Tag: Lucas Joaquin
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Will Joines & Karrie Crouse’s Dust
A project that due to the pandemic saw the lead shifting from Claire Foy to Sarah Paulson, production on Karrie Crouse and Will Joines'...
Blowing Horn: Paul Rudd to Find Divine Truth in Alex Scharfman’s “Death of a Unicorne”
After a decade of producing (beginning with The Heart Machine and more recently Resurrection), American indie producer Alex Scharfman is getting behind the camera...
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...
Mother Storm: Sarah Paulson Takes Over for Claire Foy in Joines/Crouse’s “Dust”
First presented as a potential Claire Foy-starring project, we'll now see Sarah Paulson topline Will Joines and Karrie Crouse's directorial debut. Backed by Searchlight...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jared Frieder’s Three Months
A micro indie project flying low on the radar actually had a tremendous upswing from the get-go when Jared Frieder saw his screenplay land...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Karen Cinorre’s Mayday
Getting to go creatively madcap with art/set decor on the Isabella Rossellini starring Green Porno series, New Yorker Karen Cinorre made the jump to...
Selah and The Spades | Review
School for Scoundrels: Poe Preens a Teen Queen with Curious, Benign Debut
Director Tayarisha Poe fashions her debut Selah and The Spades, a YA drama...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...
Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Stylish, slick and super sophisticated for a micro-indie of this scale, what works marvels is Tayarisha Poe's the film's narrative blue print and universe. Selah and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #13. Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy – Blow the Man Down
After busting their chops collectively in different sectors, shapes and lengths within the biz, Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy combined their efforts for what would...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Russell Harbaugh’s Love After Love
I recall watching Russell Harbaugh's Rolling on the Floor Laughing (2012 edition Sundance) and feeling an air not unlike a cold draft. This is...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joshua Marston’s Complete Unknown
Remarkably in a career spanning more than a decade, this formerly untitled project counts as Joshua Marston's first feature in the English language and only third feature...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ira Sachs’ Little Men
Steve Karmen's 70s radio jingle certainly comes to mind when considering the body of work from the likes of Scorsese, Spike Lee, Woody Allen. We can...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Edwards’ When I Live My Life Over Again
Despite one feature film under his belt with 2006's Land of the Blind (the Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland starrer won the Nicholl Fellowship...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #135. Ira Sachs’ Love is Strange
Love is Strange
Director: Ira Sachs
Writers: Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias
Producers: Sachs, Parts and Labor’s Lars Knudsen & Jay Van Hoy, Lucas Joaquin, Jayne Baron...
2014 Sundance “Trading Cards” Series: #6. Lucas Joaquin (Love is Strange)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2013 discoveries”...
Joaquin: 1. My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard - earlier this year I read this...
Collect Them All!: Our 2014 Sundance “Trading Cards” Series Checklist
This Thursday, the Sundance Film Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary and since we've covered about 1/3rd of the event and have fond memories of...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ira Sachs’ Love is Strange
A destination lieu for Ira Sachs dating back to 1994 when he showed his experimental short Lady, I'd be baffled if Love is Strange...
2012 Sundance Institute Creative Prod Labs: “Bright As Day”, “Hellion”, “Joy of Living” and “Life Partners”
While not all films mentioned below are necessarily guaranteed future place among the Sundance Film Festival elite, it's certainly a step in the right...