Tag: top-stories
2024 Sundance: Jesse Eisenberg, Sean Wang, Laura Chinn, India Donaldson & Zucheros in U.S. Dramatic Comp
The big surprise for the U.S. Dramatic Competition this year is they shaved off two titles making a dozen into a ten piece. We...
2024 Sundance: Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” & Rose Glass’ “Love Lies Bleeding” Among Midnight Selections
The Midnight section offering eight items and floating to the top on pretty much everyone's list we find some highly anticipated sophomore features in...
2024 Sundance: “Ibelin”, “Black Box Diaries” & “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” in World Cinema Docu Comp
This year's World Cinema Docu Competition sees The Painter and the Thief (2020) filmmaker Benjamin Ree among the pack of ten. Here is the...
La syndicaliste | Review
Comedy of Power: Huppert Shines in Whistleblower Expose from Salomé
Making a rare appearance in a ‘based on a true story’ film, Isabelle Huppert elevates...
Interview: Mel Eslyn – Biosphere
The symbiotic relationship between Mel Eslyn and Mark Duplass is akin to the dynamic between Mario and Luigi – each vital to the other's...
2023 Prix Louis-Delluc: Justine Triet, Catherine Breillat & Thomas Cailley Among 9 Noms
Only days after it won the Jean Vigo prize, Dominique Marchais' La Rivière will face off against the likes of Justine Triet's Anatomie d’une...
Monster | Review
The Children’s Hour: Kore-eda Crafts a Melodramatic Puzzle
Returning to his native Japan after venturing out to France and South Korea with his last two...
Maestro | Review
The Music Man: Coopers Conducts Intimate Portrait of Leonard Bernstein
For his sophomore directorial effort, Bradley Cooper maneuvers once again with music in Maestro, an...
Interview: João Canijo – Bad Living (Mal Viver)
Taking home the Jury Prize at the 2023 Berlinale, Portuguese auteur João Canijo's latest Bad Living (Mal Viver) is the director's masterpiece, examining the...
Interview: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel & Vera Gemma – Vera
Premiering at the 2022 Venice Film Festival in the Horizons sidebar (where it was awarded Best Director and Best Actress), Tiza Covi and Rainer...
Interview: Tinatin Kajrishvili & Lasha Khalvashi – Citizen Saint
Premiering in competition at this year's Karlovy Film Festival, Tinatin Karishvili's third feature Citizen Saint is set in a small mining town, where a...
May December | Review
Tarnished Angels: Haynes Curates a New Dazzling Cult Classic
Had Brian De Palma been keen on rehashing Douglas Sirk instead of Hitchcock, he might have...
Fallen Leaves | Review
All the Leaves Are Brown: Kaurismaki’s Song for the Lonely
Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki adds a fourth chapter to his thematic Proletariat Trilogy with...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kyle Mooney’s Y2K
With so many A24 items looking for 2024 positioning, we wouldn't be surprised if Kyle Mooney's feature debut waits for the next train to...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Michôd’s Wizards!
Could David Michôd be returning to the fest where he launched Animal Kingdom back in 2010? Now that 2023 has come and gone, it's...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Susanna Fogel’s Winner
Berlinale gave us Reality earlier this year and next January we think we might be seeing Winner - another project that looks at the...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anu Valia’s We Strangers
She pretty much began her film career with a bang winning Sundance's Jury Prize for US Fiction for her short, and then followed that...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joel Potrykus’ Vulcanizadora
A filmmaker synonymous with American indie film but hasn't been picked by Sundance in his first four features in Ape (2012), Buzzard (2014), The...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Pesce’s Visitation
Both his directorial debut in the glorious micro-budgeted B&W house-of-horrors and in the Portuguese language The Eyes Of My Mother (read review) and his...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Trey Edward Shults Film with The Weeknd
After Krisha (2015), It Comes at Night (2017) and Waves (2019), American indie filmmaker Trey Edward Shults might actually be shooting from both sides...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Pavement / Alex Ross Perry Film
He might be technically retired from what we consider regular fiction filmmaking, but since his TIFF premiered Her Smell back in 2018 Alex Ross...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Our most anticipated feature debut films for this year is indeed ready but it'll be dropping in 2024 instead. Perhaps a fest that is...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Laura Chinn’s Suncoast
A recent 2020 Black List ranked un-produced screenplay that quickly moved into production with the support of the Searchlight folks (the film will likely...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ruben Amar & Lola Bessis’ Silver Star
Next up in our predictions list is a filmmaker tandem that gave us micro indie Swim Little Fish Swim - which was selected as...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tolga Karaçelik’s The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer
Completely off trade news radar, we learned that Turkish filmmaker Tolga Karaçelik moved into production on his English-language debut this past June with none-other...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Angarano’s Sacramento
Avenues (2017) filmmaker Michael Angarano is obviously best known for an actor career that has spanned two-plus decades (and most recently seen in Oppenheimer)...
2023 IFSN Advocate Award: D. Smith’s Kokomo City
The Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) which IONCINEMA.com is a part of is thrilled to announce D. Smith’s vibrant directorial debut Kokomo City as the recipient...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge
After Murder Party (2007), the Cannes Film Festival selected Blue Ruin (2013) and Green Room (2015) and TIFF selected Hold the Dark (2018), Jeremy...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bryn Chainey’s Rabbit Trap
We're unable to stamp Rabbit Trap with an actual 2023 production start date so this guesstimate might be completely off but short film and...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea
He landed at Sundance in the U.S. Dramatic Competition with Ballast in 2008 and would end up winning the Directing Award and Cinematography Award...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun
Park City has been a fruitful ground for the films on addiction and the next stint in rehab could be Nora Fingscheidt’s fifth feature...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horses
We all know that Sundance is a welcoming launchpad for first-time filmmakers -- and this was indeed the case for Daniel Minahan who shored...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bernardo Britto’s Omni Loop
A sophomore film project (fka Omni Loop Blues) that was selected to participate in the Sundance Institute's 2017 Screenwriters Lab looks be be ready...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Geremy Jasper’s O’Dessa
Sold for a whopping 10 million to Fox Searchlight at Sundance back in '17, Patti Cake$ became a major calling card for Geremy Jasper...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch
Marielle Heller broke out big at Sundance back in 2015 with coming-of-ager The Diary of a Teenage Girl - the pic received a lot...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: RaMell Ross’ The Nickel Boys
Definitely the type of film that could end up jockeying for a position at a fall film festival later in the year instead, RaMell...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ariel Kavoussi’s The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems
Actress Ariel Kavoussi has slowly moved from acting to directing shorts and earlier this year she put together her feature film debut with a...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zia Anger’s My First Film
Music video director and a Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter’s Intensive participant, we thought Zia Anger's avant-garde feature debut (or is it a sophomore film?) might...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meryam Joobeur’s Motherhood
After thinking Motherhood might drop at a major film festival in 2023, we are now inclined to think that Meryam Joobeur might actually go...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benoît Delhomme’s Mother’s Instinct
Another one of those titles that felt more than ready for a 2023 drop, that could be plopped a bit anywhere next year --...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dev Patel’s Monkey Man
Netflix will indeed have a presence at Sundance this year and could showcase a good trio of films and one item that could break...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ti West’s MaXXXine
Sundance and SXSW programmers might be duking it out for the final part in Ti West's trilogy. Critically acclaimed horror films X (2022 -...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding
The world of bodybuilding could be showcased and explored for a second year in a row in Park City --- after Magazine Dreams (which...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz’s Los Frikis
Sundance and SXSW programmers will likely be keeping an eye out on the status of Los Frikis - a raw, true story-type drama that...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oz Perkins’ Longlegs
A little bit of an oddball project that the folks at NEON would end up grabbing shortly after the film completed production in February...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Isaiah Saxon’s The Legend of Ochi
With professional baggage that includes music video work for the likes of Björk, Panda Bear, Dirty Projectors and Grizzly Bear, Isaiah Saxon has been...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Maxime Giroux’s In Cold Light
With five feature films under his belt, this past summer Maxime Giroux moved into the saddle of his English language debut (2014's Félix et...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Mohan’s Immaculate
He has been to Park City on three different occasions including a pair of features in One Too Many Mornings (2010) and Save the...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Showalter’s The Idea of You
He already has a history with Park City having premiered 2014's They Came Together (which he wrote) and The Big Sick which panned out...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow
Her feature debut We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021) was an official Sundance selection (pandemic edition) but everything indicates that Jane Schoenbrun...
