Tag: Connie Britton
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...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Susanna Fogel’s Winner
Berlinale gave us Reality earlier this year and next January we think we might be seeing Winner - another project that looks at the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Riley Stearns, Nikyatu Jusu, Mariama Diallo, Cooper Raiff & Bradley Rust Gray in the U.S. Dramatic Comp Section
In 2022, ten lucky titles/filmmakers will be vying for the big daddy prize of them all in the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize...
Joe Bell | Review
Walking & Talking: Green Dons Didactic in Heartfelt, Sentimental Social Issue Drama
Representation of thought processes and progressive epiphanies are the necessary conjunction with diversity,...
Promising Young Woman [Video Review]
If There Be Scorn: Fennell’s Debut a Stellar Portrait of Rape Trauma’s Rippling Effects
Heretofore, the rape revenge thriller has been something of a problematic...
Bombshell | Review
All the Network Allows: Roach Gets Righteous with Topical Melodrama
They’re mad as hell and they just might not take it anymore. So could...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...
Interview: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre – Mustang | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Having grown up on film sets and gradually making the move from in front of the camera, to a space where appears to have...
The Mustang | Review
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?: de Clermont-Tonnerre Leads Us to Water with Minimalist Melodrama
Animal love is at the heart of Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s directorial...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #43. Jay Roach’s Fair and Balanced
Fair and Balanced
In a project that will carry a heavier price tag than Trumbo (read review), while we normally don't associate him with American indie,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #57. Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre – Mustang
Having gone into production in November of 2017 and not having a festival berth in 2018 meant that the Sundance 2019 was part of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #19. Nicole Holofcener’s The Land of Steady Habits
The Land of Steady Habits
Treading familiar waters but nonetheless, her output always feels fresh, The Land of Steady Habits actually counts as a first for veteran...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #55. Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s Mustang
Mustang
Not to be confused with Deniz Gamze Ergüven's 2015 coming-of-age film, French actress Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre goes full Americana for her directorial debut. Based...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicole Holofcener’s The Land of Steady Habits
She has been a fixture as a creative advisor, panelist and helmer who up until Toronto preemed Enough Said (2013) saw every single one...
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women | Review
Women Wanted: Robinson Explores the Fascinating Origins of Wonder Woman in Solid Biopic
Truth may often be stranger than fiction, but it’s not always as...
American Ultra | Review
The Long Spliff Goodnight: Nourizadeh’s Stoner Action Flick Mixes Kooky with Convention
Comprised of a tangle of similar narrative threads spliced together from a variety...
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Review
Fault in Our Tastes: Teenage Death Gets Warmed Over in Gomez-Rejon’s Celebrated Sophomore Film
Taking home the Grand Jury and Audience prize following its warmly...
This is Where I Leave You | Review
This is Where I Judge You: In the Great Well of Family Drama, Levy Is Dry
Based on the acclaimed novel by Jonathan Tropper, who...