Tag: Julia Lebedev
2024 Sundance: A Different Man, The Outrun, Winner & Sasquatch Sunset Among Premieres
Sundance Film Festival's Premiere section (a mix of fiction and docs) will have some biggie titles to contend with the likes of Aaron Schimberg's...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kobi Libii’s The American Society of Magical Negroes
A small indie film flying low on our radar, production on Kobi Libii's feature debut would have taken place sometime this year. Among the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and One
Padding her resumé with a pair of buzzy items in a (late 2016) 20+ minute music video commissioned by Alicia Keys called The Gospel...
Bad Hair | Review
Witches Get Stitches: Simien Retrofits Folklore with Contemporary Subtexts in Horror Satire
Justin Simien recuperates a particular time and place with a jaunty but ultimately...
Bad Education | Review
A Touch of Class: Finley Explores Famed Embezzlement Scandal
Director Cory Finley revisits one of the education system’s most notorious scandals in Bad Education, an...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, David Bruckner’s The Night House & Bill Benz’s The Nowhere Inn in Midnight Section
Last year's Midnight section gave us Greener Grass, The Lodge and Sweetheart. In 2020, it appears that the section is more "worldly" with four...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #17. Cory Finley’s Bad Education
Bad Education
Moving from a brilliant dark comedy (Thoroughbreds) off campus mind-games to shark infested waters of the high school experience, for Cory Finley's sophomore...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #38. Justin Simien’s Bad Hair
Bad Hair
After the balayage that was Dear White People (the award-winning Sundance film that spawned a Netflix series), Justin Simien buzzed cut his way...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #9. Justin Simien – Bad Hair
If it weren't for Chapman University and subsequent Dear White People (winner of the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #90. Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep
State Like Sleep
Previously she got her docu game on with 2010’s The Ride (SXSW), but it's in the narrative shape that we've circled Meredith Danluck's...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep
An artist who doesn't stay put, We thought this directorial debut would have receive the green light same time last year, but aside from...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep
She hit the triple crown of Sundance Institute workshops as a participant in the 2013 Screenwriters, Directors and Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oren Moverman’s The Dinner
I don't recall the last time a novel had three book to film adaptations in such a rapid lapse of time, but the source...