Tag: Riley Stearns
2022 Deauville Film Festival: War Pony, Aftersun & Emily the Criminal in Competition
With only a trio of films from this year's Sundance Dramatic Comp selected, this year's Deauville Film Festival has lassoed American indie films from...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Riley Stearns, Nikyatu Jusu, Mariama Diallo, Cooper Raiff & Bradley Rust Gray in the U.S. Dramatic Comp Section
In 2022, ten lucky titles/filmmakers will be vying for the big daddy prize of them all in the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Riley Stearns’ Dual
Riley Stearns headed to the Nordic country for his latest feature. Filmed during the pandemic, the shot in Finland Dual should have had enough...
Interview: Riley Stearns – The Art of Self-Defense | 2019 American Film Festival in Wroclaw
A meek, introverted loner turns to karate as a way of coping with trauma after being violently attacked in Riley Stearns follow-up to 2014’s...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #42. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense
The Art of Self Defense
Taking his sweet time in the post production process (filming took place in September of 2017 with Jesse Eisenberg in...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #8. Riley Stearns – The Art of Self Defense
A sophomore film we thought might be ready for the 2018 campaign will walk and chop into 2019 instead with a distributor already in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #80. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense
The Art of Self Defense
Riley Stearns' 2013 Sundance preemed short, The Cub along with the 2015's SXSW preemed feature debut Faults which we called "deviously...
Faults | Review
Split Image: Stearns’ Debut a Dark Hearted Cult Comedy
The insidious recruitment techniques of religious cults used to be a veritable genre staple, beginning, perhaps,...