Isaac Feldberg

1 month ago | rogerebert.com | Isaac Feldberg

The first-ever film from Iraq to compete at Cannes, Hasan Hadi's "The President's Cake" premiered not in the festival's main competition but rather in the Directors' Fortnight section running parallel to it, where it stood out as one of this year's most exciting discoveries, even before earning both the Audience Award from its section earlier this week and the prestigious Camera d'Or (awarded each year to a first feature film) at this weekend's closing ceremony.

1 month ago | rogerebert.com | Isaac Feldberg

For comedian Tim Robinson, doubling down is almost always an unforced error, the kind of bad instinct that can escalate one fleeting social faux-pas into something far more catastrophic.

1 month ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Isaac Feldberg

Back to selection by Isaac Feldberg in Filmmaking, Production on May 20, 2025 Anne Émond, Cannes Film Festival 2025, Metafilms, Peak Everything, Producer, Producing, Sylvain Corbeil Since founding Metafilms over two decades ago, Montreal-based producer Sylvain Corbeil has become a prolific and respected pillar of Quebec’s independent film scene, collaborating with filmmakers whose bold and idiosyncratic visions have served to bolster the place of modern Canadian cinema on a world stage....

1 month ago | rogerebert.com | Isaac Feldberg

The Cannes Film Festival has a long-standing tradition of showcasing actors-turned-directors; one of the great thrills of this edition's Un Certain Regard section so far has been the triumphant emergence of Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson-both fixtures at the festival in recent years for their performances in films like "Crimes of the Future" and "Triangle of Sadness"-as formidable writer-directors in their own right.

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Isaac Feldberg |Ari Aster

★★★★ A true paroxysm of American pathologies, at once ruthlessly bleak and blackly comic in its frenetic, fractious storm of provocations — this is Aster boldly grabbing hold of the electrified third rail of contemporary discourse and letting precisely 2020 volts of alternating current surge through him. Ambitious, sprawling, unwieldy, deranged, but also his fullest externalization to date of the existential neuroses he’s consumed by as an artist — the difference this time around is that he’s...