Tag: Mynette Louie
Colonial Tensions: Olivia Wilde & Gael García Bernal Are Oblivious in Sarah Adina Smith’s ‘Monkey Hill’
Ever since breaking out twice with micro-indie The Midnight Swim and then with Buster's Mal Heart, filmmaker Sarah Adina Smith has been mixing it...
Black Box | Review
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die: Osei-Kuffour Explores Emotional Resonance in Savvy Medical Thriller
Horror and science-fiction have often been stomping grounds for exploring fantastic ideas...
Swallow | Review
On Body and Soul: Mirabella-Davis Gets Squeamish with Formidable Debut
As much as it speaks to contemporary understandings of female agency, Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ astute directorial...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Omniboat, Lawrence Michael Levine, Heidi Ewing & Danny Madden in the NEXT Section
The Death of Dick Long, Give Me Liberty, Selah and the Spades and Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour (which is receiving its theatrical...
Swallow | 2019 Tribeca Film Festival Review
Tough to Swallow, in a Good Way: Davis Offers Big Gulp Feminist Thriller
Carlo Mirabella Davis’ debut feature Swallow is a haunting study in gender politics in...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #80. Carlo Mirabella-Davis – Swallow
After a false start of sorts, Carlo Mirabella-Davis will finally be premiering the France-US co-production and his directorial debut Swallow in 2019. His past...
Nancy | 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Out of the Void: Chloe Embarks on Nuanced, Complex Search for Human Warmth
In Christina Choe’s first feature, Andrea Riseborough gives a subtle performance as...
Interview: Christina Choe – Nancy
We often relate the notion of identity with DNA, our given name as spelled out on an envelope, the social media account profile we...
Video: Christina Choe’s Nancy | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
As a film production, Nancy is the sort of micro indie project (we've been tracking for some time now) that serves as an example of...
Interview: Jennifer Fox – The Tale
Previously known for documentaries Beirut: The Last Home Movie (1987) and My Reincarnation (2011), producer and cinematographer Jennifer Fox just entered the narrative sphere....
Video: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
While Jennifer Fox does indeed come from a docu-background, HBO's push towards narrative and landing the rights to The Tale (the day before we shot this video)...
Video: Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
The road trip movie is probably the most tired sub-genre after the coming of age film, and yet with a fresh coat of paint...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #79. Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
The Tale
After decades of documenting powerful women and their stories, docu filmmaker made the jump into narrative for her first time in May of...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
As they were still putting final touches on the project at the midway point of 2017, and didn't drop in the fall fest season,...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road
Having debuted A Teacher (review) at Sundance back in 2013, she saw her next feature 6 Years (review) premiere at SXSW in 2015. Teaming with the...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christina Choe’s Nancy
After building a half dozen short film resume, her feature film debut appears to be the result of a lot of indie blood, sweat...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
Not unlike Gabriela Cowperthwaite, here is the example of another female docu filmmaker who broke out at Sundance and has now climbed into fiction narrative territory....
What’s Your Sign?: Aaron Katz Lands Lola Kirke, Zoe Kravitz & John Cho for “Gemini”
Fitting that the film title for this thriller is being filmed in it's birthday month, the sign that is represented by the twins Castor...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: So Yong Kim’s Lovesong
Sundance, Berlin, Venice and Toronto film fest programmers would all agree --- there is a refined and fertile cinema chez So Yong Kim. In Between Days, Treeless...
Splitsville: Sarah Adina Smith Enlists Rami Malek for “Buster’s Mal Heart”
It's been a long time coming for Short Term 12 supporting player Rami Malek, but the momentum built around television's highly successful "Mr.Robot" has landed him...
2014 Sundance Film Festival: Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz’s Land Ho!
Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz might have made a strong case for working in twos: as a tandem in both the directing and screenwriting...
2014 Sundance “Trading Cards” Series: #24. Mynette Louie (Land Ho!)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2013 discoveries”…
Mynette Louie: 1. The Killing (AMC TV series) 2. “The Good, Racist People” (NY Times...
Silver Linings Playbook Has Great Juju at the 2013 Independent Spirit Awards
It would be the film with the juju in David O. Russell's zany black comedy that was the toast of the 28th Independent Spirit Awards...
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