TIFF 2025: Motor City, I swear, canceled: The Paula Deen Story | Festivals and awards
The producers of Possy Ponciroli take the “strong and silent type” to the extreme in the fun “Motor City”, “ A film that plays like…
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TIFF 2025: Palestine 36, Le Choral, peak all | Festivals and awards
This year at the Toronto International Film Festival, Gala’s presentations included two world worldwide: the historic epic of the 1930s “Palestine 36” from the 1930s…
TIFF 2025: Hamlet, Rose du Nevada, no other choice | Festivals and awards
The first two days of Tiff are often dominated by films that have played other holidays. This year’s harvest included projections of cane tubes like…
Venice Film Festival 2025: Broken English, The Wizard of the Kremlin, No other choice, in Dante’s hand | Festivals and awards
I left the 82ND Biennale of the exhausted film with gratitude. And to be honest, my gratitude and my exhaustion were almost equal. When I…
Venice Film Festival 2025: The Bennale College | Festivals and awards
Since 2015, with 2020 sautéed due to Cavid, I was honored to participate in the Biennial Panel. Each year, after having crossed more than a…
Venice Film Festival 2025: The Smashing Machine, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, The Testament by Ann Lee, father Sister Brother Sister | Festivals and awards
The piece of the film of the 60s of Jean-Luc “Pierrot Le Fou” where Belmondo asks the filmmaker Maverick Sam Fuller, playing himself, to give…
Venice Film Festival 2025: Ghost Elephants, Jay Kelly, Bugonia, Concentulation, after hunting | Festivals and awards
Once again, it is my pleasure and my privilege to realize Venice, where the cinema biennial, known to the American trades under the name of…
Locarno Film Festival 2025: 14 Films Commemorating Postwar Britain | Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival’s yearly, rotating retrospective is almost always the best and surest ticket in town. Take last year’s Columbia 100 celebration, “The Lady With…
Locarno Film Festival 2025: Prejudice Across the Pond in “Pool of London” and “The Story of a Three-Day Pass” | Festivals & Awards
When Jamaican Merchant seaman Johnny Lambert disembarks from his ship, the Dunbar, in London, he does so with two thoughts in mind: To have a…
Locarno Film Festival 2025: “Tabi à Hibi”, “Hair, Paper, Water …”, “Yakushima’s illusion” | Festivals and awards
Memory is a funny thing. He can train and relax, wet and get rid of. It can also be wrong, probably because it is so…