Tag: Xavier Dolan
UCR Creative Juices: Xavier Dolan Moving Out of Retirement with new Horror Genre Film
Someone is emerging from early (filmmaker) retirement, and we might have Cannes topper Thierry Frémaux to thank for it. After a cool volunteer job...
La Bête (The Beast) | Review
In the Mood for Love & Death: Bonello Explores the Final Frontier of Emotional Intelligence
Throughout the dizzying centuries-spanning odyssey of an unrequited love in...
Lost Illusions | Review
F is for Fake: Giannoli Highlights Prescience in Adaptation of Balzac Classic
The erosion of romanticism and idealism is at the core of Honore de...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #79. Xavier Giannoli’s Illusions perdues
Illusions perdues
Another project lensed in 2019 held over for a 2021 premiere is the next film from France’s Xavier Giannoli, who scored a sleeper...
Interview: Composer Jean-Michel Blais – Matthias & Maxime
Deemed as a return to his indie filmmaking roots, Xavier Dolan's film character sets will be forever tied to soundtracks that lyrically express a...
Matthias and Maxime | Review
Peas & Carrots: Dolan Gets Caught in a Bad Romance
Xavier Dolan devotees will be happy to note his latest feature, the treacly melodrama Matthias...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #61. Comédie humaine – Xavier Giannoli
Comédie humaine
France’s Xavier Giannoli scored a sleeper hit with 2018’s supernatural tinged drama The Apparition starring Vincent Lindon (scoring a Cesar nod for newcomer...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Xavier Dolan’s Matthias and Maxime
Twice in competition and twice a winner, after winning the Jury Prize (unofficial 3rd place) in 2014 for Mommy and the Grand Prix (unofficial...
Live from Cannes: 2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
While the competition jury have some major clout in the likes of Iñárritu, Lanthimos, Pawlikowski, Reichardt, Campillo, Alice Rohrwacher, Elle Fanning, Maimouna N’Diaye, and...
2019 Cannes Film Festival: Mati Diop, Jessica Hausner & Céline Sciamma In Competition
Expect the unexpected. A mix of new faces and veteran filmmakers will make up the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival with first works...
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: #150. Matthias & Maxime – Xavier Dolan
Matthias & Maxime
And we begin our count up with Quebecois director Xavier Dolan, who after working on his largest budget to date in 2017/18...
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 American Indie Films of 2018: #69. Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased
Boy Erased
While we give the advantage Nash (Gringo is sitting in our #84 spot) in terms of who between the two has a better...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #69. Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
Established Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan embarks on his most ambitious endeavor yet with his long gestating seventh...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, Aquarius, Elle & Paterson Top our 2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel
Yesterday's George Miller led jury pronounced Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake as the best from the 2016 competition of twenty-one films, and they gave...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Dolan Comes Out with “It’s the Only the End of the World”
With the exception of what I consider his best film to date, the Venice preemed Tom at the Farm, Xavier Dolan's home away from home...
It’s Only the End of the World | 2016 Cannes Film Festival Review
Don’t They Know?: Dolan Delivers a Dud with Familial Drama
Though no stranger to working with French stars, Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan makes his first...
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #18. Xavier Dolan’s Juste la fin du monde
Juste la fin du monde
Director: Xavier Dolan
Writer: Xavier Dolan
During the substantial critical praise following Mommy (which tied with Jean-Luc Godard for the Jury Prize...
Tom at the Farm | Review
I Need a Lover with a Farm Hand: Dolan’s Latest a Filet of Self Loathing
For his fourth feature, Xavier Dolan adapts the material of...
A Cannes Opener: 2016 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
A furious slew of titles in the works would seem to prophesize a robust main competition slate for Cannes 2016. Though our initial list...
Amplify Releasing Prepare Summer Harvest for Dolan’s “Tom at the Farm”
Going on almost two full years since it landed in competition for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Amplify Releasing have made their...
Dolan Doubles Down: It’s Only the End of the World for Cotillard, Seydoux, Cassel, Ulliel & Nathalie Baye
Joining the ranks of filmmakers with insatiable appetites such as Michael Winterbottom, Francois Ozon and Woody Allen, Xavier Dolan doesn't take too much down...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #15. Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
Director: Xavier Dolan // Writer: Xavier Dolan
2014 marked an important year for the burgeoning auteur Xavier Dolan,...
Live Free or Die; Roadside Attractions Land Dolan’s “Mommy”
In a deal that we can already claim as filmmaker Xavier Dolan's most significant opening in the U.S yet, the folks at Roadside Attractions...
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Loach Breaks out in Dance for “Jimmy’s Hall” & Dolan’s “Mommy” Receives Excellent Ratio Among Critics
May 22nd - Rainy Thursday in Cannes.
It appears that both the oldest, and the youngest filmmakers in the Main Comp happen to be those...
Most Anticipated Films for 2015: An Overview
Last month, we unveiled our all-encompassing, most anticipated films for the current year in film. Now we peer into a future that is a...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #24. Xavier Dolan’s Mommy
Mommy
Director: Xavier Dolan
Writer: Xavier Dolan
Producer: Metafilms' Nancy Grant
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clement, Antoine-Olivier Pilon
Hot off the fumes of premiering Tom at...
TIFF 2013 Puts Cuffs on Denis Villeneuve’s “Enemy” & Swears by Michael Dowse’s “The F Word”
This afternoon, with poutine and local wine to mark the occasion, the Toronto International Film Festival announced their Canadian film selections. Programmers Steve Gravestock...
Stacked 2013 Venice Edition Includes Latest Miyazaki, Ki-Duk, Ming-liang, Dolan and Frederick Wiseman
With still several films not yet announced for the behemoth Toronto Int. Film Festival, it appears that 2013 will be a significant cross-over year...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #81. Xavier Dolan’s Tom a la Ferme
Tom à la Ferme
Director: Xavier Dolan
Writer(s): Dolan and Michel Marc Bouchard
Producer(s): Mk2's Charles Gillibert and Nathanaël Karmitz
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Caleb Landry Jones, Xavier...
When a Man Loves a Women: Breaking Glass Break in 2013 with ‘Laurence Anyways’
While his second film (Heartbeats via IFC) found an easier pathway to a fruitful distribution, despite acclaim and film festival prestige, it appears to...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 3: Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways
Having played earlier in the day to standing ovation, the scene was set for further applause at the night screening as the Un Certain...
A David Lynch-like World for Xavier Dolan; Helmer Adapting “Tom a la ferme”
"Homosexuals learn to lie before they learn to love," is a line of spoken dialogue that may find its way into Xavier Dolan's next...
Film in Pictures: Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways
As we begin to prep our 2012 Cannes predictions list (scheduled for next week), we've come across some stills for Xavier Dolan's Laurence Anyways....
