Tag: Christopher Abbott
Bring Them Down | 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Everybody Hurts: All Pain and No Gain in Christopher Andrews’ Debut Bring Them Down
If misery loves company, then Bring Them Down is a party....
Swimming Home | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Marriage Story: Justin Anderson Serves Up An Enigmatic Challenge Is His Feature Debut
A marriage in crisis cooks under the summer sun in filmmaker Justin...
Poor Things | Review
The Story of O: Lanthimos Mesmerizes with Fiercely Compelling Frankenstein Tale
“Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Our most anticipated feature debut films for this year is indeed ready but it'll be dropping in 2024 instead. Perhaps a fest that is...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down
When a pair of exceptionally talented actors initially commit to a project and then part ways, not due to a lack of interest in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #52. Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Swimming Home
In a surprising field of many first-time works on our list, this year's most anticipated directorial debut goes to commercials director Justin Anderson...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #8. Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things
Poor Things
Produced by Yorgos Lanthimos, Element Pictures' Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe.
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by Tony McNamara
Starring: Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley, Willem Dafoe, Mark...
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #46. John Michael McDonagh’s The Forgiven
The Forgiven
Produced by Elizabeth Eves, Nick Gordon, Trevor Matthews, John Michael McDonagh
Directed by John Michael McDonagh
Written by John Michael McDonagh
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Ralph Fiennes,...
Black Bear [Video Review]
Husband and Wives and Bears, Oh My!: Levine’s Dark Dream an Ambiguous, Playful Psychodrama
The crux of our innate creative necessities might require something beyond...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jerrod Carmichael’s On the Count of Three
After directing some television items in 2018-19, comedian, actor and obvious star of the The Carmichael Show, Jerrod Carmichael officially decided to move into...
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...
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...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Omniboat, Lawrence Michael Levine, Heidi Ewing & Danny Madden in the NEXT Section
The Death of Dick Long, Give Me Liberty, Selah and the Spades and Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour (which is receiving its theatrical...
Video: Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Nicolas Pesce's highly anticipated sophomore film is what several will call a film lover's delight. While his debut film (The Eyes of My Mother)...
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...
Interview: Sebastián Silva – TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Over the past nine years, writer/director Sebastián Silva has completed his checklist, by premiering a film in all five categories of the Sundance narrative feature...
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: Jason Mitchell – Sebastián Silva’s TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Jason Mitchell first caught the mainstream eye in 2015 for his critically-acclaimed performance as an ill-fated rapper Eazy-E in the NWA biopic Straight Outta...
Interviews: Phillip Ettinger & Max Born + World Preem of Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Along with actors Christopher Abbott (watch the interview) and Jason Mitchell (watch that interview), just prior to the world premiere at the Library Center...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #4. Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Tyrel
You can wager on the cinema offerings of the Brooklyn based, Santiago born Sebastián Silva to be bold, the comedy to be subversive, and rather...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #25. Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing
Piercing
Borrowing from Takashi Miike’s Audition (seminal J Horror film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore film and...
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: Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel
What does one do when a project falls apart days before shooting? If you're Terry Gilliam you throw your hands up in the air,...