Tag: Tim Heidecker

Fuller House: Dupieux Lands Kristen Stewart, Woody Harrelson, Emma Mackey, Charlotte Le Bon + Tim & Eric for ‘Full Phil’

Absurdist auteur par excellence, Quentin Dupieux has thrown us some clapperboard proof that Kristen Stewart, Woody Harrelson, Emma Mackey, Charlotte Le Bon, Nassim Lyes,...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kyle Mooney’s Y2K

With so many A24 items looking for 2024 positioning, we wouldn't be surprised if Kyle Mooney's feature debut waits for the next train to...

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Spin Me Round

It was pasta, wine, and a the Leaning Tower of Pisa type backdrop for the cast of goofballs assembled for Jeff Baena's five feature...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carson Mell’s Some Of Our Stallions

Carson Mell was a legit Sundance discovery and perhaps we can call him an actual triple threat as he premiered his first three shorts...

Us | Review

Seeing Double: Peele Turns his Camera on Us In the best possible way, Us feels like a Jordan Peele movie -- his sophomore feature offers...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Max Winkler’s Flower

First rising to surface as one of the better unproduced screenplays on the 2012 Blacklist (it had the same number of votes as Whiplash...

When Life Gives you Lemons, make O.J; Magnolia Fill Three Cups Worth with Alverson’s “Entertainment”

As discussed in our recent post Sundance Film Festival assessment of the NEXT section distribution deals, we noticed that there was some fine fruit at the...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rick Alverson’s Entertainment

It may be too early to call him an American cousin akin to the quasi-dark humor of Roy Andersson and Aki Kaurismäki, but is third...

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Blight Christmas: Shapeero’s Debut is Not the Most Wonderful Time of the Year There’s a reason why Tristram Shapeero’s film debut A Merry Friggin’ Christmas...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #94. Rick Alverson’s Entertainment

Entertainment Director: Rick Alverson Writer: Rick Alverson Producers: Brooke Bernard, Patrick Hibler, Dawn Krantz, Ryan Zacarias U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: John C. Reilly, Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington I'm late...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.