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What will be your first movie of 2023? If you’re reading this it’s likely you put some (let’s be honest: too much) thought into what commences the cinematic year. The Criterion Channel’s January lineup will put some good things front and center: they’re launching a 20-film cinema verité series that highlights all major figures of the form; an eight-film Mike Leigh retrospective that focuses on his little-seen, lesser-discussed BBC features produced between 1973 and 1984; a series on Abbas Kiarostami’s studies of childhood; and because you’ve either seen Eo or have it marked to watch, Jerzy Skolimowski’s three most-acclaimed films should be of equal note.

Another 2022 favorite, Il Buco, will have its streaming premiere alongside Kamikaze Hearts, the Depardieu-led Cyrano de Bergerac, and the recent restoration of Lodge Kerrigan’s Keane. The sole Criterion Edition for this month is 3 Women, while some notable recent documentaries—The American Sector,...

The inaugural Dan Ireland Award, a juried cash prize of $3,000 for the director of the best film in the Louisiana International Film Festival’s New Visions / New Voices Category is sponsored by Winifred and Kevin Reilly, Jr., Renee Zellweger, Vincent D’Onofrio, Dennis Yares and Greg Kachel.

In addition to his long career as a director, teacher and co-founder of the Seattle International Film Festival, Dan Ireland served as the Artistic Director of Liff until his untimely death on April 14, 2016. The Dan Ireland Award was created in order to commemorate his dedication to new talent, storytellers and visionaries.Speaking at the Dan Ireland Award Ceremony, Chesley Heymsfield, Executive Director of Liff, said about Dan, “It was very hard for our entire team because when you work at an organization like this which is a grassroots community built organization to support local people, you become like family and it was very...

Film Review, Cannes, 40X15 Directors' Fortnight

Before there was Sundance, U.S. independent filmmakers had only the Directors' Fortnight to show their wares. Jim Jarmusch pointed the way in 1984, Spike Lee and Glen Pitre followed in 1986. "40X15" is a comprehensive, affectionate look at the 40 years of the Cannes sidebar that began in the wake of the protest tumults of 1986. It's most hospitable venues would be film schools and museums, or, those cable networks savored by the cineaste.

Begun as a subversive effort by a group of directors who clamored to provide alternative voices in the Cannes screenings, the Directors Fortnight now is recognized by many international filmmakers as the festival's most organic sidebar, open to more innovative works than the establishment-entrenched Official Competition. As one would expect from such storm-the-red carpet beginnings, the 40 years have often been tumultuous; again, contributing to the sidebars' current renegade elan.

In this celebrative docu, longtime Fortnight artistic director Pierrre-Henri Deleau recounts the challenges, curios and triumphs that shaped and nurtured the section. Interspersed with flavorful comments from an array of the talented directors who have distinguished the sidebar over the years, and illuminated by clips from selected films, "40X15" unspools a remarkable history of creativity and moxy.