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2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zia Anger’s My First Film

Music video director and a Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter’s Intensive participant, we thought Zia Anger's avant-garde feature debut (or is it a sophomore film?) might...

When You Finish Saving the World | Review

A Tube with a View: Eisenberg Debuts Gentle Narrative on Misplaced Intentions ‘Familiarity breeds contempt,’ could have been the tagline for Jesse Eisenberg’s lovely, low-key...

At First Glance: Zia Anger’s “My First Film” Becomes … Her First Film with Odessa Young

And so the project that was supposed to be a first film that ended up not becoming a film but instead an interactive show...

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...

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...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Peter Brunner’s To the Night

For his fifth feature and English language debut, Austrian helmer Peter Brunner moves into gritty, street-fashioned shoot in NYC. Working with a pair of Safdie...

Heaven Knows What | Review

Living Through Oblivion: Safdie Bros. Lens Devastating Tale of Desperation and Depravity on the Streets of NYC The story of how the directorial brothers Benny...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chloe Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me

More time in post-production means more time for nips, tucks, another Sundance lab (2014's Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound) and even...

2014 TIFF: Safdie Bros.’ Heaven Knows What

Following the premiere of their caustic new film, Heaven Knows What, at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival (it premiered in Venice and had...

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lawrence Michael Levine’s Wild Canaries

He managed to put together the Indie actress all-star team of Sophia Takal, Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil and Lena Dunham (forgive the pun)...

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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.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...