Tag: Lila Yacoub
2025 Sundance: Kahlil Joseph, Amanda Kramer & Albert Birney in Next Section
Always our go-to section for truly unique singular voices working in micro cinema, Kahlil Joseph (a major music video filmmaker who needs no introduction)...
C’mon C’mon [Video Review]
World premiering at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival, C'mon C'mon is Mike Mill's fourth feature film following Thumbsucker (2005), Beginners (2010) and 20th Century...
C’mon C’mon | Review
Turn the Dial: Mills Explores the Mysteries of Youth, Exalted.
Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon is a poignant, mellow ode to the next generation, explored through...
Irresistible | Review
Elephant Walk: Stewart Dulls the Sting of Political Campaigning Hypocrisy with Broad Satire
The trick of a successful satire is to highlight stupidity or hypocrisy...
Interview: Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Way back in 2006, Robert Pickering “Bo” Burnham won our hearts with viral home videos during YouTube’s first legs. Since then, the 27-year-old hyphenate...
Video: Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade – 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Is Eighth Grade an affectionate critique of adolescence? A study on our relationship with technology? A self-love letter aimed at insecure adults? All of...
Interview: Elsie Fisher – Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Previously unknown aside from her voice acting in the Despicable Me series, Elsie Fisher is a star-in-the-making thanks to her performance in Bo Burnham’s...
Interview: Josh Hamilton – Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
We caught up with film (recent Park City trips include Experimenter, Take Me to the River, Manchester by the Sea) and TV staple Josh...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #99. Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Eighth Grade
Fore more than a decade, this spanking brand new entity on the American independent film sphere has been cutting his teeth as a comedian...
Lady Bird | Review
Call Her by Her Name: Gerwig Shifts Shrewdly in Director’s Seat
Actress Greta Gerwig, alum of the American film movement known as Mumblecore and ingenious...
Video: Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"I was lucky to put their own words into the film" - Matt Ruskin
It was an emotional world premiere screening at the Library especially...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights
A rather remarkable, perhaps rare, but not unheard true life story of false imprisonment and the type of stubborn dedication it selflessly takes to...
While We’re Young | Review
Confessions of an Aging Artist: Baumbach Humorously Reflects on Filmmaking Ethics and Middle Age
In some ways the complimentary antithesis to his last work of...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young
It landed at the Toronto Int. Film Festival and already had a NYFF playdate in place before A24 films plunked down 4 million on...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Noah Baumbach’s Untitled Public School Project
Akin to Michel Gondry's low-budgeter We and I, the shot in 2013 campus comedy still doesn't have a name, doesn't have a release date,...
Rosewater | Review
Solitary Confinement Is Boring: Stewart's Adaptation Of Bahari's Lengthy Detainment is a Slick, Tame Affair
Jon Stewart’s first foray into the fictional film arena is...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jon Stewart’s Rosewater
He took a noticeable leave of absence from the Daily Show back in July to shoot a project close to his heart. With an...