Tag: top-stories
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Porterfield’s Sollers Point
Part of the mini Baltimore/Maryland clique of filmmaker contributors adding significant contributions to the American indie scene, Matt Porterfield lined auds up with personalized cinema offerings of Hamilton...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Austin Vesely’s Slice
Like several other media folks, this new project only came to our attention when the cool kids in film distribution landed the rights. With...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Shawn Christensen’s Sidney Hall
Part musician/part filmmaker, Shawn Christensen is an Academy Award winner (Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film for his 2012 film, Curfew) who would adapt the short...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ritesh Batra’s The Sense of an Ending
He piled on the short films more or less around the time where he was selected for 2009 Sundance Writers and Directors Labs with...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Mayer’s The Seagull
A premium title for the acquisitions side of Sundance, Michael Mayer has been absent from feature films since
his first pair A Home at the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Larnell’s Roxanne, Roxanne
Michael Larnell knows a thing or two about big breaks. He launched his filmmaking career with the microbudgeted Cronies which was included in Sundance's NEXT section...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jessica Manafort’s Rosy
The daughter of former Trump campaign chairman proposes an anti-Stockholm Syndrome with her NYC set, kidnapping thriller Rosy. Lensing began in November of 2015...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Palansky’s Rememory
A Canuck filmmaker who found a mentor in Michael Bay in his formative years, Mark Palansky broke out with Christina Ricci fantasy film Penelope...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Pacho Velez’s The Reagan Years
We're hoping that the proverbial expression that no news is good news will be the case for a docu that we were projecting for...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brian Crano’s Permission
With 2011's A Bag of Hammers and his 2014's short "Dog Food" both preeming at Austin, you can bet that the SXSW programmers have Brian...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Margarita Jimeno’s My Life is a Soundtrack
Jury prize winner at Champs Elysees Film Festival's U.S. in Progress this past summer, Margarita Jimeno’s sophomore feature currently titled My Life is a...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Liz W. Garcia’s One Percent More Humid
In 2005, Franklin Leonard issued the very first edition of The Blacklist. Things We Lost in the Fire, Juno, Lars and the Real Girl...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jim McKay’s On the Seventh Day
Perhaps the indie film career path anomaly on our complete predictions list, Jim McKay found relative success at Sundance using the festival as a platform...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dee Rees’ Mudbound
The Sundance Institute and festival were the lieu where Pariah (both the short and feature) received critical help and it gave indiewood a new...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tommy O’Haver’s The Most Hated Woman in America
Not a biopic on Hillary Clinton but the title of one outspoken trailblazing personality who took on gawking religious folk, despite some television work Tommy...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tali Shalom-Ezer’s Mercy
The chances of seeing Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer's Mercy premiere at Sundance are next to nil and that's not because it wouldn't be...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Megan Leavey
The only commonality found in Sundance buzz issue doc film Blackfish and Gabriela Cowperthwaite's fiction debut might be the move from big fish to...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Azazel Jacobs’ The Lovers
A two-time Sundance Film Fest attendee with Momma's Man (2008) and Terri (2011), Azazel Jacobs' next should follow suit in Park City and dynamic interpersonal relationships...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Russell Harbaugh’s Love After Love
I recall watching Russell Harbaugh's Rolling on the Floor Laughing (2012 edition Sundance) and feeling an air not unlike a cold draft. This is...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours
Can filmmaker Jeff Baena get the triple crown of Sundance invites? So far two for two with his feature films in 2014's Life After...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Janicza Bravo’s Lemon
She's been a botany of flourishingly unique pieces of art (we discovered her with her award-winning short) and the Sundance have been the lucky...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jody Hill’s Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter
It's more with HBO's "Vice Principals," and "Eastbound & Down," than oddball goofball offering in the Sundance preemed The Foot Fist Way (2006) and...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete
Seeing that Andrew Haigh's career has been climbing in the same upward trajectory as the best stock options on the fortune 500, we shouldn't be...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gillian Robespierre’s Landline
She turned a lot of heads when she presented married a not around the dinner table taboo topic with unfiltered characters. According to our...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Paddy Considine’s Journeyman
Seeing all the buzz that came about with the brutally honest triage drama with starlets Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman and Eddie Marsan in the...
Rules Don’t Apply | Review
The Showgirl and the Driver: Beatty’s Romantic Reconstruction of Eccentric Entrepreneur’s Latter Days
Considering his iconic contributions and sterling reputation in cinema, breaking out over...
Evolution | Review
Island of Lost Boys: Hadzihalilovic’s Triumphant Return to Enigmatic Filmmaking
French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic returns to the director’s seat for the first time since 2004’s...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Rivera & Cristina Ibarra’s The Infiltrators
Wasn't that long ago we were complaining about Sleep Dealer helmer Alex Rivera's lack of output. We found out midway this year that he...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes at Night
While luck and talent go hand in hand, you might want to ask Trey Edward Shults to pick out lottery numbers for all the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dustin Guy Defa’s Human People
I've been wrong before and so I don't like using the term a shoe-in, but I'd be one of the folks to fall out...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Cameron Mitchell’s How to Talk to Girls at Parties
We've got one month left in the 2016 calendar and the top titles that should have dropped in this year happen to come from Sundance...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brett Haley’s The Hero
Looks like Woody isn't the only cowboy picking up dust. In terms of Sundance good fortune, Brett Haley's sophomore feature, I’ll See You In My...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Turturro’s Going Places
Curiosity factor is through the roof with this one and perhaps not all bets are off with John Turturro essentially lifting one memorable character...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Ross Perry’s Golden Exits
Not to Pooh Pooh on the selection process (forgive the pun), but the last time I predicted an Alex Ross Perry film was going...
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...
