Tag: Wim Wenders
Perfect Days | Review
Road to Nowhere: Wenders Welcomes the Pleasures of a Simple Life in Quiet Drama
In his most successfully realized narrative feature in years, Wim Wenders...
2023 TIFF: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ilker Çatak, Monia Chokri & Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir Selected
Last year the Contemporary World Cinema had plenty of Cannes Film Festival gems in Aftersun, Falcon Lake, R.M.N. and The Worst Ones. This year's...
2023 NYFF: Haigh, Hamaguchi, Lanthimos, Triet, Glazer and Annie Baker in Main Slate
We were scratching our heads on where films such as Andrew Haigh's (retitled) All of Us Strangers and the under-the-radar A24 film by Annie...
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
A notable year for the New German Cinema filmmaker with two (or three if you include Chambre 999) films in Cannes with docu item...
You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or
Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny Depp in the French language no less) but...
Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme d'Or and this year he gets to be...
2023 Cannes: Steve McQueen, Takeshi Kitano & Victor Erice Featured in the Out of Comp Sections
Let it be known that Thierry Frémaux wanted Martin Scorsese in competition but instead, Killers of the Flower Moon will have been a firm...
2023 Cannes: Glazer, Ceylan, Rohrwacher, Haynes & Ramata-Toulaye Sy Competing for the Palme d’Or
A surprise Wim Wenders project (Perfect Days), a rare directorial debut Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Banel et Adama) and a Wang Bing film (Jeunesse) are part...
Video Interview: Ayten Amin – Souad
Egypt's official submission for the 'Best International Feature' category at the 94th Academy Awards is Ayten Amin's Souad, which received the official Cannes 2020...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michał Chmielewski’s Roving Woman
An unknown, filmmaker with much experience breaks into out predictions list because of the curious bio subject, the players and a producer in Marta...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lila Aviles’ 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 this...
Interview: Wim Wenders – Submergence
Globe-trotting, geopolitics and civil war are the wedges that place romantic connections in flux. No stranger to the human condition or working in a...
What’s Up Doc? Hao Wu, Khalik Allah & Jenny Murray Top March Must See Doc List
The year has already picked up significantly since Sundance, as eyes turn to this past weekend's True/False, SXSW, and Tribeca Film Festivals. Taking the...
TIFF 2017: Special Presentations World Preem Status for Gillespie, Gomez-Rejon, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun & Sebastián Lelio
If Alexander Payne, Valerie Faris/Jonathan Dayton, Scott Cooper, Darren Aronofsky, Martin McDonagh, Stephen Frears, Greta Gerwig and George Clooney appear jetlagged its because they'll...
The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex
As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...
Criterion Collection: Buena Vista Social Club | Blu-ray Review
The name Buena Vista Social Club is a recycled moniker, one which has acquired several layers of cultural resonance since it became absorbed into...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell (2017 Edition)
It’s hard to believe, but we’re about five weeks away from the unveiling of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival lineup. After several months of...
Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: Picks 200 to 101
As we unveil our first tier of two hundred notable foreign film projects to be potentially unveiled in 2017, the coming year promises to...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Travis Gutiérrez Senger’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...
Criterion Collection: Wim Wenders’ The Road Trilogy | Blu-ray Review
For the first time ever, Wim Wenders’ famed Road Trilogy, a major cornerstone of the New German Wave, has at last been made available...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction
As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #82. Wim Wenders’ The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
Director: Wim Wenders
Writers: Peter Handke, Wim Wenders
Although we weren't very enthusiastic about Wenders' 2015 3D Canadian set narrative Everything Will...
Wenders Retrospective: Until the End of the World | Review
Pray for the Wounded Planet: Wenders’ Belabored Road Trip to the Apocalypse
The troubled production and following critical ambivalence towards Wim Wenders’ 1991 film Until...
2015 TIFF: Venice Preems from Masters Skolimowski, Bellocchio & Sokurov Among 13
As usual, the Masters programme is cholk-full of carryover items from world renowned auteurs who've already premiered last February (Berlin), this past May (Cannes)...
The Conversation: 2015’s Top 10 Theatrical Releases So Far…
With the first half of 2015 officially coming to a close, it’s time for our mid-year list of best theatrical releases. As seems to...
A Cannes Opener: 2016 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
A furious slew of titles in the works would seem to prophesize a robust main competition slate for Cannes 2016. Though our initial list...
The End of Violence | Blu-ray Review
Arriving for the first time on Blu-ray courtesy of Olive Films is Wim Wenders’ 1997 existentialist take on the definition of violence and its...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lance Edmands’ Top Eight Films….
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rob Moss & Peter Galison’s Containment
An integral part the fabric that makes up the documentary community, docu-helmer Rob Moss is two for two with documentaries preeming in Park City....
67th Cannes Film Festival: Ostlund, Alonso, Argento, Ferran, Hausner & Ryan Gosling Make the Cut
Best Director winner Mathieu Amalric moves down from the Main Comp, Ryan Gosling changes the title of his film, Ned Benson trims an hour...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #56. Wim Wenders’ Everything Will be Fine
Everything Will Be Fine
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: Bjorn Olaff Johanessenn
Producers: Gian-Piero Ringel, Erwin M. Schmidt
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Rachel McAdams, James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marie-Josée...
Tracking Shot: Craig Zobel, Justin Kurzel & Nanni Moretti Shooting in January
We wake from our December holiday production break slumber for a production month of January that has some notable American indie productions, foreign films...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgad’s Shade & Light
#98. Shade & Light
Gist: Co-directed with Juliano Salgado (the subject's son), Shade & Light focuses on photographer and explorer Sebastião Salgado’s latest work an...
Criterion Collection: Pina | Blu-ray Review
Wim Wenders' long imagined a Pina Bausch documentary with Bausch herself, a dear friend of the director, personally collaborating on the project. It was...
From Faith Akin to Craig Zobel: Our Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2014
Before we unleash the beast that is our annual Top 100 Most Anticipated Films List for 2013, we thought we'd give our readers an...
