Tag: Sara Murphy
The History of Sound | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t: Hermanus Plays a Tune for the Broken Hearted
“Happiness doesn’t tell stories,” is a sage observation uttered in The History...
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...
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...
Licorice Pizza [Video Review]
Age is just a number but when you're a teen at footsteps of what are unattainable gates to adulthood it could feel like entire...
Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Review
The Story of Women: Hittman Hits Home Run with Stellar, Topical Abortion Drama
How often have you seen an abortion drama, in any language, which...
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),...
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...
Autumn in New York: Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always Includes Théodore Pellerin & Sharon Van Etten
True to her previous pair of films and casting process, Eliza Hittman has once again unearthed first time acting talents for her third feature, Never...
If Beale Street Could Talk | Review
I Can Feel the Beale: Jenkins Does Justice to Classic Baldwin Novel
Following his history making Best Picture winner Moonlight, stakes are set high for...
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 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: Dustin Guy Defa’s Person to Person: 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
“We shot in 16mm - which is an aesthetic choice, but also, the only choice for this film.” – Dustin Guy Defa
Six years have...
Harlem Shuffled: Barry Jenkins isn’t Blind to “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Arguably 2016 was Barry Jenkins' big coming out party and curiously sharing a place together along with Moonlight on several top ten lists was...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dustin Guy Defa’s Human People
I've been wrong before and so I don't like using the term a shoe-in, but I'd be one of the folks to fall out...
What’s Your Sign?: Aaron Katz Lands Lola Kirke, Zoe Kravitz & John Cho for “Gemini”
Fitting that the film title for this thriller is being filmed in it's birthday month, the sign that is represented by the twins Castor...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chad Hartigan’s Morris from America
His sophomore film received a ton of fanfare after premiering at Sundance's NEXT section (and the first edition of the NEXT Weekend event) back...
2014 Sundance Film Festival: Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz’s Land Ho!
Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz might have made a strong case for working in twos: as a tandem in both the directing and screenwriting...
