Annual Top Films Lists

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #22. Untitled Noah Baumbach Project

Published on February 1, 2018

In what will be another one-two creative punch as when he recently unveiled Frances Ha and While We’re Young with only season apart, while doing press for The Meyerowitz Stories, Noah Baumbach dropped the news (plus a California tax credit confirmed this), that the Netflix folks quickly mounted another project with the filmmaker and with a stellar cast comprised of Adam Driver, Laura Dern, and Scarlett Johansson to boot.

The story follows an unfolding divorce that spans from New York City to Los Angeles. Baumbach had me at D – for divorce.

Release Date/Prediction: This feels like an autumn season type offering and could see this a tentpole item featured at NYFF.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).