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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #13. Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life

Private Life She takes her time between projects and the great news late last year was the rollout of Private Life for Sundance 2018. Tamara Jenkins’ third...

Private Life | 2018 Sundance Film Festival Review

She’s Not Having a Baby: Jenkins Returns with Freewheeling Fertility Melodrama American indie director Tamara Jenkins returns with her first directorial effort since 2007’s Oscar...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life

We voiced our hope that we'd see her sometime soon when we launched our inaugural Top 10 American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action back...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Max Winkler’s Flower

First rising to surface as one of the better unproduced screenplays on the 2012 Blacklist (it had the same number of votes as Whiplash...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic

Still relatively new in the distrib game, Bleecker Street has been keen on including film fest premieres for their individual film release strategies and...

The Visit | Review

Home is Where the Hacker Is: Shyamalan’s Return to Entertaining Cinema In many ways, The Visit, the latest film from once celebrated M. Night Shyamalan,...

She’s Funny That Way | Review

Funny Ha-ha: Bogdanovich’s Pleasant Return to the Screwball Comedy The buzz has been rather hushed concerning She’s Funny That Way, the return of 70s auteur...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tim Godsall’s Len and Company

Take a Cannes Lions-winning commercials director/first time filmmaker in Tim Godsall, throw in a 2008 Broadway play, and finally, add a mix of sturdy mix...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic

Unlike say a micro-budgeted indie with enough coin in the backend for post-production, chances are slim that this modestly priced indie with A-list cast...

This is Where I Leave You | Review

This is Where I Judge You: In the Great Well of Family Drama, Levy Is Dry Based on the acclaimed novel by Jonathan Tropper, who...

Bad Words | Review

Scatological Prowess: Bateman’s Directorial Debut an Amusing Vulgarity Fans of fare like Bad Santa and Bad Teacher should rejoice in Bad Words, foul-mouthed fodder involving...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #188. Peter Bogdanovich’s Squirrel to the Nuts

Squirrel to the Nuts Director: Peter Bogdanovich Writer(s): Peter Bogdanovich, Louise Stratton Producers: Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson, George Drakoulias, Logan Levy, Holly Wiersma U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Jennifer...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.