Tag: top-stories
Concussion | Review
Head in the Game: Landesman Continues to Plumb the Headlines
Films based on notable or landmark pieces of newsprint tend to face an uphill battle...
Sisters | Review
What the Devil Hath Joined Together: Moore Stages a Bacchanalian Bromide
Director Jason Moore, responsible for the sugary karaoke competition sleeper Pitch Perfect (2012), returns...
The Conversation: Best of 2015 – Top 10 Theatrical Releases
Diving into the hundreds of new theatrical releases, including large chunks of grueling, gluttonous marathons through world cinema’s greatest offerings from a variety of film...
Son of Saul | Review
Hell on Earth: Nemes’ Impressive, Unsettling Debut Plunges into the Darkness of WWII
Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes makes an impressive debut with Son of Saul,...
Don Verdean | Review
Going Clear: Hess’ Uncomfortable Religious Comedy Defuses Subversive Potential
Religion and comedy don’t make for comfortable bedfellows, at least not for films attempting to play...
Stinking Heaven | Review
A Place on Earth: Silver’s Period Commune Channels Cinema-Verite
While his 2014 title Uncertain Terms still awaits theatrical release as it makes the rounds of...
In the Heart of the Sea | Review
Two if by Sea: Howard’s Whaling Expedition Sinks to the Fathoms
Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is one of the seminal epics of American literature,...
Sundance ’16: Reichardt, Marston, Sachs, Solondz, Stillman & Lonergan Among Premieres
Sundance programmers have unveiled what is a jaw-dropping, savoury Premieres line-up. With names such as Asif Kapadia (Ali & Nino), Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women), Joshua...
The Girl King | Review
The Throne of Loneliness: Kaurismaki Cartoons Christina
Considering it’s been forty years since her last notable on screen incarnation, the time has come for a...
Krampus | Review
The Nightmare During Christmas: Doughtery’s Cutesy Morality Play on the Christmas Spirit
Exploring the adverse aspects of Christmas, one of the most cherished holidays...
Life | Review
Or Something Like It: Corbijn Resurrects Dean Without a Cause
Following his 2014 John Le Carre adaptation A Man Most Wanted, director Anton Corbijn delves...
Arabian Nights Trilogy | Review
Tales of a Tale of Tales: Gomes's Three-Part Epic Is A Monument To The Plight Of Portugal's Working Class
There may be more traditionally successful...
Sundance ’16: Antonio Campos, So Yong Kim, Elizabeth Wood & The Daniels Among U.S. Dramatic Competition
In last year's selection of sixteen U.S. Dramatic Competition offerings, it was Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's Me & Earl & the Dying Girl that landed both...
Sundance ’16: Felix van Groeningen, Rebecca Daly & Ana Katz Load Up World Dramatic Comp
In last year's section which included Ariel Kleiman's Partisan and Anne Sewitsky's Homesick, it was John Maclean's debut Slow West claimed the World Cinema...
Sundance ’16: Tim Sutton, Nicolas Pesce, Bernardo Britto, Matt Johnson & Anna Rose Holmer Break into NEXT section
We might look back to 2015's 10 film line-up as a true vintage year for the NEXT section. With the likes of Rick Alverson's...
Youth | Review
Oh, Youth and Beauty!: Sorrentino’s Shows Softer Side in Switzerland
Following the success of the snide yet undeniably eloquent 2013 title The Great Beauty, which...
Chi-raq | Review
Sexual Healing: Spike Lee’s New Joint Aims to Anoint
Provocateur Spike Lee continues to fling his ambition into surprising experimental formats and narratives. Following the...
Hitchcock/Truffaut | Review
Face-off: Kent Jones Unpacks The Bible Of Auteur Interviews
It's kind of odd to think that the Cohen Media Group picked up Kent Jones' slickly produced...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Shorts From Janicza Bravo, Calvin Reeder, Dustin Guy Defa & Boyd Holbrook
Last week, we had fun chiming in on how Sundance 2016 might look like with our Sundance predictions list. Our series was exactly one...
Criterion Collection: Dont Look Back | Blu-ray Review
Considered amongst the very greatest documentaries ever made and selected by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," D.A. Pennebaker's veritable...
The Mask (Eyes of Hell) | Blu-ray Review
After a restored print played for the first time at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival, Kino Lorber presents Julian Roffman’s 1961 vintage horror film...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Miguel Calderón’s Zeus
And finally, the last profile in our 75 film predictions list comes from our favorite sort of hodge-podge type filmmaker and while his name might not...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers
Having launched into a life of filmmaking with a seminal Sundance more than two decades back with Clerks (1994), while Park City is sacred...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kate & Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock
We have A Single Man to remind us skeptics that you can come from the world of clothing design and make lush contributions to...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bart Freundlich’s Wolves
This is what we can already confirm. 2016 will be an epic year for Michael Shannon and not because he just received an Indie Spirit...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Win It All
While his choice in look swings like a pendulum, there are several the more things change, the more they stay the same earmarks that...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Johnson’s Wilson
The work of Daniel Clowes already has a lineage with the Sundance Film Festival as it once served as the launchpad for the last "Clowes" graphic...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog
Of the seven feature films in his just under two decade filmography, Todd Solondz has landed in Park City twice with 1996's Welcome to...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Elizabeth Wood’s White Girl
While the issue of gender disparity in the film industry remains a hot topic issue, when it comes to the approach of Sundance Film...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Michael McDonagh’s War On Everyone
Littered with an international cast comprised of Theo James, Stephanie Sigman, Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Tessa Thompson and Caleb Landry Jones, while John Michael...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gary Michael Schultz’s Vincent-N-Roxxy
Half a dozen shorts, one unheard of horror feature film offering (2013's Devil In My Ride) and several indie producing creds most recently William...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gerardo Naranjo’s Viena and the Fantomes
Four features under his belt (2004's Malachance, 2006's Drama/Mex, 2008's I'm Gonna Explode and 2011's Miss Bala) and Gerardo Naranjo's only history with the Sundance film...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joshua Marston’s Complete Unknown
Remarkably in a career spanning more than a decade, this formerly untitled project counts as Joshua Marston's first feature in the English language and only third feature...
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...
