Tag: top-stories
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...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: George Amponsah’s Down by Law
Garnering fund and lab support on both sides of the Atlantic, Down By Law has been tailored with BFI coin support and with the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yael Melamede’s (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies
When you think of the overall Sundance docu selections, programmers may want to balance the hard-hitting slate with this, the curiously titled (Dis)Honesty: The Truth...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Digging For Fire
Guess who's turning 10? Joe Swanberg has had a "fire" in his belly for, give or take a decade, and his latest in the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marielle Heller’s Diary of a Teenage Girl
We'd be hard pressed to find more of an enraptured superfan of Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel than Marielle Heller. The actress adapted Diary of...
Criterion Collection: The Complete Jacques Tati | Blu-ray Review
With only six feature films to his name, four of which featured his iconic onscreen alter ego, the cinema of Jacques Tati remains an...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zoe Cassavetes’ Day Out of Days
It's not uncommon to see a filmmaker essentially break out with a hit film (in baseball lingo this wasn't a home run, but an...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benjamin Dickinson’s Creative Control
Brooklynites might be out of the woods in Benjamin Dickinson's sophomore film, but in this genre-bender project, it appears that no hipster is left unscathed...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonathan Keevil’s Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins
Park City might get a blast of 1979's The Warriors if filmmaker Jonathan Keevil and his clan manage to do what Bellflower (2011's NEXT...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jaffe Zinn’s Children
Along with her numerous contributions to American indie film plus supporting parts in Drake Doremus' Equals and television's House of Cards, 2014 will have...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier
Sundance World Dramatic Comp programmers have been strong supporters of new Greek cinema, and especially welcoming towards Athina Rachel Tsangari who has technically been...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Knate Gwaltney’s Cardboard Boxer
The Rules of Fight Club. Do talk about this indie feautre. For his feature debut, first time director Knate Gwaltney choose a storyline that is...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic
Unlike say a micro-budgeted indie with enough coin in the backend for post-production, chances are slim that this modestly priced indie with A-list cast...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s Bukowski
Feeding our curiosity for what a major transgressive adonis in future literary world might look like in the pre stench of cigarettes and booze era, I'm imagining something...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jorge Michel Grau’s Big Sky
He had made name for himself with the Cannes debut We Are What We Are in 2010, and the remake of his film actually premiered at...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dee Rees’ Bessie
While HBO Films have yet to date the TV movie (according to a recent interview they'd be aiming for early '15) they'd definitely use some...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation
The main title theme song for "True Detective" now comes to mind when I think of the unfairly talented Cary Fukunaga. A scheduled autumn...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jordan Galland’s Ava’s Possessions
I originally took notice of the project when the trades announced that the oft-used supporting indie starlet Louisa Krause (non-related pic above -- who...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matthew Lessner’s Automatic at Sea
Best describe as an updated homage to 50's French cinema, Matthew Lessner's history with the festival dates back to the showing of his short film By Modern...
