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...