International Film Festival Rotterdam Archives

IFFR 2020 Will Screen A Black And White Version Of Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Parasite’

December 21, 2019 1:20 pm

One of my favorite trends of the past few years has been black-and-white director's cuts of popular films. Back in 2016, "Mad Max: Fury Road" director George Miller followed through on his promise to release an...

‘Take Me Somewhere Nice’ Playfully Delightful & Offbeat [Rotterdam Review]

Joseph Owen

February 6, 2019 4:21 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews, Trailers

To be on the cusp of identity is to be bereft of identity. To come of age is to be neither young nor old. To be Dutch or Bosnian, to be native or immigrant, to be citizen or nomad: adolescent uncertainty is twi...

‘I Am Toxic’ Is A Low-Budget ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Homage With Zombies [Rotterdam Review]

Joseph Owen

February 4, 2019 7:45 am

News, Reviews

This low-budget homage to “Mad Max: Fury Road,” "I Am Toxic" ("Soy Tóxico") has all the typical dystopian traits: arid wastelands, sepia tones, gruff apocalyptic shouting. Under clear influence from George A. R...

‘Harpoon’: A Nasty, Barely Funny Tale Of Desperation & Madness [Rotterdam Review]

Joseph Owen

February 3, 2019 7:34 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Commonly confused with similar aquatic armory, harpoons don’t actually feature in this film. The title "Harpoon" is instead taken from a character’s inability to discriminate one from a spear gun. How the other...

‘Your Face’: Tsai Ming-Liang’s Art Installation/Documentary Captures The Power Of Portraiture [IFFR REVIEW]

Joseph Owen

February 3, 2019 1:56 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Picasso began his portrait of the poet Gertrude Stein in the autumn of 1905, completing it in August the following year. Delay was down to the head. For someone of Stein’s stature and charisma, a truly mimetic ...

Cliff Martinez Talks Working With Steven Soderbergh, Nicolas Winding Refn & More In Career-Spanning Talk [Masterclass Rotterdam]

Joseph Owen

February 2, 2019 1:21 pm

Festivals, Interviews, News

This week IFFR is holding a wide programme of Masterclasses at Le Jardin Hilton in central Rotterdam. We’ll be bringing coverage of cinematic luminaries including Claire Denis, Jia Zhang-ke and Cliff Martinez, ...

‘Asako I & II’: A High-Concept Romance Falters [Rotterdam Review]

Joseph Owen

February 2, 2019 12:40 pm

News, Reviews

This strange, deliberately naïve film plunges a high-concept romance into a banal, lifeless world. Therein lies profundity, but it makes for a disjointed, peculiarly shallow experience. Interiority is displaced...

Acclaimed Filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke Reveals The Cinematic Habits & Experiences That Shape His Work [Rotterdam MasterClass Conversation]

Joseph Owen

January 30, 2019 3:12 pm

Festivals, Interviews, News

This week IFFR is holding a wide programme of Masterclasses at Le Jardin Hilton in central Rotterdam. We’ll be bringing coverage of cinematic luminaries including Claire Denis, Jia Zhang-ke, and Cliff Martinez,...

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Claire Denis Talks ‘High Life,’ The Taboos & Sexual Violence Of Her Career & More [Rotterdam MasterClass Conversation]

Joseph Owen

January 29, 2019 12:38 pm

Interviews, News

This week International Film Festival Rotterdam is hosting a wide programme of Masterclasses at Le Jardin Hilton in central Rotterdam. We’ll be bringing coverage of cinematic luminaries including Claire Denis, ...

‘The Night Shifter’: Dennison Ramalho’s Brazilian Horror-Drama Talks To The Dead [Rotterdam Review]

Joseph Owen

January 28, 2019 5:54 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

To work nights is to encourage madness. To do so in a morgue is sentence to delusion. Forfeiting the dreamless night for daytime tremors will let evil unbidden into your home. Dennison Ramalho’s horror-drama "T...

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