Tag: Taika Waititi

2023 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cronenberg, Bynum, Trengove, Alaoui, Song

In the second portion of our Sundance prognostications, we find Sundance alumni whether it be short film filmmakers vying for a spot for their...

2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 100 Predictions (Part II) Schanelec, Akin, Polak & Maria Schrader

With Michael Grandage's My Policeman now being confirmed as a non-Venice title (it was just been announced as a World Premiere selection) we now...

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins

2021 came and went and yet New Zealand’s Taika Waititi didn't see his latest hit the fest circuit - perhaps it has to do...

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Review

Wain’s World: Sharpe Presents Loving Portrait of an Artist It’s odd to reflect upon a time when felines weren’t regarded as a stereotypical domesticated fur...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins

You won't find a better Sundance ambassador than New Zealand's Taika Waititi who has unveiled several films from his filmography in Park City. His...

2019 TIFF: Fest Lands World Preems to Cretton, Crowley, Finley, Heller, Kurzel, Iannucci, Waititi & Winterbottom

Confirming what will show at Telluride and Venice, the 2019 edition of the Toronto Intl.Film Festival has managed to land several World Preem and...

The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!

The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #18. Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit

Jojo Rabbit Based on a 2012 Black List screenplay, Taika Waititi's sixth feature film went into production in May/June of 2018 in the Czech Republic...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #41. Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit

A longstanding friend of the festival (I think I've walked by him three dozen times at the HQ in Park City), Taika Waititi might...

The Breaker Upperers | 2018 SXSW Film Festival Review

Conscious Coupling: Modern Day "Womance" via Kiwi Duo Yes, there is an extra syllable in the Breaker Upperers, a title imbued with the fumblings of...

Sundance ’16: Reichardt, Marston, Sachs, Solondz, Stillman & Lonergan Among Premieres

Sundance programmers have unveiled what is a jaw-dropping, savoury Premieres line-up. With names such as Asif Kapadia (Ali & Nino), Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women), Joshua...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Taika Waititi's connection with the Sundance Film Festival has been a longstanding one. His constantly evolving funny bone swagger (aided and abetted alongside muse...

What We Do in the Shadows | Review

Friends Forever: Clement & Waititi’s Pleasantly Charming Vampiric Mock-Doc That immortal cinematic archetype, the vampire, has once again been commandeered into the periphery of independent...

2014 TIFF: Midnight Madness Sticks Mostly To Fest Faves in David Robert Mitchell & Adam Wingard

It looks like Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes might have been more inspired by what he might have seen elsewhere, than what was currently...

Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead) & Adam Wingard (The Guest) Make Return to Park City at Midnight Section

I had a hunch that Cooties (read here) and Adam Wingard's The Guest (read here) might make it into what appears to be a...

Draft Day, A Country of Strangers & Rodham Top the 2012 Black List

There is either a couple of football fans or Jerry Maguire/Moneyball with this year's most liked unproduced screenplay. Close to 300 hundred film executives...

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