Tag: American Indie Film
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #38. Justin Simien’s Bad Hair
Bad Hair
After the balayage that was Dear White People (the award-winning Sundance film that spawned a Netflix series), Justin Simien buzzed cut his way...
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...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #40. Rania Attieh/Daniel Garcia’s Initials S.G.
Initials S.G.
Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia sanguinely moved into production in January of 2018 with their fourth feature film, Initials S.G. A wink to Serge Gainsbourg, the...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #41. Wash Westmoreland’s The Earthquake Bird
The Earthquake Bird
A book to film project that was assembled late in 2016 and that takes place in on the cusp of the 1990's...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #42. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense
The Art of Self Defense
Taking his sweet time in the post production process (filming took place in September of 2017 with Jesse Eisenberg in...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #43. Jay Roach’s Fair and Balanced
Fair and Balanced
In a project that will carry a heavier price tag than Trumbo (read review), while we normally don't associate him with American indie,...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #44. Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw
Velvet Buzzsaw
We weren't fans of his overwrought clunker sophomore film Roman J. Israel, Esq., so we're hopeful that a reunion with Jake Gyllenhaal might...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #45. Jacob Estes’ Relive
Relive
In his previous pair, Jacob Estes worked narratives that overlapped in genres and that featured dissension within group, so while he has patched together a rather...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #46. Patrick Brice’s Corporate Animals
Corporate Animals
A last minute addition for what might be a vintage Midnight section at the Sundance Film Festival, Patrick Brice went into production this past...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #47. Malik Vitthal’s Body Cam
Body Cam
2018 saw Malik Vitthal win the the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for a Protector & Gamble campaign and saddle into his sophomore feature -- a Paramount...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #48. Casey Affleck’s Light of My Life
Light of My Life
Conceptually it could have added so much to the performance art and art imitating life discourse, unfortunately, Casey Affleck's directorial debut...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #49. Glenn Ficarra & John Requa’s King of the Jungle
King of the Jungle
Being packaged since 2017 (initially, Johnny Depp was top billing), filmmaker tandem Glenn Ficarra & John Requa currently have a lot of...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2019: #50. Martha Stephens’ To the Stars
To the Stars
Moving from the lopapeysa fitted, John Cassavetes Award winning Land Ho! to an Oklahoma Land Rush, Martha Stephens (profiled in our Sundance...
Destroyer | Review
Sabotage Triage: Kusama and Kidman Break the Bank in Riveting Revenge Thriller
Robert Burns’ eternal line “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/Gang aft...
If Beale Street Could Talk | Review
I Can Feel the Beale: Jenkins Does Justice to Classic Baldwin Novel
Following his history making Best Picture winner Moonlight, stakes are set high for...
Interview: Christopher Abbott | Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Christopher Abbott is an actor known for his roles as Charlie Cattalo in Girls and as the titular character in the critically-acclaimed James White...
Interview: Jake Wasserman – TYREL & Piercing | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
It's an association, friendship and creative partnership that began with Nicolas Pesce, that was nurtured by the Borderline Films' Josh Mond, Antonio Campos and...
Vox Lux | Review
A Star is Worn: Corbet Confirms his Talent with Daring Sophomore Effort
2015’s The Childhood of a Leader (review) was a surprising debut in many ways,...
Interview: John Maringouin & David Zellner – Ghostbox Cowboy
Ghostbox Cowboy might be John Maringouin's first foray into the narrative form, but there is a lineage to his previous docu features; best known for...
Ghostbox Cowboy | Review
Damn Sell: Maringouin’s No-Frills Pynchonian Mind-blowing Masterpiece
Unfolding like a Thomas Pynchon novel, John Maringouin’s latest oeuvre follows an American inventor-of-sorts who gets taken for...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: The Scorecard Before the Announcements
Later today, the Sundance Film Fest unveil their 2019 line-up. Taking a Thierry Fremaux Cannes approach, the fest will be annoucing their programming offerings...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #99. Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour
Shooting took place in November of 2017 on Alistair Banks Griffin's sophomore feature and a cast of Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr.,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #97. & #98. Richard Linklater – Where’d You Go, Bernadette & Untitled Moon Landing Project
In an almost film per eighteen months pace, Richard Linklater might have not one, but two features released in 2019....and perhaps the filmmaker will...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #96. Benh Zeitlin – Wendy
With the amount of time being put into the post production portion of the process, I doubt that sophomore jinx will be applicable here. Wendy is...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #95. Trey Edward Shults – Waves
Trey Edward Shults blasted onto the scene with his award winning SXSW, Cannes debut Krisha (2015) which was followed up with It Comes at...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #92. Untitled Noah Baumbach Comedy
While Netflix held off at showing the pic during the fall season, there is no reason to think that they won't premiere in early...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #91. Untitled Miranda July Crime Drama
We're not sure if the Madeline's Madeline experience put Miranda July into the let's make a movie spirit, but shortly after premiering last January...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #90. Untitled Lulu Wang Comedy
Her debut film in 2014's Posthumous (Jack Huston and Brit Marling) went mostly unseen, but something tells me this currently untitled American-Asian family comedy...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #89. Untitled Christopher Morris Comedy
Christopher Morris brought Four Lions to Sundance in 2010, and his follow up went into production in the summer of 2017 in the Dominican...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #88. Untitled Alex Lehmann Duplass Brothers/Ray Romano Comedy
Part of the larger Duplass Bros. family that keeps growing, Alex Lehmann saw his directorial debut Blue Jay get launched at TIFF and shortly...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #87. Owen Kline – Two Against Nature
The by-product of acting royalty, Criterion connoisseur, and child actor in The Squid and the Whale, Owen Kline's debut was briefly mentioned in a...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #85. Babak Anvari – Transgression
Another Sundance alumni who broke out big at the fest with Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari quickly lined up a pair of projects with...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #84. Scott Z. Burns – The Torture Report
It would be kind of neat to see Scott Z. Burns premiere his directorial debut at the same time as his frequent collaborator Steven...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #83. Martha Stephens – To the Stars
Martha Stephens' fourth feature film follows in the footsteps of Land Ho! (Sundance '14). With filming having taken place in May, starring Shea Whigham, Malin Akerman,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #82. Lynn Shelton – Sword of Trust
A project she likens to her 2009 film Humpday, described as an improvisational type of production, Lynn Shelton's eighth feature film in Sword of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #81. J.D. Dillard – Sweetheart
The only J.D. Dillard related news to drop in 2018 was that he co-wrote Joe Sill’s directorial debut project Stray. Another tight-lipped Blumhouse production...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #80. Carlo Mirabella-Davis – Swallow
After a false start of sorts, Carlo Mirabella-Davis will finally be premiering the France-US co-production and his directorial debut Swallow in 2019. His past...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #77. Hannah Pearl Utt – Stupid Happy
Moving from Disengaged the TV Series to Disengaged the feature, Hannah Pearl Utt received a helping hand (and so did producer Mallory Schwartz) for...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #76. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson – Someone Great
Considered ahead of its time, writer-director-producer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson parlayed her canceled MTV’s Sweet/Vicious gig into a directorial debut featuring the likes of Brittany Snow,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #75. Josephine Decker – Shirley
Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline was next level for the filmmaker and so it was no surprise when she joined a project that was already in...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #74. Pippa Bianco – Share
In less than two weeks from now, we should be finding out what the final title is for Pippa Bianco's feature length version which...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #73. Selah and the Spades – Tayarisha Poe
Receiving a ton of support along the way, the micro-budgeted Selah and the Spades went into production this summer in Tayarisha Poe's backyard of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #72. David Gutnik – Russian American
Brooklyn-born and based David Gutnik has been chipping away at Russian American (formerly Brighton Beach) since 2016, with post perhaps being further delayed because...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #70. Gideon Raff – The Red Sea Diving Resort
Perhaps in the same programming methodology as when Sundance included Brad Anderson's Beirut in their 2018 line-up, STX will get to launch Gideon Raff's...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #67. Keola Racela – Porno
Working in the short form and picking up Sundance film experiences by being an art dept. intern on David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #64. Jacob Estes – Only You
Jacob Estes could be making it a Sundance trifecta with Mean Creek (2004) and The Details (2011) being joined Only You - a horror, sci-fi, thriller that...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #60. Michael Cristofer – The Night Clerk
While we commonly associate Sundance with youngling breakout talents, young-at-heart Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, screenwriter (Bonfire of the Vanities) and actor (most recently Evil...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #59. Rashid Johnson – Native Son
Perhaps the most alluring offering on A24's slate for 2019 is the ode to 1930's Chicago and African American identity debut film from conceptual...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #58. My Zoe – Julie Delpy
Her seventh feature film since 2002's Looking for Jimmy, Julie Delpy went into production My Zoe back in May in Berlin and Moscow. Of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #57. Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre – Mustang
Having gone into production in November of 2017 and not having a festival berth in 2018 meant that the Sundance 2019 was part of...
