Tag: Yorgos Lanthimos

2024 European Film Awards: Audiard, Guiraudie, Fargeat, Gomes & Rasoulof Among First Selections

The 2024 Fiction Feature Film selections are in and we have twenty-nine film titles as part of the first wave of eligible Euro items....

Kinds of Kindness | Review

Bounds of Boundaries: Lanthimos Entertains Himself with Bizarre Triptych It’s safe to say Yorgos Lanthimos has undoubtedly entered the oblivious, self-indulgent era of his career...

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4

A film that went into production as they were still doing post-production on Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness becomes Yorgos Lanthimos' third trip to...

2024 Cannes Film Festival: Payal Kapadia, Lanthimos, Baker, Gomes & Agathe Riedinger’s Debut Vie for Palme d’Or

With today's announcement of nineteen competition titles aiming in contention of the Palme d'Or (note that we might add another pair or trio next...

2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 25 Possible Palme d’Or Competition Films

Usually in the twenty to twenty-two film range, the competition for the Palme d'Or has been a tad more inclusive in recent years in...

Poor Things | Review

The Story of O: Lanthimos Mesmerizes with Fiercely Compelling Frankenstein Tale “Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for...

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...

2023 NYFF: Trân Anh Hùng, Garth Davis, Hayao Miyazaki, Harmony Korine & Steve McQueen in Spotlight Section

Last year's Spotlight Section managed to nab pair of highly sought-after titles in Bones and All and Women Talking and a pair of world...

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 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: Élise Girard, Delphine Girard, Nara Normande / Tião, Purev-Ochir

And here is the last batch of film titles on our 2023 Venice Film Festival – 75 Predictions list. Paradiset brinner Dir. Mika Gustafson Prod: Nima Yousefi Paradiset...

2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls

It's official folks! The drop date has been confirmed. There'll be a couple of films that trickle in a bit after the announcement is...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #11. Yorgos Lanthimos’ AND

AND A year-end item that squeezed itself at the top of our list is Greek helmer Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest project which sees him reteam with...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #8. Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things

Poor Things Produced by Yorgos Lanthimos, Element Pictures' Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Written by Tony McNamara Starring: Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley, Willem Dafoe, Mark...

IndieSponge Episode 7 – The Latest on Lanthimos, Zagar, Soderbergh, Chan-Wook & David Robert Mitchell

On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and I begin with how the Oscars are likely to be turned upside down, the promising...

The Favourite | Review

Courtship at Court: Lanthimos Delights with 18th-century Royal Love Triangle At Her Majesty Queen Anne’s palace, its a disheveled state of affairs. There’s an ongoing...

2018 Venice Film Festival: Jennifer Kent, Alverson, Corbet, Schnabel & Coen Bros. in Comp

Surprise, surprise. At the end of the day, Ethan and Joel Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a feature film (not a series)...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #33. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite

The Favourite Fox Searchlight Pictures already owns the distribution rights for Yorgos Lanthimos’ next feature, The Favourite, which is described as a bawdy tale of...

Video: Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay

A film that was highly anticipated and did not go unnoticed, shared with Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here, this was the press...

The Conversation: Venice 2017 – Those Who Were Not Named

With Locarno and Venice’s recently announced competition line-ups, the last stand as far as 2017 festival circuit competition now sits with the soon to...

The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex

As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...

2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Yorgos Lanthimos Does the Mash Potato with The Killing of a Sacred Deer

He'll be referenced as the one who began the Greek New Wave in cinema and there was a time when we didn't quite know...

The Killing of a Sacred Deer | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Dear Hunter: Lanthimos Flatlines with Terse Revenge Fantasy There’s no arguing the unique capabilities of Greek Weird Wave alum Yorgos Lanthimos, who broke out...

The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell (2017 Edition)

It’s hard to believe, but we’re about five weeks away from the unveiling of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival lineup. After several months of...

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...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #16. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Killing of a Sacred Deer Director: Yorgos Lanthimos. Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos Following the success of 2015’s The Lobster, Greek Weird Wave forefather Yorgos Lanthimos...

The Lobster | Blu-ray Review

Director Yorgos Lanthimos transplants his celebrated narrative aesthetic from the Greek Weird Wave with his English language debut, The Lobster. The highly anticipated international...

The Conversation: A Cannes Opener… 2017 Cannes Film Festival Predictions

And as we await the unveiling of the Venice Film’s Festival’s 2016 program, we look ahead to what may be in store for the...

The Lobster | Review

Animal Farm: Lanthimos’ Dystopic Dip into RomCom Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos makes an admirable English language debut with The Lobster, set within an original dystopic...

Top 3 Critics’ Picks: Audiard, Lanthimos & Tsangari this May

IONCINEMA.com’s Top 3 Critics’ Picks offers a curated approach to the usual quandary: what would you recommend I see in theaters this month? We're...

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...

2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: The Lobster Boils Over into Bunuelian Aura

Its much to early to crown him as the godfather of the Greek new wave, but there'll be mounds of further essays written on the tsunami-breaking...

2015 Cannes Film Fest: Main Comp 1st Timers Include Kurzel, Lanthimos, Donzelli, Villeneuve, Brize, Joachim Trier & Laszlo Nemes

Returnee former Palme d'Or winners and their latest in Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre), Gus Van Sant (Sea Of Trees) are joined by several Main Comp...

The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell… 2015 Cannes Film Fest Predictions

With the world’s most prestigious film festival just around the corner, cineastes have been lasciviously salivating about what’s going to show up at Cannes,...

Get Him to the Greek; John C. Reilly Completes Lanthimos’ “The Lobster” Ensemble

Supporting players in John C. Reilly, Ashley Jensen, Michael Smiley and Jessica Barden are joining the already cast, diverse set of Colin Farrell, Rachel...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #2. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster

The Lobster Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Writer(s): Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou (both featured in pic above) Producer(s): Lanthimos, Element Pictures' Lee Magiday & Ed Guiney, Scarlet Films'...

Lynne Ramsay, Andrzej Zulawski & Yorgos Lanthimos: Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2014

11. Zama – Dir. Lucretia Martel Why This Makes Top 10: At number eleven we have Argentinean filmmaker Lucretia Martel’s latest film, her first since...

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...

Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos – ALPS

"When the end is here the ALPS are near." Concluding my trio of interviews with the folks from ALPS, we have acclaimed co-writer/director Yorgos...

Interview: Ariane Labed – ALPS

We can note that it wasn’t too shabby a year for Ariane Labed. The French non-actress barely spoke the Greek language when she won...

Interview: Aggeliki Papoulia – ALPS

First introduced to international auds as the eldest daughter in Yorgos Lanthimos’ freakshow family portrait known as Dogtooth (2009), Aggeliki Papoulia returns to the...

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