Film Festivals
Kristy Strouse spoke with the stars of Back Roads on the red carpet of Tribeca Film Festival, and reviews Sebastián Lelio’s Disobedience.
Gus Edgar reports from Cannes Film Festival, where he saw Solo: A Star Wars Story, Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, and more, and lists the winners of the festival’s Awards.
Lee Jutton had the chance to sit down and talk with the executive producers of PHENOMS, a new soccer documentary series, Mario Melchiot and David Worthen Brooks about how they chose their subjects and some of the most powerful moments they captured on the camera.
Alex Lines reports on his time during 2018 The Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival, held in Australia, and the films he was able to see: Interval and Fist & Faith.
On Cannes days 5 & 6, Gus Edgar saw a variety of films, including Gaspar Noe’s Climax, Mandy, and Spike Lee’s latest BlacKKKlansman.
Stephanie Archer reports on her time during the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and the red carpet photos and interviews she had the opportunity to be a part of.
Reporting from Cannes Film Festival, Gus Edgar reviews Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun, Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book, and more.
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival featured two biopics of artists who thrived in the 1960s and 1970s before dying much too soon in the 1980s: Mapplethorpe and Nico, 1988.
Kristy Strouse reviews her final batch of films from Tribeca Film Festival, including Zoe, In a Relationship, and Woman Walks Ahead.
Stephanie Archer reports on her time during Tribeca Film Festival 2018, and on her final day, recaps the Tribeca Retrospective Schindler’s List.
Gus Edgar reports from Cannes Film Festival and shares some of his first two days in the French Riviera. He reviews Kenyan LGBT film Rafiki, Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife, Colombian film Birds of Passage, and more.
Hagar Ben-Asher’s Dead Women Walking creates the opportunity for conversation and examination while humanizing those individuals that society has locked away without a further care or thought of.
Kristy Strouse reviews the inspirational documentary Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and shares her interview with director Aaron Lieber and producers Penny Edmiston and Jane Kelly Kosek.
Asghar Farhadi’s Everbody Knows is a melodrama that takes itself too seriously – one that pulls in each and every direction to try and find some thematic footing, and ends up not saying too much about anything.
As well as getting a chance to check out witty theatrical drama The Great Pretender at Tribecca Film Festival, Film Inquiry’s Kristy Strouse also got to speak to director Nathan Silver about his film.