Tag: Pablo Larrain
Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Brady Corbet, Jesse Eisenberg… What are the Oscar Directors Class of ’25 Working on Next?
With only the American Cinema Editors Awards left on the bingo card (March 14th), the long awards season campaigning towards Oscars in finally over...
Maria | Review
Songs from the Specious Floor: Larrain Imagines the Last Days of a Diva
A penny for the thoughts of Maria Callas regarding Pablo Larraín’s glossy...
2024 Venice: Corbet, Guadagnino, Haugerud, Kulumbegashvili, Salles, Tsangari & Yeo Siew Hua In Golden Lion Competition
21 films were selected for the 2024 Venice Film Festival competition and in the pack we find some surprises and several shoe-ins for the...
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...
Feminist May: Sebastián Lelio Rides “The Wave” with #MeToo Musical
Some cool international film news dropping before Cannes unveils their line-up, Variety gets the exclusive scoop on a new Sebastián Lelio project flying off...
Venice Film Festival 2023: All of IONCINEMA.com’s Movie Reviews
We came, we saw, we conquered. Our Nicholas Bell was in review overdrive assessing the entire competition and much more. We'll still have film...
El Conde | Review
Death Becomes Him: Larrain Resurrects a Dictator in Bizarre Black Comedy
For his most subversive film to date (and likely the most beautiful and perverse...
2023 Venice: Ava DuVernay, David Fincher, Agnieszka Holland, Malgorzata Szumowska & Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Comp Surprises!
We have twenty-three competition entries and all the America films that were tipped to compete for the Golden Lion have indeed stuck to their...
2023 Venice Film Festival – 75 Predictions: Bertrand Bonello, David Oelhoffen, Tarsem Singh & Viggo Mortensen…
Sure we are about two weeks away from the official announcements for the films that will premiere on the Lido, but we are very...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #23. Pablo Larraín’s El Conde
El Conde
An endless source for film narratives including several in his own filmography, Pablo Larraín decides to reimagine (and do some dentistry) to Pinochet...
Spencer | Review
In the Name of the Rose: Larrain Crafts Empathetic Portrait of an Icon in Anguish
The eternal impact of Diana, Princess of Wales, whose...
Fever Dream | Review
Threadlock: Llosa Drifts into Elegant Nightmare with Faithful Adaptation
For her fourth feature, Peruvian director Claudia Llosa adapts Samanta Shweblin’s enigmatic novel Fever Dream, a...
2021 Telluride Film Festival: World Preems for C’mon C’mon, King Richard, Cyrano, Belfast & One Mystery Film
The titles for the 48th edition of the Telluride Film Festival have been unveiled and Peter Hedges' low-budget zoom drama The Same Storm, Reinaldo Marcus...
Ema | Review
Dance, Fools, Dance: Larraín Dances to Delirium in Arthouse Soap Opera
Pablo Larraín returns to Chile to dance the body electric in Ema, a masquerade...
2021 Venice Film Festival: Blonde is MIA, Franco’s Sundown, Vasyanovych’s Reflection, Frammartino’s The Hole, Larrain’s Spencer in COMP
While Netflix is present Andrew Dominik's Blonde and Claire Denis' Fire is nowhere to be found, the official selection for the 2021 edition of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #5. Pablo Larraín’s Spencer
Spencer
Produced by Juan de Dios, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Paul Webster
Directed by Pablo Larraín
Written by Steven Knight
Starring: Kristen Stewart
Release Date/Prediction: Production begins in early...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #98. Distancia de rescate – Claudia Llosa
Distancia de rescate
Peru’s Claudia Llosa teams with Netflix for her fourth feature, Fever Dream, produced by Mark Johnson and Tom Williams in conjunction with...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Maimouna Doucoure, Laura Baumeister, Nicholas Jarecki & Autumn de Wilde
Cuties
French filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré already has deep ties to the Sundance Film Festival. She won the Global Filmmaking Award at the Sundance Film Festival...
2019 TIFF: Fest Lands World Preems to Cretton, Crowley, Finley, Heller, Kurzel, Iannucci, Waititi & Winterbottom
Confirming what will show at Telluride and Venice, the 2019 edition of the Toronto Intl.Film Festival has managed to land several World Preem and...
The Conversation: Vying for Venice 2019 – Predictions!
Once again, Venice seems poised to make a killing by featuring a number of high-profile US auteurs in its line-up. Like last year’s program,...
Lelio Runs Pell Mell with Ms. Gloria Bell (2018) | Blu-ray Review
Sebastián Lelio scored his best domestic box office success to date with Gloria Bell, his English language remake of 2013’s Gloria, clocking in at...
Gloria Bell | Review
I Think They Know Her Alias: Lelio Revisits His Breakout Title with English Language Remake
Chilean auteur Sebastian Lelio, who recently took home an Academy...
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: #28. Ema – Pablo Larrain
Ema
Chilean director Pablo Larrain returns to Chile for his eighth feature, this time for his first contemporary set drama in his native country with...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #74. Fever Dream (Distancia de Rescate) – Claudia Llosa
Fever Dream (Distancia de Rescate)
Peruvian director Claudia Llosa breaks a five year hiatus and returns with her fourth feature Fever Dream (Distancia de Rescate)....
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...
Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11
As we look forward to a plentiful year of new cinematic offerings in 2018, it’s also time to look even further into the horizon...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 81. Sebastian Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman & Disobedience
A Fantastic Woman & Disobedience
Director: Sebastian Lelio
Writer: Sebastian Lelio & Gonzalo Maza (A Fantastic Woman) – Sebastian Lelio & Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Disobedience)
Since premiering his...
Jackie | Review
The Safety of Objects: Larrain Revisits Traumatic Chapter of Iconic First Lady
There have been very few First Ladies either before or after Jacqueline Kennedy...
The Club | Blu-ray Review
Pablo Larrain’s first post-Pinochet narrative, The Club, is a distinctly subversive dark comedy, a surprise feature following his profound trilogy (Tony Manero; Post Mortem;...
Directors’ Fortnight: Larraín, Nguyen, Lafosse, Poitras, Kashyap, Schrader & Jodo Among 2016 Line-up
Three films from Italy, one posthumous offering from Solveig Anspach and plenty of robust, yet familiar "Quinzaine" faces figure among the eighteen selections announced...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
The Club | Review
Living Under Your Spotlight: Larrain Paints it Black with Catholic Crisis Comedy
For his first film following the finale of his narrative trilogy documenting the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #11. Pablo Larrain’s Neruda
Neruda
Director: Pablo Larrain
Writer: Guillermo Calderon
Pablo Larrain has quickly become one of the most important auteurs in the Chilean New Wave of the past decade...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marialy Rivas’ La Princesita
Home to about seventeen million folks, the nation of Chile and more specifically its filmmakers are super well served by Park City programmers. While...
The Conversation: Finding Foreigners
Though there are many issues regarding the problematic process in deciding the roster of nominees for the annual onslaught known as the Academy Awards,...
The Conversation: The Totality of Toronto (Plus 2015 TIFF Top Ten)
In the nine consecutive years I’ve attended the Toronto International Film Festival, it remains an elusive monstrosity of an event. With its hundreds of...
Participant Media Welcomes Pablo Larrain’s “Neruda” into the Club
They were already onboard as a financier/production company, now Variety reports that Participant Media have grabbed the North American rights to Pablo Larrain's sixth feature film...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: Picks 100 to 6
While DC and Marvel might already have a lock on several future release dates past the 2015 campaign with the Coen Bros. circling February...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby
The Chilean filmmaker locked two premieres at Sundance back in '13 with Magic Magic and Crystal Fairy and later that fall, began lensing Nasty...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #46. Sebastian Silva’s Nasty Baby
Nasty Baby
Director: Sebastian Silva
Writer: Sebastian Silva
Producers: Fabula's Juan de Dios Larrain and Pablo Larrain, Funny Balloons' Peter Danner, Versatile's Pape Boye and Violaine Pichon
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Top 3 Critic’s Picks In Theaters this February: Caesar Must Die, Porfirio and No
Apart from some foreign items Lore (Music Box Films - 2/8/13) and Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love (Sundance Selects - 2/15/13), classic re-issue of...
No | Review
Just Say It: Larrain’s Final Entry In Pinochet Trilogy a Knockout
Heralded as the last and also lightest film in Chilean auteur Pablo Larrain’s Pinochet...
2013 Sundance Film Fest: Quality offerings from Larrain, Nichols, Wheatley and Polley for Spotlight Program
Sundance announced it's Spotlight program selections today, which consists of plum titles that have enjoyed prestigious premieres at other festivals from the year before....
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 3: Pablo Larrain’s No
It was a triumphant return for Pablo Larrain today in the sidebar that helped push his sophomore film Tony Manero into the film circuit...
Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2012: Pablo Larrain’s No
No - Pablo Larrain
Buzz: Pablo Larrain needs little introduction - Tony Manero announced the arrival of a talent to watch out for and the...
