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Do The Right Thing: 1-2 Special Makes Maiden Voyage with Radu Jude’s “Kontinental ’25”

Last year we got Metrograph Pictures jumping into the indie film distribution scene, and in 2025 we have 1-2 Special with topper Jason Hellerstein...

2025 Berlinale: “Dreams (Sex Love)” Won the Golden Bear … but “The Blue Trail” Was the Best Film

Todd Haynes' jury awarded the 75th Berlin Intl. Film Festival's top honors this past Saturday to Dag Johan Haugerud’s Dreams (Sex Love) but the...

Kontinental ’25 | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Jude Skewers the Status Quo Ownership is an unsaid key word in Kontinental ’25, the latest perambulating spasm from Romanian...

2025 Berlinale: Linklater, Hadžihalilović, Sangsoo, Gabriel Mascaro, Michel Franco, Vivian Qu & Mary Bronstein in Comp

Nineteen features in competition, Artistic Director Tricia Tuttle loaded up on some mainstay auteurs with the likes of Richard Linklater, Michel Franco, Hong Sangsoo,...

2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight

In their inaugural edition and first mandate, Artistic Director Julien Rejl oversaw a significant transformation of the Directors' Fortnight, not only altering its name...

2023 European Film Awards: The Zone of Interest & Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Lead New Noms

A pair of noteworthy Cannes titles in Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest and Tran Anh Hung's The Pot-au-Feu, some Locarno items such as...

2023 TIFF: Radu Jude, Denis Côté, Kleber Mendonça Filho & Phạm Thiên An Cement Wavelengths

And now we can officially state that the TIFF selections are now complete with the Wavelengths programme being unveiled. A mix of Berlin, Cannes...

2023 NYFF: Haigh, Hamaguchi, Lanthimos, Triet, Glazer and Annie Baker in Main Slate

We were scratching our heads on where films such as Andrew Haigh's (retitled) All of Us Strangers and the under-the-radar A24 film by Annie...

2023 Locarno Intl Film Festival: Laura Ferrés, Sofia Exarchou, Radu Jude, Ena Sendijarević, Laura Luchetti & Quentin Dupieux Selected!

It's now Locarno Intl. Film Festival (August 2nd to the 12th) Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro's turn to launch us back into major film...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #42. Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect too Much of the End of the World

Do Not Expect too Much of the End of the World It has been quite an astonishing creative couple of years for Romanian filmmaker Radu...

2022 Cannes: Radu Jude Among Short Film Filmmakers in the Directors’ Fortnight

It's a compact ten offerings that make up the short films selection over at the Directors' Fortnight. The eyebrow-raiser goes to Radu Jude -...

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Review

Stand & Deliver: Jude Doubles Up on the Viral in Kangaroo Court Leave it to Radu Jude to take a sad song and make it...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #35. Uppercase Print – Radu Jude

Uppercase Print One of the latter figures of the Romanian New Wave, Radu Jude, also remains one of the busiest. He returns to the nightmare...

The Conversation: Bringing Up Berlin – Predictions for the 2020 Berlinale

Berlin becomes a septuagenarian in 2020. The significant European springboard will also receive a new facelift in the early dawn of the new decade,...

Through the Looking Glass: The Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 – Picks #100 to #11

While we look forward to a plentiful 2019 as far as foreign cinema is concerned (of which we highlighted #300-151 and our countdown #150-1 to anticipate...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #73. Radu Jude’s Is This What You Were Born For?

Is This What You Were Born For? Romanian auteur Radu Jude arrived after the established first wave of New Romanian Cinema masters, rising up out...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #43. Radu Jude’s You Were Born for This

You Were Born for This Director: Radu Jude Writer: Radu Jude Radu Jude, one of the secondary players out of the Romanian New Wave has come into...

Aferim! | DVD Review

Romanian auteur Radu Jude enters the ring as one of his country’s most accomplished new voices with third feature, Aferim! Its title an Ottoman...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #87. Radu Jude’s Aferim!

Aferim! Director: Radu Jude // Writers: Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu Romanian director Radu Jude’s 2012 sophomore film, Everybody in Our Family was a tense, hysterical familial...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #97. Radu Jude’s Aferim!

Aferim! Director: Radu Jude Writers: Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu Producer: HiFilm's Ada Solomon U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Unknown After receiving an extremely positive reception for his 2012 sophomore film,...

From Faith Akin to Craig Zobel: Our Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2014

Before we unleash the beast that is our annual Top 100 Most Anticipated Films List for 2013, we thought we'd give our readers an...

Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Unreleased Films of 2012: Picks 10 to 6 includes Sigarev’s Living & Jude’s Everybody In Our Family

#10. Living – Dir. Vasili Sigarev (Russia) Premiering at the 2012 Rotterdam Film Festival, this sophomore effort from Vasili Sigarev is, of course, ironically titled,...

Rotterdam’s 2013 CineMart includes Lanthimos’ The Lobster, Rowe’s Rest Home, Porterfield’s Sollers Point and Lucrecia Martel’s Zama

A first look into what's ahead from some of our favorite auteurs, 2013's CineMart (held during the Int. Film Festival Rotterdam) boosts an impressive...

Everybody In Our Family | AFI Fest 2012 Review

Out of the Bedroom & Into the Streets: Jude’s Latest a Bitter Drama of Cyclical Misery Now at the end of a decade in existence,...

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