Tag: Carlos Reygadas
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Cannes Premiere
After putting out our predictions for the Critics' Week, Directors' Fortnight and Un Certain Regard programmes we now look at the Cannes Premiere section....
Social Mobility: Reygadas’ “Wake of Umbra” Aiming for 2025
After shooting in countries such as Norway and his native Mexico, we can confirm that the Poland segment is now complete for Carlos Reygadas'...
Robe of Gems | Review
Trojan Women: Lopez Crafts Collage of Complicity in Stellar Debut
For her directorial debut Robe of Gems (Manto de gemas), Natalia López Gallardo resists expectations...
Interview: Natalia López Gallardo – Robe of Gems (Manto de Gemas)
Largely known as a film editor for having worked with partner Carlos Reygadas on 2007 masterwork Silent Light and with further collaborations with the...
Now in Production: Carlos Reygadas Currently Filming “Estela de sombra”
Carlos Reygadas is currently in production on his sixth feature film, Estela de sombra. We suspect that filming in taking place in his native...
New Carlos Reygadas Cinema in 2023? Mexican Filmmaker Heading to Poland with “Wake of Umbra”
2022 has already been a fruitful year for Carlos Reygadas. Working in a producer capacity for some time now, he saw the fruit of...
Dea Kulumbegashvili – Beginning [Video Interview]
One of the brighter notes in world cinema circa year one of the pandemic, Dea Kulumbegashvili's directorial debut (an official entry for Georgia for...
Beginning | Review
Carpet Burn: Kulumbegashvili Unnerves with Exacting Debut of Violence and Veneration
For decades, the international presence of Georgian cinema was thanks (mostly) to the output...
In Between Dying | 2020 Venice Film Festival Review
In the Mood for Love: Baydarov Searches for a Real Love in Enigmatic Road Trip
All you need is love, if you can find it,...
Interview: Carlos Reygadas – Our Time
Casting his wife, children and himself in his fifth feature film, Carlos Reygadas explores the tricky negotiations of being in an open relationship and...
Our Time | Review
Love Like Poison: Reygadas Returns with Frustrating but Forthright Marital Drama
Interminable? Yes. Navel-gazing? Perhaps. But furious in its candor? Absolutely. Carlos Reygadas returns for...
Criterion Collection: Japón (2002) | Blu-ray Review
Nearly two decades after the acclaim it received in Un Certain Regard at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Carlos Reygadas’ inexplicable debut Japón remains...
The Conversation: Vox Lux Leads Best of TIFF 2018
As the Toronto International Film Festival continues to downsize its programming and say adieu to CEO and Director Piers Handling for its 2018 edition,...
2018 Venice Film Festival: Jennifer Kent, Alverson, Corbet, Schnabel & Coen Bros. in Comp
Surprise, surprise. At the end of the day, Ethan and Joel Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a feature film (not a series)...
The Conversation: Producer Jean Labadie
Jean Labadie is a name which perhaps remains a tad obscured despite his formidable influence on the French film industry. In 1986, Labadie founded...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions I: North & South America
As we near the announcement of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival’s program next month (April 12th for Cannes, 16th for Critics' Week and possibly...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #7. Carlos Reygadas’ Where Life is Born
Where Life is Born
Carlos Reygadas remains at the forefront of a new wave of Mexican auteurs who examine contemporary social ills while blending elements...
The Conversation: Venice 2017 – Those Who Were Not Named
With Locarno and Venice’s recently announced competition line-ups, the last stand as far as 2017 festival circuit competition now sits with the soon to...
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #2. Carlos Reygadas’ Where Life is Born
Where Life is Born
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Writer: Carlos Reygadas
Open couples relationships and bull breeding ranches form the backdrop for the latest from Mexican auteur Carlos...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #2. Carlos Reygadas’ Where Life Begins
Where Life Begins
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Writer: Carlos Reygadas
We’re thrilled to find Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas at last embarking on his fifth feature, Where Life Begins,...
Neon Bull: Carlos Reygadas to Mount “Donde nace la vida”
We can add one more iron to the Cannes fire...except this one will likely target the 2017 edition. Obviously nothing is official until the April announcement, but Jaime...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lance Edmands’ Top Eight Films….
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
Post Tenebras Lux | Blu-ray Review
Reportedly, Post Tenebras Lux was met with a hail of boos by critics and audience members alike upon its premiere at the 2012 Cannes...
Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Unreleased Films of 2012: Picks 5 to 1 include Challenging Films from Seidl, Franco & Reygadas
#5. Beyond the Hills – Dir. Cristian Mungiu (Romania)
Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu returns with this doozy of a film concerning two friends who grew...
Jordan M. Smith’s Top Ten Unreleased Films of 2012: Docs Leviathan and The Act Of Killing Among Picks 10 to 6
10. Leviathan
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel's follow-up to their fascinating depiction of traveling sheep herders in Sweetgrass, is this year's quintessential art doc. With...
Strand Moves Reygadas Into the Light; Cannes Preemed ‘Post Tenebras Lux’ Finally Finds Distribution
Along with fellow countryman's Michel Franco's After Lucia, Post Tenebras Lux was until now, the criminally orphaned/unsold item from 2012's Cannes Film Festival. It...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 9: Five Quotes from the Post Tenebras Lux Press Conference
1. “It’s a way of looking at life --- and life is somewhat transformed in film.” - Carlos Reygadas
Filmmaker discusses the difference in terms...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux
In his short, and fruitful history with the Cannes Film Festival, Carlos Reygadas has managed with just three films manage to tease, antagonize and...
Images in Pictures: First Batch from Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux
Of all the announcements made today, Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux is, going in, the film event of this year's Cannes Film Festival. Feast...
