Tag: American Indie Film
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #78. Andrew Bujalski’s Support The Girls
Support The Girls
In a filmography that includes 2002’s Funny Ha Ha, 2005’s Mutual Appreciation, 2009’s Beeswax, 2013’s Computer Chess (read review) and 2015’s Results,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #79. Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
The Tale
After decades of documenting powerful women and their stories, docu filmmaker made the jump into narrative for her first time in May of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #80. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense
The Art of Self Defense
Riley Stearns' 2013 Sundance preemed short, The Cub along with the 2015's SXSW preemed feature debut Faults which we called "deviously...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #81. Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy
Mandy
Canadian helmer Panos Cosmatos found a lot of fanfare stateside for his debut film in 2010’s Beyond the Black Rainbow, so naturally the XYZ...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #82. Matthew Ross’ Siberia
Siberia
Matthew Ross didn't waste much time putting his sophomore film in place, after debuting 2016's Frank & Lola at Sundance (read review) he tapped...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #83. Yen Tan’s 1985
1985
Known for 2013’s Pit Stop (Sundance selection), last April, Yen Tan returned behind the camera for a his fifth feature modeled on the award...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #84. Nash Edgerton’s Gringo
Gringo
He might have a background in back breaking stunt man work (more than two decades worth), but in our books, this Aussie's true vocation...
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: #86. Emma Forrest’s Untogether
Untogether
She started off as a journalist in her teens. She became a best-selling author in her young adulthood, moved into screenwriting and landed on...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #87. Anthony Mandler’s Monster
Monster
He might have been itching to direct a project as early as 2013 with the book to screen project of Tokyo Vice with Daniel Radcliffe, but...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #88. Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods
Little Woods
With POTUS45 somewhat peeved with it's neighbor to the north, Canada nonetheless remains a sanctuary and is more friend than foe especially when...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #89. Olivia Newman’s First Match
First Match
Based on the 2000 award-winning short (it played at the New York Film Fest), shot in Brooklyn, the feature film version was workshopped...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #90. Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep
State Like Sleep
Previously she got her docu game on with 2010’s The Ride (SXSW), but it's in the narrative shape that we've circled Meredith Danluck's...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #91. Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner
The Front Runner
With Tully dropping on April 20th, we look towards Jason Reitman's eight feature film as salient, dramatical potent possible second 2018 offering...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #92. Jeremiah Zagar’s We the Animals
We the Animals
Cutting his teeth in the docu and short form, Jeremiah Zagar (Emmy-nominated for 2014's Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart) shot We...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #93. Melanie Laurent’s Galveston
Galveston
There was once a time when True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto's novel to screen adaptation had Matthias Schoenaerts attached in the lead and Danish helmer...
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #95. Ethan Hawke’s Blaze
Blaze
You might want to keep an eye out for Ethan Hawke's fourth feature film, especially if you didn't buy the bottle, down on his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #96. Max Minghella’s Teen Spirit
Teen Spirit
If the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, perhaps, and that is the hope, Max will follow in footsteps of his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #97. Justin Kelly’s Welcome the Stranger
Welcome the Stranger
Currently sitting on a pair of feature film items waiting for a film festival release, filmmaker Justin Kelly had his feature debut...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #98. Paul Schrader’s Dark
What the Film Gods giveth and Film Gods taketh away simply doesn't apply here. In the new year, we might have not one, but...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #99. Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Eighth Grade
Fore more than a decade, this spanking brand new entity on the American independent film sphere has been cutting his teeth as a comedian...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #100. Nijla Mu’min’s Jinn
Jinn
We begin our countdown with this micro-budget sized feature film debut revolving around identity issues in a acutely complex America. Nijla Mu’min pulls from her...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: Picks 200 to 101
Last week, Nicholas Bell helped us ring in the new year with our Top 200 most anticipated world cinema items. We also highlighted our...
Criterion Collection: Election (1999) | Blu-ray Review
During the final throes of the 1990s, as the last vestiges of Generation X began to crown into adulthood and the budding millennials were...
Gimme an “A”: Rooftop Films Adds Grant Coin to Eliza Hittman’s Next Feature
We every small grant headline comes a glimmer of American indie hope. After the successful launch of her sophomore feature Beach Rats, Eliza Hittman...
The Disaster Artist | Review
A Room of One’s Own: Franco’s Sincere Paean to the Art of Failed Art
The notion “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” has assumed...
Wonder Wheel | Review #2
The Wheel of Their Discontent: Allen Stages Crumbling Marital Drama in the Dog Days of Coney Island
As impeccably administered as it is at times...
Wonder Wheel | Review #1
Woody Allen’s Wheel of Misfortunes: An Opera of Human Frailty
Year after year, films by the prolific Woody Allen seem to build on each...
Pitch Black: Ehle, Harrison Jr. & Emory Cohen Join “The Wolf Hour”
Production on Alistair Banks Griffin's sophomore film began this week, and the supporting cast in the sweltering The Wolf Hour have been identified. Deadline reports...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Drake Doremus’ Zoe
We've now arrived to our 75 prediction destination with this final item. A Sundance personality who over time, has developed his own cult following in...
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...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy
We've kept our ears peeled to the ground and eyes glued since non-trade related film news began to trickle in 2013, but for the...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Kelly’s Welcome the Stranger
With a breakneck pace output, filmmaker Justin Kelly hasn't wasted much time between features since premiering his debut feature at I Am Michael (review) at...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremiah Zagar’s We the Animals
Emmy-nominated Jeremiah Zagar last introduced Sundance auds to his 2014 docu look into a prosecution from the masses in Captivated: The Trials of Pamela...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Madeleine Olnek’s Wild Nights with Emily
Now in year three of celebrating our awful predictions with concerns to this title, we finally have a status update and official title to...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Emma Forrest’s Untogether
A journalist turned author, turned scribe (she was on the Blacklist for LIARS (A-E) in 2009) turned helmer, Emma Forrest wrote and directed her...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
We often talk about the all important sophomore film, but the third often yields better results. As might be the case for David Robert...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel
What does one do when a project falls apart days before shooting? If you're Terry Gilliam you throw your hands up in the air,...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jason Reitman’s Tully
Stamped with an April 20th release date via the Focus Features folks (they picked it up last May), there is no reason to premiere...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
As they were still putting final touches on the project at the midway point of 2017, and didn't drop in the fall fest season,...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post
One of the choice multi-tasker discoveries of 2014 Sundance edition both behind, and in-front of the camera, Desiree Akhavan recently divulged (to IndieWIRE) just...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road
Having debuted A Teacher (review) at Sundance back in 2013, she saw her next feature 6 Years (review) premiere at SXSW in 2015. Teaming with the...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher
An exciting, first feature film credit as a producer for Maggie Gyllenhaal (creatively she is at an important juncture) this could be the Israeli film...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Bujalski’s Support The Girls
If Andrew Bujalski lands at the fest with his third straight film, we'll officially call him a fixture. On the seen since 2002's Funny...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep
An artist who doesn't stay put, We thought this directorial debut would have receive the green light same time last year, but aside from...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
Coming from the world of hip hop, you'd expect Boots Riley to be somewhat of a novice with film in general but a not...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Austin Vesely’s Slice
We had pegged this directorial debut as a possible selection for the last Sundance edition, but the A24 folks worked with a slow cook...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Crystal Moselle’s Skate Girl
If invited to Park City, expect many of the cast for this film to hit the slopes between screenings. With a brief overview of...
