The 38th Tokyo International Film Festival will showcase a high-profile lineup headlined by two of Asia’s biggest stars: Fan Bingbing in Chong Keat Aun’s “Mother Bhumi” and Zhang Ziyi in Peter Ho-sun Chan’s “She Has No Name.” Competition title “Mother Bhumi” marks a striking reinvention for Fan Bingbing, who plays a widowed village woman navigating […]
LOS ANGELES, CA, September 30, 2025 — The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the 10 projects selected for the inaugural 2025 Sundance Institute Filmmakers Fund sponsored by Chase Sapphire Reserve. The fund provides $120,000 grants to artists from all backgrounds working on feature-length films worldwide. Recipients come from six Institute programs: the Feature Film Program, […]...
Filipino cineaste Mike De Leon’s Kisapmata (1981) is a family tragedy as well as a national allegory about patriarchy, possession, and death © by film critic Lalit Rao (FIPRESCI)
There are a very few films in Southeast Asian cinema that have left as haunting and unforgettable an impression as Kisapmata (1981), the seminal Filipino masterpiece directed by Mike De Leon. The film is...
Kantara, Chapter 1, press meet: A Legend at Land’s End
A young man worked in Andheri West, Mumbai as an office boy, and, later, as a driver, in 2008. More recently, he started making films, in his home state, Karnataka. He spent 250 days of the last 3 years shooting a film, which is a prequel to a blockbuster he made, released in 2022. A writer, director and actor, he camped in a...
Amanda Seyfried’s sweeping musical drama “The Testament of Ann Lee” has found distribution after its Venice film festival premiere, where it was embraced with a rousing 15-minute standing ovation. Searchlight Pictures has acquired rights for North America and most international territories with plans to release the movie theatrically in 2025. Directed by Mona Fastvold, “The […]
In an entertaining talk at the Zurich Film Festival, Russell Crowe, on hand for the screening of James Vanderbilt’s “Nuremberg,” spoke at length about his interest in Hermann Göring, going the distance with top-league peers like Rami Malek and Michael Shannon, and the talent of the pic’s writer and director. Based on Jack El-Hai’s […]
Welcome back to your monthly round-up from the ICO, featuring the latest opportunities for your cinema, festival or film society and industry highlights from the UK and beyond. ICO News ICO Autumn Screening Days passes are on sale now! The programme of key upcoming films is starting on a high with Richard Linklater’s love letter […]
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CHECKING WITH OSCAR EXPERTS: VARIETY
We started with last Thursday's post to transition from predicting the films that would play Telluride to focusing on which TFF #52 films might be players in the 2025-26 awards season. We began with Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter and today we look at the Best Picture predictions from Variety's Clayton Davis, senior...
The Man in the White Van (Warren Skeels, 2023) 2 out of 5 stars What is it with white vans? Not the shoe of social-media fame, but the actual vehicles? Why is it that they are often associated with being driven by violent murderers or predators? Is there a correlation? If the plan, back in […]
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For Colin Farrell, portraying broken characters in his latest works, “Ballad of a Small Player” and “The Penguin,” has offered a chance not only to lean into new emotional and physical challenges, but also embrace the near possession that comes with performing under heavy makeup. Farrell discussed his latest works at the Zurich Film Festival, […]