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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 93. Volker Schlondorff’s Return to Montauk
Return to Montauk
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Writer: Volker Schlondorff, Colm Toibin
It’s impossible to discuss the German New Wave of the 1970s without mentioning Volker Schlondorff, perhaps...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 94. Raoul Peck’s The Eyes of Karl Marx
The Young Karl Marx
Director: Raoul Peck
Writer: Pascal Bonitzer
Haitian director Raoul Peck, currently enjoying considerable awards buzz for his 2016 documentary on James Baldwin, I...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 95. Thomas Vinterberg’s Kursk
Kursk
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Writer: Robert Rodat
After his well-received period drama The Commune premiered in the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, Danish auteur Thomas Vinterberg scored...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 96. Lav Diaz’s When the Waves Are Gone
When the Waves Are Gone
Director: Lav Diaz
Writer: Lav Diaz
Lav Diaz had a sterling 2016. After winning the Alfred Bauer Award for his eight hour...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 97. Ciro Guerra’s Birds of Passage
Birds of Passage
Director: Ciro Guerra
Writer: Ciro Guerra
Ciro Guerra’s 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent won top honors out of Directors’ Fortnight and was the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 98. Santiago Mitre’s The Summit
The Summit
Director: Santiago Mitre
Writer: Santiago Mitre, Mariano Llinas
A new major player on Argentina’s cinema scene is Santiago Mitre, who won the Grand Jury Prize...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 99. F.J. Ossang’s 9 Fingers
9 Fingers
Director: F.J. Ossang
Writer: F.J. Ossang
Cult filmmaker F.J. Ossang returns after a seven year break with his fifth film, 9 Fingers. His 1985 debut...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 100. Urszula Antoniak’s Beyond Words
Beyond Words
Director: Urszula Antoniak
Writer: Urszula Antoniak
Polish director Urszula Antoniak won Best First Feature (and several other prizes) at Locarno for her 2009 debut Nothing...
The Ardennes | Review
Brother’s Keeper: Pront’s Squalid Crime Thriller a Promising Debut
Although we’ve seen certain tropes and characterizations aplenty, such as any number of disenfranchised families struggling...
Best of 2016: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Theatrical Releases: Picks 10 to 1
Recapping yesterday's 20 to 11 countdown/up.
20. David Mackenzie's Hell or High Water
19. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Creepy
18. Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship
17. Anders Thomas Jensen's Men...
Best of 2016: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Theatrical Releases: Picks 20 to 11
To the relief of many, the final, strenuous chapter of the anxiety-inducing and emotionally toxic year 2016 draws to a close this week. As...
Toni Erdmann | Review
Tony Toni Tone: Maren Ade Returns with Profound Portrait of Estranged Family Members
Comedic films coming out of Germany, at least those nabbing international acclaim...
I, Daniel Blake | Review
Brexit of Champions: Loach’s Unadorned Blue Collar Melodrama Rages against the Machine
As he has been doing since he became an auteur of note...
A Monster Calls | Review
Cover Up Love’s Alibi: Bayona Delivers Sensitively Portrait of Childhood Grief
Rounding out a loosely themed trilogy on traumatic motherhood, director J.A. Bayona, once protégé...
Passengers | Review
In Space, No One Can Hear You Snore: Tyldum Instills Insistently Dull Throb of Boredom in Sci-Fi Romance
Where are they going and where have...
Collateral Beauty | Review
Terms of Amusement: Frankel’s Sentimental Platitudes Ensconce Profoundly Foolish Melodrama
The folly of Will Smith is he’s a performer seemingly unable to differentiate between authentic...
2016 Costa Rica Int. Film Festival: Joyas Del Cine Rica
The 2016 Costa Rica International Film Festival kicked off with an impressive retrospective for Kelly Reichardt, including her latest and potentially most acclaimed film...
Frank & Lola | Review
A Lover I Don’t Have to Love: Ross’ Debut Explores Troubled Romance
Notions of monogamy and ownership hover on the troubling periphery of Matthew Ross’...
Old Stone | Review
Stone Cold: Ma’s Bleak Debut Conveys the Uselessness of Doing the Right Thing
Nice guys don’t get ahead, at least not if they’re part...
Jackie | Review
The Safety of Objects: Larrain Revisits Traumatic Chapter of Iconic First Lady
There have been very few First Ladies either before or after Jacqueline Kennedy...
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...
Things to Come | Review
Things Fall Apart: Hansen-Love Crafts Superb Scenario for Huppert
Director Mia Hansen-Løve breathes majestic layers of complexity into her fifth feature, Things to Come, documenting...
Man Down | Review
Little Drummer Boy: Montiel’s Misguided and Manipulative PTSD Allegory
Since his autobiographical 2006 debut A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, director Dito Montiel has been...
I Am Not Madame Bovary | Review
What Women Want: Feng’s Lusciously Filmed Satire a Wearying Critique on Cultural Custom
Prolific Chinese director Xiaogang Feng, whose films are often well-regarded box office...
The Eyes of My Mother | Review
And Soon the Darkness: Pesce’s Debut a Superbly Stylized Nightmare
If Portugal were the portal to some Lynchian netherworld of dreams deferred, it would look...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Greg Kinnear’s The Philosophy of Phil
From Little Miss Sunshine to the more recent Little Men, Greg Kinnear has been part of the recent tapestry of the festival as an actor,...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marius A. Markevicius’ Ashes in the Snow
We've got Drake Doremus' oft-used screenwriter in Ben York Jones, The Diary of a Teenage Girl starlet Bel Powley and a docu filmmaker who...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ari Gold’s American Sway
His debut film (Adventures of Power) premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and his sophomore film project which lensed perhaps as far back...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alexandre Moors’ The Yellow Bird
Once a genre that was box office poison and an area that indie film did not want to address either, there has a resurgence...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benjamin/Carrillo/Kusama/St. Vincent/Vuckovic’s XX
Looking down our list, if included at this year's fest, they would be emblematic of what we believe will be the highest percentage of...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kate & Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock
We imagine they just didn't quit their day jobs, so it might have been a longer post production gestation period for the first time...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Win It All
While he was busy delivering the Netflix Series 'Easy,' January to November 2016 will have came and went and we will not have heard...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Johnson’s Wilson
Now pegged with a March 24th date via Fox Searchlight, despite it not being an acquisitions title, Craig Johnson's Wilson could still land in...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Fritz Böhm’s Wildling
Sundance’s 2015 breakout starlet Bel Powley stars in a project that is being Let The Right One In and maybe a pinch of The Babadook. Prior...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Dosunmu’s Where is Kyra?
Andrew Dosunmu left quite the mark with his Sundance preemed micro-indie (Restless City) and macro indie (Mother of George) offerings and now he turns...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lake Bell’s What’s The Point?
We heart Lake Bell's head, specifically what's inside it. In a World... not only took us by surprise, but it took the home the Waldo...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stacie Passon’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle
She's one of our favorites and thankfully it hasn't been too long a wait between her tough as nails dramatic debut Concussion (starring the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Peer Pedersen’s We Don’t Belong Here
He worked on a couple of titles as a producer including the TIFF preemed Megan Griffiths' Lucky Them (2013) and the Sundance preemed, unfathomably...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Madeleine Olnek Emily Dickinson Project
We were a little too early with this prognostication, and we don't yet have an official title, but we're now thinking it's time for...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Joshua Z Weinstein Hassidic Film Project
For the better part of the last decade, the cinematographer/additional photographer has built himself an incredibly vast curriculum vitae and perhaps 2017 is when...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled David Lowery Project
There was a sense that something was being cooked up, but for all we knew, the members on Ain't Them Bodies Saints were having...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: The Untitled Amir Bar-Lev Grateful Dead Documentary Project
Sundance has been especially welcoming to Amir Bar-Lev with My Kid Could Paint That (2007) and The Tillman Story (2010) and Happy Valley (2014) having all premiered at the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
While his brother (John Michael McDonagh) appears to enjoy the Park City backdrop (The Guard, Calvary) so does this Londoner / short film Oscar...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Danny Boyle’s T2: Trainspotting
Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose this sequel as the special screening at Sundance and all will be forgiven for when...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cory Finley’s Thoroughbred
Featuring two current "it" actresses, a young playwright making his directorial debut and one of the last performances from Anton Yelchin, Thoroughbred could be...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
Not unlike Gabriela Cowperthwaite, here is the example of another female docu filmmaker who broke out at Sundance and has now climbed into fiction narrative territory....
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeffrey Blitz’s Table 19
We thought that Fox Searchlight would have dropped this at last year's Sundance or sometime in 2016, but the distribution have pegged it for...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yance Ford’s Strong Island
You can't rush a good thing, and you certainly can't rush a project that is not that far removed from one' self. We've been...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein’s The Strange Ones
If Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein's directing debut shores up in Park City it'll be its second stint. The filmmaking pair introduced The Strange...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep
She hit the triple crown of Sundance Institute workshops as a participant in the 2013 Screenwriters, Directors and Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design...
