Tag: Xavier Beauvois

Making Of | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

The Working Class Goes to the Back Lot: Kahn Prosaically Processes a Director’s Strife What should cinema be and who should it be made for?...

Albatros (Drift Away) | 2021 Berlin International Film Festival Review

Bye Bye Birdie: Beauvois Bears Burdens in Old-Fashioned Melodrama The albatross, a large white seabird with a significant wingspan, has been a symbol of a...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #51. Xavier Beauvois’ Albatros

Albatros Director Xavier Beauvois will be ready with his eighth feature, Albatros (formerly titled Un petit-fils, or A Grandson) in 2021. Produced by Sylvie Pialat...

IndieSponge Episode: 14 – 2020 Venice Film Festival Predictions

On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, I invited Tommaso Tocci to discuss the possible titles that might make it into the 2020 edition of...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #50. Un petit-fils – Xavier Beauvois

Un petit-fils Director Xavier Beauvois will be ready with his eighth feature, Un petit-fils (A Grandson) in 2020. Sylvie Pialat (we featured the producer as...

Criterion Collection: Let the Sunshine In | Blu-ray Review

Claire Denis had one of her most prominent showings in over a decade with her 2017 title Let the Sunshine In, a melancholy rom...

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...

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...

Let the Sunshine In | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review

A Tall Dark Stranger: Denis and Binoche are Remarkable Bedfellows in Light Comedy Claire Denis comes as close as she ever will to romantic comedy...

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...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #12. Guillaume Nicloux’s Dans les bois

The Wandering Director: Guillaume Nicloux Writer: Guillaume Nicloux Shortly after premiering his latest film Valley of Love at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Guillaume Nicloux very quietly...

71st Venice Film Fest: Oppenheimer, Akin, Bahrani, Andersson & Ferrara Compete for Golden Lion

Whiles the likes of Terrence Malick, Todd Haynes, Alexander Sokurov, Giorgos Lanthimos and J.C. Chandor no where to be found in the fall fest season...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #62. Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi’s Un chateau en Italie

Un chateau en Italie Director: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi Writer(s): Bruni-Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Agnès de Sacy Producer(s): SBS Productions' Saïd Ben Saïd U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Louis Garrel, Valeria Bruni...

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