Tag: Mona Fastvold

The Brutalist | Review

The Safety of Objectivism: Corbet Unleashes the Survival Instinct of Rational Egoism “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided...

Toth 2.0: Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones & Joe Alwyn Confirmed for Corbet’s “The Brutalist”

We knew there was a cosmetic change in terms of who might be part of the ensemble, but who and how the new lego...

The World to Come | Review

Pitch Rider to Perdition: Fastvold Fans Flames of Forbidden Desire in Masterful Period Drama Few and far between are cinematic narratives which attempt to, much...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come

She premiered her feature debut The Sleepwalker at Sundance back in 2014, and has been busy as a co-scribe working on all three of...

You BETcha!: Nomadland is the Odds on Favorite for the 2020 Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion

With Cannes offering up a hypothetical edition and the Karlovy Varys and Locarnos conducting some form of film community outreach, the COVID-19 pandemic might...

2020 Venice Film Festival: Michel Franco, Mona Fastvold, Jasmila Zbanic & Konchalovsky in Comp

Mona Fastvold, Emma Dante and Chloé Zhao were tipped for the comp months ago, but today heavyweights such as Jasmila Zbanic, Malgorzata Szumowska (Never...

IndieSponge Episode: 14 – 2020 Venice Film Festival Predictions

On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, I invited Tommaso Tocci to discuss the possible titles that might make it into the 2020 edition of...

The Mustang | Review

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?: de Clermont-Tonnerre Leads Us to Water with Minimalist Melodrama Animal love is at the heart of Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s directorial...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brady Corbet’s The Childhood of a Leader

If included, it would count as one of the rare Venice preemed North American premiere debuts and uncommon 35mm treats at the fest. After...

Video Interview: Mona Fastvold & Brady Corbet (The Sleepwalker)

Among 2014's class of best new voices in the film landscape (which includes Eliza Hittman (It Felt Like Love), Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl...

Interview: Christopher Abbott & Gitte Witt (The Sleepwalker)

In The Sleepwalker (Sundance Selects / limited release 11.21), filmmaker Mona Fastvold sequesters her quartet of players in mostly volatile sibling, lover and fighter pairings. Architecturally speaking,...

Interview: Stephanie Ellis (Mona Fastvold’s The Sleepwalker)

The fine line of a repressed memory can get especially fuzzy when what is factual, what is imagined, what is suggested and what is...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #128. Mona Fastvold’s The Sleepwalker

The Sleepwalker Director: Mona Fastvold Writers: Mona Fastvold, Brady Corbet Producers: 4 1⁄2′s Karin Julsrud and Turid Øversveen, Tandem Pictures’ Julie Christeas and Schuyler Weiss U.S. Distributor: Rights...

Best of Fest: Caitlin’s Top Five Films of Sundance 2014

#5. Love Is Strange Big-screen romance has moved far beyond cigar smoking gentlemen with obscenely chiseled jaw lines holding doors for iconic beauties that don’t...

Best of Fest: Sundance 2014’s Top 20 New Voices (10-1)

Continued from yesterday's countdown.... 20. Tessa Louise-Salome (Mr. Leos Carax) 19. Janicza Bravo (Gregory Goes Boom) 18. Michael Rossato-Bennett (Alive Inside) 17. Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz...

No Longer Funny Games Foes; Corbet Set to Direct Tim Roth, Cosmopolis’ Binoche & Pattinson Pair in “The Childhood of a Leader”

2014 has long been shaping up to be a memorable year for the "actor" Brady Corbet. The indie veteran whose worked with major auteur...

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...

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