. Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma
Roma
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Writer: Alfonso Cuaron
After his Oscar winning 2013 big budget Gravity, news of Mexican auteur Alfonso Cuaron’s next project has been highly anticipated....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #21. Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau (Nighthawk)
Bacurau (Nighthawk)
Director: Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles
Writer: Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles
Brazilian film critic turned director Kleber Mendonca Filho has become a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #22. Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete
Lean on Pete
Director: Andrew Haigh
Writer: Andrew Haigh
British filmmaker Andrew Haigh may possibly unveil two new projects this year, the first being Lean on Pete,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #23. Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria
Suspiria
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: David Kajganich
Considering his dry spell between 2009's I Am Love and 2015's A Bigger Splash, it's hard to believe we're going...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #24. Bruno Dumont’s Jeannette
Jeannette
Director: Bruno Dumont
Writer: Bruno Dumont
French director Bruno Dumont has weaned himself off naturalism and will now focus on comedy, where he claims one can...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #25. Hong Sang-soo’s Claire’s Camera
Claire's Camera
Director: Hong Sangsoo
Writer: Hong Sangsoo
Usually there's little news about a new Hong Sangsoo title until it shows up in a film festival program....
