Tag: Sophia Takal

Black Bear [Video Review]

Husband and Wives and Bears, Oh My!: Levine’s Dark Dream an Ambiguous, Playful Psychodrama The crux of our innate creative necessities might require something beyond...

2020 Sundance Film Festival: Omniboat, Lawrence Michael Levine, Heidi Ewing & Danny Madden in the NEXT Section

The Death of Dick Long, Give Me Liberty, Selah and the Spades and Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour (which is receiving its theatrical...

Always Shine | Review

All About Actresses: Takal’s Flavorful Psychodrama Treads Familiar Territory As she conveyed in her 2011 debut feature Green, Sophia Takal has a particular interest in...

Green-er Pastures: Oscilloscope Obsesses over Takal’s “Always Shine”

Less than a month after premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, Sophia Takal's sophomore film is definitely taking flight. After winning the Best Actress...

Wild Canaries | Review

Good Neighbors: Levine’s Indie Murder Mystery a Passing Homage to Classic Comedy Actor/writer/director Lawrence Michael Levine reunites with director/actress wife Sophia Takal for his third...

Hellaware | Review

Satirize This: Bilandic’s Scruffy Send-up of NYC Art Scene Though starting off on a stronger note than where it eventually ends up, Michael M. Bilandic’s...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #175. Lawrence Michael Levine’s Wild Canaries

Wild Canaries Director: Lawrence Michael Levine Writer: Lawrence Michael Levine Producers: Takal, Kim Sherman, E. McCabe Walsh U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Sophia Takal, Lawrence Michael Levine, Alia Shawkat,...

2013 Wroclaw’s US in Progress: Mike Ott, Lawrence Levine & Onur Tukel Among Chosen Six

Pierogis and paczkis aside, another thing we like about the Polish is the Wroclaw's US in Progress initiative, which is already at year three...

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IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lucia Aleñar Iglesias (Forastera)

IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month highlights an emerging talent...

Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, Zoe Stein & Agnès Pique Corbera – Forastera (2025)

Long before Bergman’s Persona undertook its psychological and existential...

Renoir | Review

Family of Straw: Hayakawa Paints Busy Coming-of-Age Portrait Going in...

The Wizard of the Kremlin | Review

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