Tag: Ryan Zacarias
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
You’ll Like My Mother: Bronstein Lets Us Feel the Byrne
Motherhood approaches the verge of the horrific in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,...
Maine Stay: Mubi Falls For Oliver Hermanus’ “The History of Sound”
The History of Sound, the highly anticipated feature love story featuring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor has found a home. Oliver Hermanus who directed...
2025 Sundance: Cherien Dabis, Mary Bronstein, Amalia Ulman, Clint Bentley, Ira Sachs & Bill Condon in Premieres Section
On paper, this year's Premieres section offerings (fiction and non-fiction) should be all the hyope and talked about well into awards season. Some of...
Sweet Emotion: Zellner Bros.’ ‘Alpha Gang’ Back on Track with Bautista, Kravitz, Seydoux, Keough & Tatum
Zellner Bros. alumni Riley Keough and other A-listers Dave Bautista, Léa Seydoux, Blink Twice duet Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum have joined Alpha Gang—replacing...
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...
A Therapist’s Therapist: Mary Bronstein Set to Direct “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
More than a dozen years (plus some change) since she premiered her feature debut Yeast (a 2008 SXSW Film Festival selection), Mary Bronstein is...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #33. Jonas Carpignano’s A Chiara
A Chiara
Produced by Jon Coplon, Paolo Carpignano, Ryan Zacarias
Directed by Jonas Carpignano
Written by Jonas Carpignano
Release Date/Prediction: We think this might be featured in the...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Riley Keough & Gina Gammell’s War Pony (Fka Beast))
A South Dakota micro indie project that filmed under the radar in Pine Ridge is the fruit of a creative collaboration (the shingle is...
Bull | Review
If There Be Horns: Silverstein Succeeds with Discerning Debut of Rural Desperation
Likely to be compared to Chloe Zhao’s 2017 breakout The Rider, director Annie...
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...
Annie Silverstein’s Bull | 2019 Cannes Film Festival
Not officially opening the section, but nonetheless the first film out of the Un Certain Regard gate, Annie Silverstein presented her directorial debut Bull...
Kirill Mikhanovsky’s Give Me Liberty | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Juggling not one, but two current projects (the other being the Sundance Lab supported Coming to You), Kirill Mikhanovsky is at a special crux...
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...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #17. Annie Silverstein – Bull
Selected for the 2016 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs (here is a video interview), and recipient of the San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation...
2018 American Film Festival Dailies: Visiting the Heart of Wroclaw and the … Heart of Fest | Day 2
Before heading off to do some American indie film festing (essentially playing catch up), AFF organizers offered a location scouting tour of Wroclaw. Meant...
2018 American Film Festival Dailies: Red, White and …. Blue | Day 1
IONCINEMA.com arrived on day number two of the American Film Festival in Wrocław (pronounced var-SHAV-uh). The ninth edition is chock full in American Indie...
Video: Michael Tully’s Don’t Leave Home | 2018 SXSW Film Festival
At the SXSW Q&A, Austin-based director Michael Tully jokingly described his latest effort Don't Leave Home as 'Hereditary for old people', which may be an...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Tully’s Don’t Leave Home
Austinite Michael Tully packed his bags this past spring, moving from the lobster rouge backdrop of Ocean City, Maryland to the Celtic green meadows...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 78. Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra
A Ciambra
Director: Jonas Carpignano
Writer: Jonas Carpignano
Italian-American filmmaker made waves with his 2015 debut Mediterranea (which took home a Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Porterfield’s Sollers Point
Part of the mini Baltimore/Maryland clique of filmmaker contributors adding significant contributions to the American indie scene, Matt Porterfield lined auds up with personalized cinema offerings of Hamilton...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra
Truth be told, there are film fest programmer folk from the Croisette and the Lido itching to get their hands on world preem for...
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:...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #88. Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea
Mediterranea
Director: Jonas Carpignano // Writer: Jonas Carpignano
Formerly going by A Chjàna, the same title as the short film (see pic above) on which this...
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...
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
I'm late...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #167. Michael Tully’s Ping Pong Summer
Ping Pong Summer
Director: Michael Tully
Writer(s): Michael Tully
Producers: George M. Rush, Ryan Zacarias, Brooke Bernard, Billy Peterson, Jeff Allard, Michael Gottwald
U.S. Distributor: Gravitas Ventures
Cast: Susan...
