Tag: Jessie Buckley
Fingernails | Review
Science Can’t Contain True Love In Nikou’s Charming & Romantic English Language Debut
Big Data and artificial intelligence are already reshaping how we think about...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #39. Christos Nikou’s Fingernails
Fingernails
Apples filmmaker Christos Nikou moves into some hearty, heady and hefty terrain with his hyped-up sophomore feature (plus debut English language debut) which is...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #170. Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters
Wicked Little Letters
For her third feature film, Thea Sharrock lassoed powerhouses in Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley along with Anjana Vasan, Timothy Spall, Joanna...
Women Talking | Review
Polley's Fierce and Tender Adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel is a Stirring Exploration of Faith, Love & Survival
There may not be a word in...
Men | Review
Take Back the Fright: Garland Returns with Cryptic Fable on Trenchant Misogyny
The tagline for George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women, which notably featured...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #17. Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
Women Talking
Produced by Hear/Say Productions' Frances McDormand, Plan B Entertainment's Dede Gardner, Brad Pitt and Jeremy Kleiner.
Directed by Sarah Polley
Written by Sarah Polley
Starring: Frances...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #60. Alex Garland’s Men
Men
During these pandemic times low budget productions are perhaps the safer bet --- and it was during this same upheaval where Alex Garland started...
The Lost Daughter | Review
Parallel Mothers: Gyllenhaal Paints a Dark Portrait in Sinister Ferrante Adaptation
“Attention is the purest form of hospitality,” is a quote from Simone Weil utilized...
2021 Gotham Awards Noms: Test Pattern Lands Trio; Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter” to Duke it Out with Rebecca Hall’s “Passing”
An indie film that had it's world premiere at the Blackstar Film Festival (coined as the Black Sundance) in 2019 and was released by...
Misbehavior | Review
Through Beauty, Equality: Lowthorpe Examines Intersections Through Provocative Period Nexus
Sporting material speckled with enough players and perspectives to justify a much longer format, Philippa...
I’m Thinking of Ending Things | Review
In Search of Lost Time Regained: Kaufman Mutates Memory and Meaning
“The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new lands but seeing...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #105. Ironbark – Dominic Cooke
Ironbark
For his sophomore film, the UK’s Dominic Cooke tackles the Cold War in Ironbark, produced by Adam Ackland, Rory Aitken, Ben Browning, and Ben...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #149. Misbehavior – Philippa Lowthorpe
Misbehavior
Celebrated British television director Philippa Lowthorpe (the first woman to win a BAFTA TV Award for Directing for 2012’s “Call the Midwife,” an award...
Interview: Michael Pearce & Jessie Buckley – Beast
Unveiled at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Platform section with additional premieres at Sundance and Rotterdam earlier this year, Michael Pearce's directorial...
