Tag: Andrea Riseborough
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marco La Via & Hanna Ladoul’s Funny Birds
While I don't really see a Catherine Deneuve navigating the wintery sidewalks of Main Street, her co-star in Andrea Riseborough could easily be the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #132. Marco La Via & Hanna Ladoul’s Funny Birds
Funny Birds
Marco La Via and Hanna Ladoul first landed on the scene (and the 2018 ACID section in Cannes) with Nous Les Coyotes which...
2022 Indie Spirits Awards Noms: The Cathedral, Palm Trees and Power Lines, Murina & Aftersun Are Glowing
Everything Everywhere All At Once, Tár, Women Talking and Bones and All are the heavyweight indies that will be properly feted the day before...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Morris’ To Leslie
A British born television Director who had a stint at the Old Vic theatre in London (1999 to 2002); with a full decade of...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please
Currently on an amazing almost film per year streak, Amanda Kramer first landed onto the film festival scene with 2018's Ladyworld (TIFF selection) and...
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Review
Wain’s World: Sharpe Presents Loving Portrait of an Artist
It’s odd to reflect upon a time when felines weren’t regarded as a stereotypical domesticated fur...
Luxor | Review
Hotel Spell: Durra Explores the Tenuousness of the Present Through Romance of the Past
She hasn’t quite lost that loving feeling, which seems to be...
Video Interview: Zeina Durra – Luxor
The soaked in history backdrop of Egypt serves as a reminder that the past is sometimes more present than one can anticipate and while...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Will Sharpe’s Louis Wain
A relatively new talent both in front and behind the camera, Will Sharpe starred in Netflix drama Giri/Haji, directed quirky British comedy Flowers, is...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stacey Gregg’s Here Before
Shoring up at Sundance with five films in the past two editions (Mandy, Nancy, Burden, Possessor, Luxor) Andrea Riseborough could once again be linked...
Possessor Uncut | Review
The Mind Benders: Cronenberg Returns with Eerie Exercise of Mind/Body Horror
Eight years after his 2012 debut Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg returns with Possessor Uncut, an...
The Grudge (2020) | Review
Curse Strings: Pesce Reawakens J-horror Cornerstone with Studio Reboot
Director Nicolas Pesce becomes the first Borderline Film alum to enter studio filmmaking with his reboot...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #47. Possessor – Brandon Cronenberg
Possessor
Eight years after his 2012 debut Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg returns with Possessor, a sci-fi thriller with a stellar cast, featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh (who...
The Kindness of Strangers | Review
Strife Itself: Scherfig Delivers Major Misfire with Manhattan Set Melodrama
Lest we forget, it was Blanche Dubois, the broken seductress of Tennessee Williams’ classic A...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #54. Possessor – Brandon Cronenberg
Possessor
Seven years after his 2012 debut Antiviral, Canadian director Brandon Cronenberg returns again to the body horror theme established early on by his father...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #110. The Kindness of Strangers – Lone Scherfig
The Kindness of Strangers
Dogme 95 alum Lone Scherfig continues in English for her tenth film, The Kindness of Strangers, a Danish-Canadian co-production, which takes...
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...
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...
Video: Christina Choe’s Nancy | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
As a film production, Nancy is the sort of micro indie project (we've been tracking for some time now) that serves as an example of...
Video: Andrew Heckler’s Burden | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
A long time in the making and perhaps the longest gestating film from the entire line-up all sections combined, starring Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #52. Christina Choe’s NANCY
With a half dozen shorts under her belt and a recent trip to North Korea in this more personable travelogue docu diary series, Christina...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #81. Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy
Mandy
Canadian helmer Panos Cosmatos found a lot of fanfare stateside for his debut film in 2010’s Beyond the Black Rainbow, so naturally the XYZ...
Sundance ’18: Levinson, Cosmatos, Pesce & RKSS Bring Screams & Blood Curdling to the Midnight
Remarkably, this year's Midnight section has this in common: Sam Levinson, Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Pesce (see pic above) and the team of Francois Simard,...
Sundance ’18: Morano, Silva, Akhavan & Boots Riley Among U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christina Choe’s Nancy
After building a half dozen short film resume, her feature film debut appears to be the result of a lot of indie blood, sweat...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy
Assuredly becoming a hot ticket director with the launch of 2010's Beyond the Black Rainbow - a debut film we called "a nightmarish world...
Birdman | Blu-Ray Review
Taking home four Oscars out of its nine nominations, including Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Cinematography, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman was the big...
Birdman | Review
Bullets Over Broadway: Inarritu’s Vibrant, Exuberant Portrait Of Celebrity, Relevance, and Creative Passion
Not only is Birdman (or The Virtue of Ignorance) arguably the best...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #40. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman
Birdman
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Writers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo
Producers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole
U.S. Distributor:...
