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Swiss Projects at the Venice Gap-Financing Market: Natural Disaster, Complicated Romance, Exploited Migrants, Murder Mystery in Montana

Swiss Projects at the Venice Gap-Financing Market: Natural Disaster, Complicated Romance, Exploited Migrants, Murder Mystery in Montana

Both well-established and up-and-coming Swiss filmmakers are taking part in the Venice Film Festival’s Production Bridge industry strand, where Switzerland will be one of the country’s in focus at the Gap-Financing Market. Seven Swiss projects and co-productions are among the total of 38 fiction and documentary works featured in the Venice Production Bridge’s Gap-Financing Market […]
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Why Mary Tyler Moore's Closet Scene in Ordinary People Was So Important

Why Mary Tyler Moore's Closet Scene in Ordinary People Was So Important

A pivotal scene in Mary Tyler Moore's career-defining performance in 'Ordinary People' was nearly removed, a decision that would have changed cinematic history.
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Maui-Born Director Destin Daniel Cretton Launches Hisako Film Lab for Local Youth

Maui-Born Director Destin Daniel Cretton Launches Hisako Film Lab for Local Youth

Maui-Born Director Destin Daniel Cretton Launches Hisako Film Lab for Local Youth
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Ben Affleck Reflects on 'Atrocious' 1993 Short Film, 'I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Dis...

Ben Affleck Reflects on 'Atrocious' 1993 Short Film, 'I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Dis...

Ben Affleck Reflects on 'Atrocious' 1993 Short Film, 'I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Dis...
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How Louis C.K. Turned Hilarious Into a Stand-Up Film Instead of a Standard TV Special

How Louis C.K. Turned Hilarious Into a Stand-Up Film Instead of a Standard TV Special

Explore the audacious original pitch for Louis C.K.'s 'Hilarious,' a document that treated a comedy special like an indie film and changed the industry.
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Albanian National Film Festival Returns After 14-Year Hiatus

Albanian National Film Festival Returns After 14-Year Hiatus

Albanian National Film Festival Returns After 14-Year Hiatus
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The Screening Mix That Can Create a More Balanced Telluride Weekend

The Screening Mix That Can Create a More Balanced Telluride Weekend

Navigating the Telluride Film Festival’s secret schedule can be daunting. Here’s a strategic guide to mixing your screenings for a more balanced weekend.
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Alysa Nahmias's 'Cookie Queens' Documentary Explores Childhood, Economics Through Girl Scout Cookies

Alysa Nahmias's 'Cookie Queens' Documentary Explores Childhood, Economics Through Girl Scout Cookies

Documentarian Alysa Nahmias, known for her films on serious topics such as PTSD, disabilities, and the criminal justice system, has directed a new film titled 'Cookie Queens.' This latest documentary follows the lives of four young girls as they engage in selling Girl Scout cookies. While seemingly a departure from her previous work, Nahmias explains that the film delves into deeper themes beyond just cookie sales. It explores the pressures associated with aging out of childhood, the impact of economic class, and the harsh realities of capitalism as experienced by these young entrepreneurs. Nahmias discussed her approach to the subject, highlighting how the seemingly innocuous activity of selling cookies provides a lens through which to examine complex societal issues.
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Marion Cotillard Praises Venice Biennale College Cinema Workshop: ‘Not all Films Are Destined to Draw Millions of Viewers and Turn a Profit’

Marion Cotillard Praises Venice Biennale College Cinema Workshop: ‘Not all Films Are Destined to Draw Millions of Viewers and Turn a Profit’

Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose”) is at the Venice Film Festival in a new guise, as tutor of Biennale College Cinema, the workshop allowing emerging filmmakers to develop and produce micro-budget feature-length films, which is sponsored by Chanel. Biennale College Cinemas was conceived 15 years ago by Venice chief Alberto Barbera in tandem […]
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Marion Cotillard Advocates for Support of Micro-Budget Films at Venice Biennale College Cinema

Marion Cotillard Advocates for Support of Micro-Budget Films at Venice Biennale College Cinema

Marion Cotillard Advocates for Support of Micro-Budget Films at Venice Biennale College Cinema
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‘Tender Loving Care’ Review: Mike Leigh’s Tale of Social Workers, Lonely Hearts and Dementia Should Have Been a Fuller Portrait

‘Tender Loving Care’ Review: Mike Leigh’s Tale of Social Workers, Lonely Hearts and Dementia Should Have Been a Fuller Portrait

Leigh doesn’t make any wrong moves here; just about every scene in the movie plays. Yet "Tender Loving Care" builds (or maybe I should say recedes) to something more schematic than it is powerful.
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‘Too Much Sugar’ Review: Robert Greene’s Playful, High-Energy Doc Marshals a Revealing Family Moviemaking Project

‘Too Much Sugar’ Review: Robert Greene’s Playful, High-Energy Doc Marshals a Revealing Family Moviemaking Project

Everyone’s a main character in “Too Much Sugar,” a scrappy, agitated, spikily entertaining study of an extended family with a whole community’s worth of backstory, present-tense drama and diverging plans for the future. Only one person in it, however, has main character syndrome. That would be Ryan “Holli-wood” Hollinger, a self-styled patriarch with six children […]