Tag: Abdellatif Kechiche
2024 Venice Film Festival Predictions: Todd Phillips, Fabrice Du Welz & Pablo Larraín
Joker: Folie a Deux
Dir. Todd Phillips
Prod: Todd Phillips, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Joseph Garner
It would be kind of neat if the head jury person of...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Audrey Diwan, Abdellatif Kechiche & Jessica Palud Among 11th Hour Film Options?
The films from the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight sections are now on firm grounds and as we anticipate the unveiling of the Cannes...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #55. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
We had Canto Tre at the #63 spot and we are ranking part II (or III depending if you include...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #63. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub My Love: Canto Tre
Mektoub My Love: Canto Tre
The pandemic and the servings of humble pie eaten after his Cannes 2019 premiere debacle means that while he might...
Three-alarm Fire: Kechiche Working on Canto Due, Canto Tre & New Project with Olivier Loustau
Tunisian-French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche didn't need the pandemic as an excuse to hunker down. It is well known that his ego and reputation took...
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: #59. Mektoub, My Love: Canto Tre – Abdellatif Kechiche
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Tre
The conflict continues surrounding the impending theatrical release of Abdellatif Kechiche’s 2019 Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo (read review), which premiered in...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 12 – Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo
Who knew that after claiming the top prize in 2013 with Blue is the Warmest Color that Abdellatif Kechiche would almost attain some sort...
Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Dancing…Yeah: Kechiche Spins Like a Record Round in Vacuous Sequel
The French-Tunisian director who won the 2013 Palme d’Or for Blue is the Warmest Color...
Live from Cannes: 2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
While the competition jury have some major clout in the likes of Iñárritu, Lanthimos, Pawlikowski, Reichardt, Campillo, Alice Rohrwacher, Elle Fanning, Maimouna N’Diaye, and...
2019 Cannes: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo & Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Added To Comp!
Cannes 2019 will be having it's own Blue Is the Warmest Color reunion or ... face-off as Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and now Abdellatif Kechiche will...
The Conversation: Last But Not Least for Cannes 2019
With the main competition and the sidebar programs all unveiled, we await news of one or potentially two last-minute titles added to the competition,...
The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #22. Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due – Abdellatif Kechiche
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
We’re still waiting on the appearance of Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due, the follow-up to his 2017 first...
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 Conversation – Cannes Predictions II: La France
Perhaps more contentious than any other competition titles are the French language items jockeying for coveted slots which are announced last. Both Claire Denis...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #14. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Pray for Jack
Pray for Jack
Controversy and contention have followed French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche ever since winning the Palme d’Or in 2013 for Blue is the Warmest...
2017 Venice Film Festival: Kechiche, Mandico & Ming-liang in Tommaso Tocci’s Top Five
It’s been a good year on the Lido, with a balanced and compact Competition slate that avoided the rollercoaster feeling of recent years and...
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno | 2017 Venice Film Festival Review
A Summer of Love, One Dance at a Time: Kechiche’s Sprawling, Circular Poem Follows in the Footsteps of Blue
It’s only the first part for now...
Venice 2017: Weiwei, Haigh, Maoz, Doueiri & Kechiche Compete for Golden Lion
Despite the number of spoilers in TIFF announcements less than 48 hours back, the are some top filmmaker names and highly anticipated film items...
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...
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #3. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub is Mektoub
Mektoub is Mektoub
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Writer: Francois Begaudeau
French Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche stormed Cannes in 2013 with his controversial fifth film, Blue is the Warmest...
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...
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...
Cinema Italiano: 2015 Venice Film Festival Predictions
Now that we’ve come out of the Cannes ether, we can examine several of the names glaringly absent from the lineup that may potentially...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell… 2015 Cannes Film Fest Predictions
With the world’s most prestigious film festival just around the corner, cineastes have been lasciviously salivating about what’s going to show up at Cannes,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #7. Abdellatif Kechiche’s La blessure
La blessure
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche // Writer: Abdellatif Kechiche, Francois Begaudeau
Few auteurs have reached the heights of emotional realism in narrative cinema as has Tunisian...
Most Anticipated Films for 2015: An Overview
Last month, we unveiled our all-encompassing, most anticipated films for the current year in film. Now we peer into a future that is a...
Criterion Collection: Blue is the Warmest Color | Blu-ray Review
Not quite a year after its memorable premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it would snatch the Palme d’Or from the Steven...
Best of 2013: Jordan M. Smith’s Top 20 Films (Picks 15 to 11)
Continued from picks 20 to 16....
20. Fruitvale Station – Ryan Coogler
19. Cutie and the Boxer – Zachary Heinzerling
18. Valentine Road – Marta Cunningham
17. Dirty...
Best of 2013: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Films (Picks 5 to 1)
Continued from yesterday's 10-6 countdown, here are my picks 5 thru 1:
10. Fruitvale Station – Ryan Coogler
9. Her – Spike Jonze
8. Gravity – Alfonso...
Blue is the Warmest Color Adds Louis Delluc Prize to Trophy Collection
Regardless that it is predetermined not to win Oscar's Best Foreign gold, Abdellatif Kechiche's latest (no matter what title it goes by) is the...
Kechiche & Guiraudie Among 2013 Louis-Delluc Prize Finalists
It's among France's prestigious award films with a legacy dating back to 1937 (see entire wiki-list of winners) and it's one that I've made...
Top 3 Critic’s Picks In Theaters this October: Blue Is the Warmest Color, A Touch of Sin & Gravity
This October we've got a handful of gems from Sundance in indie dramatic items such as Stacie Passon's Concussion, Matthew Porterfield's I Used to...
Abdellatif Kechiche’s Gets Behind the Green Door with Marilyn “The Ivory Girl” Chambers
Following in the wave of auteur French filmmakers (Bonello, Dumont) gravitating towards the nontraditional biopic projects, it appears that Abdellatif Kechiche was at the...
TIFF’s Phat 2013 Line-up Includes Latest From: Chomet, Egoyan, Holofcener, Glazer, Gordon Green & Reichardt
With dramatic fare such as August: Osage County, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Dallas Buyers Club, 2013's Toronto Int. Film Festival once again...
2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color
Ang Lee won the Golden Lion at 2007's Venice Film Festival for Lust, Caution, beating out Abdellatif Kechiche's far more critically appreciated The Secret...
Escalante, Bruni-Tedeschi, Warmerdam & New Zhangke Crack 2013 Cannes Main Comp Line-Up
The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled and noticeable absentees in the list of 19 Main Comp films and...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color
#15. Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Color
Gist: This centers on Jocelyne (Adele Exarchopoulos), who is 15 years old and is certain of two...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #19. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is a Hot Color
Le bleu est une couleur chaude (Blue Is a Hot Color)
Director/Writer/: Abdellatif Kechiche
Producer(s): Kechiche's Quat’sous Films & Wild Bunch
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Adèle Exarchopoulos,...
