Tag: Laura Rister
Shoplifters of the World | Review
In the Mood for Morrissey: Kijak Languishes in Eighties Angst
Documentarian Stephen Kijak returns to narrative filmmaking for the first time since his 1996 debut...
Prisoners of the Ghostland | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
Alas, Poor Yorick: Sono’s English Language Debut a Fallow, Gonzo Spectacle
What happens when a cult actor meets a cult filmmaker? Well, sometimes they just...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #39. Jonathan Helpert – IO
2018 came and will have went and IO will not have dropped. Perhaps there is a lot more after effect works demanded for this...
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: #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...
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,...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonathan Helpert’s IO
Originally set up with thesps Elle Fanning, Diego Luna and Clay Jeter in the director's chair, IO, the Sundance Institute’s Writers Lab and the...
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....
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: So Yong Kim’s Lovesong
Sundance, Berlin, Venice and Toronto film fest programmers would all agree --- there is a refined and fertile cinema chez So Yong Kim. In Between Days, Treeless...