Tag: Thomasin McKenzie
The Testament of Ann Lee | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review
Shake It Up: Fastvold Envisions the Life’s Work of a Religious Leader
There’s a fervor roiling beneath the surface of Mona Fastvold’s third feature, The...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #17. Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog
The Power of the Dog
Produced by Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman
Directed by Jane Campion
Written by Jane Campion
Starring: Kirsten Dunst,...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...
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...
Sundance 2018: Madeline’s Madeline Helena Howard Leads our Top 10 New Faces
Last week we looked at the impressive class of new voices who made a noticeable mark at Sundance '18, and now we go in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #18. Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace
Leave No Trace
Only her third feature fiction film following Down to the Bone (2004) and Winter’s Bone (2010), it always feels like a true cinematic event...
Sundance 2018: The Year of Youth in Revolt
There’s an old adage in filmmaking that goes something like: ‘never work with kids or animals.’ This year’s Sundance Film Festival is a direct...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Debra Granik’s My Abandonment
We likened her to Kelly Reichardt with a cinema that should sprout internationally and so we were genuinely surprised when she didn't drop into...
