Tag: Michael Schwartz

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz’s Los Frikis

Sundance and SXSW programmers will likely be keeping an eye out on the status of Los Frikis - a raw, true story-type drama that...

Video: The Peanut Butter Falcon | 2019 SXSW Film Festival

Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s The Peanut Butter Falcon is a sweet, unpretentious and unexpectedly funny raft-trip movie set in a contemporary ode to...

The Peanut Butter Falcon | Review

Falcon Shows His Moves: Sincerity Sails Past Expectations Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s The Peanut Butter Falcon is a refreshingly sincere, unexpectedly funny raft-trip movie...

2019 SXSW Film Fest Recap: Us, The Peanut Butter Falcon & Booksmart Lead Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 8

SXSW’s 2019 competition was dominated by talented women. Happily, this best-of-fest list contains several of their narrative achievements—plus two highly recommended out-of-competition docs. One...

Top 50 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2019: A Prelude

At the beginning of the year, we gave our readers an overview of the most anticipated foreign films for the new year (Top 150...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: Picks 200 to 101

Last week, Nicholas Bell helped us ring in the new year with our Top 200 most anticipated world cinema items. We also highlighted our...

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The Devils (1971) | Review

Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s...

Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Club Kid | Review

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Interview: Jordan Firstman – Club Kid

I first took notice of Jordan Firstman through his...