Tag: Lia Buman
Interview: Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
This year's "buzz" title at the Cannes Film Festival was tucked away in the Critics' Week section and everywhere Charlotte Wells' debut feature has...
Resurrection | Review
The Killing Kindness: Semans Explores Love as a Deadly Splendored Thing in Exceptional Psychodrama
“You’re Nobody till Somebody Loves You,” a popular 1940s tune made...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Phyllis Nagy, Lena Dunham, Jesse Eisenberg, John Patton Ford & Hazanavicius Fill Premieres Section
In the Premieres section you'll usually find a mix of studio unveilings and high profile acquisitions titles and in the almost equal split between...
Together Together | Review
A Womb of One’s Own: Beckwith Basks in Basics with Sterile Dramedy
The tricky intersections of gestational surrogacy provide a scenario automatically rife with narrative...
How to Build a Girl | Review
The Girl Most Likely To…: Giedroyc Returns with Novel Coming-of-Age Dramedy
In several respects, the trajectory of How to Build a Girl isn’t inherently new---a...
Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Review
The Story of Women: Hittman Hits Home Run with Stellar, Topical Abortion Drama
How often have you seen an abortion drama, in any language, which...
Interview: Nia Dacosta – Little Woods
A New York-native, first time writer/director Nia DaCosta premiered her poignant family drama, Little Woods, on home turf at Tribeca 2018. Set in the...
Interview: Nia DaCosta – Little Woods | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Selected for the US Narrative Competition at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, we've been tracking Nia DaCosta's feature debut project since sitting down with...
Autumn in New York: Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always Includes Théodore Pellerin & Sharon Van Etten
True to her previous pair of films and casting process, Eliza Hittman has once again unearthed first time acting talents for her third feature, Never...
Boyz In The Wood | 2019 SXSW Film Festival Review Ninian Doff
Ninian Doff Goes Brogue While Delinquents Go Scot-Free
Scottish music video-director Ninian Doff offers an uneven but hilarious debut with Boyz in the Wood: a bonkers action-comedy...
Chad Hartigan Baits Jack O’Connell, Raul Castillo and Soko for ‘Little Fish’
Last week we reported that Chad Hartigan selected Blacklist screenplay Little Fish with Olivia Cooke attached, this week, THR reports that Jack O’Connell, Raul...