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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...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Caitlin Cronenberg’s Humane
We thought there might be a chance of Humane slipping into the 2023 film fest schedule, but Caitlin Cronenberg did move into production only...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mimi Cave’s Holland, Michigan
Despite the pandemic nixing the physical edition and replacing it with the virtual one, it feels like it didn't snow on Mimi Cave's parade....
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Thea Hvistendahl’s Handling the Undead
It was a casting announcement that brought joy to fans of Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World. Actors Renate Reinsve and Anders...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Potsy Ponciroli’s Greedy People
Following the showcase for his sophomore film Old Henry (2021) at the Venice Film Festival, Potsy Ponciroli next landed on Greedy People (formerly titled...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ross Bros.’ Gasoline Rainbow
Gasoline Rainbow had its world premiere in the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival this year with subsequent stops at London BFI and...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marco La Via & Hanna Ladoul’s Funny Birds
While I don't really see a Catherine Deneuve navigating the wintery sidewalks of Main Street, her co-star in Andrea Riseborough could easily be the...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden’s Freaky Tales
The tandem of Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have been in the indie filmmaking business now for nearly two decades and have a direct...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rachael Holder’s Fleeing
Not much is known on Fleeing - a project which Steven Soderbergh just revealed that he was a producer on. Rachael Holder's previous stints...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sarah Friedland’s Familiar Touch
After a decade of short film and installation work, filmmaker (and choreographer) Sarah Friedland danced into her feature film debut and has been in...
Youth (Spring) | Review
The Workshop Around the Corner: Bing Threads Through Textile Manufacturing
Having filmed from 2014 to 2019 in the city of Zhili, Youth (Spring), one...
Manodrome | Review
Wrecked Ralph: Trengove Gazes into the Weaponization of Masculinity in Unsettling Character Study
Playwright and activist Eve Ensler commented on a 2017 panel regarding how...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Titus Kaphar’s Exhibiting Forgiveness
They say write what you know and perhaps there will be a lot of truth to the journey that is Exhibiting Forgiveness by first...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Pearce’s Echo Valley
Although his breakthrough work was showcased in the Platform section at TIFF, the tension-filled whodunit Beast starring Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn actually managed...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Johanna Pyykkö’s Ebba
After not shoring up at Cannes or Venice this year, we are now leaning towards the belief that Johanna Pyykkö might be considering early...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Will Joines & Karrie Crouse’s Dust
A project that due to the pandemic saw the lead shifting from Claire Foy to Sarah Paulson, production on Karrie Crouse and Will Joines'...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls
When Focus Features moved Ethan Coen's Drive-Away Dolls from the fall festival slate to it's current February 23rd release date we can imagine that...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s The Devil’s Bath
It's entirely possible that Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala would have waited it out for another Park City showing - Sundance launched...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicole Riegel’s Dandelion
Selected for SXSW in 2020 but unfortunately that was the last minute canceled edition, Nicole Riegel's debut film Holler would technically land its world...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo
Kind of feel that Tilman Singer's sophomore feature has been dangling like a carrot in front of us since they teased the first film...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alonso Ruizpalacios’ La Cocina
We were a bit surprised that Alonso Ruizpalacios' La Cocina didn't shore up at a major film fest in 2023, so it'll be readying...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cutter Hodierne’s Cold Wallet
It'll be just under a decade since Cutter Hodierne premiered (he won the Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section) his tense modern...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Garland’s Civil War
What better lieu to deliver a possible critical text on regional and political differences that have shaped America for ages than the hotly tipped...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Ham on Rye (2019) and Happer's Comet (2022) filmmaker Tyler Taormina went into festive mode for his third feature in less than four years....
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Logan George & Celine Held’s Caddo Lake
We thought what is now known as Caddo Lake (shortened from Vanishings At Caddo Lake) might drop last year but it looks like a...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down
When a pair of exceptionally talented actors initially commit to a project and then part ways, not due to a lack of interest in...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples
With not one, but two feature films waiting in the gates for a 2024 launch, Nathan Silver has the co-directed Watch Me Drown and...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Back to Black
Of all our Sundance predictions this item might be our Hail Mary prediction we find Back to Black. Cannes programmers would be keen on...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Pamela Adlon’s Babes
Demonstrating our ability to achieve new levels of greatness in our "later" years, it would be fun to see sharp-witted Pamela Adlon hit Park...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Flying Lotus’ Ash
The headlines for when his debut film dropped in Park City were the numerous walkouts (less than 1 percent of the audience to be...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Piero Messina’s Another End
It's been a long eight years between projects - but it might be worth the "wait" for this ambitious and stacked sophomore feature. Piero...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kobi Libii’s The American Society of Magical Negroes
A small indie film flying low on our radar, production on Kobi Libii's feature debut would have taken place sometime this year. Among the...
2023 European Film Awards: The Zone of Interest, Fallen Leaves & Anatomy of a Fall Grab Most Noms
The European Film Academy revealed the nominees for the main categories of the 36th European Film Awards and while Radu Jude's Do Not Expect Too...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Duke Johnson’s The Actor
This is one of those titles that could fit a bit anywhere in terms of major film festival premiere -- it all depends on...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain
After launching When You Finish Saving the World (which we called "while neither revolutionary nor rudimentary, it’s a surprisingly sober and mature portrait on...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christine Jeffs’ A Mistake
Having completed production in the summer of the previous year, Christine Jeffs is now well-prepared to polish off her highly anticipated fourth feature film,...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Calvin Lee Reeder’s The A-Frame
Back in June of this year we were happy to report that Calvin Lee Reeder dusted off the cobwebs and got back into feature...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man
We begin our predictions list with what is one of about a half dozen or so A24 titles that are waiting to get out...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: An Introduction – 70 Titles!
Having weathered two previous editions lost to the pandemic in 2021 and 2022, along with what felt a declining attendance last year and Tabitha...
Your Room or Mine?: Neon Books Flight with Audrey Diwan’s “Emmanuelle”
Yesterday we read the Neon folks were "circling" and that morphed into "buying" the North American rights to the highly anticipated third feature film...
2023 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Youssef Chebbi, Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, Erige Sehiri Projects in Atlas Workshops
The Marrakech International Film Festival folks have revealed 25 projects chosen for the sixth edition of its industry-oriented Atlas Workshops, designed to support up-and-coming...
2023 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Linklater’s Hit Man, Franco’s Memory, El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies
As predicted, the 20th edition of the Marrakech Intl. Film Festival (November 24th to December 2nd) will highlight what was a solid year in...
Melancholy in Marseille: Mouglalis & Grégoire Colin Join Saïd Hamich Benlarbi’s “La mer au loin”
After landing in Cannes with outstanding French-Moroccan cinema items in the Un Certain Regard selected Kamal Lazraq's Hounds (read review) and Directors' Fortnight selected...
An Autumn Shade of Pale: Ketchup Entertainment Lands Michel Franco’s “Memory”
Finally it wasn't Bleecker, NEON, Focus or the A24 folks, but little known Ketchup Entertainment that have picked up one of the best titles...
The Killer | Review
Assassin’s Creed: Fincher Sculpts More Murder Into Art
There’s simply no room for error in some professions, chief among them the business of expert assassins,...
2023 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Joanna Hogg, Dee Rees & Alexander Skarsgård Among Jury Duty Members
The Marrakech International Film Festival head juror Jessica Chastain will be joined by fellow thesps in actress Camille Cottin and actor Alexander Skarsgård, filmmaker-actress...
Four Daughters (Les filles d’Olfa) | Review
Leave Them to Heaven: Ben Hania Experiments with Form in Anguishing Roleplay
For her sixth feature, Four Daughters, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania takes a...
Priscilla | Review
La Belle Captive: Coppola Pays Homage to America’s Archetypal Child-Bride
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley published her memoir Elvis & Me in 1985, which spawned a 1988...
Fingernails | Review
Science Can’t Contain True Love In Nikou’s Charming & Romantic English Language Debut
Big Data and artificial intelligence are already reshaping how we think about...
Sex and the City: Mikey Madison Toplines Sean Baker’s “Anora”
As we eagerly await the 2024 edition of the Cannes Film Festival with at least one American indie film earmarked for some Croisette love...
