Tag: top-stories
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)...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Preiss’ Low Down
While 2013 gave us Inside Llewyn Davis, 2014 will give us Low Down. I'm thinking that photographer/ethnographic documentarian/commercials and video director Jeff Preiss' debut...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ira Sachs’ Love is Strange
A destination lieu for Ira Sachs dating back to 1994 when he showed his experimental short Lady, I'd be baffled if Love is Strange...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sara Colangelo’s Little Accidents (First Look!)
My crystal ball says this might be 2014's answer to Winter's Bone, where tragedy, economics and backdrop are just as strong a character set...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip
Production began in September, and post in October, so for Alex Ross Perry's third feature film to be ready, he'll have to had superpowers....
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Susanna Fogel’s Life Partners (Exclusive First Look!)
It's got the Sundance folk/system stacked in its corner. The Institute selected Life Partners for the January Screenwriters Lab ('12), gave it's producer a nudge...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Life After Beth
A huge ensemble cast of indie vets (Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Matthew Gray Gubler, Dane DeHaan, Alia Shawkat, John C. Reilly, Cheryl Hines, Paul...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chloe Zhao’s Lee
Chances are slim that Chloe Zhao manages to break into the 2014 edition of the Sundance Film Festival and it isn't because there is...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lynn Shelton’s Laggies
An integral part of the Sundance festivities ever since she premiered Humpday there in 2009 (she followed that up with a showing of Your...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lou Howe’s Gabriel (Exclusive First Look!)
Looks like it isn't only in professional hockey where the "Howe" family name will make huge strides. Featuring Rory Culkin and an indie ensemble...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carter Smith’s Jamie Marks Is Dead
While The Ruins, his feature debut, didn't open up the opportunities for this all-in-one talent pool, the best item to come out of Sundance...
Criterion Collection: City Lights | Blu-ray Review
The biggest surprise about this month’s release of Charles Chaplin’s City Lights (1931) is that it wasn’t already a part of Criterion’s prestigious collection....
Criterion Collection: Tokyo Story | Blu-ray Review
Yasujirô Ozu’s Tokyo Story from 1953, now available in a superbly packaged Blu-ray edition from Criterion, is a film that subtly captures the dynamics...
Russian Ark | Blu-ray Review
Believed by Alexander Sokurov to be the only location in the world to truly represent both the history and culture of humanity, the Hermitage...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Maya Forbes’ Infinitely Polar Bear
The scribe behind Monsters vs. Aliens and The Rocker would normally be the last person I'd associate with Sundance, much less the director's chair...but...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mike Cahill’s I: Origins
Fans of Mike Cahill's feature, Special Jury Prize winning debut Another Earth (Sundance '11) were elated when it was announced that Cahill and Brit...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicholas McCarthy’s Home
Sundance starting breeding this horror-meister way back in 2005 when they invited Nicholas McCarthy to feature his short film Cry for Help. They invited...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kat Candler’s Hellion
I don't think Drake Doremus will be at Sundance this year. Here's hoping that Kat Candler makes a "repeat" into a three-peat. Director of...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Louie Psihoyos’ The Heist
We're not sure if Redford's character in All is Lost spent much time visiting the ocean floors, but he might have noticed that some...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amir Bar-Lev’s Happy Valley
Not to be confused with the Pacino feature project of the same name and subject, Amir Bar-Lev who made a name for himself with Sundance...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas
While Baumbach and Payne got conformable shooting in B&W (see Frances Ha, Nebraska), Joe Swanberg convinced swag-collecting thesps Anna Kendrick to reteam with him...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Wingard’s The Guest
Sundance's Trevor Groth has a special place in his cinephile heart for Adam Wingard's filmic output - allowing the filmmaker to present the V/H/S...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Margaret Brown’s The Great Invisible
We jumped the gun with our predictions list in 2012 including The Great Invisible among our hopefuls - but forgive the pun, we hope...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kyle Wilamowski’s Grass Stains
He has a etched his name on a couple of Sundance entries as a musical adviser on Snow Angels and as a key production...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Angus MacLachlan’s Goodbye to All That
Technically part of the extended Sundance family when Junebug landed there in 2005, scribe Angus MacLachlan moved from screenwriting to full fledged filmmaker in...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Slattery’s God’s Pocket
He traded on-set education on Mad Men and then cornered this project almost a decade earlier when he picked it up as a...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cutter Hodierne’s Fishing Without Nets
Our snobbish attitudes towards a certain Paul Greengress film principally has to do with us holding out for Cutter Hodierne's Fishing Without Nets. The...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Gibney’s Finding Fela!
Pop quiz. When was the last time that Alex Gibney did not bring a film to the annual snowflake friendly fest? Even in years...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Eduardo Sanchez’s Exists
It claimed its cult-like status before it was released in theaters, and was the talk of the fest much like Reservoir Dogs and Clerks...
