Tag: Joe Swanberg

The Rental | Review

This Property is Condemned: Franco Mines Interesting Ideas in Faulty Debut Egregiously annoying characters can be either a blessing or a curse to a...

Interview: Elizabeth Rao – Madeline’s Madeline

Flashback to one of the best films of 2018, we had the chance to meet Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline co-editor and producer Elizabeth Rao...

Interview: Josephine Decker – Madeline’s Madeline

Artistic ambition, hierarchy within matriarchy, heightened psychosis and hormonal pushback act as a sort of microfibre in a dramedy about the individual being a product...

Video: Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Madeline's Madeline is the reason why I love the programming for the Sundance's NEXT section. Madeline's Madeline is the reason why I love micro-indie....

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...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Win It All

While he was busy delivering the Netflix Series 'Easy,' January to November 2016 will have came and went and we will not have heard...

BKLYN Heights & Lows: Alex Ross Perry Stacks “Golden Exits” with the Likes of Browning, Sevigny, Schwartzman & Tipton

With Winnie The Pooh and the possible adaptation of The Names set up for the foreseeable future, Alex Ross Perry did what any antsy, film-per-year...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Win It All

While his choice in look swings like a pendulum, there are several the more things change, the more they stay the same earmarks that...

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...

Digging For Fire | Review

Dem Bones: Swanberg’s Mellow Examination of Married Life A married couple’s weekend apart turns into the sort of mildly enterprising exploration of what happens when...

Sundance ’15: Baumbach, Fleck/Boden, Pulcini/Berman, Ponsoldt & Another Swanberg Among Premieres

Last year's slate of seventeen Narrative Premieres (excluding secret screenings of Boyhood and Nymphomaniac: Vol. I) refreshingly included works from first time filmmakers. I...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kris Swanberg’s Unexpected

We usually expect the unexpected, but in this case, the Unexpected would totally be unexpected. With two previous features under her belt, Kris Swanberg...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth

It has been a remarkable, four-star review type of year for Alex Ross Perry, and 2014 ain't over yet with the the Indie Spirits Awards...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Digging For Fire

Guess who's turning 10? Joe Swanberg has had a "fire" in his belly for, give or take a decade, and his latest in the...

Proxy | Blu-ray Review

After receiving a sturdy critical response at it's world premiere at the '13 edition of the Toronto Int. Film Festival, followed by an unceremonious...

Proxy | Review

Lady Liars and Psycho-sexual Thrills; Zach Parker's Proxy is a Rocky Ride Countless blockbusters have used and abused the idea of doppelgängers and surrogates, but...

Proxy | Review #2

Pinch-hitting: Parker’s Latest as Surprising As it is Unwieldy With a series of continuously improving indie horror thrillers under his belt, filmmaker Zack Parker launches...

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: Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas

While Baumbach and Payne got conformable shooting in B&W (see Frances Ha, Nebraska), Joe Swanberg convinced swag-collecting thesps Anna Kendrick to reteam with him...

You’re Next | Review

Counting Sheep: Wingard Offers a Fun if Altogether Trivial Entry in Home Invasion Horror Up and coming horror filmmaker Adam Wingard’s latest, You’re Next, is...

Drinking Buddies | Review #2

Friendly Persuasion: Swanberg Hones His Craft One of the most notable members of the Mumblecore crew, the often factious Joe Swanberg, at long last seems...

Drinking Buddies | Review

Supersize Me: Swanberg Remains Intimate Despite Bigger Budget Harkening back to the studio system of the 1930s and 40s, the prolific writer/director Joe Swanberg has...

Bottoms Up in SXSW; Magnolia Toasts to Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies

Making it two for two in just as many days, off the heels of a great showing in SXSW and the pick-up of Milo,...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #56. Joe Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies

Drinking Buddies Director/Writer: Joe Swanberg Producer(s): Swanberg, Burn Later Productions’ Paul Bernon and Sam Slater, Andrea Roa (Sunlight Jr.) and Alicia Van Couvering (Nobody Walks) U.S. Distributor:...

V/H/S | DVD Review

Brad Miska, who runs bloody-disgusting.com, sees his fair share of horror successes and failures. It's pretty safe to say that he knows what works...