La Vie en Grand: Mathieu Vadepied’s Debut at Cannes Fest Critics Week

A feature debut, “La Vie en grand” tells the tale of Adama, a 14-year old boy growing up in the projects, where he juggle the pressures of school and street life. With the help of his younger buddy Mamadou, Adama manages to get their lives on a different track.

Tribeca Film Fest 2015: Audience Award Winners

The narrative feature “King Jack” and the documentary “Transfatty Lives” won the top audience awards at the 2015 Tribeca Film Fest.

Cannes Film Fest 2015: Directors Fortnight Program

New works by Jaco Van Dormael, Takashi Miike, Jeremy Saulnier and Sarunas Bartas, as well as recent Sundance entries “Dope” and “Songs My Brothers Taught Me,” are among the films set to screen in the 47th annual Directors’ Fortnight program at the Cannes Film Fest.

Tribeca Film Fest 2015: Highlights

My estimable peers at the Hollywood Reporter have singled out the following features as must-see films: Man Up Ben Palmer directs this British romantic comedy starring Lake Bell and Simon Pegg that follows a mismatched couple on a series of adventures throughout London. Anesthesia In actor-director-writer Tim Blake Nelson‘s new drama, a Columbia University professor of philosophy, Walter Zarrow (Sam Waterston), […]

Cannes Film Fest 2015: Certain Regard Official Selections

UN CERTAIN REGARD There are 14 films in this sidebar right now, but fest director Freamaux indicated there will be several more additions. “The Chosen Ones” (David Pablos, Mexico). Pablos’ follow-up to “The Life After” (2013) is adapted from Jorge Volpi’s novel set in the world of juvenile prostitution. “Fly Away Solo” (Neeraj Ghaywan, India). Shweta Tripathi […]