Tag: Andrey Zvyagintsev
ARTE France Cinéma Backs Mikhaël Hers, Blerta Basholli, Elise Girard & Andrey Zvyagintsev (Minotaure)
ARTE France Cinéma is putting coin towards four new future film projects set up for production later this year. At the top of the...
Billionaire Boys Club: Andrey Zvyagintsev Tackles Power & Corruption with “Jupiter”
He had a couple of projects in the works (English language project What Happens and a “psychological mood” of Russia’s society) and then had...
The Conversation: Producer Pascal Caucheteux
Producer Pascal Caucheteux has long been a fixture of French cinema (though in his early days he was an executive producer of Gregg Araki’s...
Zvyagintsev gets Banished to a Quiet Place in the Country with “The Banishment” | Blu-ray
More exciting than revisiting Zvyagintsev’s 2003 debut is the opportunity to see his neglected 2007 follow-up The Banishment, which is an adaptation of William...
First the Fatherland in Zvyagintsev’s “The Return” (2003) | Blu-ray Review
Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev famously nabbed the Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival for his auspicious directorial debut The Return, an allegorical...
2018 Cannes Jury Duty: DuVernay, Villeneuve, Zvyagintsev & Kristen Stewart to Hand out Palme d’Or
Jury President Cate Blanchett will be surrounded by fellow thesps Chang Chen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, noteworthy filmmakers Ava DuVernay, Robert Guédiguian, Denis Villeneuve,...
Top 50 Future TV Binge List: Cannes Vets Coen Bros., Refn & Haneke Top Inaugural Chart
With TV being the new orange, it's becoming increasing difficult to keep tabs on what our filmmaker favorite are up to and while we...
Interview: Andrey Zvyagintsev – Loveless
A master of complex family dramas, with Andrey Zvyagintsev's latest we are witness to abandonment and neglect via an intense investigation of the family torn apart...
2018 Indie Spirit Noms: Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” Leads Pack with 6, Benny Safdie Lands 3
It's the head-scratching nominations process where Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is good enough for the Best Feature category and picks up four nominations in...
Balagov’s “Closeness”, Olsson’s “That Summer” & Quinn’s “Eating Animals” Land in Telluride
While questions still surround when (and where) Abdellatif Kechiche's Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno and Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here will have...
Video: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize
Sight unseen, it was a front runner for the Palme d'Or and leading up to the final day was being name dropped as a...
Video: 2017 Cannes Press Conference Intro: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless
Before we leap ahead into the fall, we're looking back at some of our favorite moments on the Croisette. One of the most anticipated...
2017 Cannes Film Festival: How the “Toni Erdmann” Snub Help Land “The Square” the Palme d’Or
When surveilling the postscript and how the Pedro led jury handed out the awards, the consensus is: job well done. However, while we were...
The Conversation: What Cannes Do – Top 10 Favorites of the 2017 Edition
In one of the most cavalier Cannes juries of recent years, the Pedro Almodovar led voting body closed out the 2017 edition of the...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Andrey Zvyagintsev Makes No Mistakes with Loveless
Technically the first film to show as it was offered early yesterday night, this is the Russian filmmaker's fourth trip to the Croisette out of his...
Loveless | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Some Great Reward: Zvyagintsev Rips into Missing Muscovites
Bitter familial separation and newly fermented coupling are equal bed partners in what staunchly begins as...
The Conversation: Run the Comps – Top 5 Most Anticipated Main Comp Entries
It’s back to business as usual for the main competition contenders at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, with programmer Thierry Fremaux re-inviting a number...
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: #4. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless
Loveless
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Writer: Oleg Nevin
One of the most notable contemporary Russian filmmakers, Andrey Zvyagintsev returns to the realm of the domestic drama for his...
The Conversation: A Cannes Opener… 2017 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
And as we await the unveiling of the Venice Film’s Festival’s 2016 program, we look ahead to what may be in store for the...
The D Word: Andrey Zvyagintsev To Present Bitter Pill in “Loveless”
Following in his four year process between film releases, after The Return (2003), The Banishment (2007), Elena (2011) and Leviathan (2014), Andrey Zvyagintsev is...
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...
Best of 2014: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 (Picks 10-1)
Nicholas Bell's Top 20 films of 2014...
#20. Madeleine Olnek's The Foxy Merkins
#19. Damien Chazelle's Whiplash
#18. Gillian Robespierre's Obvious Child
#17. Jennifer Kent's The Babadook
#16. Adam...
Leviathan | Review
On the Waterfront: Zvyagintsev’s Sprawling Opus of a Modern, Devouring Regime
Back with his fourth feature, Leviathan, Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev succeeds in cinematic sublimity...
European Film Awards: Vogt, Östlund, Pawlikowski, Zvyagintsev , Glazer & Ceylan Among 50 Contenders
This year’s European Film Awards are officially out of the gates with a not so lean 50 film submissions to select from. The 27th...
2014 TIFF: Masters Section Has Your Usual Cannes & Venice Items and…Winterbottom & Bent Hamer World Preems
The Masters section is always a Croisette and Lido heavy selection and this year is no different. From Cannes we have Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to...
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Assayas Doubles Down with “Sils Maria” & Zvyagintsev Drinks to Sweet Tragic Notes with “Leviathan”
Cannes - May 23rd Sunny Day 9
And just like that, the Cannes Film Festival is coming to an end. Tomorrow is when the awards...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #4. Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan
Leviathan
Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Writers: Andrei Zvyagintsev and Oleg Nevin
Producer(s): NON-STOP PRODUCTION
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Elena Lyadova, Alexei Serebryakov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Roman Madyanov
With a trio of deliriously...
Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Films of 2012: Strong Year for U.S. Indie – DuVernay, Batmanglij & Zobel Among Picks 10-6
10. Elena – Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev (Russia)
Of my theatrical releases, two of these made waves in 2011 on the festival circuit, such as Russian...
2012 LAFF: The Banishment | Review
Retrieved from Exile: Zvyagintsev’s Dismissed Sophomore Effort a Neglected Masterpiece
Newly minted Russian auteur Andrei Zvyagintsev’s second feature, 2007’s maligned The Banishment, has been resurrected...
Elena | Review
A Touch of Class: Zvyagintsev’s latest slow burn reaches a masterful boil.
Over the past decade, one of the most celebrated new filmmakers to come...
Top 3 Critic’s Picks In Theaters this May: Zvyagintsev’s Elena, Trier’s Oslo, August 31st and Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom
U.S. indie, foreign and documentary films typically take a back seat in the month of May, as major studios offer a weekly flurry of...
Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 10: 21 Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Elena
Saving the best for last, it was nice to watch a world premiere for a film that had already won an award (the jury,...
