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Who Do I Belong To | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Return of the Soldier: Joobeur Explores Ghosts of War Matriarchs confronted by their radicalized children have slowly and painstaking formed a cinematic subgenre of their own in the past twenty years since the emergence of The Islamic State. Adding to...
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U.S. Trailer for Radu Jude’s Radical Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Coming This March
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
One of the most-acclaimed premieres of last year, so much so that it landed in our top 25 films of 2023 despite not even getting a U.S. release yet, Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of...
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The Momentum Fellowship: Raven Jackson, Sing J. Lee, Laura Moss & D. Smith Among 2024 Fellows
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Featured prominently among the coverage from our media outlet, eight filmmakers in Raven Jackson (All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt), Savanah Leaf (Earth Mama), Sing J. Lee (The Accidental Getaway Driver), Laura Moss (birth/rebirth), A.V. Rockwell (A Thousand and One),...
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MUBI’s March 2024 Lineup Features Mia Hansen-Løve, Elaine May, Claire Denis, Takeshi Kitano & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
MUBI has unveiled next’s streaming lineup, featuring notable new releases, including Felipe Gálvez’s The Settlers, Éric Gravel’s Full Time, C.J. Obasi’s Mami Wata, and Benjamin Mullinkosson’s The Last Year of Darkness. This March also brings Elaine May’s Ishtar, four features by Mia Hansen-Løve, and...
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Is an Essential Update of a Classic RPG
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
“Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth” is one of the more ambitious RPGs of the past few years. It mostly covers the second act of 1997’s “Final Fantasy 7,” where Cloud, Tifa, Barret, and Aerith chase Sephiroth, a former war hero turned...
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Golden Years Review: A Late-Age Relationship Dramedy on Cruise Control
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Golden Years, written by Petra Volpe and directed by Barbara Kulcsar, is an incredibly simple, comfortable piece of work. It concerns the plight of a long-married couple: Alice (Esther Gemsch) and Peter (Stefan Kurt). At Peter’s retirement party, their children...
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Interview: Jane Casey Modderno / Here for the Weekend – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
After crafting half a dozen shorts and adding to her repertoire with recent social platform/television writing on horror series like “The Birch” followed by “The Girl in the Woods,” with her Sundance Screenwriters Lab invited screenplay Jane Casey Modderno appears...
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THE LAST YEAR OF DARKNESS Trailer: Award-Winning Documentary Captures a Changing China
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
“I think real life is something you need to feel for yourself.” Documentary filmmaker Benjamin Mullinkosson explores China’s rave scene and youth culture in his newest film, The Last Year of Darkness. Set in Chengdu, the capitol city of the...
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Black Tea | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew The level of ineptitude apparent in every regard of Black Tea, Abderrahmane Sissako’s first narrative feature in a decade, is downright delirious. During its development, the project was known as The Perfumed...
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Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan Endure New York’s Darkest Nights in Trailer for Cannes Title Asphalt City
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
I entered Asphalt City at last year’s EnergaCAMERIMAGE festival with nothing but morbid curiosity. Having engendered some rank responses from its Cannes premiere and not secured any known U.S. distributor, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s film had the right kind of bad-object energy...
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