Tag: American Indie Film
The Love Witch | Review
Busty Black Magic: Biller’s Feminist Sexploitation Cinema
Serving as a satire on pulp serials and brimming with all of the elements that would make Russ...
Loving | Review
United States of Love: Nichols Falters with Hokey Prestige Picture
In 1967, the United States Supreme Court made a landmark civil rights decision with Loving...
2016 Sundance Film Fest Video: Kerem Sanga’s First Girl I Loved
Among the NEXT section titles that landed at this year's Sundance Film Fest, the micro-budgeted NEXT Audience Award winning puppy love in the crosshairs...
Porto | 2016 BFI London Film Festival Review
In Remembrance of Loves Past: Klinger’s Quiet Meditation on Romance, Time & Memory
Two foreigners stumble upon a chance encounter and spend an intimate evening together...
Criterion Collection: McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Blu-ray Review
Glancing over the cinematic output from any particular year in the 1970s confirms the era to stand as a fossilized epoch from America’s mainstream...
Criterion Collection: Boyhood | Blu-ray Review
Director Richard Linklater managed in cinematic first in 2014 when he unveiled his long gestating project Boyhood, which filmed over the course of twelve...
Video Interview: Antonio Campos (Christine)
She never stood a chance or perhaps, she finally stood her ground. Via Craig Shilowich's original screenplay, an exploration of possible undiagnosed mental illness...
The Whole Truth | Review
Truth, Be Told: Hunt Returns to Moral Grey Zone with Courtroom Drama
The only real anomalistic quality to Courtney Hunt’s long awaited sophomore feature The...
Moonlight | Review
When the Rainbow is Enuf: Jenkins Returns with Exceptional, Moving Character Portrait
It’s been eight years since indie filmmaker Barry Jenkins debuted his exceptional directorial...
The Neon Demon | Blu-ray Review
After premiering to divisive responses at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it played in competition (jeers were mixed with waves of derisive laughter...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Travis Gutiérrez Senger’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: Travis Gutiérrez Senger (Desert Cathedral)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. A winner at the SXSW and Tribeca Film...
The Sea of Trees | Review
The Forest for the Trees: Van Sant’s Melodramatic Misfire
Gus Van Sant’s name seems to conjure wildly different reactions depending on how accustomed one is...
Spa Night | Review
Hot and Bothered: Ahn’s Debut a Knowing Character Study
As proof of the multitudinous, untold human stories happening at any given period within the sprawling...
Imperium | Review
Made in USA: Radcliffe Infiltrates Neo-Nazi Faction in Solid Potboiler
Daniel Radcliffe impresses once again in an unlikely bit of casting as an FBI agent...
Sun Choke | Review
Choke Up the Sun: Cresciman’s Dubious Deliberation on the Female Psyche
Mentally unstable women with fragile personalities formulate a vibrant subgenre of their own across...
The Neon Demon | Review
Death Walks on High Heels: Refn Delves Daftly into the Los Angeles Fashion Demimonde
To reference John Waters’ definition of beauty, “a face should jolt,...
Wiener-Dog | Review
Every Dachshund Has His Day: Solondz Provides Droll Despair
It’s been five years since we were last graced with Todd Solondz’s particular brand of muted...
Swiss Army Man | Review
Pretend That We’re Dead: Or - Two Dans, a Dano, and a Dead Body
What is there to be said about a dramatic comedy built...
What’s Your Sign?: Aaron Katz Lands Lola Kirke, Zoe Kravitz & John Cho for “Gemini”
Fitting that the film title for this thriller is being filmed in it's birthday month, the sign that is represented by the twins Castor...
The Fits | Review
Get in Where You Fit In: Holmer’s Impressive Allegory of Assimilation
Although it may feel a bit too allegorical or stylistically esoteric for its own...
Sophomore Slump No More: Sundance Institute’s FilmTwo Give Helping Hand to Lucky 13 (Carpignano, Banks Griffin, Heller, Holmer, Moselle et Al.)
American indie helmers who were in Park City this past January with their debut films in Andrew Ahn (Spa Night), Bernardo Britto (Jacqueline (Argentine)), Steven...
Professione reporter: Dirty Wars’ David Riker & Jeremy Scahill Team Up Again
In a miss it if you don't read the fine print, First Look Media (company motto is Entertainment with something on its mind) announced a...
Rachel Getting Unmarried: Patrick Brice Makes Cecily Strong a “Plus One”
A project that has surely and steadily building steam, now filled key the wing-girl role and has landed its director. Originally set up with...
Sebastian Silva Sets Sail on “Captain Dad” with Will Ferrell, Catherine Keener & Michael Cera
Moving from quirky micro dark comedies to bigger budgeted quirky dark comedies, Variety reports that Sebastian Silva will begin 7th feature film on a...
L.A. Confidentiality: David Robert Mitchell Blackmails Andrew Garfield into “Under The Silver Lake”
American indie helmer David Robert Mitchell (profiled ) appears to be dropping one Cali set project for another. With the coming-of-ager and long gestating Ella Walks the Beach not...
The Films Are All Right: Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Young Il Kim & Alex Timbers Preside Over “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt”
In a Variety profile piece on Daniela Taplin Lundberg (producer behind Great World of Sound, The Kids Are All Right and Beasts of No...
Honesty the Best Policy: The Orchard Moves in with “Rainbow Time”
Get them to sign on the line that is dotted, and then get them to sign again. After inking a seven pic deal, the Duplass...
BKLYN Heights & Lows: Alex Ross Perry Stacks “Golden Exits” with the Likes of Browning, Sevigny, Schwartzman & Tipton
With Winnie The Pooh and the possible adaptation of The Names set up for the foreseeable future, Alex Ross Perry did what any antsy, film-per-year...
Cruel Intentions: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy & Anton Yelchin Buck Towards “Thoroughbred”
Just last week, The Tracking Board broke the news that scribes Nat Faxon and Jim Rash were getting into the producing game essentially aiding playwright-screenwriter...
License & Registration Please: Samuel Goldwyn Hunt Down SXSW Winner “Transpecos”
Variety called it a "handsomely crafted debut," THR gives it a stamp of approval by calling it "artfully made but wholly accessible for a...
Homeland Insecurity: Jennifer Morrison Joins Directing Boot Camp with “Sun Dogs”
Actress Jennifer Morrison is moving behind the camera for her directorial debut, and by the same token is launching her production co. Written by Anthony...
Nina | Review
A Matter of Resistance: Mort’s Compromised Portrait of a Musical Legend
She may try with a considerable, ambitious might, but Zoe Saldana does not conjure...
Toll Booth: Rosenberg’s “Approaching The Unknown” Finds Docking Station at Paramount & Vertical Ent.
A project we've been tracking for the better part of half a decade when it was known as "Ad Inexplorata" and was part of...
Appearance Act: Monaghan, Chandler & Lane Surround “Sidney Hall”
Revealing that the project was chased at the script stage by Fox Searchlight and Amazon, you'll want to keep tabs on this project as Variety...
Altercation Alteration: Winger & Letts Quarrel on Azazel Jacobs’ “The Lovers”
A welcome return to feature film, after a stint with "Doll & Em," and The Grace That Keeps This World adaptation still in development,...
Money for Nothing: A24 Channel James Ponsoldt for “I Want My MTV”
Originally set up at Sony with Brett Ratner possibly eyeing it as a directing gig, the A24 folks picked up the rights in turnaround...
When Life Gives you Oranges, Make…: Sean Baker Embarks on “The Florida Project”
For what will become his sixth feature film, film format friendly auteur Sean Baker is moving over to the east coast Sunshine State for...
Hostile Border | Review
Confessions of a Pocha Hustler: Dwyer Tackles Topicality with Listless Thriller
Michael Dwyer makes his directorial debut with Hostile Border, an adequate examination of contemporary...
Maximum Sentence: McCaul Lombardi & Crew Get Paroled for Porterfield’s “Soller’s Point”
McCaul Lombardi (who'll be on the Croisette in the featured Andrea Arnold's American Honey quartet comprised of Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf and Arielle Holmes)...
Man Push Fire Cart: HBO Book Ramin Bahrani for “Fahrenheit 451”
Moving from seizing homes (99 Homes) to burning them down, hopefully American indie filmmaker won't have some of the woes that Francois Truffaut did...
Digital Witness: Annie Clark Added as 4th “XX” Helmer
Going the Peaches route, Annie Clark (St. Vincent) is replacing Mary Harron and joining femme fatale filmmaker quartet (Karyn Kusama, Jennifer Lynch and Jovanka Vuckovic)...
Kilo Kids: FilmRise Bail out Elizabeth Wood’s “White Girl”
In a post Sundance, pre-spring pickup, FilmRise's Danny Fisher has landed a hot summer title that didn't go unnoticed when it was launched back...
One More Time | Review
Begin Again: Edwards’ Satisfying Sophomore Film Utilizes Walken
Thanks to the overwhelming trend of quirk, cliché, or contrivance evident in most American indie offerings (whether...
Double Team: Jason Sudeikis Gets Coached in Ryan Koo’s “Amateur”
Jason Sudeikis is likely going to use his whistle-blowing skills from the set of Race, as The Tracking Board reports that the actor will board...
Krisha | Review
Turkey Shoot: Shults Brings Heartache to the Holidays in Intimate Debut
We’ve seen it plenty of times before, the hellacious discomfort accompanying the enforced tradition...
Fix For a King: Helmer Finds Addicts in Michael Trotter, Nixon, Geraghty & Ireland For “The Evening Hour”
After off-roading it in desolate Armenia with Here (U.S. Dramatic Competition - Sundance Film Festival) helmer Braden King will be roughing it out in the white trashy...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Matt Sobel (Take Me to the River)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema and this month’s spotlighted artist saw his debut...
Columbia Records: Jason Mitchell & Ellar Coltrane Enrol in Vikram Gandhis’ “Barry”
Joining the already cast Devon Terrell and Anya Taylor-Joy, Variety reports that Jason Mitchell and Ellar Coltrane have been added as the supporting players...
True Bromance: Lionsgate Premiere Does Some Male Bounding with “Joshy”
The Wrap reports that Lionsgate and Hulu have paired on picking up the Joshy, the Sundance preemed (U.S Dramatic Comp section) Jeff Baena sophomore,...
