Tag: Rick Alverson
Interview: Rick Alverson – The Mountain
The Mountain feels like a departure for Rick Alverson, whose brand of deliberately challenging and unconventional cinema is evolving beyond the scope of his...
The Mountain | Review
Who’s Wally?: Alverson Goes Retro with Punishing, Complex Period Drama
Always intent on making his audience do some of the work, American indie helmer Rick Alverson...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #55. Rick Alverson – The Mountain
There are a slew of festival preemed goodies in Her Smell, Birds of Passage, Donnybrook, High Life, Gloria Bell, Fistful of Dirt and even Errol...
2018 Venice Film Festival: Jennifer Kent, Alverson, Corbet, Schnabel & Coen Bros. in Comp
Surprise, surprise. At the end of the day, Ethan and Joel Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a feature film (not a series)...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions I: North & South America
As we near the announcement of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival’s program next month (April 12th for Cannes, 16th for Critics' Week and possibly...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #1. Rick Alverson’s The Mountain
The Mountain
For his acerbic, contre-courant, alive cinema and his brand of sagacity in the back to back offerings of The Comedy (2012) and Entertainment...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks: Rick Alverson, Josh Mond & Todd Haynes this November
IONCINEMA.com’s Top 3 Critics’ Picks offers a curated approach to the usual quandary: what would you recommend I see in theaters this month? This November,...
Mistress America, Entertainment & Turbo Kid Musically Aligned for 3rd NEXT FEST
Musicians Sky Ferriera, Sharon Van Etten and dee-jays Neon Indian and Toro Y Moi are now part of the expanding Sundance Film Festival family....
When Life Gives you Lemons, make O.J; Magnolia Fill Three Cups Worth with Alverson’s “Entertainment”
As discussed in our recent post Sundance Film Festival assessment of the NEXT section distribution deals, we noticed that there was some fine fruit at the...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #21. Ryan Zacarias (Entertainment)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Ryan Zacarias: 1. Thomas Dinger's Fur Mich (album), Manabu Yamanaka (photographer), Ricardo Silva's Navajazo (film).
Lavallee:...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #17. Gregg Turkington (Entertainment)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Gregg Turkington: 1. The Skies Belong To Us, Brendan Koerner's book on the "golden age"...
Sundance ’15: Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Sean Baker & Matt Sobel Populate NEXT Section
Last year's NEXT section introduced us to new breed of filmmakers in Desiree Akhavan, Sydney Freeland, Madeleine Olnek, Ana Lily Amirpour, Malik Vitthal and...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rick Alverson’s Entertainment
It may be too early to call him an American cousin akin to the quasi-dark humor of Roy Andersson and Aki Kaurismäki, but is third...
Tracking Shot: Van Sant, Doremus, Guadagnino & Reed Morano Shooting This August
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing (or...
Rubber Chicken Blues; Cera, Papoulia, Stockwell & Tye Sheridan Join Alverson’s “Entertainment”
Brooke Bernard, Ryan Zacarias, and Ryan Lough's Nomadic Independence announced that Rick Alverson's Entertainment is officially in greenlight mode and cast alongside the already pegged Gregg Turkington and...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #94. Rick Alverson’s Entertainment
Entertainment
Director: Rick Alverson
Writer: Rick Alverson
Producers: Brooke Bernard, Patrick Hibler, Dawn Krantz, Ryan Zacarias
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: John C. Reilly, Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington
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