Tag: top-stories
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Davis Guggenheim’s Untitled Malala Yousafzai Project
Sundance like their share of star-studded world premiere screenings and I can't think of a bigger one than this Nobel Peace prize winner. Davis...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s Unlocking the Cage
A documentary film that will do more for the animal ethics, protection and liberation debate than Project Nim, The Cove and every other doc that...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kris Swanberg’s Unexpected
We usually expect the unexpected, but in this case, the Unexpected would totally be unexpected. With two previous features under her belt, Kris Swanberg...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands’ Uncertain
2014 was an epic post-production type of year for filmmaker-team Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands. The Sundance Institute got up close and personal with...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ido Fluk’s The Ticket
With a small body of work including his low-budgeted directorial debut (Never Too Late) which orbited around the Fribourg and Edinburgh Film Festivals and garnered some...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe’s (T)error
You'd be forgiven for thinking that this is a horror title. It is not. Well, actually it's horrifying terrain in the docu scheme of...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini’s Ten Thousand Saints
Who can forget 2003 when filmmaker-duo Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini landed at Sundance with a highly inventive biopic, a seminal film really...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sean Baker’s Tangerine
The scrooge in me doesn't care much for Xmas themed films. But worry not, this Christmas without snow will surely bring out the yuletide...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Sobel’s Take Me to the River
Safe to say that 2015 should be the roll out year for this directorial debut. Some got an early peak at this summer's Rooftop...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yance Ford’s Strong Island
There is nothing new in the subject matters covered in Yance Ford's debut. Gun violence. Authorities taking a blind eye approach. A family and...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew James’ Street Fighting Man
Symbolically speaking, I wouldn't be out of line if I compared Motor city as a sister city to Damascus. If you group docs in...
Rosewater | Review
Solitary Confinement Is Boring: Stewart's Adaptation Of Bahari's Lengthy Detainment is a Slick, Tame Affair
Jon Stewart’s first foray into the fictional film arena is...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nikole Beckwith’s Stockholm, Pennsylvania
An actor, musician and a playwright who sort of came swanning into the driver's seat in 2012 stringing the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowships in...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chloe Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me
More time in post-production means more time for nips, tucks, another Sundance lab (2014's Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound) and even...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Leslye Headland’s Sleeping with Other People
It was an admirable modest hit prior to leaving Park City in 2012, but who knew that Leslye Headland's feature debut would turn into a...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Diane Bell’s Shiva and May
Working from a deeply original aperture, you couldn't ask for a better calling card with the iconoclastic look into the species. Diane Bell's debut...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Bujalski’s Results
Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess turned out to be the feel good film of Sundance and that's not because the early gamers are particularly charming,...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Louie Psihoyos’ Racing Extinction
Formerly going by the title of "The Heist" and "6", Racing Extinction appears to be a more elaborate, all-encompassing unofficial sequel to Louie Psihoyos'...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Noah Pritzker’s The Quitters
Noah Pritzker first surfaced with his short Little Dad (SXSW '12), and in the summer of 2013 (see set pic), plugged away in the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth
It has been a remarkable, four-star review type of year for Alex Ross Perry, and 2014 ain't over yet with the the Indie Spirits Awards...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robinson Devor’s Pow Wow
With 2007's off-kilter Zoo, Sundance Film Fest habitual Robinson Devor showed his true colors. His unrestricted creativity in storytelling means that his future slate includes mutations...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hossein Keshavarz’s Pebble of Love in the Shoe of My Life
There's an alive indie American-Iranian cinema movement in the US, and if the Keshavarz name rings a bell it's because the indie film fest...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan
Following in the path of former Sundance premiered, Australian stamped films such as Animal Kingdom, Top of the Lake and last year's The Babadook,...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Brice’s The Overnight
2014 saw Patrick Brice officially plant his feet with Craigslist's ad from hell horror pic Creep (originally titled Peachfuzz) being picked up (by RADiUS)...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby
The Chilean filmmaker locked two premieres at Sundance back in '13 with Magic Magic and Crystal Fairy and later that fall, began lensing Nasty...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck’s Mississippi Grind
Technically hitting paydirt in the indie biz with their breakout addiction drama, we could argue that over the course of their four film filmography (television fiction...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Reed Morano’s Meadowland
A staple of the Sundance Film Festival since Courtney Hunt's Frozen River in '08, her Park City premiered filmography as a cinematographer was followed by...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Max Landis’ Me Him Her
For someone who was ultra transparent during production, it's almost as if Max Landis has placed a self-imposed gag order or the more likely...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bobby Miller’s The Master Cleanse
After more than a decade of working in the short form (this includes the 2010 Sundance hit TUB - see below), Bobby Miller landed...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: J. Davis’ Manson Family Vacation
With only hope, a dream and one writing credit to his name (SXSW short film Kevin), J. Davis lassoed fellow low-budget filmmakers Linas Phillips...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Gosling’s Lost River
Ryan Gosling moved into the director's chair in 2013. Though it was cheered at its reception, Lost River (formerly titled "How to Catch a...
Exclusive Clip: Home Away From Home in Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters
There are few films that have made an impact on the docu landscape like Jesse Moss' The Overnighters, which made its debut at Sundance earlier this year (it's...
The Homesman | Review
Jumping Claims: Jones’ Attempt at Revisionist Western Withers Under its Own Intentions
Try as it might, The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones’ first directorial effort since...
Beyond the Lights | Review
Why you wanna fly, Blackbird?: Mbatha-Raw Vibrantly Imbues Prince-Blythewood’s Showbiz Melodrama
A systematically underrated director, Gina Prince-Bythewood returns with her third feature film, Beyond the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tim Godsall’s Len and Company
Take a Cannes Lions-winning commercials director/first time filmmaker in Tim Godsall, throw in a 2008 Broadway play, and finally, add a mix of sturdy mix...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Felix Thompson’s King Jack
What I like about a fest such as Sundance, is that it's not only a place where we'll find semi-star vehicle material with players...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Roberts’ Just Jim
Park City became a special lieu for actor Craig Roberts back in 2011 with the world premiere launch of Richard Ayoade's Submarine (see pic above). Over the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josh Mond’s James White
In their decade long journey of indie film craftsmanship, the creative producing-directing trio of Josh Mond (see picture above) Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin (otherwise known...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tara Subkoff’s #Horror
This past February, there was a brief trade mention that actress Tara Subkoff would be getting behind the camera for her directorial, feature film debut...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Fidel Ruiz-Healy & Tyler Walker’s Homefront
It's got a heavyweight studio sounding title (perhaps it has to do with Gary Fleder's 2013 number about folk getting stuck in the crosshairs),...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Krasinski’s The Hollars
About a half-dozen years have passed since John Krasinski broke out behind the camera with his 80-minuter raining men oddity. The adaptation of David Foster Wallace's...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Wang’s The Grief of Others
Hard to fathom that one of the most anticipated indie films for 2015 (and potential Sundance entry) is one that features a former soap...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jake Mahaffy’s Free in Deed
After Tim Sutton's portrait in 2014, this could this be a back-to-back Sundance editions with the idea of Memphis in the forefront. Taking perhaps the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Renzi’s Franny
Moving from producer hat-wearing days (Afterschool, Two Gates of Sleep) to firmly stippling Park City with a metaphysical, deeply humane and serene portraits The Fort (2012) and Karaoke! (2013),...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonás Cuarón’s Forsaken
Due to the film's against all odds protagonist, look for Forsaken (formerly known as Desierto) to be mentioned as a reference point to Who is...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda Beck’s God Bless the Child
While pursuing their unique artistic paths, they've also been a creative force churning out short film items since 2008's Ella and the Astronaut and the Sundance-programmed Charlie...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Maris Curran’s Five Nights in Maine
Maris Curran's directorial debut might be a longshot for Sundance....at least for the 2015 edition. The drama which has its character set wrestle with...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rick Alverson’s Entertainment
It may be too early to call him an American cousin akin to the quasi-dark humor of Roy Andersson and Aki Kaurismäki, but is third...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour
Three times lucky and fourth time the charm? Depending on who ask, The End of the Tour, the book to screen adaptation of David Lipsky's...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zachary Sluser’s The Driftless Area
With a trio of short films under his belt, Zachary Sluser hit indie film pay dirt with a measuring cup full of Sundance vets...
