Tag: Sean Baker
Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Brady Corbet, Jesse Eisenberg… What are the Oscar Directors Class of ’25 Working on Next?
With only the American Cinema Editors Awards left on the bingo card (March 14th), the long awards season campaigning towards Oscars in finally over...
2024 NYFCC: The Brutalist Nabs Best Picture & Best Actor, Marianne Jean-Baptiste Still in the Mix
The New York Film Critics Circle Awards gave Brady Corbet's Venice and Golden Globe winning The Brutalist the top honors in the Best Film...
2025 DGA Award Noms: Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker & Brady Corbet Jockey for Gold
It'll be non fisticuffs round between Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker and Brady Corbet. and it's worth mentioning the Oscars aren't too far behind. The...
2024 Golden Globe Awards: Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist & Anora Take Pole Positions
It'll be a Cannes Film Festival competition rematch alongside the critical darling (Best Director) winning competition film from the Venice Film Festival. Emilia Pérez...
2024 Gothams: Sean Baker’s Anora Lands Four Noms; Payal Kapadia & RaMell Ross in the Mix
The notoriously unpredictable and always confusing Gotham Awards revealed their nominations for the upcoming 34th gala, with Sean Baker’s Anora leading the pack. Anora...
Anora | Review
Fools Russia In: Baker’s Bangin’ Screwball Comedy
At this point in his career, filmmaker Sean Baker seems to have covered all the major facets of...
FYC: Top 10 Cannes Storylines That Will Shape The Awards Race
With the Venice Film Festival set to break bread this week we thought it was time to look back at the legit contenders for...
2024 NYFF: Corbet, Tsangari, Baker, Lesage, Guiraudie Plus Surprise Devor & Loktev Titles in Main Slate
We got a nice sampling of Berlinale (e.g. the Golden Bear winner Dahomey) and Cannes (e.g. the Palme d'Or winner Anora) items with a...
2024 TIFF: 10 Key Take-Aways From Gala & Special Presentations Announcement
The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its Gala and Special Presentations programs and now have have confirmations not only...
Sean Baker’s Anora – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Returning to the official competition for a second time, this is American indie filmmaker Sean Baker's third consecutive trip to Cannes after The Florida...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Payal Kapadia, Lanthimos, Baker, Gomes & Agathe Riedinger’s Debut Vie for Palme d’Or
With today's announcement of nineteen competition titles aiming in contention of the Palme d'Or (note that we might add another pair or trio next...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 25 Possible Palme d’Or Competition Films
Usually in the twenty to twenty-two film range, the competition for the Palme d'Or has been a tad more inclusive in recent years in...
Neon Escorts Sean Baker’s “Anora” in 2024
In what appears to be some pre-Cannes (and pre-Venice) shopping, while the early morning buzz had NEON landing Audrey Diwan's (currently in production) Emmanuelle,...
Sex and the City: Mikey Madison Toplines Sean Baker’s “Anora”
As we eagerly await the 2024 edition of the Cannes Film Festival with at least one American indie film earmarked for some Croisette love...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
It's official folks! The drop date has been confirmed. There'll be a couple of films that trickle in a bit after the announcement is...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #58. Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed-Girl
Left-Handed-Girl
We believe this under-the-radar project dipped its toe in co-production coin so we aren't categorizing this shot in Taiwan family drama as American indie...
Red Rocket | Review
Nude Illusion: Baker Returns to Sex Work in Bristling Character Study
You can’t go home again, especially when no one missed you in the first...
2021 Gotham Awards Noms: Test Pattern Lands Trio; Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter” to Duke it Out with Rebecca Hall’s “Passing”
An indie film that had it's world premiere at the Blackstar Film Festival (coined as the Black Sundance) in 2019 and was released by...
2021 Telluride Film Festival: World Preems for C’mon C’mon, King Richard, Cyrano, Belfast & One Mystery Film
The titles for the 48th edition of the Telluride Film Festival have been unveiled and Peter Hedges' low-budget zoom drama The Same Storm, Reinaldo Marcus...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Sean Baker’s Red Rocket
Entering the competition for the very first time (this is Sean Baker's second official visit on the Croisette with The Florida Project premiering in...
Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10 Films of 2017
Some, including the American literary scholar James English, argue that artists shouldn’t care about awards like the Oscars. Author of “The Economy of Prestige,”...
Video Countdown: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Films of 2017
Although we have another facetiously titled Michael Haneke film to ring in the New Year with, it is a decidedly unhappy end considering the...
2018 Indie Spirit Noms: Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” Leads Pack with 6, Benny Safdie Lands 3
It's the head-scratching nominations process where Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is good enough for the Best Feature category and picks up four nominations in...
Reviews & Reflections: Östlund’s The Square Leads Top 5 NYFF Films That Lived Up To The Hype
As the New York Film Festival comes to a close, so marks the end of the 2017 festival season: a year-long tsunami that began...
Guess Who’s Coming to the Awards Dinner? Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” Leads 2017 Gotham Award Noms
Today's Gotham Awards nominees announcement proves that the film's themselves have their own against all odds narratives. With the five noms for the Best...
Video: Sean Baker’s The Florida Project – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
His first trip on the Croisette, Sean Baker's The Florida Project was presented in the Directors' Fortnight section as a world premiere screening. In...
The Florida Project | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah: Baker Offers A Portrait of the South Like No Other
This time out we can move away from lazily defining Sean Baker's cinema as...
2017 Cannes Film Festival: How the “Toni Erdmann” Snub Help Land “The Square” the Palme d’Or
When surveilling the postscript and how the Pedro led jury handed out the awards, the consensus is: job well done. However, while we were...
The Conversation: Top 3 Most Anticipated Directors’ Fortnight Picks: Denis, Baker & Dumont
Cannes 2017 is already a notable edition thanks to the festival's inclusion of auteur helmed television entries, and (to the chagrin of some traditional...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell (2017 Edition)
It’s hard to believe, but we’re about five weeks away from the unveiling of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival lineup. After several months of...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sean Baker’s The Florida Project
Not unlike how we feel about the road trip formula, there is no shortage of or love lost for: kids drifting off into ruined...
When Life Gives you Oranges, Make…: Sean Baker Embarks on “The Florida Project”
For what will become his sixth feature film, film format friendly auteur Sean Baker is moving over to the east coast Sunshine State for...
The Conversation: Best of 2015 – Top 10 Theatrical Releases
Diving into the hundreds of new theatrical releases, including large chunks of grueling, gluttonous marathons through world cinema’s greatest offerings from a variety of film...
Tangerine | Review
Boulevard Ballads: Baker’s Enigmatic Journey into Hollywood’s Facade
For those familiar with the cinematic offerings of Sean Baker, it will come as no surprise that...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #42. James Ransone (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
James Ransone: Movie: Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut is an absolute masterpiece. 15 years ago...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #36. Mya Taylor (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Mya Taylor: I discovered my husband Nathan. He's amazing. Favorite album: Aaliyah By Aaliyah
Favorite song: Toni...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #24. Shih-Ching Tsou (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Shih-Ching Tsou: I was secretly searching for the best french toast in New York city....
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #29. Marcus Cox (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Marcus Cox: Discovered; Autobiography of a Yogi, by Yogananda and I love it. Discovered a...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #28. Karrie Cox (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Karrie Cox: 1. Red House Painters, “Cruiser”. 2. Andrew Wyeth, “Christina’s World” @ MOMA...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #10. Sean Baker (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Sean Baker: 1) Ruben Östlund - After being blown away by Force Majeure, I made...
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: Sean Baker’s Tangerine
The scrooge in me doesn't care much for Xmas themed films. But worry not, this Christmas without snow will surely bring out the yuletide...
Newbies, Habituals & James Ransone Are All Ripe for Sean Baker’s “Tangerine”
Moving from unlikely friendships in Starlet, to perhaps the likeliest of neighbors, Sean Baker appears to have found a cosmos that is inspiring to...
Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Films of 2012: (Picks 5 to 1) Leos Carax’s Holy Motors is #1
5. Amour – Dir. Michael Haneke (Austria)
Winner of the Palme D’or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the second for auteur Michael Haneke, much...
IONCINEPHILE: Sean Baker’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile (read...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Sean Baker
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This November, we feature Sean Baker, an independent...
Interview: Sean Baker & Dree Hemingway – Starlet
Sean Baker’s third feature film, Starlet, finds him exploring the world of sun soaked California through the eyes of porn star Jane, played by...
2012 SXSW: Starlet | Review
POV Shot: Baker and Hemingway Craft Intricate Tale
Pornography, prostitution, and pimping, worlds that are often portrayed as a dark underbelly, away from the center,...
