Category: World Cinema
Anatomy of a Fall Sweeps 2023 European Film Awards
Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall has swept the 36th European Film Awards (EFA) with five wins for European Film, European Director, European Actress for…
TIFF 23 Dispatch: including ‘Fallen Leaves’; ‘Green Border’; ‘The Zone of Interest’
In addition to all the major Hollywood films and American indies I saw at TIFF, I also saw several international films from some of the…
Femme Film Fest 23 Review: Farewell Amor (Ekwa Msangi)
The international flavour displayed at the 2020 London Film Festival was never daunting, no matter how unknown any prospective title might be. But with each…
Festival de Cannes: Deadly Shu Qi in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Masterful ‘The Assassin’ (2015)
This writer’s first encounter with the Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress, Shu Qi, was in the late 1990s. One of the few occasions a certain sibling, a…
Film Review: Alma Viva (2022)
Alma Viva is the debut feature of Cristèle Alves Meira. Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains…
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Dominates Without Motion Picture Win at the 4th Pandora International Film Critics Awards
We have to go back to the Academy Awards in 1972 when Cabaret took home 8 Oscars – including Best Director and two acting prizes…
Pandora International Film Critics Announce Their 2022 Nominations
Heading excitedly into our fourth year, the Pandora International Film Critics have unveiled their nominations for the year in film of 2022. Our small group…
95th Academy Awards: Submissions for Best International Feature Film
Much like the last few years, it’s another incredibly strong list of contenders for this year’s race for Best International Feature Film. Once again, picking…
Film Review: Paris, 13th District / Les Olympiades (Jacques Audiard)
Jacques Audiard’s speciality as a director is stories about violent men who do not have an innate taste for violence. So it’s something of a…
2022 Berlin International Film Festival Lineup
Highlights of the lineup for this year’s Berlin Film Festival, running from February 10-20, include: A new film from Kamila Andini, whose Indonesia-set coming of…
Cahiers Du Cinema Releases 10 Best Films of 2021
The annual Cahiers Du Cinema favorites list tends to be a check-in with some of the most unpredictable critics in Europe. The long-running French magazine…
The Good Boss Leads 2022 Goya Awards Nominations
Fernando León de Aranoa’s The Good Boss has set an all-time record of 20 nominations at the 2022 Goya Awards. With seven acting nominations (another…
94th Academy Awards: Submissions for Best International Feature Film
Now that we have the final list of official submissions, it’s clear the race for Best International Feature Film is one of the most exciting…
FemmeFilmFest21 Review: ‘Corpo Celeste’ – On Angry Jesus, Performance, and Kittens
Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo Celeste (Heavenly Body) follows a twelve-year-old girl as her faith gradually unravels in the spaces where it should be confirmed. With Martha’s…
