Erica Abeel

author of Wild Girls

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Film Pieces

2022

Lost Illusions

The Northman

2021

C’mon c’mon

Red Rocket

Parallel Mothers

Crisis

The World to Come

2020

Let Them All Talk

The Climb

French Exit

I Carry You With Me

1917

2019

Little Women

A Hidden Journey

Marriage Story

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

The Lighthouse

Pain and Glory

Rude, Crude, and Enchanting, This Year’s New York Film Festival is a Helluva Ride

Colette

The Fall of the American Empire

The White Crow

Diane

Never Look Away

2018

Cold War

The Favourite

At Eternity’s Gate

The Seagull

The Guardians

Chappaquiddick

Final Portrait

Double Lover

2017

NEW YORK FILM FEST FINDS ITS INNER POLITICS

 The Sense of an Ending

Timbuktu

War Machine

Happy End

Gotham Awards Kick off Award Season Frenzy

Foxtrot

The Square

Six must-see films from the New York Film Festival

How to Love: Thoughts on the 55th New York Film Festival

The Beguiled

Paris Can Wait

2016
I, Daniel Blake

Love & Friendship

A Bigger Splash

2015

While We’re Young

Youth

Secrets in the Attic

2014

From Pub Crawlers to Night Crawlers

Takedown

The Year of the Actor at TIFF

Toronto wrap-up

2012

Toronto Diary or “Who’s Vronsky?”

2011

Shame

2009

Terminally romantic: George Clooney stars in Reitman’s tale of frequent flyers

Toronto Fest takes aim at corporate America

‘I’m Surprised When Anybody Likes It’: Soderbergh On His ‘Girlfriend Experience’

Self-Portraits and Biopics Dominate 14th Rendez Vous With French Cinema

HONOR ROLL ’09 |Oscar ‘09: “Waltz With Bashir” Director Ari Folman

Oscar ’09: “The Reader” Director Stephen Daldry

2008

Engineering Simplicity: “The Class” Director Laurent Cantet

“He Didn’t Bail, That’s a Little Bit Unfair”: “The Reader” Director Stephen Daldry

INTERVIEW | “Lust, Caution” Director Ang Lee

Interview: Diane English on “The Women”

INTERVIEW | “Brideshead Revisited” Director Julian Jarrold

2007

INTERVIEW

LUST, CAUTION

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

RED ROAD

SICKO

THE HOAX

THE LOOKOUT

THE TV SET

“Lady Chatterley” Director Pascale Ferran

Blueberry Nights and the Crabwalk

2006

Found in Translation

FRIENDS WITH MONEY

SEND IN THE CLOWNS

THE GOOD GERMAN

THE PAINTED VEIL

2005

GAMES OF LOVE AND CHANCE (L’ESQUIVE)

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK

KINGS AND QUEEN

LAST DAYS

LEE, ANG (12_05)

MY SUMMER OF LOVE

THE NINTH DAY

Toronto Torrent

WALK ON WATER

2004

FINDING NEVERLAND

GOSFORD PARK

Grapes of Mirth

HAPPENSTANCE

L.I.E.

School for Scandal

SIMON MAGUS

Super Movie Mart

THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS

VA SAVOIR (WHO KNOWS_)

VANITY FAIR

VERTICAL RAY OF THE SUN

WHAT TIME IS IT THERE

2003
Francois Ozon on “Swimming Pool”: Fantasy, Reality, Creation

2001
New York Times: To the French, Femmes Over 50 Are Still Fatale

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