'My Wonderful Wanda': Film Review

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EXCLUSIVE: Beta Film has closed pre-sales with two leading European broadcasters, France’s TF1 and Austria’s ORF, on RTL Group’s series about iconic Austrian Empress Sisi.

Guy Lodge Film CriticThe 1978 theft of Charlie Chaplin’s coffin from its rural Swiss resting place was the kind of bizarre case — equal parts absurd caper and poignant story of human desperation, escalating wildly and ending with peace restored — that you’d expect to have been the subject of at least one hefty true-crime movie.

The first thing you need to know about Daniel Sivan's feature documentary Dirty Tricks, premiering as part of the Hot Docs festival, is that the title is a pun. You see, it's about a cheating scandal in the world of elite bridge and, of course, a "trick" is the standard competitive unit in the game — as it is in hearts, spades and euchre.

To appreciate the roving, sometimes gauche nature of Viral, a new documentary following seven YouTube vloggers in 2020, one must consider its experimental form. Premiering at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the film, directed by Udi Nir and Sagi Bornstein, is entirely composed of YouTube videos.

Since the shock and gore of his 2003 breakoutHigh Tensionushered him into the Splat Pack, Alexandre Aja has taken an entertaining detour with rip-roaring excursions into creature horror, in the self-explanatory Piranha 3D and the gators-in-a-hurricane disaster movie, Crawl. The French genre specialist abandons that gleefully schlocky B-movie throwback spirit but not the taut storytelling skills in Oxygen, a claustrophobic sci-fi thriller driven by Mélanie Laurent's gripping performance.

It was almost exactly a year ago, in March 2020, atStudio Babelsberg Germany's largest film studio, located just outside Berlin.

Madeleine McCann is set to be charged with the rape of an Irish tour rep. Christian Brueckner has been accused of the rape of Hazel Behan in Praia de Luz, three years before the disappearance of Maddie McCann on May 3, 2007.

Ed Meza @edmezavarMarc Bauder, whose documentary “Who We Were,” a visually stunning cinematic search for solutions to the increasingly dire problems facing Planet Earth, unspools at Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX, is going in a very different direction on his next project — a narrative feature film about a cross-dressing flamenco dancer and Jewish resistance fighter who killed Nazis in occupied Poland.“Dolores” will tell the true story of Sylvin Rubinstein, whose Russian mother was forced to moved with

Three young Dubliners find their post-graduation confusion worsened by a nearby tragedy in Here Are the Young Men, an adaptation of Rob Doyle's debut novel directed by model-turned-actor Eoin Macken. Benefitting from a relatively high-profile cast (especially Queen's Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy, though she's not the focus here), the picture has enough polish to draw a small audience.

Ed Meza @edmezavar“Behind the Headlines,” Daniel Andreas Sager’s thrilling look at how German investigative journalists triggered a political earthquake in Austria that toppled the country’s government, is having its world premiere at Danish doc fest CPH:DOX, where it’s competing for the Fact Award, before unspooling at Toronto’s Hot Docs Festival and opening next month’s DOK.fest München.Sager is now at work on his next documentary project, a film that will accompany international peace

After all the accusations, conspiracy theories and general misinformation regarding the origins of the coronavirus in China, the sensitive, humanistic Wuhan Wuhan does a fine job depoliticizing the topic. It shows how the Chinese response to the virus outbreak was very similar to those in hospitals around the world, though its interest for viewers, perhaps, lies in ferreting out some of the minor differences.