Tag: Michael Chernus
2024 Sundance: Amachoukeli, Molly Manning Walker, Linklater & Asmae El Moudir in Spotlight Section
The Spotlight section is a quartet of items with two heavy-hitters from the Cannes Un Certain Regard section, a small gem from Cannes' Critics'...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josh Ruben’s Werewolfs Within
Could filmmaker slash actor Josh Ruben become part of a rare and select club of filmmakers who make it in back to back years...
Video: Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Vaguely familiar in its form, it was a definite case of deja vu as I've assisted at both world premiere screenings for the 2014...
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: Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher
An exciting, first feature film credit as a producer for Maggie Gyllenhaal (creatively she is at an important juncture) this could be the Israeli film...
The Dinner | Blu-ray Review
Premiering in competition at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, Oren Moverman’s The Dinner went on to receive a successful return at the box...
The Dinner | Review
Principles of Privilege: Moverman Dresses Morality Drama in American Clothes
Susan Sontag once famously wrote, “The white race is the cancer of human history,” an...
The Family Fang | Review
Sucked Dry: Bateman’s Portrait of Idiosyncratic Family Fails to Resonate
Actor Jason Bateman makes his sophomore directorial outing with the high profile The Family Fang,...
Mistress America | Review
Sister, My Sister: Baumbach’s Energetic Return to Facades of NYC
The latest in Noah Baumbach’s prolific slew of projects, Mistress America is the follow-up collaboration...
People, Places, Things | Review
Here in the Noun: Strouse’s Familiar, Charming RomCom
The kids are basically all right in People, Places, Things, director James C. Strouse’s third outing as...
Michael Chernus to Have Good Table Manners in Joshua Marston Project
We're not allergic to television, but for us Orange is the New Black's Michael Chernus truly broke out at this year's Sundance Film Festival, with...
Too Graphic: Film Arcade Pencils in “People, Places, Things”
Making their second Sundance acquisition after picking up Kris Swanberg's Unexpected, Deadline reports that The Film Arcade has acquired U.S. rights to People, Places,...