Tag: top-stories
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...
2025 New Directors/New Films: Sarah Friedland, Constance Tsang & Alex Russell Among Highlights
Sarah Friedland’s Venice Film Festival prize-winning grand slam debut Familiar Touch is set to open the 54th edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF) and...
The Empire (L’Empire) | Review
The Satire Strikes Back: Dumont Claims His Own Multi-Verse
It’s sometimes difficult to predict what mode French auteur Bruno Dumont will be choosing for his...
Mickey 17 | Review
Born to Die: Joon-ho Beguiles with Irreverent Sci-Fi Socio-Satire
After significant delays, Bong Joon-ho’s highly anticipated Mickey 17 at last arrives with all his signature...
2025 Oscars: Who Will Win (Anora) and Who Should Win…?
This awards season has been filled with plenty of drama and unexpected twists, when one film pulled ahead of the pack, the narrative would...
2025 Césars: Emilia Pérez Crowned Best Film, Souleymane’s Story Bikes Away with Four
Emilia Pérez won Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Original Music, Best Special Effects and Best Cinematography at the 50th...
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...
Face the Music: Saoirse Ronan & Austin Butler Join Sean Durkin’s “Deep Cuts”
The A24 folks are getting into the Sean Durkin business once again. After backing his third feature film in The Iron Claw, they've also...
World War III | Review
War & Fleece: Seyyedi’s Swiftly Shifting Satire Explores the Corrupting Nature of Power
In one of the most unromanticized depictions of the filmmaking process, Iranian...
Exclusive Clip: A Wee Bit of Tension in Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire
Winner of last year's Grand Prix in the Generation 14plus section at the Berlinale and selected as part of the New York Film Festival...
Love Is in the Air: Mubi Courts Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia” Starring Muse Toni Servillo
Last December we learned that Paolo Sorrentino was quickly moving back into the director's chair for his eleventh feature film, and now Variety reports...
Interview: Cutter Hodierne – Cold Wallet
He wasn't the first and certainly will not be the last to launch big at Sundance with a directorial debut and then take a...
Interview: Sing J. Lee – The Accidental Getaway Driver
Winner of the Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition (see video), and renowned for his work in commercials and video clips, filmmaker Sing...
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...
Independent Spirit Awards 2025: “Anora” Lands 3 Including Best Feature, “A Real Pain” & “Dìdi” Double-Up
The Indie Spirit Awards is that weird event that most commonly overlaps with the bigger film award show gala (aka the Academy Awards) and...
Interview: Producer David Thion – Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Hansen-Løve’s If Love Should Die
This year marks the silver anniversary of French film producer David Thion, who made his debut with Emmanuel Mouret’s Laissons Lucie Faire! in 2000....
Reflection in a Dead Diamond | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Feed My Fetish, Please: Cattet & Forzani Pay Homage to the Eurospy in Dazzling Pastiche
Whether giallo gore or Western shaped, their films don’t lose...
What Does that Nature Say to You | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
The Parent Trap: Sang-soo Takes Sideways Swipe at Social Etiquette
A constant purveyor of how subtle social cues are obliterated by the lowered inhibitions of...
Interview: Péter Kerekes – Wishing on a Star (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Fiction and documentary filmmaker Péter Kerekes ventured into a documentary subject he initially had little interest in—until he encountered the captivating personality of a...
La cache (The Safe House) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
May Days: Baier’s Broad Commentary on a Revolutionary Footnote
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people,” said Eleanor Roosevelt. Dipping...
Timestamp | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Schools of Survival: Gornostai Probes the Resiliency of Ukraine’s Education System During Wartime
Despite reflecting the distressing normalization of wartime on an entire generation of...
Third Anniversary of Solidarity With Ukraine – Maciej Ślesicki & Filip Hillesland’s “Ludzie” Screened Across the Globe
The Warsaw Film School is proud to announce a worldwide film screening event to mark the third anniversary of the ongoing war in Ukraine....
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...
Yunan | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Nothing is Everything: Eldin’s Continuing Exploration of Existential Crisis
For his sophomore film Yunan, intended as the second chapter in a thematic trilogy following 2021’s...
Dreams (Sex Love) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Love on the Brain: Haugerud Caps Trilogy with Teenage Wasteland
With his latest film Dreams (Sex Love) (aka Drømmer), the final installment in his thematic...
Interview: Muhammed Hamdy – Perfumed with Mint (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Steeped in darkness and stillness, there is this pervasive sense of longing that permeates the ruins, not entirely deserted, structures of an unnamed section...
Mother’s Baby | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby: Moder Repeats Motherhood Horrors
A palpable, instinctual fascination with the potential horrors of pregnancy are exactly why neonatal dread...
Blue Moon | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing: Linklater Pays Homage to a Broken Hart
Lorenz Hart was a lonely hunter. If you believe you haven’t heard of...
The Message (El mensaje) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Gates of Heaven: Fund Explores Creature Comforts from Beyond
“We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we...
What Marielle Knows | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
The Best Little Secrets Are Kept: Hambalek’s Absurdly Skewers the Virtues of Honesty
Honesty may indeed be the best policy and maybe the truth might...
Interview: Damian Kocur – Under the Volcano (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Polish filmmaker Damian Kocur is still relatively new to the film scene, but has quickly established himself as a provocative new auteur to watch...
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
You’ll Like My Mother: Bronstein Lets Us Feel the Byrne
Motherhood approaches the verge of the horrific in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,...
On vous croit (We believe you) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
High Tension: Deville & Dufeys Suffer the Children in Jittery Debut
Tossing us right into the hellfire of an acutely agonizing situation, Charlotte Deville and...
Girls on Wire | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Mad Bills to Pay: Qu Stages Miserabilist Soap Opera
If Girls on Wire settles on anything clear to say it’s quite simply that crime doesn’t...
Interview: Nuno Miranda – Flowers of the Dead (Work in progress – 2024 Marrakech Atlas Workshops)
The Atlas Workshops is Marrakech International Film Festival's vital industry and talent-development programme for projects in development, films in production and in post-production. Among...
Interview: Zamo Mkhwanazi – Laundry (Work in progress – 2024 Marrakech Atlas Workshops)
The Atlas Workshops is Marrakech International Film Festival's vital industry and talent-development programme for projects in development, films in production and in post-production. Among...
The Ice Tower (La Tour de Glace) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Hearts of Glass: Hadžihalilović Casts a Wintry Spell
A chilly scene of winter unfolds in La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower) at a glacial...
The Blue Trail (O último azul) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Crimes of the Future: Mascaro Envisions Trouble Ahead
“Getting old ain’t no place for sissies,” a quote often attributed to Bette Davis (or similar variations...
Dreams | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Magnificent Obsession: Franco Finds Love is a Hopeless Place
Michel Franco lassos Jessica Chastain into his continued class conflict examinations in Dreams, an intimate portrait...
Hysteria | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Burn After Filming: Büyükatalay Explores Colliding Perspectives in Nuanced Drama
While it can’t be described as a classic thriller, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s sophomore film Hysteria...
Ari | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Murmur of the Heart: Serraille Conquers Indifference Through Sincerity
With her third feature, Ari, director Léonor Serraille confirms a clear pattern of interest in exploring...
The Best Mother in the World (A melhor mãe do mundo) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Life is Beautiful: Muylaert Takes Aim at Domestic Abuse in Heartfelt Drama
In A melhor mãe do mundo (The Best Mother in the World), the...
The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Devil May Care: Bucio’s Tantalizing Premise Fizzles Out
With an enigmatic premise and a formidably morbid title, Ernesto Martinez Bucio’s debut The Devil Smokes...
Interview: Jeff Nichols – The Passenger, Stella Maris, Land of Opportunity, The Yankee Comandante
Before Jeff Nichols took the indie film world (with Take Shelter) by storm—both literally and figuratively—he made his mark with Shotgun Stories (premiered at...
Hot Milk | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
The Eternal Daughter: Lenkiewicz Ladles the Milk of Sorrows
Screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directorial debut with Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s comically...
Maine Stay: Mubi Falls For Oliver Hermanus’ “The History of Sound”
The History of Sound, the highly anticipated feature love story featuring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor has found a home. Oliver Hermanus who directed...
The Good Sister (Schwesterherz) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Sister, My Sister: Fischer Tests the Moral Fibers of Familial Bonds
An ethical dilemma curdles in the heart of Sarah Miro Fischer’s directorial debut Schwesterherz...
Little Trouble Girls | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Circles of Perfection: Djukić Surveys the Compromises of Sexual Awakening
Taking its title from the 1995 Sonic Youth track Little Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je...
Living the Land | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Land of Steady Habits: Meng Reflects Familial Upheaval in Quiet Saga
“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go...
Home Sweet Home | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Sofie, Homemaker: Petersen Banks on Undervalued Emotional Labor
Danish director Frelle Petersen’s latest title Home Sweet Home (Hjem kaere hjem) aims to showcase the significant...
