Tag: 2018 Most Anticipated American Independent Film
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #1. Rick Alverson’s The Mountain
The Mountain
For his acerbic, contre-courant, alive cinema and his brand of sagacity in the back to back offerings of The Comedy (2012) and Entertainment...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #2. Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The Time
The Devil All the Time
Cinema is filled to the gills with amicable protagonist types, but for this filmmaker, the curiosity lies with those you...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #3. Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk
Film historians will likely do a poor job in describing the resounding support, everyone onboard and all-aboard of the Moonlight...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #4. Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Tyrel
You can wager on the cinema offerings of the Brooklyn based, Santiago born Sebastián Silva to be bold, the comedy to be subversive, and rather...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #5. Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs
Isle of Dogs
Embarking on his ninth feature film, second stop-animated project, and third straight collab with Production Designer Adam Stockhausen (2012's Moonrise Kingdom, 2014's...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #6. Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum
The Beach Bum
With the possibility of making this a true immersive experience (ordrama?!), much like the cult status of previous numbers, Harmony Korine's reefer...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #7. Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux
Vox Lux
Haneke, Bonello, Von Trier, Campos, Ostlund, Assayas, Hansen-Løve, Baumbach. He cut his teeth working with some of the most gifted filmmakers of our...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #8. Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria
Gloria
His second consecutive English language feature is a retooling, and not necessarily a remake of his 2013 critically well received drama of the same...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #9. Zellner Bros.’ Damsel
Damsel
Leaving Sundance as one of the critical darlings of the fest, for its play with the Western genre doing away with all the nuances...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #10. Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy
Wendy
A long awaited follow up sophomore film, Benh Zeitlin has been keeping busy as of last in composing the music for Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #11. Tim Sutton’s Donnybrook
Donnybrook
With a film budget that likely surpassed the total coin amount of his first three films combined, Tim Sutton (a featured IONCINEPHILE alumn) moves into...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #12. David Lowery’s Old Man and the Gun
Old Man and the Gun
We were correct with our Sundance prediction stating that David Lowery would be at Sundance this year, but it was...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #13. Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life
Private Life
She takes her time between projects and the great news late last year was the rollout of Private Life for Sundance 2018. Tamara Jenkins’ third...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #14. Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark
Hold the Dark
Prior to launching into Season 3 of True Detective, it appeared that we would have had had the chance to see Jeremy...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #15. David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Under the Silver Lake
With filming having taken place in October of 2016, David Robert Mitchell's highly anticipated third film is slowly being positioned for a stealthy...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #16. Miguel Arteta’s Duck Butter
Duck Butter
The cerebral, analytical, politically charged Beatriz at Dinner might have been a turning point for Miguel Arteta, and we're feeling that a new mantra...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #17. Reed Morano’s I Think We’re Alone Now
I Think We're Alone Now
The swiss army knife of women filmmakers, fittingly, Reed Morano's sophomore project panned out to be the amalgamation of masterful...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #18. Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace
Leave No Trace
Only her third feature fiction film following Down to the Bone (2004) and Winter’s Bone (2010), it always feels like a true cinematic event...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #19. Nicole Holofcener’s The Land of Steady Habits
The Land of Steady Habits
Treading familiar waters but nonetheless, her output always feels fresh, The Land of Steady Habits actually counts as a first for veteran...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #20. Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer
Destroyer
She didn't exactly lose her footing, but Karyn Kusama found herself in the dream scenario moving directly from indiewood Sundance accolades to Hollywood misfires...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #21. Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate
At Eternity’s Gate
For anyone who took notice, there was something slightly off with Willem Dafoe's coiffe during the Golden Globes and this has to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #22. Untitled Noah Baumbach Project
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #23. Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s The Lodge
The Lodge
Austrian Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala broke out big with Goodnight Mommy (in his 4-star review our Nicholas Bell claimed this to be...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #24. Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline
Madeline's Madeline
We slotted Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline at the number #24 slot, but post-Sundance, we sort of wished we had ranked this masterwork (no...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #25. Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing
Piercing
Borrowing from Takashi Miike’s Audition (seminal J Horror film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore film and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #26. Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour
The Wolf Hour
The interminable wait for Alistair Banks Griffin's second feature film is officially over. The Borderline Films' backed Two Gates of Sleep debuted...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #27. Michael Tully’s Don’t Leave Home
Don't Leave Home
After vintage 80's Ping Pong Summer, Michael Tully moves towards the occult and continues his one film per every three years output with his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #28. Ira Sachs’ The Second Wife
If we go by his two year gap between productions, we should expect a new film from NYC based Ira Sachs to drop in 2018,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #29. Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck’s When She Runs
When She Runs
When they aren't working on docus, they're immersed in fiction and when they're not working on features, they're occupied by the short...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #30. Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
About to enter his third decade in filmmaking and currently on a 3-for-3 streak with Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) and Last...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #31. Matthew Heineman’s A Private War
A Private War
Having built a solid resume so far as a filmmaker on the front lines, it's perhaps not unfathomable that he was taped...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #32. Todd Solondz’s Love Child
Love Child
A curious thing happened, and...didn't happen. The paired duet in Todd Solondz's Love Child did get together -- but it was for The...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #33. J.D. Dillard’s Sweetheart
Sweetheart
Making a tsunami out of a ripple when he landed Sundance's 2016 NEXT section with the his calling card Sleight, J.D. Dillard might not...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #34. Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Desiree Akhavan could distinctly hold two parallel careers --- one in front of the camera, but we selfishly want her...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #35. Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher
The Kindergarten Teacher
Conceptually speaking, Sara Colangelo's Little Accidents was raw, tonally sound but perhaps lacked a little finesse. I often think about that film...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #36. Sean Durkin’s Janis
Janis
We could trace an entire timeline on the number of competing projects (e.g. Amy Adams and Get it While You Can) or the failed attempts...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #37. Adam McKay’s Backseat
Backseat
I'm getting ready to hate this film .... but for all the right reasons. One of the more costly film productions on our list,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #38. A.J. Edwards’ Friday’s Child
Friday’s Child
“Sponging both formal technique and spiritual inflection to create a film that looks, sounds and feels like the work of Malick, yet stands...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #39. Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
You can't always be batting 1000, and Gus Van Sant's Sea of Trees was a clunker (read...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #40. Madeleine Olnek’s Wild Nights with Emily
Wild Nights with Emily
There has been a lot of tinkering around on Madeleine Olnek's third outing as a filmmaker. We've been thinking this might...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #41. Joshua Marston’s Come Sunday
Come Sunday
Joshua Marston's fourth feature film once again sees him work within a dramatic genre framework, but becomes a first bio-treatment for the helmer...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #42. Dash Shaw’s Cryptozoo
Cryptozoo
Sadly, only one of the two films working with animation on our top 100, it was nice to begin the year with a profile...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #43. Joe Berlinger’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
When Zac Efron presented at the Golden Globes, I'm sure several very little folks in that room (or the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #44. Jim Hosking’s An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
Jim Hosking's debut film The Greasy Strangler was sort of like the squid option at a restaurant -- an...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #45. Crystal Moselle’s Skate Kitchen
Skate Kitchen
Crystal Moselle made the shift to the world of fiction with a project that is once again curious about subculture. Following Sundance's U.S. Documentary...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #46. Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
We couldn't have asked for more from her debut film. An assured, check off all the boxes, winner of Indie...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #47. Marianna Palka’s Egg
Egg
While you were sleeping, Marianna Palka was busy creating. We'll never be able to forget the transparency of the shared experience that is Lucy...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #48. Jordana Spiro’s Night Comes On
Night Comes On
The highest ranked directorial debut on our top 100 belongs to Night Comes On. We're big on the short films that come...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #49. Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
Sorry to Bother You
The moment hip hop artist Boots Riley took Sorry to Bother You to the Sundance labs (2015 June Screenwriters Lab and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #50. Jim Cummings’ Thunder Road
Thunder Road
Before unleashing one of the all-time best shorts to bust a move out of Sundance with the Short Film Grand Jury Prize winner,...
