Tag: Laura Dern
The Son | Review
The Tragedy of Privilege: Zeller’s Familial Identity Trilogy Continues with Maudlin Chapter
The highly revered and internationally renowned playwright Florian Zeller has a formidable talent...
Jurassic World Dominion | Review
This World Is Not Enough: Trevorrow Goes Through the Motions in Extinction Level Event
It’s neither the first nor the last time a toxic commingling...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #29. Florian Zeller’s The Son
The Son
Human Swiss army knife novelist, playwright, theatre director, screenwriter and director hit pay dirt with his directorial debut The Father (review). Among the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #14. Untitled Noah Baumbach project
A film that Netflix could have easily placed in the 2018 calendar, Noah Baumbach's still untitled project might just follow in the footsteps of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #92. Untitled Noah Baumbach Comedy
While Netflix held off at showing the pic during the fall season, there is no reason to think that they won't premiere in early...
Interview: Jennifer Fox – The Tale
Previously known for documentaries Beirut: The Last Home Movie (1987) and My Reincarnation (2011), producer and cinematographer Jennifer Fox just entered the narrative sphere....
Video: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
While Jennifer Fox does indeed come from a docu-background, HBO's push towards narrative and landing the rights to The Tale (the day before we shot this video)...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #22. Untitled Noah Baumbach Project
In what will be another one-two creative punch as when he recently unveiled Frances Ha and While We're Young with only season apart, while...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #64. Justin Kelly’s JT Leroy
JT Leroy
In what should be a banner year for filmmaker, Justin Kelly will sprinkle 2018 with a pair of films. Along with Welcome the Stranger (which...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #79. Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
The Tale
After decades of documenting powerful women and their stories, docu filmmaker made the jump into narrative for her first time in May of...
Sundance ’18: Morano, Silva, Akhavan & Boots Riley Among U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
As they were still putting final touches on the project at the midway point of 2017, and didn't drop in the fall fest season,...
Criterion Collection: Certain Women | Blu-ray Review
Kelly Reichardt scored her most triumphant success to date with sixth feature film, Certain Women, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Johnson’s Wilson
Now pegged with a March 24th date via Fox Searchlight, despite it not being an acquisitions title, Craig Johnson's Wilson could still land in...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
Not unlike Gabriela Cowperthwaite, here is the example of another female docu filmmaker who broke out at Sundance and has now climbed into fiction narrative territory....
Certain Women | Review
All I Desire: Reichardt’s Exceptional Triptych of Tenacious Women
Though she’s already touted as one of the most talented American contemporary directors, Kelly Reichardt accomplishes...
99 Homes | Blu-ray Review
Director Ramin Bahrani scores his most lauded venture yet with the critically acclaimed 99 Homes. Premiering in competition at Venice in 2014, Broad Green Pictures...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Johnson’s Wilson
The work of Daniel Clowes already has a lineage with the Sundance Film Festival as it once served as the launchpad for the last "Clowes" graphic...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kelly Reichardt’s Livingston
The reigning queen of American independent cinema has a rich history with Sundance --- she premiered her debut film 1994's River of Grass (which...
99 Homes | Review
Housing Complex: Bahrani Extends Capitalism Criticism to Housing Market
Though his 2012 farming melodrama At Any Price found director Ramin Bahrani gaining wider visibility with...
Bravetown | Review
Home of the Brave: Duran’s Debut a Neutered Examination of Grief During Wartime
There’s a war going on, though not one specifically referenced, mentioned or...
The Fox Trot: Laura Dern & Ellen Burstyn Spin “The Tale”
We imagine that for plenty of docu-helmers (take the tumultuous past couple of years in that Laura Poitras had to undergo) that sometimes life...
Fiscal Accuracy: SPWA to Rep Kelly Reichardt’s Untitled 7th Feature Film
Landing world sales right in the month of April not only facilitates future Cannes Film Festival deals, but if you're Tom Bernard and Michael...
Wild | Blu-ray Review
Grossing just under forty million domestically and scoring two Academy Award nominations (for its actresses Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern), Wild arrives on Blu-ray...
The Conversation: 2015 Oscar Predix: Wild at Heart… Arquette Leads Dern & Co. for Best Supporting Actress Win
The Nominations: Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood”
Laura Dern in “Wild”
Keira Knightley in “The Imitation Game”
Emma Stone in “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of...
Wild | Review #2
A Prayer for the Wild at Heart: Vallee Continues Reinvention of Lost Souls
Arriving at the end of star Reese Witherspoon’s auteur binge is one...
Wild | Review
Peaks and Vallée: Witherspoon Eats, Prays, Hikes
When Cheryl Strayed's memoir was released in 2012, the climate for gender politics was different. The book's popularity soared...
The Fault in Our Stars | Review
Never Having to Say You’re Sorry: Boone’s Adaptation Jerks Your Tears
Director Josh Boone adapts John Green’s popular 2012 novel The Fault in Our Stars...
Wild at Heart | Blu-ray Review
Midway through David Lynch’s Palme d’Or winning, bizarro road-tripping love story, Lula tells her lover Sailor, ‘This whole world is wild at heart and...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #87. Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes
99 Homes
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Writers: Ramin Bahrani, Amir Naderi, Bahareh Azimi‐Khoie
Producer(s): Ashok Amritraj (see pic above), Ramin Bahrani, Andrew Garfield, Justin Nappi, Kevin Turen
U.S. Distributor:...
