Tag: Odessa Young
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zia Anger’s My First Film
Music video director and a Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter’s Intensive participant, we thought Zia Anger's avant-garde feature debut (or is it a sophomore film?) might...
Manodrome | Review
Wrecked Ralph: Trengove Gazes into the Weaponization of Masculinity in Unsettling Character Study
Playwright and activist Eve Ensler commented on a 2017 panel regarding how...
At First Glance: Zia Anger’s “My First Film” Becomes … Her First Film with Odessa Young
And so the project that was supposed to be a first film that ended up not becoming a film but instead an interactive show...
Mothering Sunday | Review
Woman in Love: Husson Mounts Reticent Portrait of Living Life Out Loud
At first glance, Mothering Sunday has all the impeccable furnishings evident in the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #63. Eva Husson’s Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday
French director Eva Husson makes her English language debut with the UK production Mothering Sunday, a period piece set in post-WWI England which...
The Giant | Review
Dream a Little Dream: Raboy Broods on Bruised Memories with Moody, Slender Narrative
Crackling thunder, roiling clouds on a purple sky and electric tendrils of...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #2. Josephine Decker’s Shirley
Shirley
Say we omit Josephine Decker's feature docu items Bi the Way and Flames, it's remarkably only with her third "narrative" feature film that becomes a...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #75. Josephine Decker – Shirley
Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline was next level for the filmmaker and so it was no surprise when she joined a project that was already in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #76. Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation
Sam Levinson offered us one of the best films of 2011 with his directorial debut --- we called it “a bitter, nasty, angry film about...
Sundance ’18: Levinson, Cosmatos, Pesce & RKSS Bring Screams & Blood Curdling to the Midnight
Remarkably, this year's Midnight section has this in common: Sam Levinson, Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Pesce (see pic above) and the team of Francois Simard,...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
It's been a long seven years between features for Sam Levinson. Having started his film career with one of the best films from 2011...