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Anora | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Fools Russia In: Baker’s Bangin’ Screwball Comedy At this point in his career, filmmaker Sean Baker seems to have covered all the major facets of sex work experiences. Surprisingly, and quite delightfully, he’s managed to use his favorite motifs to...
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FEU-FOLLET: First Images From New French Supernatural Horror Short Film
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Feu-Follet. In French folklore it is a soul send back from the dead to do God's penance but will often attack people for vengeance. Deemed mostly harmless, the feu-follet sometimes suck the blood of children. Cheery stuff.    There are...
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Marcello Mio | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
In the Name of the Father: Honore Pays Homage via Identity Crisis “I only exist when I am working on a film,” Marcello Mastroianni once said, who is, of course, resurrected through the prism of his daughter Chiara Mastorianni in...
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Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Making it three features in a row that’ll have premiered on the Croisette, Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi saw his sophomore feature Border play like gangbusters in the Un Certain Regard section (winning the top prize via the Benicio Del Toro-led...
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Book Review: The Sweetest Taboo: An Unapologetic Guide to Child Kills in Film
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
This one’s for all the weirdos out there, and I say that with love. There’s a brand-new book out that explores the theme of wee ones getting offed in cinema… and it’s hilarious. At least it is if this subject...
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Cannes 2024 Video #4: Jason Gorber on Canada’s Films
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development. In this video, Canadian correspondent Jason Gorber briefly mentions the Canadian films highlighting the festival this year before discussing "Universal Language" and "Black Dog"...
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Being Maria | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Forever Noor: Palud’s Schneider Moves From Being a Passenger to Saying Non Since the advent of cinema, it’s been standard operating procedure for the film industry to chew up and then discard actress when they become difficult, old or inconvenient....
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Cannes 2024: Anora, Limonov, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The films of Sean Baker ("The Florida Project," "Red Rocket") invariably focus on people who live on the margins. If there's a difference in "Anora," his latest feature, it's that the protagonist is almost immediately put on a fast track...
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Cannes Review: The Shrouds Is a Low-Key Chiller from David Cronenberg
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
David Cronenberg’s films have often imagined a future where technology would find a way into our collective id. 55 years into the director’s incomparable career, might that future have finally caught up with him? In Cronenberg’s new film––the slick, scrambled...
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Cannes Review: The Apprentice Is a Deep-Dive Diss of Donald Trump and the American Soul
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
For a biopic about Donald Trump, The Apprentice is surprisingly concerned with other things. The film has exactly what you might expect and somehow a curiosity around every corner, a familiar historical intrigue firmly planted in a tonal shock. The...
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