Tag: 2021 Sundance Film Festival
Human Factors | Review
The Discomfort of Strangers: Trocker Collapses Paranoia and Perspectives in Brooding Familial Drama
Communication, when you really think about it, is all but impossible. Words...
Interview: Lenny & Harpo Guit – Mother Shmuckers
Lenny Guit and Harpo Guit are the masterminds behind Mother Shmuckers (Fils de Plouc), one of the most unhinged comedies to grace Sundance’s Midnight...
Mother Schmuckers | Review
O Brother, Why Art Thou?: The Guit Bros. Get Down & Out in Bizarre Debut
Something is rotten in the state of Belgium, or so...
Strawberry Mansion | Review
In Dreams: Audley & Birney Conjure a Candy Colored Clown They Call the Tax Man
A shimmering, nostalgic daydream which plays with parameters of the...
The Pink Cloud | Review
Endemic Pandemic: Gerbase Unveils Prophetic Debut of Life During Lockdown
The uncanny prescience of Iuli Gerbase’s directorial debut The Pink Cloud is as stunning as...
Flee | Review
Flee a Mile in your Neighbor’s Shoes: Ramussen’s Refugee Doc Is A Journey Worth Taking
Evocative animation, first-person pain and a strong dose of hope...
Video Interview: Debbie Lum – Try Harder!
Debbie Lum’s Try Harder! is a supremely moving documentary about high schoolers in the throes of their college application process. Lum’s focus is on...
Try Harder! | Review
A Dream Deferred: Debbie Lum’s Masterclass in Self-Esteem
Try Harder! is a supremely moving documentary about high schoolers in the throes of their college application...
Passing | Review
The Skin I Live In: Hall Formulates an Elegant, Devastating Adaptation of Nella Larsen
For those who have had the pleasure of reading either of...
Interview: Carlson Young – The Blazing World
Visually stunning and psychically rending, The Blazing World is Carlson Young’s feature film debut; she writes, directs and stars without missing a step. Inspired...
Son of Monarchs | Review
Butterflies Are Free: Gambis Mines Identity Through Metaphor/mosis in Sophomore Film
Director Alexis Gambis returns to his favored motif of genetics in his latest film...
Ma Belle, My Beauty | Review
Lover Come Back: Hill’s Debut a Refreshing Portrait of Intimacy and Attraction
Three may not actually be a crowd, but it certainly heightens complications in...
John and the Hole | Review
The Little Boy Who Lives Down the Lane: Sisto Finds a Psychopath in Disturbing Debut
There’s no arguing the discomforting vibe of John and the...
In the Earth | Review
Middling Earth: Wheatley Explores Favored Motifs in Pensive Pandemic Exercise
If we’ve gleaned anything about circumventing Mother Nature, perhaps those 1970s Chiffon margarine commercials featuring...
2021 Sundance Film Festival: Dylan Dempsey’s Overview & Top 5 Films
Before we head into next week's SXSW online edition, I thought I'd circle back to the virtual Sundance 2021. This year, the festival reached...
Judas and the Black Messiah | Review
Only God Forgives: King Resurrects Fred Hampton in Significant, Unequivocal Portrait of Betrayal and Assassination
On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, chairman of the...
Land | Review
Sentimental Divide: Wright Weds Wilderness in Compassionate Debut on Grief
“Things do not change; we change,” is one of many eloquent statements from Thoreau’s eternal...
R#J | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
A Plague on Both Your Collab Houses: Carey Williams’ No Fear Shakespeare
Carey Williams’ R#J is a sleek, inspired, refreshingly cheesy Gen-Z spin on Romeo...
Prisoners of the Ghostland | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
Alas, Poor Yorick: Sono’s English Language Debut a Fallow, Gonzo Spectacle
What happens when a cult actor meets a cult filmmaker? Well, sometimes they just...
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
If We Shadows Have Offended: Katz Gives the Dogs Their Day in Curious Metaphorical Journey
Perhaps it will be difficult for some to makes heads...
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
Bjorn Again: Lindstrom & Petri Examine the Plight of the Beautiful and the Damned
For those unfamiliar with the name Bjorn Andresen, the documentary The...
Knocking | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
Only This and Nothing More: Kempff Explores Cultural Gaslighting in Parochial Thriller
As in the timeless singsong of Poe’s classic poem “The Raven,” ‘suddenly there...
2021 Sundance: Dylan Dempsey’s Top 5 Most Anticipated
Before COVID, we had pre-existing conditions: closing theaters, last-resort blockbusters and evolving formats. Now, in the midst of this long winter that some call...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ridley Scott & Kevin Macdonald’s Life In A Day 2020
And for our final item on our predictions list we have a documentary that is technically made a whole bunch of people. It's a...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bryan Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me
Persistence pays off. Bryan Wizemann has been painstakingly hacking away at indie film since 1998's Sense following that with 2005's Losing Ground, 2011's About...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come
She premiered her feature debut The Sleepwalker at Sundance back in 2014, and has been busy as a co-scribe working on all three of...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s Wild Indian
His short film Shinaab was featured at the 2017 edition of Sundance (he also received some TLC from TIFF not once, but twice) and...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josh Ruben’s Werewolfs Within
Could filmmaker slash actor Josh Ruben become part of a rare and select club of filmmakers who make it in back to back years...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground
Todd Haynes needs no introduction but one day we'll be looking back on his filmography and could create an annotated sub-category of the 60's/70's...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastian Pardo & Riel Roch-Decter’s Untitled A.I & Art Project
After a decade of backing projects such as Ma, Rat Film, Fraud, Automatic at Sea and more recently Crestone, producers Sebastian Pardo and Riel...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Owen Kline’s Two Against Nature
We'll call Two Against Nature the Bermuda Triangle of all our Sundance guesses. An indie comedy that was backed by a talented bunch and...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jared Frieder’s Three Months
A micro indie project flying low on the radar actually had a tremendous upswing from the get-go when Jared Frieder saw his screenplay land...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jakob Rørvik’s Thomas in Superposition
Much like Brit filmmaker Daniel Mulloy, Norwegian filmmaker Jakob Rørvik has "owned" the short film space for over a decade now landing accolades from...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman’s Things Heard and Seen
Another Netflix project on our list sorta filmed under the radar back in November of 2019. Back in their heyday, Robert Pulcini & Shari...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Brice’s There’s Someone Inside Your House
We're beginning to think that filmmaker Patrick Brice is such a fixture in Park City that he deserves a back alley named in his...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Erin Vassilopoulos’ Superior
Recently featured as a work in progress at the US in Progress during the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, NYC based Erin Vassilopoulos'...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oorlagh George’s Stranger With A Camera
Oorlagh George set sail on her directorial debut earlier this year in Northern Ireland on Stranger With A Camera - a project that was...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Theodore Melfi’s The Starling
Production on Theodore Melfi's fourth feature film begin in August of 2019 and he appears to be moving towards more dramatic terrain this time...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carson Mell’s Some Of Our Stallions
Carson Mell was a legit Sundance discovery and perhaps we can call him an actual triple threat as he premiered his first three shorts...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Simon Barrett’s Seance
A writer on horror items such as Horrible Way to Die (201), You're Next (2011), three segments in the V/H/S projects and another Adam...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Charlie Stratton’s Seacole
With some television work and one feature under his belt In Secret (TIFF '13), Charlie Stratton began lensing Seacole back in March of 2019...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lila Neugebauer’s Red, White, And Water
The levee might break in 2021 with A24's glut of film product waiting for a world premiere release and this directorial debut might lead...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Abner Benaim’s Plaza Catedral
Attempting to guess the less than a dozen titles in Sundance's World Dramatic comp section is a true crapshoot but seeing that Panamanian filmmaker...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Sarnoski’s Pig
In early 2020, Neon purchased the rights to Gunda (the docu film) and Pig which had completed production in late December of 2019. Shot...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rebecca Hall’s Passing
One of the most anticipated directorial debuts for a 2021 unveiling comes via actress Rebecca Hall. Based on Nella Larsen’s first published in 1929,...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Madden’s Operation Mincemeat
An acquisitions friendly title from across the pound with all the production value trimmings that we feel would have normally splashed in the Premieres...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jerrod Carmichael’s On the Count of Three
After directing some television items in 2018-19, comedian, actor and obvious star of the The Carmichael Show, Jerrod Carmichael officially decided to move into...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tatiana Huezo’s Noche de Fuego
Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo comes from a docu background however she has been working on her feature debut for a couple of years now....
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Danis Goulet’s Night Raiders
She saw her short films Spin (2004) and Wapawekka (2011) land at the Sundance Film Festival and so it would be a natural progression...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins
You won't find a better Sundance ambassador than New Zealand's Taika Waititi who has unveiled several films from his filmography in Park City. His...
