Festivals
#NYFF63 | Is This Thing On?
Months ago, while having dinner with a producer-turned-director friend, who had just directed a debut film selected to open an ...
#NYFF63 | Father Mother Sister Brother
“The natural world is a world of infinite variety and complexity, a multidimensional world that contains no straight lines or ...
#NYFF63 | Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
LOVE STORIES YOU WON’T FORGET The Upper West Side Manhattan apartment of the Stiller family is the starting point for ...
#NYFF63 | Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
It’s interesting to understand Scott Cooper’s approach to this project, yet another biopic about a music celebrity. Springsteen: Deliver Me ...
#TIFF50 | Fuze
British-born director David Mackenzie has alternated between films in his native country and the United States. He is little known ...
#TIFF50 | Ballad of a Small Player
Everything pointed to Edward Berger repeating the level of his two previous films: All Quiet on the Western Front (International ...
#TIFF50 | Frankenstein
While not reaching the number of film adaptations of Dracula, Frankenstein is another novel that has been brought to the ...
#CANNES78 | Eddington
ONANISTIC CINEMA Ari Aster’s fourth film takes place in May 2020, three months after the announcement of the Global Coronavirus ...
#CANNES78 | The Phoenician Scheme
WITHOUT RHYME OR REASON The films of Wes Anderson, included his devotion for fable, geometrical symmetry and aesthetics, have become ...
#CANNES78 | Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
SLUMPED BY NORTHWEST In a spot-on article by Javier Porta Fouz about Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, which around that ...
#DMZ Docs (South Korea) | A Journey to the Heart of Film Festivals. First Stop
“Be honest” David Beckham, in the documentary Beckham (Fisher Stevens, 2023) “How do you do to tell the difference ...
#NYFF62 | Nickel Boys
There are recurring issues when films like Nickel Boys come along. One of them lies in adapting a literary piece ...
