Tag: Eliza Hittman
The Conversation: Top 10 of 2020 Thus Far …
Our chief film critic Nicholas Bell offers his top ten in a (film) year are unlikely to forget. As per usual, this middle point...
Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Review
The Story of Women: Hittman Hits Home Run with Stellar, Topical Abortion Drama
How often have you seen an abortion drama, in any language, which...
Best of the 2020 Berlinale: Hittman, Khrzhanovsky/Oertel & Gotardo/Dutra
Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil landed the top prize (and once again landed the filmmaker in hot water as Iranian authorities aren't big...
Edson Oda’s Nine Days Leads Dylan Dempsey’s Top 10 Films of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival
This year’s Sundance slate was one of the most diverse ever: nearly half of the 128 feature films were directed by women; 34% of...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sean Durkin, Eliza Hittman, Chloé Zhao
Mughal Mowgli
Moving from the docu form (2013's These Birds Walk and 2019's Ghosts Of Sugar Land) into fiction, Bassam Tariq lassoed Riz Ahmed for...
Autumn in New York: Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always Includes Théodore Pellerin & Sharon Van Etten
True to her previous pair of films and casting process, Eliza Hittman has once again unearthed first time acting talents for her third feature, Never...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #11. Eliza Hittman’s Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
Known for her sharp assessment of the youth culture class in It Felt Like Love and Beach Rats, Eliza Hittman has...
Through the Looking Glass – the Top 50 American Indie Films of 2019: Picks #5 to #1
#5. Eliza Hittman's A
With Eliza Hittman oeuvres we find a cinema about those trying to fit in. In remarkable back to back micro portraits in 2013's It...
Gimme an “A”: Rooftop Films Adds Grant Coin to Eliza Hittman’s Next Feature
We every small grant headline comes a glimmer of American indie hope. After the successful launch of her sophomore feature Beach Rats, Eliza Hittman...
Kitty Green’s Casting JonBenet Leads Eric Lavallee’s 2017 Sundance Film Fest Top Ten
With no shortage of first rate items from the likes of Campos, Reichardt, Stillman and Lonergan, Sundance's 2017 edition would comparably fall short in...
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: Eric Lavallee’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Here's the deal. Sundance is chock full of offerings and we could easily line-up the ten days of the fest with a solid four-five...
Sundance ’17: Hittman, Robespierre & Larnell Come Knocking Again in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Last year we had Grand Jury and Audience Award section winner and current awards season no-show The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Eliza Hittman’s Beach Rats
Now that Ana Lily Amirpour has delivered The Bad Batch at Venice and TIFF, and The Babadook's Jennifer Kent might not be ready until...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction
As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...
It Felt Like Love’s Eliza Hittman & Up the Yangtze’s Yung Chang Among Dozen Selected for ’15 January Screenwriters Lab
Eliza Hittman (was love at first sight for her directorial debut It Felt Like Love) and Yung Chang (a docu-helmer best known for the...
Birds & the Bees…Boyhood Leads 24th Gotham Independent Film Award Noms
Deemed as his career best, Richard Linklater's Boyhood leads all nominations for the 24th Gotham Independent Film Awards with winks in the Best Feature,...
Desperately Seeking Studio: Eliza Hittman’s It Felt Like Love
Despite the accolades (awards, festival prizes, and critical praise), sometimes a film that we've praised and seemingly has a very bright future ahead, will...
We’ve got Plans for NEXT Weekend; Blue Caprice, It Felt Like Love & A Teacher Part of Blossoming Sundance Sidebar
I'm pretty sure that four years back when Trevor Groth and John Cooper (Sundance programming tandem who overhauled, switched over and re-defined the Spotlight...
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...
2013 Sundance Film Fest: Moors, Porterfield, Bujalski and Hartigan Fill Innovative NEXT Program
Moving from last year's eight selections (which included Craig Zobel's Compliance), this year section described as "a “greater” next wave in American cinema" balloons...
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