Tag: 2019 Most Anticipated American Independent Films
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #1. Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow
First Cow
And the most anticipated American independent film project of 2019 belongs to Kelly Reichardt and what will be her eighth feature film. After...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #2. Josephine Decker’s Shirley
Shirley
Say we omit Josephine Decker's feature docu items Bi the Way and Flames, it's remarkably only with her third "narrative" feature film that becomes a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #3. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch
More croissant than cronut, Wes Anderson returns to the red, white and blue but of the Hotel Chevalier and Jacques Cousteau sort...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #4. Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die
Shifting sideways from the extensionalism lethargy found vampires in goth tweaked Only Lovers Left Alive to possibly reanimated corpses that haven't said their last word...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #5. Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The Time
The Devil All The Time
Among the top film news items spilling out of the frenzied Toronto Intl. Film Festival was the significant packaging to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #6. Ari Aster’s Midsommer
Midsommer
The current title might not stick, but media outlets are probably circling Ari Aster's Midsommer as the most anticipated sophomore film project for the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #7. Untitled Miranda July Project
Director, screenwriter, singer, actress, author, complete artist, app creator and probably a cat-sitter Miranda July hadn't made a feature since 2011's The Future, but I'd...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #8. I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Charlie Kaufman
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
With Frank or Francis and Slaughterhouse-Five being tossed around as possible projects, it is officially I'm Thinking of Ending Things...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #9. Sean Durkin’s The Nest
The Nest
It appeared that after winning the first one out of the gate contest, Sean Durkin would finally be moving into a Janice Joplin...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #10. Janicza Bravo’s Zola
Zola
A Sundance NEXT section revelation with her directorial debut in 2016's Lemon (we were fans earlier on with her short work), we're expecting Janicza...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #11. Eliza Hittman’s Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
Known for her sharp assessment of the youth culture class in It Felt Like Love and Beach Rats, Eliza Hittman has...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #12. Todd Haynes’ Dry Run
Dry Run
Todd Haynes as certainly been enamoured by the iconoclast set of glam rockers to folk artists, but he might be actually aiming for...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #13. Omniboat: A Fastboat Fantasia
Omniboat: A Fastboat Fantasia
Lopsided, tonally off, and rarely complimentary, portmanteau films are more often that not miss than hit, but what happens when we...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #14. Untitled Noah Baumbach project
A film that Netflix could have easily placed in the 2018 calendar, Noah Baumbach's still untitled project might just follow in the footsteps of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #15. Robert Eggers’ The Light House
The Light House
Robert Eggers blasted onto the scene with what we can describe his own brand of unconventional horror. Production on his sophomore film,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #16. Dee Rees’ The Last Thing He Wanted
The Last Thing He Wanted
With Mudbound certifying her prowess (and the promise of her 2011 micro indie portrait in Pariah) Dee Rees moved onto...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #17. Cory Finley’s Bad Education
Bad Education
Moving from a brilliant dark comedy (Thoroughbreds) off campus mind-games to shark infested waters of the high school experience, for Cory Finley's sophomore...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #18. Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit
Jojo Rabbit
Based on a 2012 Black List screenplay, Taika Waititi's sixth feature film went into production in May/June of 2018 in the Czech Republic...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #19. Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum
The Beach Bum
His sixth feature film comes a full seven years since 2012's Spring Breakers revitalized his career path, The Beach Bum went into...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #20. Josh & Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems
Uncut Gems
For their fourth feature film, Josh & Benny Safdie parlayed the success of Good Time into a feature with Adam Sandler in the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #21. Ira Sachs’ Frankie
Frankie
Ira Sachs' first production outside North America managed to lasso the likes of Isabelle Huppert, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear, Jérémie Renier and Brendan Gleeson...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #22. Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy
Wendy
Those in the indie film circles are confirming that 2019 is the release year for the long awaited super secretive Wendy. Benh Zeitlin snaps a seven year...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #23. Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour
The Wolf Hour
The highest ranked Sundance Film Festival selected item on our list belongs to Alistair Banks Griffin and his long awaited second feature...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #24. Benedict Andrews’ Against All Enemies
Against All Enemies
Another highly anticipated sophomore feature in our countdown, Benedict Andrews expands the size of canvas moving from the duet in Una to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #25. Babak Anvari’s Wounds
Wounds
Babak Anvari's Sundance break out debut in 2016's Under the Shadow solidified his standing within the genre, and so it was no surprise that...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #26. Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy
Honey Boy
Not unlike Kitty Green, Alma Har’el moves from a pair of free flowing in form docu features in Bombay Beach and LoveTrue into a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #27. Kitty Green’s Untitled DAY in the LIFE of a Harvey Weinstein Assistant Project
Currently in green light mode on her third feature, formal storytelling will once again receive the boundary pushing nip and tuck inventiveness of Kitty Green who...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #28. Jim Cummings’ Untitled Werewolf Film
Snowballing from a celebrated '16 award-winning short film (Thunder Road) into a SXSW-winning, John Cassavetes Award nominated and critically acclaim feature debut (here is...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #29. J.D. Dillard’s Sweetheart
Sweetheart
2019 should be a considerable leap year for J.D. Dillard, as both his sophomore film Sweetheart and the project he co-wrote in Joe Sill's Stray...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #30. David Lowery’s Green Knight
Green Knight
David Lowery has been working in an almost film per year orbit since the release of Ain't Them Bodies Saints, but Green Knight...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #31. Trey Edward Shults’ Waves
Waves
Rapidly transitioning from sophomore film club and into production with his third oeuvre, Trey Edward Shults was the talk of the town with his award...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #32. Joe Berlinger’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
With Lily Collins, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scodelario, John Malkovich, Jim Parsons, Jeffrey Donovan, Angela Sarafyan, Brian Geraghty, Dylan...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #33. Braden King’s The Evening Hour
The Evening Hour
Eight years between narrative features and using a film vocabulary on his debut film (HERE) that might have been a cousin to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #34. Justin Chon’s Ms. Purple
Ms. Purple
A surprise entry for the Sundance Film Festival because his shooting dates appear to have been late 2018, we get the feeling that...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #35. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Limelight
Limelight
Currently working on television projects as the film is being set up, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has been attached to direct Limelight since April of last...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #36. Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat
The Laundromat
His cut your teeth on something and techno-friendly attitude as a film buff, culture consumer and filmmaker now celebrating his third decade in...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #37. Daniel Scheinert’s The Death of Dick Long
The Death of Dick Long
Proving that they are indeed not attached at the hip, while we await their next team effort, one half of DANIELS...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #38. Justin Simien’s Bad Hair
Bad Hair
After the balayage that was Dear White People (the award-winning Sundance film that spawned a Netflix series), Justin Simien buzzed cut his way...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #39. Julie Taymor’s The Glorias: A Life on the Road
The Glorias: A Life On The Road
Not unlike Ruth Ginsburg receiving the extra spotlight for her trailblazing ways, timing feels about right now to...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #40. Rania Attieh/Daniel Garcia’s Initials S.G.
Initials S.G.
Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia sanguinely moved into production in January of 2018 with their fourth feature film, Initials S.G. A wink to Serge Gainsbourg, the...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #41. Wash Westmoreland’s The Earthquake Bird
The Earthquake Bird
A book to film project that was assembled late in 2016 and that takes place in on the cusp of the 1990's...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #42. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense
The Art of Self Defense
Taking his sweet time in the post production process (filming took place in September of 2017 with Jesse Eisenberg in...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #43. Jay Roach’s Fair and Balanced
Fair and Balanced
In a project that will carry a heavier price tag than Trumbo (read review), while we normally don't associate him with American indie,...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #44. Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw
Velvet Buzzsaw
We weren't fans of his overwrought clunker sophomore film Roman J. Israel, Esq., so we're hopeful that a reunion with Jake Gyllenhaal might...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #45. Jacob Estes’ Relive
Relive
In his previous pair, Jacob Estes worked narratives that overlapped in genres and that featured dissension within group, so while he has patched together a rather...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #46. Patrick Brice’s Corporate Animals
Corporate Animals
A last minute addition for what might be a vintage Midnight section at the Sundance Film Festival, Patrick Brice went into production this past...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #47. Malik Vitthal’s Body Cam
Body Cam
2018 saw Malik Vitthal win the the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for a Protector & Gamble campaign and saddle into his sophomore feature -- a Paramount...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #48. Casey Affleck’s Light of My Life
Light of My Life
Conceptually it could have added so much to the performance art and art imitating life discourse, unfortunately, Casey Affleck's directorial debut...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #49. Glenn Ficarra & John Requa’s King of the Jungle
King of the Jungle
Being packaged since 2017 (initially, Johnny Depp was top billing), filmmaker tandem Glenn Ficarra & John Requa currently have a lot of...
