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2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Aaron Katz’s Gemini
In his quiet ascension from micro indie filmmaker (2005's All the Stage Is a World, 2006's Dance Party, USA, 2007's Quiet City, 2010's Cold...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alethea Jones’ Fun Mom Dinner
Sundance programmers looking to add some funny bone component to the line-up might be looking towards Aussie, L.A. based filmmaker Alethea Jones' female-centric comedy....
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carlos Puga’s Full-Dress
Having creatively immersed himself as a docu producer and direct on a handful of MTV's True Life Series,
Carlos Puga first broke into Sundance with his...
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...
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...
Bad Santa 2 | Review
Regifted Goods: Waters Takes the Reigns for Unnecessary Sequel
There’s an art to vulgar comedy, requiring a sly talent for successfully presenting off color humor...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Dillon Quinn’s Eating Animals
It's been a long decade plus wait since Christopher Dillon Quinn's Sundance Grand Jury Prize/Audience Award winning God Grew Tired of Us (2006) disarmed...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Keleman’s Easy Living
Adam Keleman is the type of first time filmmaker we admire: learn the craft, be a fly on the wall and stay hungry. With...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Charlie McDowell’s The Discovery
Up until the recent unveiling of A Walk into the Woods at the fest, I'm fairly certain that to see a Robert Redford film...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oren Moverman’s The Dinner
I don't recall the last time a novel had three book to film adaptations in such a rapid lapse of time, but the source...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Onah’s Dara Ju
A project that has been long in the works for a while now as it was originally a short of the same name, Dara...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Zellner’s Damsel
While the Safdie Bros. are likely en route to Cannes or Venice with the other Robert Pattinson vehicle Good Time, we'll likely saddle up...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights
A rather remarkable, perhaps rare, but not unheard true life story of false imprisonment and the type of stubborn dedication it selflessly takes to...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Brice’s Creep 2
We had an inkling that Patrick Brice would shore up at Sundance back in 2015, but we hadn't the faintest idea that The Overnight would be the huge...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matthew Heineman’s City of Ghosts
No stranger to conflict zone coverage and harm's way, when it was announced this past summer that the award winning docu filmmaker would move...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kitty Green’s Casting JonBenet
Don't have to look far out into Sundance's past for samples of the docu form being challenged, incinerated and invigorated. While Kate Plays Christine...
Allied | Review
Only Lovers Left Alive: Zemeckis Mounts Handsome Production atop Warbling Wartime Romance
Of all the gin joints in town, he had to walk into hers....
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gerard McMurray’s Burning Sands
An early collaborator with filmmaker phenom Ryan Coogler (he would associate produce Fruitvale Station aka Fruitvale), we're not sure when Netflix gave their vote...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Showalter’s The Big Sick
Sometimes a given film isn't ready, or is not quite the good fit for Sundance, which only means that whatever they pass on benefits...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Eliza Hittman’s Beach Rats
Now that Ana Lily Amirpour has delivered The Bad Batch at Venice and TIFF, and The Babadook's Jennifer Kent might not be ready until...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Koo’s Amateur
As detailed by the filmmaker/nofilmschool.com Founding Editor himself, it was no easy task to land a coveted Sundance institute spot but not unlike perfecting your...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Angus MacLachlan’s Abundant Acreage Available
City and small town folk colliding come full circle again as the writer of Junebug (Indie Spirits nominated Best First Screenplay) proposes a conflict of interest in another...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Vincent Grashaw’s And Then I Go
As a producer for Evan Glodell's Bellflower, filmmaker Vincent Grashaw certainly knows what it takes to get into Sundance and perhaps banking on the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brian Shoaf’s Aardvark
Shot in NYC exactly one year to date, for his directorial debut, actor, playwright and now filmmaker Brian Shoaf landed Zachary Quinto, Jenny Slate and Jon...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra
Truth be told, there are film fest programmer folk from the Croisette and the Lido itching to get their hands on world preem for...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: An Introduction
While we usually associate day one in Park City with thin air, this quickly dissipates and gets replaced in the overall film output with...
Men & Chicken | Blu-ray Review
With his first directorial effort in a decade, Danish scribe Thomas Anders Jensen scores an automatic cult following with Men & Chicken, a bizarre...
Free Fire | 2016 BFI London Film Festival Review
Gunfight at Boston, MA: Wheatley’s Portrait of a Vicious Shootout
Massachusetts, 1970s. More precisely, the docks of Boston, where plans for a weapons trade at...
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Review
Beasts of Burden: Yates Falters in CGI Heavy Harry Potter Prequel
After taking a break from adapting Harry Potter films (he was responsible for the...
Exclusive: Isabelle Huppert & Benoît Jacquot Reteam on “Eva” Remake
In Nicholas Bell's sit down with the distinguished French actress Isabelle Huppert, who is currently promoting the U.S. release of Paul Verhoeven's Elle, we...
Interview: Isabelle Huppert – Paul Verhoeven’s Elle
There’s never been a performer quite like Isabelle Huppert, the elusive and enigmatic center of auteur art-house cinema since she broke out in 1977...
Manchester by the Sea | Review
The Fire Last Time: Lonergan’s Austere Portrait of Razed Emotions in Chilly New England
Kenneth Lonergan musters yet another masterful portrait of pervasive trauma with...
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk | Review
Walk the Line: Lee’s Technological Prowess Yearns for More Than Earnest Wartime Narrative Can Deliver
For his first venture since 2012 Oscar winner Life of...
Hunter Gatherer | Review
Happy-Go-Lucky: Locy’s Odd, High-Spirited Portrait of a Scam Artist
A mere glance at the extensive list of executive producers (which includes David Gordon Green, Jody...
The Conversation: Top 10 World Cinema Filmmakers Missing in Action (Class of 2016)
Following on the heels of our list of US directors who’ve been AWOL for the past five years or more, we highlight ten international...
Elle | Review
Losing Her Religion: Verhoeven Directs a Fearless Huppert in Provocative Psychological Thriller
Arriving with a knotty snarl of perverse commentary, Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven proves...
Arrival | Review
Future Perfect: Villeneuve Crafts a Poetic Close Encounter
Using language and communication as a fertile metaphor, Denis Villeneuve situates complex ideas into streamlined composition with...
Almost Christmas | Review
Do You Hear What I Hear?: Talbert’s Holiday Themed Dramedy Features Talented Cast in Contrived Scenario
One of several connotations with the popularized subgenre of...
Imperium | Blu-ray Review
Moving further away from his Harry Potter persona with a trio of three immensely dissimilar films in 2016, actor Daniel Radcliffe’s anxiety laced performance...
The Conversation: Top 10 American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action (Class of 2016)
Continuing our annual tradition of highlighting US auteurs who’ve lapsed into an unplanned or unpredictable hiatus, we’re recounting another ten notable filmmakers who have...
The Love Witch | Review
Busty Black Magic: Biller’s Feminist Sexploitation Cinema
Serving as a satire on pulp serials and brimming with all of the elements that would make Russ...
Dog Eat Dog | Review
Hot in Cleveland: Schrader Returns with Gritty, Entertaining Crime Drama
The dog days aren’t over, or so it would seem in director Paul Schrader’s glorious...
Trash Fire | Review
Trash Humping: Bates Deliver Unkempt Dysfunctional Family Thriller
Director Richard Bates Jr. cuts a bit too deeply with third feature Trash Fire, a film which...
The Pickle Recipe | Review
How do ya Like them Cucumbers?: Manasseri Offers Kosher Silliness
Potentially could be considered in the same food produce aisle subgenre as Veggie Tales, Michael...
Loving | Review
United States of Love: Nichols Falters with Hokey Prestige Picture
In 1967, the United States Supreme Court made a landmark civil rights decision with Loving...
Hacksaw Ridge | Review
Full Metal Hacksaw: Gibson Returns to the Director’s Seat for an Anti-War Film
Perhaps it was only inevitable to find actor-turned-director-turned-showbiz pariah Mel Gibson tackle...
Doctor Strange | Review
Time After Time: More Snark, Less Spark in Derrickson’s Entry into the Marvelverse
Marvel introduces their approximation of the mystical realm with their unleashing of...
2016 Sundance Film Fest Video: Kerem Sanga’s First Girl I Loved
Among the NEXT section titles that landed at this year's Sundance Film Fest, the micro-budgeted NEXT Audience Award winning puppy love in the crosshairs...
Una | 2016 BFI London Film Festival Review
Breaking the Taboo: Andrews’ Courageous Analysis of an Agonizing Affair
A young woman confronts her predator after an interval of fifteen years in the taut...
Porto | 2016 BFI London Film Festival Review
In Remembrance of Loves Past: Klinger’s Quiet Meditation on Romance, Time & Memory
Two foreigners stumble upon a chance encounter and spend an intimate evening together...
