Tag: Lindsay Burdge

Black Bear [Video Review]

Husband and Wives and Bears, Oh My!: Levine’s Dark Dream an Ambiguous, Playful Psychodrama The crux of our innate creative necessities might require something beyond...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bryan Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me

Persistence pays off. Bryan Wizemann has been painstakingly hacking away at indie film since 1998's Sense following that with 2005's Losing Ground, 2011's About...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #16. Miguel Arteta’s Duck Butter

Duck Butter The cerebral, analytical, politically charged Beatriz at Dinner might have been a turning point for Miguel Arteta, and we're feeling that a new mantra...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Miguel Arteta’s Duck Butter

Mostly working within the comedy film curriculum, two decades, and now eight feature films in, an habitual of the fest since presenting Star Maps...

The Invitation | Blu-ray Review

One of the best under the radar genre pieces of the past year has to be Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, the director’s fourth and...

The Invitation | Review

Your Friends & Neighbors: Kusama’s Enjoyably Tense Cult Thriller Since premiering her phenomenal, Michelle Rodriguez starring indie debut Girlfight in 2000, Karyn Kusama hasn’t lived up...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mike Ott/Nathan Silver’s Actor Martinez

As was the case for Joe Swanberg, it's not unheard of that trailblazing names synonymous with micro American indie film fail to crack the...

The Midnight Swim | Review

Out in the Moonlight, Just Like We Used to Do: Smith’s Throbbing, Eerie Debut The unnerving quality of Sarah Adina Smith’s directorial debut, The Midnight...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hannah Fidell’s 6 Years

Potentially filling Sundance's quota for difficult relationships, Hannah Fidell (profiled in our IONCINEPHILE series) will have moved from the heated, self-deprecating rapport between prof...

Marshall-Green, Huisman, Corinealdi, & Lindsay Burdge Accept Kusama’s “The Invitation”

Logan Marshall-Green, Michiel Huisman, Middle of Nowhere revelation Emayatzy Corinealdi, Tammy Blanchard, busy-bee indie actress Lindsay Burdge (A Teacher, Wild Canaries) and John Carroll...

Taissa Farmiga & Ben Rosenfield Find Common Ground in Hannah Fidell’s Latest

Technically her sophomore point fifth of a feature (65-minuter We're Glad You're Here precedes A Teacher) which has amusingly gone by a vast array of titles...

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lawrence Michael Levine’s Wild Canaries

He managed to put together the Indie actress all-star team of Sophia Takal, Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil and Lena Dunham (forgive the pun)...

A Teacher | Review

Life Lesson 101: Fidell’s Morbid Debut Comes Close to Compelling While thankfully neglecting to employ a moralizing agenda to its taboo courting subject matter, Hannah...

IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Hannah Fidell (A Teacher)

IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. Following Ryan Coogler (July) and Destin Daniel Cretton...

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2026 César Awards: Carine Tardieu’s ‘The Ties That Binds Us’ Lands Best Film

It was a rare Thursday night ceremony for the...

What Does that Nature Say to You | Review

The Parent Trap: Sang-soo Takes Sideways Swipe at Social...

2026 Berlin International Film Festival – Checklist of Our Coverage

IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire...