Tag: David Lowery
Queer | Review
(Disem)Body Talk: Guadagnino Pays Homage to the Paradoxical Beat Pariah
If Ayn Rand had dared to write a character who was a genius gay white...
2021 Gotham Awards Noms: Test Pattern Lands Trio; Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter” to Duke it Out with Rebecca Hall’s “Passing”
An indie film that had it's world premiere at the Blackstar Film Festival (coined as the Black Sundance) in 2019 and was released by...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Lowery’s The Green Knight
Due to have been released just after it's launch at the SXSW film festival, A24 haven't been fleeing their fate with The Green Knight...
Miss Juneteenth | Review
Queens Without a Crown: Peoples Mines Strength and Resilience in Quiet Drama
“I learned the truth at seventeen/That love was meant for beauty queens,” Janis...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #30. David Lowery’s Green Knight
Green Knight
David Lowery has been working in an almost film per year orbit since the release of Ain't Them Bodies Saints, but Green Knight...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions I: North & South America
As we near the announcement of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival’s program next month (April 12th for Cannes, 16th for Critics' Week and possibly...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #12. David Lowery’s Old Man and the Gun
Old Man and the Gun
We were correct with our Sundance prediction stating that David Lowery would be at Sundance this year, but it was...
Video Countdown: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Films of 2017
Although we have another facetiously titled Michael Haneke film to ring in the New Year with, it is a decidedly unhappy end considering the...
2018 Indie Spirit Noms: Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” Leads Pack with 6, Benny Safdie Lands 3
It's the head-scratching nominations process where Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is good enough for the Best Feature category and picks up four nominations in...
A Ghost Story | Blu-ray Review
With commendable marketing following the strong critical reception out of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, David Lowery’s enigmatic return to indie filmmaking paid off...
Interview: David Lowery (A Ghost Story)
Just prior to immersing himself into editing dock mode with the feature he shot earlier this summer (Old Man and the Gun - with...
Video: Dustin Guy Defa’s Person to Person: 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
“We shot in 16mm - which is an aesthetic choice, but also, the only choice for this film.” – Dustin Guy Defa
Six years have...
Video: David Lowery’s A Ghost Story: 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"My tastes and interests run all shapes and sizes." - David Lowery.
Prior to being one of the most lauded films to come out of...
2017 Sundance Trading Card Series: #1. The Ghost (A Ghost Story)
I can't believe we're making a trading card this year on a fictitious character, but here goes.
Question: What is home for you? Is it...
The Conversation: Top 20 Best Films of 2017 So Far …
At the mid-way point of 2017, the usual cinematic trends continue, with the best theatrical offerings from January through June mostly festival circuit offerings...
Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto Leads Nicholas Bell’s 2017 Sundance Film Fest Top Ten
In what ended up being one of the snowiest and coldest editions of Sundance in recent memory, there was no shortage of pleasant cinematic...
2017 Sundance Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
2017 promises to be another strong year for Sundance, hosting a bevy of highly anticipated titles in another formidable Premieres section, while its US...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
Sundance ’17: Kogonada, David Lowery, Janicza Bravo & Dustin Guy Defa Move into NEXT Section
Last year programmers landed Tim Sutton's remarkable hybrid-like fly-on-the-wall third feature film Dark Knight, and a pair of stunning debuts in Nicolas Pesce's hauntingly...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled David Lowery Project
There was a sense that something was being cooked up, but for all we knew, the members on Ain't Them Bodies Saints were having...
Our Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films: Villeneuve’s Story of Your Life Leads Class of 2016
Auteurs working within the confines of the studio system tend to disappoint, though we try to keep hope alive by anticipating the best for...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: Picks 100 to 6
While DC and Marvel might already have a lock on several future release dates past the 2015 campaign with the Coen Bros. circling February...
Most Anticipated Films for 2015: An Overview
Last month, we unveiled our all-encompassing, most anticipated films for the current year in film. Now we peer into a future that is a...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #197. Jade Healy’s Vestige
Vestige
Director: Jade Healy
Writer: Jade Healy
Producers: David Lowery and Andrea Roa
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Mickey Sumner
It comes as no surprise that several folks on our...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip
Production began in September, and post in October, so for Alex Ross Perry's third feature film to be ready, he'll have to had superpowers....
Top 3 Critic’s Picks In Theaters this August: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Paradise: Faith & Short Term 12
Counting the likes of James Ponsdolt's The Spectacular Now, Lake Bell's In a World... and Prince Avalanche (David Gordon Green's return to form and...
52nd Cannes Critics’ Week Packed with Salvo, Quillévéré’s Suzanne & Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
As hard it is to predict, the sidebar section all the way at the other end of the Croisette contains a trio of titles...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
#85. David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Gist: In the spirit of Malick and a slew of films from the 70's, the Sundance synopsis for...
Best of Fest: Sundance 2013’s Top 20 New Voices
Yesterday, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell and I highlighted our Top 10 New Faces (strictly in the acting domain) of 2013's Sundance Film Festival...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #57. David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Director/Writer: David Lowery
Producer(s): Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen, Primary Productions’ Amy Kaufman, Sailor Bear’s Toby Halbrook, Evolution...
2013 Sundance Film Fest: David Lowery, Ryan Coogler, Dosunmu, Ponsoldt and Carruth Part of U.S. Dramatic Comp
2013's Sundance Film Fest sees a mix of returnees in Cherien Dabis, Lynn Shelton, Andrew Dosunmu, Shane Carruth (see Upstream Color pic below) and James Ponsoldt, a...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
He premiered his much talked about award-winning short film Pioneer at Sundance and SXSW in 2011, but film (all aspects of it) has been...
