Every year, in Bergamo, Italy, a small film festival, Bergamo Film Meeting, honours titans of European cinema, dusts up lesser known talents, and showcases the most exciting new independent cinema.
Film Festivals
‘My films are portraits.’ Mia Hansen-Løve on Maya
Mia Hansen-Løve tells us about her new film, Maya, her interest in people who stay in the shadows, her motivations behind choosing locations, the way she works with her actors, and much more. The film premiered at TIFF, where we talked to Hansen-Løve, and is screening at Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in NYC.
Sundance 2019: Advocate, Bedlam, and more
Our capsule reviews spotlight three documentaries and two Scandinavian features we enjoyed at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, including Advocate, Bedlam, Sonja: The White Swan, and Midnight Traveler. Watch out for them as they travel the festival circuit and arrive on home viewing platforms.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am and Miles Davis: Birth of Cool
Sundance continues its mission to feature stories about important African American historical figures with worthy docs Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am and Miles Davis: Birth of Cool. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am In the last few years, Sundance has screened multiple biography documentaries about important literary and historical figures in 20th America that […]
Sundance 2019 World Dramatic highlights
The Sundance World Dramatic Competition always features international hidden gems, and the 2019 highlights included Queen of Hearts and The Last Tree.
Review: the sober recollections of Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz
The first feature from photographer Richard Billingham is a moving yet unsentimental portrait of a life in fragments, as empathetic as it is brutal.