Tag: Maya Forbes
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Days of Wine & Mortgage: Weaver Soars in Drama on Denial & Redemption
“It always begins with denial,” Hildy Good announces in the opening frames...
TIFF 2021: Bouli Lanners, Ho Wi Ding, Nathalie Biancheri, Agustina San Martín & Stephen Karam to World Preem in Toronto
Cherry picking the better titles from Cannes (winning titles such as Murina, Unclenching The Fists) and Venice, today TIFF programmers beefed up their Special...
2014 Deauville Film Fest: Nathan Silver, Damien Chazelle, Mark Jackson & Ana Lily Amirpour Among In Comp Titles
The Deauville Film Festival heads have unveiled the make-up of the 40th edition of the fest, and naturally this coming September, we've got a...
2014 TIFF: McCarthy, Bettany, Girard, Fontaine, Barthes Among Several World Preem Add-Ons
Just how much sway do TIFF programmers have? Looking at today's Gala and Special Presentation add-ons, measurably, when it comes to films with star-wattage and...
Best of Fest: Sundance 2014’s Top 20 New Voices (20-11)
Commonly known as a lieu that breeds new filmmaking talents, Caitlin Coder, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell and I had the pleasure of uncovering/discovering...
Sundance 2014: Cutter Hodierne, Damien Chazelle, Kat Candler & Mona Fastvold Among Lucky 16 U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
As I had predicted here, names such as Cutter Hodierne, Kat Candler, Maya Forbes, Mona Fastvold and Damien Chazelle would be among the invited...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Maya Forbes’ Infinitely Polar Bear
The scribe behind Monsters vs. Aliens and The Rocker would normally be the last person I'd associate with Sundance, much less the director's chair...but...