Tag: Jeff Baena
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Spin Me Round
It was pasta, wine, and a the Leaning Tower of Pisa type backdrop for the cast of goofballs assembled for Jeff Baena's five feature...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stephen Karam, Jon Stewart, Eric Wareheim, Miranda July
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Can Jeff Baena make it four for four? Having presented 2014's Life After Beth, 2016's Joshy and 2017's The Little Hours at the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours
Can filmmaker Jeff Baena get the triple crown of Sundance invites? So far two for two with his feature films in 2014's Life After...
Mambo Italiano: Aubrey Plaza & Alison Brie Among Regs in Jeff Baena’s “The Little Hours”
Usual contributors Aubrey Plaza and Paul Weitz, Life After Beth's John C. Reilly and Molly Shannon, Joshy's Alison Brie and Adam Pally and a...
True Bromance: Lionsgate Premiere Does Some Male Bounding with “Joshy”
The Wrap reports that Lionsgate and Hulu have paired on picking up the Joshy, the Sundance preemed (U.S Dramatic Comp section) Jeff Baena sophomore,...
Sundance ’16: Antonio Campos, So Yong Kim, Elizabeth Wood & The Daniels Among U.S. Dramatic Competition
In last year's selection of sixteen U.S. Dramatic Competition offerings, it was Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's Me & Earl & the Dying Girl that landed both...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Joshy
Equal measures irritably supercilious and demonically brilliant, our introduction to this filmmaker came via his co-writing gig: 2004's I Heart Huckabees. Fast forward a decade...
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...
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...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Life After Beth
A huge ensemble cast of indie vets (Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Matthew Gray Gubler, Dane DeHaan, Alia Shawkat, John C. Reilly, Cheryl Hines, Paul...