Tag: American Indie Film
Hungry like the Wolf: Naomi Watts Toplines Alistair Banks Griffin’s Psychological Thriller
Alistair Banks Griffin is currently in pre-production and finally gearing up for his long-awaited sophomore feature with Naomi Watts confirmed as the lead in...
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women | Review
Women Wanted: Robinson Explores the Fascinating Origins of Wonder Woman in Solid Biopic
Truth may often be stranger than fiction, but it’s not always as...
Wicked Leaks: Charlie Plummer Joins Rhianne Barreto in Pippa Bianco’s Feature Debut
Venice Film Festival Marcello Mastroianni best young actor award (Lean on Pete) winner Charlie Plummer (check out the Q&A at TIFF) will star alongside Rhianne...
Sarandon & Gideon Adlon Saddle Up for Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s “Mustang”
Susan Sarandon might revert to some Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking) counsellor skillset for her next role. Deadline reports that the veteran actress...
Video: Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
The pre-fest announcement that Louis C.K. had directed a project that went into production this summer and was going to be ready in September...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Theo Anthony’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Theo Anthony (Rat Film)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. Baltimore-based filmmaker Theo Anthony saw his feature debut...
Video: Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay / Actor
My personal Palme d'Or of the fest was the last in competition and we've yet to see where it'll land next. With Telluride still...
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...
Video: Chloé Zhao’s The Rider – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Here is pre-screening presentations for The Rider - the Directors' Fortnight selected film. Filmmaker Chloé Zhao and cast were present for her sophomore film world...
Interview: Janicza Bravo & Brett Gelman (Lemon)
I've been a fan of her work since being exposed to her gleefully sardonic award-winning short film Gregory Go Boom at Sundance back in 2014....
Video: Geremy Jasper’s Patti Cake$ – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"Patti is my alter-ego". - Geremy Jasper
A project that was nurtured via the various Sundance labs, Patti Cake$ played like gangbusters during its world premiere...
Interview: David Lowery (A Ghost Story)
Just prior to immersing himself into editing dock mode with the feature he shot earlier this summer (Old Man and the Gun - with...
Interview: Ana Asensio (Most Beautiful Island)
Winner of the 2017 Grand Jury Award at the SXSW film festival, I got to sit down with writer-director, producer and lead actress Ana Asensio at...
Video: Janicza Bravo’s Lemon – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
“We wrote it together and we ....share a bed.” – Janicza Bravo
Creative partners in crime and the most fashionable "it" couple I ran into...
Good Time | Review
White is Right: Pattinson Shines in the Grime of the Safdie Bros. Urban Squalor
American indie directors Joshua and Ben Safdie craft their most polished...
Video: Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
“Closure is this convenient thing we came up with in the Nineties.” – Taylor Sheridan
Seeing that his previous written work was also showed in...
Columbus | Review
Floating Weeds: Kogonada Looks at the Shape of Things in Masterful Debut
Kogonada, who may be familiar to most cineastes thanks to his video essays...
Kidnap | Review
Female of the Species: Berry Brings It in Middlebrow Action Drama
Playing like a throwback to 1990s studio thrillers starring Oscar caliber actresses navigating survival...
Street Team: Crystal Moselle in Simpatico with The Skate Kitchen
No stranger to profiling NYC based artists and misfits running, subwaying (and in this case, skating) around Manhattan and its boroughs, Deadline confirms that...
Detroit | Review
Horror Hotel: Bigelow and Boal Recount Grim Chapter of Racial Disparity
This year’s most harrowing horror movie, Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, happens to be based on...
The Lovers | Blu-ray Review
A classy, complex affair, Azazel Jacobs scores his greatest achievement to date with The Lovers, taking a break from the adolescent, man-child ennui which...
Menashe | Review
Not Without My Son: Weinstein Crafts Tender, Orthodox Familial Drama
Graduating from documentary filmmaking to narrative cinema with Menashe, director Joshua Z. Weinstein examines universal...
The Beguiled | Review
The Last Seduction: Coppola Eschews Subtext with High Profile Remake
Claiming to be a closer adaptation to Thomas Cullinan’s 1966 novel than the famed 1971...
The Florida Project | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah: Baker Offers A Portrait of the South Like No Other
This time out we can move away from lazily defining Sean Baker's cinema as...
It Comes at Night | Review
Night of Your Life: Shults Plumbs Fear and Fear Itself in Arch Sophomore Effort
As a pure exercise in the powers of suggestion, It Comes...
Criterion Collection: Ghost World | Blu-ray Review
Although most widely recognized for his 2003 black comedy Bad Santa, director Terry Zwigoff’s particular idiosyncrasies are perhaps best captured in his 2001 narrative...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Lynne Ramsay Hammers out Career Best & Palme Contender in You Were Never Really Here
Kitchen sink realism in the distant past, You Were Never Really Here counts as feature number four, and yet this is her seventh visit...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Critics Getting High with Benny & Josh Safdie’s Good Time
You always remember your first time. I was there when the two pees in a pod, Ronald Bronstein and Eleonore Hendricks were included in...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled Mushrooms into Critic Fave
A longstanding "member" of Cannes well before she showcased her skillset with The Virgin Suicides in the Quinzaine (she was probably at the Apocalypse...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Yorgos Lanthimos Does the Mash Potato with The Killing of a Sacred Deer
He'll be referenced as the one who began the Greek New Wave in cinema and there was a time when we didn't quite know...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Baumbach Buries the Hatchet with The Meyerowitz Stories
Almost a dozen features in and The Meyerowitz Stories is Noah Baumbach's first time on the Croisette (if you exclude his screenwriting cred on...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Ruben Ostlund Tumbles Up the Stairs with The Square
He received an earlier screening late last night and has been consider the buzz title (mostly for better) and mentioned in the same breathe...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Bong Joon-Ho Has No Pet Peeve’s with Okja
He first hit the Croisette with another "creature movie" in 2006 with the Directors' Fortnight included The Host, and after showings of Tokyo! (2008)...
Wakefield | Review
A Most Wanted Man: Swicord Hangs Doctorow on the Snide Shoulders of Cranston
For evidence of Bryan Cranston’s ability to carry a film, look no...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Fossil fuels Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck
The first 8:30 a.m. press screening was a little bit of a nightmare for journos with security measures but into place that were extra...
Wonderstruck | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Time After Time: Haynes Captures Wistful Tone of Bygone Eras
American indie auteur Todd Haynes explores dual cinematic pastiche in his most family friendly film...
Paris Can Wait | Review
Forget Paris: Lane is a Fine Vintage from the Coppola Vineyards
At the age of eighty, Eleanor Coppola makes her narrative feature debut with the...
The Lovers | Review
The One You’re With: Jacobs Brings Mature Gaze to Dark Marital Comedy
Imagine if George and Martha actually had allowed themselves the opportunity to derive...
Criterion Collection: Rumble Fish | Blu-ray Review
The 1980s began roughly for Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most lionized American auteurs ever, whose streak of the 1970s was an unmitigated...
The Endless | Tribeca Film Festival Review
Circles in the Sand: Benson & Moorhead Latest Low-Fi Genre Hybrid another Mixed Bag
For a film as fascinated with notions of differentiation as The...
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea | Review
Teenage Dirtbag, Baby: Shaw’s Odd, Amusing Portrait of Stylized Teen Angst
If some teenage version of Reading Rainbow coughed up a hallucinatory fever dream into...
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Fixer Downer: Cedar Unleashes Fascinating Portrait of Aggravating Underdog
There’s an unshakeable sadness to Israeli director Joseph Cedar’s English language debut Norman: The Moderate Rise...
The Lost City of Z | Review
Zed and Buried: Gray’s Period Adventure a Meticulous Throwback of Epic Filmmaking
American auteur James Gray unveils his most provocative film yet with the painstaking,...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Logan Sandler’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Logan Sandler (Live Cargo)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This month we feature American indie helmer Logan...
Frank & Lola | Review
A Lover I Don’t Have to Love: Ross’ Debut Explores Troubled Romance
Notions of monogamy and ownership hover on the troubling periphery of Matthew Ross’...
Jackie | Review
The Safety of Objects: Larrain Revisits Traumatic Chapter of Iconic First Lady
There have been very few First Ladies either before or after Jacqueline Kennedy...
2016 Sundance Film Fest Video: Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes Of My Mother
Not only one of the more temptingly tasty items from the NEXT section but the entire 2016 Sundance slate, the B&W, economically compact title...
2017 Independent Spirit Awards: Arnold’s American Honey & Jenkins’ Moonlight Lead Noms
We might want to rebrand the Independent Spirit Awards as the A24 awards. The distributor racked up a whopping 18 nominations in all and...
