Tag: Dustin Guy Defa

Interview: Rick Alverson – The Mountain

The Mountain feels like a departure for Rick Alverson, whose brand of deliberately challenging and unconventional cinema is evolving beyond the scope of his...

The Mountain | Review

Who’s Wally?: Alverson Goes Retro with Punishing, Complex Period Drama Always intent on making his audience do some of the work, American indie helmer Rick Alverson...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #55. Rick Alverson – The Mountain

There are a slew of festival preemed goodies in Her Smell, Birds of Passage, Donnybrook, High Life, Gloria Bell, Fistful of Dirt  and even Errol...

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...

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...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Shorts From Janicza Bravo, Calvin Reeder, Dustin Guy Defa & Boyd Holbrook

Last week, we had fun chiming in on how Sundance 2016 might look like with our Sundance predictions list. Our series was exactly one...

Summer of Blood | Review

Hemogobble: Turkel’s Latest Assay into Misanthropy Indie filmmaker Onor Turkel seems determined to remain hilariously unlikeable as his self-effacing, self-directed on-screen alter ego with his...

Dustin Guy Defa, Janicza Bravo, Bernardo Britto & Sean Porter Among Filmmaker Magazine’s 2014 Top 25 New Faces

Easily among our favorite curated lists/annual page turners, Filmmaker Magazine has unveiled their 25 New Faces (or 29, when you count the quad creative...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.