Tag: Mona Fastvold
Fastvold Fast Track: Searchlight Clothed with ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Beneath Her Feet
After being in the awards conversation in previous years with Poor Things and A Complete Unknown, Searchlight Pictures are looking to be a part...
2025 Venice Film Festival – Who Should Win? Who Will Win!
The verdict is in. The Alexander Payne-led jury has made its decisions, determining the fate of this year's Venice Film Festival competitors. While last...
The Testament of Ann Lee | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review
Shake It Up: Fastvold Envisions the Life’s Work of a Religious Leader
There’s a fervor roiling beneath the surface of Mona Fastvold’s third feature, The...
2025 Venice: Fastvold, Lanthimos, Assayas, Baumbach, Chan-wook, del Toro, Bigelow, Ben Hania, Benny Safdie & Shu Qi in Golden Lion Comp
Valérie Donzelli (À Pied d’Oeuvre), Cai Shangjun (The Sun Rises on Us All), Kaouther Ben Hania (The Voice of Hind Rajab) and the directorial...
2025 TIFF: World Premieres Include Gavras’ ”Sacrifice’, Michôd’s ‘Christy’, Vanderbilt’s ‘Nuremberg’ & Winocour’s ‘Couture’
The Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled the heavy-hitters populating their Gala and Special Presentations sections making what sounds like an alluring line-up for...
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...
