Tag: Amy Seimetz
The Secrets We Keep | Review
The Forgiveness of Blood: Rapace Shines in a Loose Regurgitation of Dorfman Play
The strangest aspect of The Secrets We Keep, the third feature from...
She Dies Tomorrow | Review
Bet Your Bottom Dollar: Seimetz Circles Existential Dread in Lowkey Genre
“Your deepest fear is spreading,” reads the tagline for Amy Seimetz’s sophomore directorial effort,...
Wild Nights With Emily | Review
The Exorcism of Emily D: Olnek Goes ‘Rowing in Eden’ with Affectionate Glance at Emily Dickinson
Her carriage apparently held more than just the morbid...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #40. Madeleine Olnek’s Wild Nights with Emily
Wild Nights with Emily
There has been a lot of tinkering around on Madeleine Olnek's third outing as a filmmaker. We've been thinking this might...
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...
Alien: Covenant | Review
This Time It’s More: Scott Repeats the Beats of Initial Sci-Fi Classic for Sequel Prequel
There comes a time when too much tinkering with one...
Lovesong | Review
Her Best Friend’s Wedding: Kim’s Poetic Exploration of Muted Desire
Indie auteur So Yong Kim continues in English with her fourth narrative feature, Lovesong, a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #22. Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete
Lean on Pete
Director: Andrew Haigh
Writer: Andrew Haigh
British filmmaker Andrew Haigh may possibly unveil two new projects this year, the first being Lean on Pete,...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Madeleine Olnek Emily Dickinson Project
We were a little too early with this prognostication, and we don't yet have an official title, but we're now thinking it's time for...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tali Shalom-Ezer’s Mercy
The chances of seeing Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer's Mercy premiere at Sundance are next to nil and that's not because it wouldn't be...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete
Seeing that Andrew Haigh's career has been climbing in the same upward trajectory as the best stock options on the fortune 500, we shouldn't be...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: So Yong Kim’s Lovesong
Sundance, Berlin, Venice and Toronto film fest programmers would all agree --- there is a refined and fertile cinema chez So Yong Kim. In Between Days, Treeless...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Madeleine Olnek’s Emily Dickinson Project
What the trades tell us and what is fact are not mutually exclusive. 11th hour film submissions at the Sundance Film Festival do occur --- the...
I Believe In Unicorns | Review
Oh Them Silly Unicorns: Meyerhoff’s Coming of Age Debut Prizes Style Over Substance
Director Leah Meyerhoff most effectively conveys the nature of her debut film,...
The Reconstruction of William Zero | Review
Less Than Zero: Bush's Blend is a Well-intended but Exhaustive Piece
Drama stimulated by an identity crisis set against a science fiction backdrop poses for...
When Life Gives you Lemons, make O.J; Magnolia Fill Three Cups Worth with Alverson’s “Entertainment”
As discussed in our recent post Sundance Film Festival assessment of the NEXT section distribution deals, we noticed that there was some fine fruit at the...
Girlmancing the Stone: So Yong Kim Sets Jena Malone & Riley Keough on Road Trippy “Lovesong”
Actresses Riley Keough, Jena Malone and a supporting cast comprised of Brooklyn Decker, Amy Seimetz, Marshall Chapman, Ryan Eggold and Rosanna Arquette have all...
2013 Gotham Award Noms: McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave Leads with Trio of Noms
Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave leads this years Gothams award noms with three, but well-received Sundance items in Blue Caprice, Concussion, Fruitvale Station,...
Interview: Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley (Sun Don’t Shine)
In actor/producer Amy Seimetz’s Sun Don’t Shine, a lost and forlorn couple, Crystal and Leo (exquisitely played by Kate Lyn Sheil and Kentucker Audley)...
Sun Don’t Shine | Review (AFI Film Fest)
Madlands: Seimetz’ Relationship Drama Takes Us on a Road Trip to Love Hell
Managing to balance an insanely busy schedule that boasts quality and quantity,...
Sun Don’t Shine | Review (SXSW)
Orange State: Seimetz ninety minutes.
Between them, they barely own one T-shirt. Crystal and Leo, two people with next to nothing, roam the deserted highways...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #49. Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color
Upstream Color
Director/Writer: Shane Carruth
Producer(s): Carruth, Casey Gooden, Ben LeClair
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Andrew Sensenig, Shane Carruth, Brina Palencia, Amy Seimetz, Juli Erickson, Mollie Milligan,...
