Tag: David Zellner
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...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carson Mell’s Some Of Our Stallions
Carson Mell was a legit Sundance discovery and perhaps we can call him an actual triple threat as he premiered his first three shorts...
Interview: Riley Stearns – The Art of Self-Defense | 2019 American Film Festival in Wroclaw
A meek, introverted loner turns to karate as a way of coping with trauma after being violently attacked in Riley Stearns follow-up to 2014’s...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #42. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense
The Art of Self Defense
Taking his sweet time in the post production process (filming took place in September of 2017 with Jesse Eisenberg in...
Interview: John Maringouin & David Zellner – Ghostbox Cowboy
Ghostbox Cowboy might be John Maringouin's first foray into the narrative form, but there is a lineage to his previous docu features; best known for...
Ghostbox Cowboy | Review
Damn Sell: Maringouin’s No-Frills Pynchonian Mind-blowing Masterpiece
Unfolding like a Thomas Pynchon novel, John Maringouin’s latest oeuvre follows an American inventor-of-sorts who gets taken for...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #8. Riley Stearns – The Art of Self Defense
A sophomore film we thought might be ready for the 2018 campaign will walk and chop into 2019 instead with a distributor already in...
Interview: Damsel’s Chris Ohlson & Mia Wasikowska | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
A creative collaboration that was cemented on the Zellner Bros.' previous film, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (check out our trading card profile) which premiered...
Video: Zellner Bros.’ Damsel | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Magnolia Pictures release Damsel in theatres tomorrow. Invited to the Berlin Film Festival shortly after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the Zellner Bros. were...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #9. Zellner Bros.’ Damsel
Damsel
Leaving Sundance as one of the critical darlings of the fest, for its play with the Western genre doing away with all the nuances...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #80. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense
The Art of Self Defense
Riley Stearns' 2013 Sundance preemed short, The Cub along with the 2015's SXSW preemed feature debut Faults which we called "deviously...
Sundance ’18: Wash Westmoreland, Debra Granik, Gus Van Sant & Zellner Bros. In Premieres Section
Despite not expecting the Premieres sections to be drop today, several of the narrative items below were on our radar and make for what...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David & Nathan Zellner’s Damsel
We incorrectly labeled this guesstimate as dropping in 2017 and to be frank, we're a bit surprised that it didn't shore up at the...
The Conversation: Venice 2017 – Those Who Were Not Named
With Locarno and Venice’s recently announced competition line-ups, the last stand as far as 2017 festival circuit competition now sits with the soon to...
The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex
As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Zellner’s Damsel
While the Safdie Bros. are likely en route to Cannes or Venice with the other Robert Pattinson vehicle Good Time, we'll likely saddle up...
Video Interview: David Zellner (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter)
Decidedly the psychological state of the protagonist (Rinko Kikuchi) in the David and Nathan Zellner's Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is slightly off its axis, yet she...
2014 Sundance NEXT FEST: Interview with Programmer Charlie Reff on a Potentially “Dynamite” 2nd Edition
Over the span of five short years, John Cooper and Trevor Groth's branded <=> section has not only become a destination for "bold, distinguished by an...
Mapping Minnesota; Amplify Trap Zellner Bros.’ “Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter”
New distrib Amplify has steadily built up their own Sundance Film Fest film arsenal (Little Accidents, The Better Angels, God Help the Girl), and now according...
2014 Sundance “Trading Cards” Series: #13. Chris Ohlson (Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2013 discoveries”...
Chris Ohlson: The Polaroid photography of Bastian Kalous... I'm haunted by it. Matterhorn: A Novel...
2014 Sundance “Trading Cards” Series: #10. Nathan Zellner (Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2013 discoveries”...
Nathan Zellner: Computer Chess, more Claire Denis, MySpace.
Lavallee: Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter is based on...
2014 Sundance “Trading Cards” Series: #2. David Zellner (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2013 discoveries”...
David Zellner: 1. Seeing Viva Maria! in 35mm. That movie is pure joy. 2. Gerhard...
Collect Them All!: Our 2014 Sundance “Trading Cards” Series Checklist
This Thursday, the Sundance Film Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary and since we've covered about 1/3rd of the event and have fond memories of...
Sundance 2014: Cutter Hodierne, Damien Chazelle, Kat Candler & Mona Fastvold Among Lucky 16 U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
As I had predicted here, names such as Cutter Hodierne, Kat Candler, Maya Forbes, Mona Fastvold and Damien Chazelle would be among the invited...
Kid-Thing | Review
Another Little Girl Down the Lane...
While the latest feature length film from the Zellner Brothers, Kid-Thing, may not be meant for children, its stammered...
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