Tag: Tudor Cristian Jurgiu

2026 Berlinale: Nicolás Pereda, Joko Anwar, Ralitza Petrova, Rithy Panh & James Benning in Forum

Rithy Panh looks at Cambodia’s lucrative trade in CO2 certificates and losing the forest in docu Nous sommes les fruits de la forêt, Joko...

2024 Eurimages: Visar Morina, Hlynur Pálmason, Nadav Lapid, Valentyn Vasyanovych & Dardennes Receive Support

The results of the second Eurimages Project Evaluation Session for 2024 have just been announced and we are finding some major projects in the...

Introducing Our Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: A Precursor (Picks 300 to 151)

As we wave au revoir to a year in cinema that gave us the Berlinale Golden Bear winner Synonyms, the Cannes Palme d'Or winner...

The Conversation: Bringing Up Berlin – Predictions for the 2020 Berlinale

Berlin becomes a septuagenarian in 2020. The significant European springboard will also receive a new facelift in the early dawn of the new decade,...

The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!

The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...

The Conversation: Bring Forth Berlin (Possible Contenders for the Competition)

As has been the Berlinale’s custom of years past, several early competition titles have been confirmed along with the 2019 opener, Lone Scherfig’s The...

The Japanese Dog | Review

Echoes of Autumn: Jurgiu’s Understated Debut Tender, Unmemorable Inevitably, it’s difficult to consider the merits of Romanian director Tudor Cristian Jurgiu’s directorial debut The Japanese...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.