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Creed | Review
What’s in a Name?: Coogler’s Impressive Rocky Spinoff
After taking home the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013 with Fruitvale Station, director...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker’s Unlocking the Cage
Not everyone in the docu community is fortunate enough to roll at Alex Gibney or Amy Berg-like speeds. Similar to our off-target crystal ball...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benedict Andrews’ Una
Sundance has always been a great launching pad for new breakout talents. Rooney Mara saw her first major part in film was as a...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us
Whether its video helmers or stage directors, Sundance has been a reliable launchpad lieu for nouveau British talent --- video helmer Fredrik Bond (The...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Leon’s Tramps
We'd like to give as much insight into the project other than cast list and title, but Adam Leon's sophomore film has been existing somewhere...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremy Teicher & Alexi Pappas’ Tracktown
Some say, write what you know. I guess the idiom here would be to...run with what you know. A project that producer Laura Wagner...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ido Fluk’s The Ticket
We got no qualms with being flat out wrong with our predictions set, but we're thinking we might sort of still be in the...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sian Heder’s Tallulah
They say write...what you know, and perhaps in this case, writing what is unknown. It's the sort of the artistic philosophy that filmmaker Sian Heder might...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeffrey Blitz’s Table 19
A dramedy that the Duplass bros. were originally looking to add to their film canon, it's Sundance habitual Jeffrey Blitz who would pick up with torch...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert’s Swiss Army Man
Receiving wall-to-wall support from the Sundance Institute participating in a fivesome of labs all in 2014 (the January Screenwriters Lab, Directors Lab, Music and...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yance Ford’s Strong Island
The top coin getter (an impressive quarter of a million dollars) from last year's The MacArthur Foundation grants, we're thinking our third time at...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Ahn’s Spa Night
Some of the festival's favorite alumni are filmmakers who first broke into the festival with a short and then shored up a couple of years...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Carney’s Sing Street
Could acoustic lightening strike twice? 2006 was a mythical, magical year for John Carney when Once took the Sundance Film Festival and film world...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Toa Fraser’s 6 Days
Since launching his career in Park City with the World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic winning No. 2 (2006 Sundance Film Fest), Toa Fraser has...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Pacho Velez’s The Reagan Years
When the award-winning Manakamana landed on the film festival circuit (the Golden Leopard win in Locarno was the first of many worthy acknowledgments), it...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marialy Rivas’ La Princesita
Home to about seventeen million folks, the nation of Chile and more specifically its filmmakers are super well served by Park City programmers. While...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gabe Klinger’s Porto
Currently titled after Portuguese's second largest city and favorite gross domestic product, this fictional feature debut comes from a name who has appeared in...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sofia Exarchou’s Park
While the nation of Greece undergoes vast economic reform and it's unstable political climate is shaking the boat, there is a neat little output...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Travis Mathews’ Oscillate Wildly
Slowly moving away from the docu world, but keeping with real life subjects, filmmaker Travis Mathews first gained entry into Sundance with the New...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sophie Goodhart’s My Blind Brother
Despite being a first time feature filmmaker, if Sophie Goodhart were to get into Sundance...it wouldn't be her first visit. She started off in...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chad Hartigan’s Morris from America
His sophomore film received a ton of fanfare after premiering at Sundance's NEXT section (and the first edition of the NEXT Weekend event) back...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special
Sundance missed out on the opportunity to present Shotgun Stories (2007) to the world (Berlin landed the film instead) but made up for it...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Schwartzman’s MF
A 7th art bloodline that keeps sprouting new I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. filmmakers, the Coppola legacy continues with a...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bernal/Kashyap/Khan/Silva/Sono/Wasikowska’s Madly
Not your run-of-the-mill future film festival selection, filmmakers Gael García Bernal (Déficit), Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur), Sebastián Silva (Nasty Baby), Shion Sono (Suicide Club), Natasha Khan...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alma Har’el’s LoveTrue
Alma Har'el broke out big in 2011 when Bombay Beach hit the Berlin Film Festival. Winner of the Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: So Yong Kim’s Lovesong
Sundance, Berlin, Venice and Toronto film fest programmers would all agree --- there is a refined and fertile cinema chez So Yong Kim. In Between Days, Treeless...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chadd Harbold’s Long Nights Short Mornings
Having flirted with the Sundance festivities with his 2009 selected short film Asshole, and in the sister NEXT WEEKEND event back in 2013 with...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kelly Reichardt’s Livingston
The reigning queen of American independent cinema has a rich history with Sundance --- she premiered her debut film 1994's River of Grass (which...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Logan Sandler’s Live Cargo
A micro indie L'Avventura-esque meets Miss Bala like oddity presented at the U.S in Progress (2015 Paris Champs-Élysées Film Festival edition), Logan Sandler reteams with...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ira Sachs’ Little Men
Steve Karmen's 70s radio jingle certainly comes to mind when considering the body of work from the likes of Scorsese, Spike Lee, Woody Allen. We can...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: William H. Macy’s The Layover
Best known for his stumbling car salesman and poor choice of a husband in the Coen Bros's Fargo, in his almost four decade career William...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Greene’s Kate Plays Christine
Is Sundance big enough for two Christines? It certainly would be a ballsy festival move and a trip as a cinephile to see, compare...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Wayne Roberts’ Katie Says Goodbye
Take two thesps from the previous Sundance film festival who both broke out big and then pair them up for your directorial debut. This...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s In Dubious Battle
The unpredictability with this filmmaker-actor is that he has got plenty of projects stoking the fire and we never know which item might push...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Schamus’ Indignation
A veteran player on the independent film scene dating all the way back to Todd Haynes' 1991 release of the seminal queer film Poison,...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Taika Waititi's connection with the Sundance Film Festival has been a longstanding one. His constantly evolving funny bone swagger (aided and abetted alongside muse...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kevin Smith & Co.’s Holidays
While TIFF is more inclusive to programming them, Sundance is not one to shy away from anthology horror films of the V/H/S type, so perhaps they'll...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room
It might be a case of deja vu all over again for director Jeremy Saulnier. It's hard enough breaking into Sundance, but the festival's...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Neel’s Goat
You can only have an actor attached for so long until they "grow" out of the role and you can only have a director...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matthew Ross’ Frank and Lola
Will the real Matt Ross please stand up. Don't be all that surprised if Matt Ross (28 Hotel Rooms, Captain Fantastic) and Matthew Ross wind...
Goodnight Mommy | Blu-ray Review
Distributor TWC-Radius managed a difficult feat with an inspired marketing campaign for the release of foreign arthouse horror film Goodnight Mommy, the excellent directorial...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rafael Palacio Illingworth’s The Force
Shot in June in Los Angeles, The Force features Olivia Thirlby and Ben Feldman in the pole position as newly married urbanites with a...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ian Olds’ The Fixer
It would be a futile exercise to try to pigeonhole this filmmaker into one category and just looking at the work samples that have...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anna Rose Homer’s The Fits
Venice Film Festival Biennale College – Cinema sidebar is like a low-lying fruit tree that hasn't yet been picked, and from the past two...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother
Supported by the same folks who brought us Mona Fastvold's The Sleepwalker (Sundance 2014) and accompanied by the Borderline Films crew (who need no...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Madeleine Olnek’s Emily Dickinson Project
What the trades tell us and what is fact are not mutually exclusive. 11th hour film submissions at the Sundance Film Festival do occur --- the...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice
Prior to his 2012 Sundance Institute supported/Sundance Film Festival debuted film based on both his one-man show and novel of the same name, we...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ross Bros.’ Contemporary Color
With their unique vérité aesthetic brand, one that shuffles the deck of conventional docu-filmaking rules and techniques (our Jordan M. Smith recently called it...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Antonio Campos’ Christine
If Cannes' Thierry Frémaux doesn't snag it away first, we might be chalking this unsettling piece of cinema as yet another Park City homecoming...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brady Corbet’s The Childhood of a Leader
If included, it would count as one of the rare Venice preemed North American premiere debuts and uncommon 35mm treats at the fest. After...
