Tag: American Indie Film
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #56. Sia – Music
After blasting a whole bunch of originality in the texts found Brady Corbet's Vox Lux, I'm ready for a second helping of film-based creativity...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #55. Rick Alverson – The Mountain
There are a slew of festival preemed goodies in Her Smell, Birds of Passage, Donnybrook, High Life, Gloria Bell, Fistful of Dirt and even Errol...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #52. Matt Aselton – Lying and Stealing
You'd been forgiven if you've forgotten the name of Matt Aselton who, a decade earlier, made his directorial debut with Gigantic - a film...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #50. Julius Onah – Luce
Part of his "American Lives" output, production on Luce took place in November of 2017 and becomes Julius Onah's third feature following in the footsteps of the...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #49. Peter Sattler – Love & Oatmeal
Peter Sattler could very well be making a return trip to Sundance following up 2014's Camp X-Ray (we called it a remarkable screenwriting and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #48. Casey Affleck – Light of My Life
Post Manchester by the Sea, in February of 2017, Casey Affleck began filming Light of My Life in British Columbia’s Okanagan valley. Significantly slowing...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #47. Robert Eggers – The Light House
Robert Pattinson recently admitted that filming on The Light House was "the closest I’ve come to punching a director". Not exactly Kinski-Herzog in nature, but we...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #46. Joe Talbot – Last Black Man in San Francisco
Perhaps making the leap from former short filmmaker alumni (2017's American Paradise) to debuting his directorial debut, Sundance are not the only ones to...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #45. Jennifer Reeder – Knives and Skin
An artist and film fest circuit habitual, filmmaker Jennifer Reeder's looks to be moving out of the short film sphere (the Sundance selected 2014 short A...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #44. Dan Krauss – The Kill Team
Who better to adapt non-fic to fiction than .... the filmmaker himself. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Tribeca...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #41. Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit
A longstanding friend of the festival (I think I've walked by him three dozen times at the HQ in Park City), Taika Waititi might...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #39. Jonathan Helpert – IO
2018 came and will have went and IO will not have dropped. Perhaps there is a lot more after effect works demanded for this...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #38. Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia – Initials S.G.
Recently featuring their film at the American Film Festival's US In Progress in Wroclaw, the team of Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia look to...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #34. Stephen Gurewitz – Honky Kong
Apart from a work in progress industry screening in Wroclaw during the American Film Fest in 2017, there is very little info on Stephen...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #33. Alma Har’el – Honey Boy
A fruitful creative collab that began with a music vid for Sigur Rós and added support for her sophomore film LoveTrue, Alma Har’el and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #32. Steven Soderbergh – High Flying Bird
Taking a page not from Sean Baker, but from his own proclivity to shoot on the format which best suits the narrative's needs, Steven...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #30. Nabil Elderkin – Gully
An American photographer, turned music video director turned filmmaker who found fortune via a peculiar Kanye West encounter, American-Iranian Nabil Elderkin (who was among...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #27. Josh Trank – Fonzo
It's time to say goodbye to the De Niro Capone touch from The Untouchables. A meatier, bulkier project that would certainly rev up Sundance audiences,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #25. Joe Berlinger – Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
After being a no-show among fests in 2018, it looks like Joe Berlinger's Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile is poised for a Park...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #24. Craig Roberts – Eternal Beauty
Not really the dark horse pick selection that was his feature debut, actor Craig Roberts has been to the fest beforehand (Richard Ayoade’s Submarine...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #23. Wash Westmoreland – The Earthquake Bird
Working once again with what might be a strong female protagonist and adapted source material, Wash Westmoreland boarded The Earthquake Bird in August of 2016 and production...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #22. Andrew Ahn – Driveways
After the critically acclaimed Spa Night, (2016 Sundance Film Fest selection) Andrew Ahn moved into the television sphere with a half dozen episodes of This...
At Eternity’s Gate | Review
Pigments of Your Imagination: Inside Van Gogh’s Mind
Julian Schnabel’s aesthetically-spellbinding Vincent Van Gogh biopic, At Eternity’s Gate, places viewers inside the Dutch artist’s eye....
Video: Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Homes – 2017 Cannes Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
Vladimir de Fontenay premiered his debut film Mobile Homes in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Fest. Here is his post...
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Review
Six of the West: Coen Bros. Release Minor, Uneven Collection of Frontier Short Stories
In thinking about the anthology form in cinema, Joel and Ethan...
A Private War | Review
War is War is War: Heineman Tackles the Controversial Marie Colvin in Narrative Debut
Oscar nominated documentarian Matthew Heineman (2015’s Cartel Land), follows up recent...
Her Old Joy: Kelly Reichardt Finds Oregon by Way of China in “First Cow”
When Todd Haynes introduced Kelly Reichardt to the work of Jonathan Raymond, it was the page turning exercise of The Half Life that set...
Nancy | 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Out of the Void: Chloe Embarks on Nuanced, Complex Search for Human Warmth
In Christina Choe’s first feature, Andrea Riseborough gives a subtle performance as...
Video Interview: Elizabeth Chomko – What They Had
Compassionate, introspective and quietly in your face, What They Had makes a case for coming to terms....on your own terms. Films where the focal...
What They Had | Review
Tragedy + Comedy = Family: Chomko’s Unforgettable Alzheimer's Story
In a year where so many films feel politically charged, What They Had is a refreshingly...
Interview: Jim Cummings – Thunder Road
He first came to our attention as one of the producers on Patrick Wang's The Grief of Others and Trey Edward Shults' Krisha, but...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Eva Vives (All About Nina)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This past April at the Tribeca Film Festival, Eva...
Bel Canto | Review
Music Makes the People Come Together: Weitz Hits False Notes in Hostage Drama
If ever an aria could conjure the essence of camp, it would...
One Last Deal | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Art to Art: Haro Conjures Another Character Study in Crowd-pleasing Drama
Much like his contemporary Dome Karukoski, Finnish director Klaus Härö is one of his...
Harvest Upheaval: Principle Photography on Kate McLean & Mario Furloni’s ‘Freeland’ is Complete
Principal photography on Kate McLean and Mario Furloni's directorial debut is now complete. Starring Krisha Fairchild (Krisha) and co-starring Frank Mosley (Upstream Color) and Lily Gladstone...
Searching | Review
The Search is Over: Chaganty Transcends ‘found-footage’ and then some with Debut
Aneesh Chaganty’s absorbing feature debut Searching follows a desperate father’s hunt for his missing daughter—set...
Support the Girls | 2018 SXSW Film Festival Review
Give a Hoot: Regina Hall shines in Bujalski’s latest Slice of Life
Andrew Bujalski is one of those quintessential American independent filmmakers whose mature work...
BlacKkKlansman | Review
Klan Destiny: Lee Returns with Strongest Joint in Years
Although not as finely wrought as his subversive (and underrated) 2015 Chi-raq, Spike Lee returns with...
Interview: Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, Emily Skeggs & Melanie Ehrlich – The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post—Desiree Akhvan’s tender tale set in a gay conversion therapy camp—took home the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance ’18. The...
Interview: Desiree Akhavan & Emily M. Danforth – The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Director Desiree Akhavan’s tender and funny second feature The Miseducation of Cameron Post won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance ’18. Based on Emily...
Video: Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Moving from quirky indie with a pulse in Appropriate Behavior (one of our favroite Sundance discoveries back in 2014) to a witty ensemble piece with...
The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter | Review
The Journey of a Father and Son and their Cameraman
Longtime collaborators Jody Hill and Danny McBride have teamed up again to take on a...
Sorry to Bother You | Review
Unbridled Creativity: No one is Safe from Riley’s Wackadoo Satire ... Himself Included
There is nothing subtle in Boots Riley's Sorry To Bother You. A singular,...
Interview: Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You
Writer/Director Boots Riley is no stranger to pushing boundaries. A longtime political activist-rapper, he has already made his bones in music, founding the renowned...
Interview: Omari Hardwick – Sorry to Bother You
Among the cast of misfit supporting characters in Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You we find Omari Hardwick's take on true corporate ladder machiavellianism...
Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You | 2018 Sundance Film Festival World Premiere
Perhaps the most hyped film to premiere at this year's Sundance film festival, the over-sold world preem screening at the Library had plenty of...
Interview: Damsel’s Chris Ohlson & Mia Wasikowska | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
A creative collaboration that was cemented on the Zellner Bros.' previous film, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (check out our trading card profile) which premiered...
Blame Canada: NEON Prescribes Nia DaCosta’s “Little Woods”
With impressive grades from its Tribeca Film Festival showing, NEON have swooped in to grab the North American rights to a directorial debut that...
Interview: Christina Choe – Nancy
We often relate the notion of identity with DNA, our given name as spelled out on an envelope, the social media account profile we...
Hereditary | Review
Inherit the Wind: Aster Conjures a Horror Classic with Masterful Debut
For those familiar with director Ari Aster’s body of short films, beginning with his...
