Tag: American Indie Film
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,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #51. Untitled Pippa Bianco Project
A Cinéfondation winner for her short, Pippa Bianco’s SXSW and Cannes winning Share served as the template for the feature length version which shot...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #52. Christina Choe’s NANCY
With a half dozen shorts under her belt and a recent trip to North Korea in this more personable travelogue docu diary series, Christina...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #53. Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane
Unsane
Perhaps the American cousin to the quirky Danish folks in the Dogme movement and their desire to switch gears, Steven Soderbergh has been experimenting...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #54. Austin Vesely’s Slice
Slice
A shot in Chicago micro-indie project back in September of 2016 featuring Chance The Rapper working once again with creative collaborator Austin Vesely, the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #55. Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s Mustang
Mustang
Not to be confused with Deniz Gamze Ergüven's 2015 coming-of-age film, French actress Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre goes full Americana for her directorial debut. Based...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #56. Spike Lee’s Black Klansman
Black Klansman
In a career that spanning three decades, even as of late, we've seen Spike Lee work in just about every genre from Red...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #57. Sarah Daggar-Nickson’s A Vigilante
A Vigilante
With a previous output of shorts in Dead Hands (2010) and The Light in the Night (2011), New York City based Sarah Daggar-Nickson's...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #58. Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind
The Other Side of the Wind
Populated with four Oscar winners (John Huston, Mercedes McCambridge, Edmond O'Brien and Cameron Crowe) and four Oscar nominees (Dennis...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #59. Untitled Dan Gilroy Project
Over-reaching, sloppy and dull, Roman J. Israel, Esq. came as a surprise to us --- frankly it was one of the worst films to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #60. Eva Vives’ All About Nina
All About Nina
A directorial debut we've been keeping tabs on since it participated in the 2016 Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters and Directors Labs, before All...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #61. Bart Layton’s American Animals
American Animals
Coming from a docu debut, in 2012, Bart Layton's The Imposter was selected for Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition and from there landed...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #62. Joe Wright’s Stoner
Stoner
After more weighty studio projects in Pan (2015) and The Darkest Hour (2017), Joe Wright moves more into prestige medium sized independent pic with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #63. Jacob Estes’ Only You
Only You
We suppose that Jacob Estes took one off the chin when the Weinsteins muddled the release of his sophomore picture, the Sundance preemed...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #64. Justin Kelly’s JT Leroy
JT Leroy
In what should be a banner year for filmmaker, Justin Kelly will sprinkle 2018 with a pair of films. Along with Welcome the Stranger (which...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #65. Felix van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy
Beautiful Boy
His film career was launched with the Directors’ Fortnight preemed The Misfortunates (2009), and international audiences discovered him via the Oscar nominated for...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #66. Gareth Evans’ Apostle
Apostle
Making a name for himself with high-octane contributions in the shape of The Raid: Redemption, V/H/S/2 and The Raid 2 (with The Raid 3...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #67. Michael Mayer’s The Seagull
The Seagull
He appeared on the film scene with A Home at the End of the World (2004) and Flicka (2006) and then....disappeared. A full...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #68. Maryam Keshavarz’s Vulture Club
Vulture Club
You couldn't have asked for a better calling card in her 2011 narrative feature. Circumstance debuted at Sundance and was a critical darling,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #69. Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased
Boy Erased
While we give the advantage Nash (Gringo is sitting in our #84 spot) in terms of who between the two has a better...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #70. Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road
The Long Dumb Road
One of the last items to enter the Sundance film festival, Hannah Fidell visited Park City with A Teacher (review) in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #71. Ondi Timoner’s Mapplethorpe
Mapplethorpe
Now in her second decade in filmmaking you'd think Ondi Timoner doesn't have much more to prove, but Mapplethorpe is her debut in the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #72. Casey Affleck’s Light of My Life
Light of My Life
Likely to be mentioned in the same conversations as Debra Granik's Leave No Trace, it'll be hard for Casey Affleck's to make...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #73. Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie
Lizzie
Craig William Macneill's got his debut with 2015’s The Boy (read review) and it wasn't that much more time after that he landed into...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #74. Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself
Life Itself
With all the intersecting ensemble threads promised for his sophomore film, hopefully Dan Fogelman will better manage the puzzles pieces as we weren't...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #75. Jesper Ganslandt’s Beast of Burden
Beast of Burden
The only filmmaker to be featured on both of our 2018 Most Anticipated lists, perhaps it's a good thing that the release...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #76. Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation
Sam Levinson offered us one of the best films of 2011 with his directorial debut --- we called it “a bitter, nasty, angry film about...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #77. Jason Reitman’s Tully
Tully
A tad bit higher up on our charts than The Front Runner (#91 on our list), this Diablo Cody scripted dramedy went in production...
