Tag: Josephine Decker
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josephine Decker’s The Sky Is Everywhere
Confirming her status as a pillar of the new American indie film scene when 2020's Shirley slayed at it's Park City world preem, Josephine...
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...
Sundance 2020: Dylan Dempsey’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Sundance 2020’s narrative slate is filled with a stellar list of incumbents returning after initial Sundance breakthroughs: Dee Rees, Eliza Hittman, Justin Simien, Carlos...
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: Brandon Cronenberg, Lila Neugebauer, Dave Franco, Josephine Decker
The Owners
French television director Julius Berg moved into feature filmmaking with Game of Thrones Maisie Williams toplining the English language tale about a group...
The Conversation: Vying for Venice 2019 – Predictions!
Once again, Venice seems poised to make a killing by featuring a number of high-profile US auteurs in its line-up. Like last year’s program,...
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...
The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #75. Josephine Decker – Shirley
Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline was next level for the filmmaker and so it was no surprise when she joined a project that was already in...
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...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #13. Josephine Decker (Madeline’s Madeline)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Josephine Decker: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (book), Giant, 1956...
2018 Sundance Film Festival: Bing Liu’s “Minding The Gap” Leads Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10
Some have complained that Sundance 2018 was a lackluster festival: largely devoid of masterpieces—with few blockbuster sales. I have a different gripe. As always,...
Sundance 2018: Madeline’s Madeline Helena Howard Leads our Top 10 New Faces
Last week we looked at the impressive class of new voices who made a noticeable mark at Sundance '18, and now we go in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #24. Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline
Madeline's Madeline
We slotted Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline at the number #24 slot, but post-Sundance, we sort of wished we had ranked this masterwork (no...
Collect Them All!: Our 2018 Sundance NEXT Section “Trading Cards” Series Checklist
Dating back to our inaugural 2014 set, we've been profiling the Kenneth Griffey Jrs. of American indie film in folks who are part of...
2018 Sundance Film Festival: Eric Lavallee’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Composer Keegan DeWitt has been dethroned. The reigning, heavy weight champion of Park City (who usually arrives with a half dozen offerings) loses out...
Sundance ’18: Decker, Moselle, Spiro, Hosking & Zagar Among NEXT Selections
Last year's batch of ten included some primo items in David Lowery's A Ghost Story, Janicza Bravo's Lemon and Justin Chon's Gook (the Sundance...
Young Bodies Heal Quickly | Review
Youth in Revolt: Betzer’s Inexplicable Road Movie an Assortment of Prominent Instances
Director Andrew T. Betzer manages to concoct an impressively pronounced feature debut with...
Butter on the Latch | Review
Pass the Butter: Decker Cooks Up Female & Peyote Driven Experiment
Serving as a statement more so than a film, Butter on the Latch, tosses...