Tag: Paul Weitz
2022 TIFF: Peter Farrelly, Hong Sang-soo & Tobias Lindholm to World Premiere in Toronto
The fun part about dissecting TIFF's Gala and Special Presentations unveiling are what titles are skipping TIFF, which titles are moving directly from Venice...
Bel Canto | Review
Music Makes the People Come Together: Weitz Hits False Notes in Hostage Drama
If ever an aria could conjure the essence of camp, it would...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: Picks 200 to 101
Last week, Nicholas Bell helped us ring in the new year with our Top 200 most anticipated world cinema items. We also highlighted our...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours
Can filmmaker Jeff Baena get the triple crown of Sundance invites? So far two for two with his feature films in 2014's Life After...
Mambo Italiano: Aubrey Plaza & Alison Brie Among Regs in Jeff Baena’s “The Little Hours”
Usual contributors Aubrey Plaza and Paul Weitz, Life After Beth's John C. Reilly and Molly Shannon, Joshy's Alison Brie and Adam Pally and a...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Joshy
Equal measures irritably supercilious and demonically brilliant, our introduction to this filmmaker came via his co-writing gig: 2004's I Heart Huckabees. Fast forward a decade...
Grandma | Review
Citizen Lily: Weitz’s Character Study Homage to Iconic Lead
Since beginning his directorial career with 1999’s American Pie, Paul Weitz has hovered in an in-between...
Sundance ’15: Baumbach, Fleck/Boden, Pulcini/Berman, Ponsoldt & Another Swanberg Among Premieres
Last year's slate of seventeen Narrative Premieres (excluding secret screenings of Boyhood and Nymphomaniac: Vol. I) refreshingly included works from first time filmmakers. I...