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2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Angarano’s Sacramento

Avenues (2017) filmmaker Michael Angarano is obviously best known for an actor career that has spanned two-plus decades (and most recently seen in Oppenheimer)...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

Ham on Rye (2019) and Happer's Comet (2022) filmmaker Tyler Taormina went into festive mode for his third feature in less than four years....

Season’s Fleetings: Tyler Taormina Completes “Long Island on Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point”

We'll be getting some American indie holiday cheer via Ham on Rye / and the just released Happer's Comet helmer Tyler Taormina sometime next...

Wishful Thinking: Casting Complete on Kristoffer Borgli’s “Dream Scenario”

Striking while the iron is hot helmer Kristoffer Borgli has found his co-lead and supporting players for his English language feature debut which appears...

Lelio Runs Pell Mell with Ms. Gloria Bell (2018) | Blu-ray Review

Sebastián Lelio scored his best domestic box office success to date with Gloria Bell, his English language remake of 2013’s Gloria, clocking in at...

Gloria Bell | Review

I Think They Know Her Alias: Lelio Revisits His Breakout Title with English Language Remake Chilean auteur Sebastian Lelio, who recently took home an Academy...

Terms of Endearment: Eric Wareheim to Direct Michael Cera in A24s ‘Jonty’

Funny folks Eric Wareheim and Michael Cera are joining forces with Four Lions scribes Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain for Jonty - an A24...

Interview: Sebastián Silva – TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Over the past nine years, writer/director Sebastián Silva has completed his checklist, by premiering a film in all five categories of the Sundance narrative feature...

Interview: Jason Mitchell – Sebastián Silva’s TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Jason Mitchell first caught the mainstream eye in 2015 for his critically-acclaimed performance as an ill-fated rapper Eazy-E in the NWA biopic Straight Outta...

Interviews: Phillip Ettinger & Max Born + World Preem of Sebastián Silva’s TYREL

Along with actors Christopher Abbott (watch the interview) and Jason Mitchell (watch that interview), just prior to the world premiere at the Library Center...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #4. Sebastián Silva’s TYREL

Tyrel You can wager on the cinema offerings of the Brooklyn based, Santiago born Sebastián Silva to be bold, the comedy to be subversive, and rather...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #8. Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria

Gloria His second consecutive English language feature is a retooling, and not necessarily a remake of his 2013 critically well received drama of the same...

Sundance ’18: Morano, Silva, Akhavan & Boots Riley Among U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections

Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel

What does one do when a project falls apart days before shooting? If you're Terry Gilliam you throw your hands up in the air,...

Video: Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game – 2017 TIFF Presentation

After Social Network, Moneyball, and Steve Jobs in the tens, Aaron Sorkin finally moves to the front of the camera with his directorial debut...

Interview: Janicza Bravo & Brett Gelman (Lemon)

I've been a fan of her work since being exposed to her gleefully sardonic award-winning short film Gregory Go Boom at Sundance back in 2014....

Video: Janicza Bravo’s Lemon – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A

“We wrote it together and we ....share a bed.” – Janicza Bravo Creative partners in crime and the most fashionable "it" couple I ran into...

Video: Dustin Guy Defa’s Person to Person: 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A

“We shot in 16mm - which is an aesthetic choice, but also, the only choice for this film.” – Dustin Guy Defa Six years have...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Janicza Bravo’s Lemon

She's been a botany of flourishingly unique pieces of art (we discovered her with her award-winning short) and the Sundance have been the lucky...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dustin Guy Defa’s Human People

I've been wrong before and so I don't like using the term a shoe-in, but I'd be one of the folks to fall out...

Sebastian Silva Sets Sail on “Captain Dad” with Will Ferrell, Catherine Keener & Michael Cera

Moving from quirky micro dark comedies to bigger budgeted quirky dark comedies, Variety reports that Sebastian Silva will begin 7th feature film on a...

When Life Gives you Lemons, make O.J; Magnolia Fill Three Cups Worth with Alverson’s “Entertainment”

As discussed in our recent post Sundance Film Festival assessment of the NEXT section distribution deals, we noticed that there was some fine fruit at the...

Rubber Chicken Blues; Cera, Papoulia, Stockwell & Tye Sheridan Join Alverson’s “Entertainment”

Brooke Bernard, Ryan Zacarias, and Ryan Lough's Nomadic Independence announced that Rick Alverson's Entertainment is officially in greenlight mode and cast alongside the already pegged Gregg Turkington and...

Hits | 2014 Sundance Review

David Cross Graduates from Small Screen Satire, Inviting Hipsters and Libertarians to the Party David Cross translates sketch comedy prowess into organized chaos, marking his...

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