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2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marco La Via & Hanna Ladoul’s Funny Birds

While I don't really see a Catherine Deneuve navigating the wintery sidewalks of Main Street, her co-star in Andrea Riseborough could easily be the...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #132. Marco La Via & Hanna Ladoul’s Funny Birds

Funny Birds Marco La Via and Hanna Ladoul first landed on the scene (and the 2018 ACID section in Cannes) with Nous Les Coyotes which...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bryan Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me

Persistence pays off. Bryan Wizemann has been painstakingly hacking away at indie film since 1998's Sense following that with 2005's Losing Ground, 2011's About...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #13. Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy – Blow the Man Down

After busting their chops collectively in different sectors, shapes and lengths within the biz, Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy combined their efforts for what would...

Novitiate | Review

And Then There Were Nun: Betts’ Novel Approach to the Nunnery Director Maggie Betts revisits a fascinating transitional period in the Catholic church with her...

Best of Fest: Sundance 2016’s Top 10 New Faces

Yesterday, Nicholas Bell and I issued our Top 10 New Voices, and now we launch into our New Faces. They range in age, amount of...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Elizabeth Wood’s White Girl

While the issue of gender disparity in the film industry remains a hot topic issue, when it comes to the approach of Sundance Film...

McFarland, USA | Review

Personal Best: Caro Returns to Studio Filmmaking with Feel-Good Adaptation It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything from New Zealand director Niki Caro, who...

Interview: Carter Smith – Jamie Marks is Dead

At the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, we sat down with director Carter Smith to discuss his new film, Jamie Marks is Dead, which played...

Coming out of the Closet: Exclusive Clip for Carter Smith’s Jamie Marks is Dead

Just prior to its theatrical release (this atmospherically unclenched young adult ensemble piece drops August 29th), the Gravitas Ventures folks have given us an...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #78. Carter Smith’s Jamie Marks Is Dead

Jamie Marks Is Dead Director: Carter Smith Writer: Carter Smith Producers: Alex Orlovsky, Hunter Gray, Jacob Jaffke, Omri Bezalel, Carter Smith U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Cameron Monaghan, Noah...

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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Tropical Tapestry: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Won’t Shoot ‘The Fountains of Paradise’ before 2026

In an interview with Les Inrocks folks, Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

Lingering Influence: Meryem Benm’Barek Filming ‘Behind the Palm Trees’

A project initially scheduled for a 2023 shoot has...