Tag: Christine Vachon
Interview: Bernardo Britto – Omni Loop
One of the projects at the Sundance Institute’s 2017 Screenwriters Lab was a film called 'Omni Loop Blues.' Flash forward into 2024 and Bernardo...
A Different Man | Review
The Face of Another: Schimberg Scrutinizes the Pratfalls of Face Value
Those familiar with his 2018 sophomore film Chained for Life will likely notate director...
2024 Sundance: A Different Man, The Outrun, Winner & Sasquatch Sunset Among Premieres
Sundance Film Festival's Premiere section (a mix of fiction and docs) will have some biggie titles to contend with the likes of Aaron Schimberg's...
May December | Review
Tarnished Angels: Haynes Curates a New Dazzling Cult Classic
Had Brian De Palma been keen on rehashing Douglas Sirk instead of Hitchcock, he might have...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man
We begin our predictions list with what is one of about a half dozen or so A24 titles that are waiting to get out...
She Came to Me | Review
Guilty of Romance: Miller Weaves a Wacky and Disarmingly Charming Love Tapestry
To those who think the possibilities of heartfelt romantic comedies dried up in...
Past Lives | Review
Tell Me That You Love Me, Nora Moon: Song Explores Destiny and Longing in Potent Debut
Romance cut short before it reaches full bloom is...
Todd Haynes’ May December – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
After a quick trip to Paris for a retrospective of his career at the Centre Pompidou, Todd Haynes comes back to Cannes for his...
A Tale of Ordinary Madness: Bravo Delivers a Cinematic Unicorn – Zola [Video Review]
A Tale of Ordinary Madness: Bravo Delivers a Cinematic Unicorn
Cinematic innovators are few and far between, but a blazing hot anomaly is revealed in...
Video Interview: Janicza Bravo – Zola
We could label Janicza Bravo's sophomore feature as a road-trip misadventure and about getting a raw deal in a set number of twitter character...
The World to Come | Review
Pitch Rider to Perdition: Fastvold Fans Flames of Forbidden Desire in Masterful Period Drama
Few and far between are cinematic narratives which attempt to, much...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground
Todd Haynes needs no introduction but one day we'll be looking back on his filmography and could create an annotated sub-category of the 60's/70's...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #2. Josephine Decker’s Shirley
Shirley
Say we omit Josephine Decker's feature docu items Bi the Way and Flames, it's remarkably only with her third "narrative" feature film that becomes a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #10. Janicza Bravo’s Zola
Zola
A Sundance NEXT section revelation with her directorial debut in 2016's Lemon (we were fans earlier on with her short work), we're expecting Janicza...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #12. Todd Haynes’ Dry Run
Dry Run
Todd Haynes as certainly been enamoured by the iconoclast set of glam rockers to folk artists, but he might be actually aiming for...
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,...
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...
First Reformed | Review
Through a Glass Starkly: Schrader Delivers a Master Study on Despair and Extremism
Priests, and their psychic struggle with obligation to the cloth, have always...
Tracking Shot: Alistair Banks Griffin, Brady Corbet & Karyn Kusama Shooting in December
“Tracking Shot” is a top of month featurette here at IONCINEMA.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing and as...
Interview: Janicza Bravo & Brett Gelman (Lemon)
I've been a fan of her work since being exposed to her gleefully sardonic award-winning short film Gregory Go Boom at Sundance back in 2014....
Video: Janicza Bravo’s Lemon – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
“We wrote it together and we ....share a bed.” – Janicza Bravo
Creative partners in crime and the most fashionable "it" couple I ran into...
The Conversation: Producer Christine Vachon
Not only a trailblazer but continual champion of queer film, producer Christine Vachon continues to be one of the most prolific risk takers in...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Dosunmu’s Where is Kyra?
Andrew Dosunmu left quite the mark with his Sundance preemed micro-indie (Restless City) and macro indie (Mother of George) offerings and now he turns...
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...
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...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog
Of the seven feature films in his just under two decade filmography, Todd Solondz has landed in Park City twice with 1996's Welcome to...