Tag: top-stories
Sundance 2014: Alex Ross Perry, Michael Tully, Tim Sutton, Sydney Freeland & Mark Jackson Among Stellar Class of 11 NEXT Features
Rolling out it's fifth edition and growing beyond just Park City (Los Angeles hosted a summer event this year) the NEXT section has grown...
Sundance 2014: Cutter Hodierne, Damien Chazelle, Kat Candler & Mona Fastvold Among Lucky 16 U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
As I had predicted here, names such as Cutter Hodierne, Kat Candler, Maya Forbes, Mona Fastvold and Damien Chazelle would be among the invited...
A Taste for Flesh; Film Movement’s Bites into Manuel Martín Cuenca’s Cannibal
Are the taste-buds at the Film Movement offices shifting? After opening up a spanking brand new, smart idea label for genre items (RAM Releasing)...
Out of the Furnace | Review
Fire Walk: Cooper’s Sophomore Effort a Somber, Fatalistic Malaise
Director Scott Cooper returns with Out of the Furnace, his first film since his Oscar winning...
Tim’s Vermeer | Review
Teller Makes Watching Jenison's Paint Dry Fun
Tim Jenison is not a painter. In fact, he lies on the opposite end of the spectrum of...
Twice Born | Review
Emulating Almodóvar: Castellitto Employs Cruz To Pull Heartstrings
The renowned Italian actor turned middling director Sergio Castellitto returns to his place on both sides of...
Leviathan Snubbed, but…The Act of Killing, Dirty Wars, Stories We Tell Among Oscar’s 15 Short List
It's been an extremely rich year for doc film and while The Academy appear to have included some of the year's most critically acclaimed...
Criterion Collection: Nashville | Blu-ray Review
Robert Altman’s Nashville resurfaces for the home video market in a nicely packaged DVD/Blu-ray combo set from Criterion. A Best Picture nominee from 1975,...
Criterion Collection: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Blu-ray Review
Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film in 1970, as well as the Grand Jury and FIPRESCI Prize Winner at the Cannes Film Festival,...
General Della Rovere | Blu-ray Review
Back in 2009, the Criterion collection released Roberto Rossellini’s 1959 film General Della Rovere on DVD, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice...
La Jaula de Oro | Review
Trains of Innocence: Savage Road Story to the Land of Broken Dreams
Among the vast and redundant collection of tales dealing with illegal immigration, very...
The Act of Killing, Fruitvale Station & Inside Llewyn Davis Top 2013 Gotham Awards
While technically this was Forest Whitaker's big night (Actor Tribute plus the weight he threw behind as a producer accolades for a small San...
Hollywood Sells Californication; Tribeca Film Shows Affection for Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto
It landed in public consciousness in book form and then the film format via the perfect fall film festival trifecta of Venice, Telluride and...
OldBoy | Review
Let’s Do It Again: Lee’s Reimagining Imaginative Enough
Call it what you will, reimagining, reinterpretation, or remake, Spike Lee’s Oldboy can’t escape its describing root...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: 80 Possible Titles
The elusive "Golden Ticket". Beginning next Wednesday (December 4th) in a wave of four announcements, is when the official word comes out. Plenty of...
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom | Review
Half Nelson: Chadwick’s Biopic Stretched Thin
An attempt to cover fifty years in the life of South African President Nelson Mandela in the time span...
Interview: Shaul Schwarz (Narco Cultura)
Shaul Schwarz comes from a different ilk of filmmaker than your standard shooter of vérité imagery and sit down interviews. He made his name...
Philomena | Review
Catholic Kisses: Frears’ Returns with a Loveable Crowd Pleaser
Just when you thought that Stephen Frears’ latest film, Philomena, would be yet another questionable exercise...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves
And for the final Sundance Film Festival prediction on the 80-list, I'm selecting a film that might have premiered at both Venice and Toronto,...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robinson Devor’s You Can’t Win
A return visitor at the festival for all three of his feature films The Woman Chaser (2000), Police Beat (2005) and Zoo (2007), I'm...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Piers Williams’ X/Y
He broke into the Sundance Film Fest U.S. Dramatic Comp back in 2010 with The Dry Land, and not surprisingly, shooting on his sophomore...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zac Braff’s Wish I Was Here
He received unnecessary flack for his Kickstarter campaign, and while Garden State isn't my cup of kool-aid, the 2004 dramedy which premiered at Sundance...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lawrence Michael Levine’s Wild Canaries
He managed to put together the Indie actress all-star team of Sophia Takal, Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil and Lena Dunham (forgive the pun)...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash
If Whiplash breaks into the line-up, I believe we're in for a treat. It'll have meant that Damien Chazelle, who broke out with 2009's Guy...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Rapp’s Why Now?!
Don't let the lack of theatrical output foul you. Adam Rapp is a man of many hats, alternating between novelist, playwright, television, guitarist, actor...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard
The Living End (1992). Totally F***ed Up (1993). The Doom Generation (1995). Nowhere (1997). Splendor (1999). Mysterious Skin (2005). Smiley Face (2007). Kaboom (2011)....
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Jackson’s War Story
His brilliant feature debut Without, broke out in Park City....but at the neighboring, competing fest. From Slamdance onwards (BFI London, Deauville, Chicago, Locarno Film...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Laura Poitras’ Untitled Surveillance Documentary
Traction and the kernel of the idea on this third, and final installment technically began when the filmmaker herself became a "subject" to domestic...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Noah Baumbach’s Public School Project
His only ever appearance at the festival was with 2005's The Squid and the Whale. Be a nice, unexpected "surprise" if Noah Baumbach returns...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Chris Messina Drama
It's with his previous acting gig on the microscopic, Sundance preemed 28 Rooms (produced by Lynette Howell - Jamie Patricof's business partner at their...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker’s Unlocking the Cage
If they grace the festival with their presence, it would be like having the Beatles show up (Frederick Wiseman is our Elvis). Legendary docu-team...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ewan McNicol & Anna Sandilands’ Uncertain
Currently in post with their feature debut, Anna Sandilands and Ewan McNicol have actually breathed the crisp, fresh air of Park City before, with...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yance Ford’s Strong Island
As we come close to concluding our list of Sundance predictions for '14, it's worth pointing out just how indispensable the backing of organizations...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jerome Sable’s Stage Fright
We first discovered Jerome Sable when he broke ground with the Sundance accepted short, 2010's The Legend of Beaver Dam. When there was no...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer
We predicted Snowpiercer would break into Cannes of 2013. That didn't happen. We began to think about Toronto....and nope. Normally we would never associate...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mona Fastvold’s The Sleepwalker
Just like the Chileans did last year's fest, the Norwegians have been slowly invading the Sundance Film Festival with an output of films from...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Johnson’s The Skeleton Twins
Live. From New York. It's...Craig Johnson. Another product from the Duplass factory, after breaking out with the micro-budgeted SXSW preemed True Adolescents, Johnson remains...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Debbie Tucker Green’s Second Coming
Known for exploring psychological terrain with a tactful and poetic profundity, she broke out on filmic terms with the '09 short Heat, British Academy...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: William H. Macy’s Rudderless
If there is a "predictions thematic" playing out here it's the number of films with actors who move behind the camera. Chalk up Park...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos’ Rich Hill
Match an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker with her cousin, an established cinematographer on You're Next ('11) and Sundance preemed titles of V/H/S, short film Black...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jon Stewart’s Rosewater
He took a noticeable leave of absence from the Daily Show back in July to shoot a project close to his heart. With an...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gareth Evans’ The Raid 2
It's a major vote of confidence when a festival, such as Sundance, happens to be filled almost exclusively by world premieres and then allows...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Tully’s Ping Pong Summer (Exclusive First Look!)
Clearly if Michael Tully receives an invite to Sundance this year, it won't be for a return visit in the Park City at Midnight...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brian Horiuchi’s Parts Per Billion
Best known for kick-starting careers of up-and-coming filmmakers, Park City still makes room for first time directors pushing north of a ripe old age...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrea Di Stefano’s Paradise Lost: The Untold Story of Pablo Escobar’s Treasure
There will digital blood in the streets of '14. The first to get their portrait of Pablo Escobar out first, might "win" the battle...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Charlie McDowell’s The One I Love
With a famous pair of acting parents, we imagine that his on-set apprenticeship qualifies as film school. The multi-talented (jury will be out on...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Burns’ North of Hell
We were big fans of Anthony Burns' debut film, the visually strong coming-of-ager sans pretension and a nod to the Dazed and Confused sorts with...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Avi Lewis’ The Message
Sundance tends to include at least one eco-friendly docu in their line-up, and this one promises to shake up the establishment. He broke out...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Max Landis’ Me Him Her
The family name got him onto film sets (on our end we call that the best film school), but it's 2012 Chronicle that set...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Grieco’s Marmato
Having just participated at the 2013 Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound, Mark Grieco's heavily supported docu (Cinereach, MacArthur and BRITDOC Foundations)...
