Tag: Alex Saks
Red Rocket | Review
Nude Illusion: Baker Returns to Sex Work in Bristling Character Study
You can’t go home again, especially when no one missed you in the first...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Katie Aselton’s Mack & Rita
After directing her first two features (both Sundance entires) in The Freebie (2010) and Black Rock (2012), Katie Aselton would move more into her...
The Glorias | Review
Are the Voices in Your Head Calling, Gloria!: Taymor Tackles Feminist Icon in Peculiar Biopic
If there’s an art to the crafting of a biopic,...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...
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...
Interview: Elizabeth Chomko – What They Had | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Contrary to what some might say, not all projects that break into any of the Sundance Institute labs make the Advance to GO, collect...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #85. Paul Dano’s Wildlife
Wildlife
We've been charting his perfs well before the likes of Reichardt and PTA brought him in as a supporting character, Paul Dano who has...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #94. Elizabeth Chomko’s What They Had
What They Had
A seasoned actress who wound up striking gold in more ways than one during the development of the project (Elizabeth Chomko had...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Paul Dano’s Wildlife
Once all the "dust" settled from the Venice and TIFF program announcements, the 2017 film festival calendar hourglass pretty much confirmed that Paul Dano's...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Elizabeth Chomko’s What They Had
In a move rarely seen these days, Bleecker Street's Andrew Karpen swooped in, preemptively landed the rights to What They Had before it even had...
Video: Sean Baker’s The Florida Project – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
His first trip on the Croisette, Sean Baker's The Florida Project was presented in the Directors' Fortnight section as a world premiere screening. In...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cory Finley’s Thoroughbred
Featuring two current "it" actresses, a young playwright making his directorial debut and one of the last performances from Anton Yelchin, Thoroughbred could be...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alethea Jones’ Fun Mom Dinner
Sundance programmers looking to add some funny bone component to the line-up might be looking towards Aussie, L.A. based filmmaker Alethea Jones' female-centric comedy....
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sean Baker’s The Florida Project
Not unlike how we feel about the road trip formula, there is no shortage of or love lost for: kids drifting off into ruined...
