While everyone in the known film universe debates whether to preserve the traditional theater-going experience versus embrace the inevitable future of that seems to have already arrived – a streaming service takeover – French director, Mia Hansen-Løve (“Eden”, “Things to Come”), is firmly on the side of film. Her newest project, “Maya” – a quiet, melancholic meditation exploring a journalist’s capacity for care after experiencing a major trauma – is currently still seeking US distribution, and in an illuminating interview, published by Indiewire, the filmmaker concedes that she’s only willing to compromise her creative process up to a point, and her new movie may not be released in America, it’s still up in the air.

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We are robots. We cover film and our best of year-end lists cover every single possible angle of film and TV. And yes, we’re oh so tired and we hope this doesn’t feel too perfunctory. Look, we’ve covered, as suggested, every stripe of 2018 movie and TV coverage performances, new directors, breakout actors and actresses, documentaries, all kinds of new exciting talents and each year we say to ourselves, “eh, let’s dial this back, it’s too much, no one cares that much do they?” And each year we find ourselves going, “Oooh, ooh, oooh!

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One of Mia Hansen-Løve’s best qualities as a filmmaker is her relative disinterest in a tightly wound narrative. She’s a storyteller, to be sure, but less prone to tell those stories with conventional plotting than with moments, moods, and unexpected through-lines. Her best works – “Goodbye First Love,” “Eden,” and especially 2016’s “Things to Come” – tend to sneak up on you, meandering through scenes of offhand character study and chance interaction, before snapping fully into focus in their closing scenes.

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We’re just getting started with our look at the best in film and TV of 2017, but before we really got sucked into the retrospective, we wanted to take a minute to look forward to what’s to come in the next twelve months or so. Lord knows we need things to keep us going in the shitshow that has been the second half of the 2010s, and fortunately, cinema has provided.

After a slow start, 2017 turned out to be a pretty great year for movies, and 2018 looks to keep that up in a big way.

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As we count down our list of the The 100 Best And Most Exciting Working Directors, two names you’ll be finding on there are Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Mia Hansen-Løve. And we’re always excited to see what they’re up to next, and good news is, both filmmakers are gearing up new pictures.

First, Ceylan will follow 2014’s Cannes FIPRESCI Prize and Palme d’Or winner “Winter Sleep” with “Le poirier sauvage,” and it sounds like a particularly tough tale.

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Filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve seems to be in the midst of a particularly productive streak. Coming off “Eden” which delved into the French electronic music scene of the 1990s, she launched right into “Things To Come” starring Isabelle Huppert, about a woman dealing with a series of late life crises, which premiered earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival, and will be released in the U.S.

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