Tag: top-stories
House of Gucci [Video Review]
One of rare breed of studio directors who effectively captures pageantry and opulence no matter the epoque the narrative is set in, social...
C’mon C’mon [Video Review]
World premiering at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival, C'mon C'mon is Mike Mill's fourth feature film following Thumbsucker (2005), Beginners (2010) and 20th Century...
Video Interview: Péter Kerekes – 107 Mothers
Slovakia's official submission for the 'Best International Feature' category at the 94th Academy Awards is Péter Kerekes's 107 Mothers, which premiered at the 2021...
Benedetta | Review
Blaspheme, Queen: Verhoeven Turns to Nunsploitation in Erotic Melodrama
Occupying a dazzling intersection of exploitation and queer historical recuperation is the long-awaited Benedetta from Dutch...
The Hand Of God | Review
Idle Hands: Sorrentino’s Sprawling Saga a Wayward Bildungsroman
There’s almost as much to admire as there is to dismiss in The Hand of God, Paolo...
Video Interview: Peeter Simm – On the Water
Estonia's official submission for the 'Best International Feature' category at the 94th Academy Awards is Peeter Simm's On the Water, which competed in the...
Video Interview: Filmmaker Danilo Šerbedžija & Actress/Screenwriter Lana Barić – Tereza37
Croatia's official submission for the Best International Feature category at the 94th Academy Awards is Danilo Šerbedžija's Tereza37, which competed in the 2020 Warsaw...
Video Interview: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s mesmerizing character studies (2015’s Happy Hour, 2018’s Asako I & II) often snag awards at major film festivals, and 2021 was...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Goran Stolevski’s You Won’t Be Alone
Cranking out a ton of short films for over a decade, Australian/Macedonian filmmaker Goran Stolevski saw his 2018 short Would You Look at Her...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jim Archer’s Brian & Charles
After back to back short film projects in about a half a dozen years, Jim Archer hit creative pay dirt with the 2017 short...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Summer Shelton’s You & I
With a decade's worth of producing under her belt (she got her start working on Ramin Bahrani projects beginning with Goodbye Solo) she was...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ti West’s X
A filmmaker more synonymous with the horror genre (he did however try out Western), and a regular on the film festival circuit mostly South...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jesse Eisenberg’s When You Finish Saving the World
Everyone knows the actor, but we might have to think of him differently in the year ahead. Jesse Eisenberg's When You Finish Saving the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: B.J. Novak’s Vengeance
The Blumhouse folks have a good reputation in Park City (Secret Screening world premiere to Get Out comes to mind), perhaps actor B.J. Novak's...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Shih-Ching Tsou Project
Part of Sean Baker's close-knit regular creative collaborators that also include Chris Bergoch and Radium Cheung, Shih-Ching Tsou was a co-director alongside Sean Baker...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Andrew Callaghan Movie
With a dinosaur era camper, garb, video equipment and plenty of charm, the brilliance behind All Gas No Brakes' Andrew Callaghan's gonzo styled of...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Daina O. Pusic’s Tuesday
It says a lot about a project when the extremely fastidious cinematographer (Silent Light, The Florida Project) Alexis Zabé decides to embark on a...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Morris’ To Leslie
A British born television Director who had a stint at the Old Vic theatre in London (1999 to 2002); with a full decade of...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kogonada’s After Yang
Having had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Kogonada's After Yang (starring Haley Lu Richardson,...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jakob Rørvik’s Superposition
We thought this might be ready for last year, but the project was still in post production and aiming for a 2022 drop. From...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
A surprise world premiere selection at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival, we originally predicted that Dean Fleischer-Camp's Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josephine Decker’s The Sky Is Everywhere
Confirming her status as a pillar of the new American indie film scene when 2020's Shirley slayed at it's Park City world preem, Josephine...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Graham Moore’s The Outfit
Overachiever Graham Moore moved from New York Times bestseller novelist to an Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay (The Imitation Game) and this past...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kjersti Helen Rasmussen’s The Nightmare
If Radha Blank can get her game face on breaking out her feature film debut when belonging to the 40-something club, then that late...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Machoian’s The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
Since short film Charlie and the Rabbit (2010), Robert Machoian (and frequent creative partner Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck) has been a mainstay with the annual pilgrimage...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter
An under-the-radar project that saw Joanna Hogg re-team with muse Tilda Swinton, the filmmaker also brought back cinematographer Ed Rutherford (they worked on Archipelago...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Francisca Alegria’s The Cow That Sang A Song About The Future
It's been a long development process for Francisca Alegria's directorial debut. The Chilean filmmaker (Sundance has supported several over the past decade) saw her...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Geoff Marslett’s The Boardinghouse Reach
It always feels like a W in the win column when Geoff Marslett puts a film out there in the world -- life as...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Celyn Jones & Tom Stern’s The Almond And The Sea Horse
We're never too old to learn a new trick. Long-time collaborator to Clint Eastwood, cinematographer Tom Stern made his directorial debut in March of...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Eve Duchemin’s Temps mort
This prediction may appear to come out of left field, but the film's producer Annabella Nezri had a solid premiere with Jumbo a couple...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carter Smith’s Swallowed
It's hard to believe that filmmaker Carter Smith is only three feature films into his filmography and hasn't made a feature film in almost...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Mandler’s Surrounded
With an already amazing track record as a music video helmer / television commercial director Anthony Mandler saw his debut feature film Monster break...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Ponsoldt’s Summering
With the exception of 2017's The Circle (which received a Tribeca Film Festival premiere), James Ponsoldt had his four previous films Off the Black...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Spin Me Round
It was pasta, wine, and a the Leaning Tower of Pisa type backdrop for the cast of goofballs assembled for Jeff Baena's five feature...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Beth de Araújo’s Soft & Quiet
Only a couple of months shy from going into production with Josephine, a project that is financed, backed by a notable producer (RT Features),...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s Silent Twins
Just two feature films in (2015's The Lure and 2018's Fugue), Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczyńska has built a rabid fan base - us included....
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lena Dunham’s Sharp Stick
Lena Dunham is sure making up for her lack of feature film output with not one, but two films in post production. She has...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tom George’s See How They Run
Depending how Searchlight plays its hand for the 2022 slate, we could easily see See How They Run set up for Sundance or play...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michał Chmielewski’s Roving Woman
An unknown, filmmaker with much experience breaks into out predictions list because of the curious bio subject, the players and a producer in Marta...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Thompson’s Rounding
After receiving tons of accolades for his feature debut film Saint Frances, filmmaker Alex Thompson began the year shooting an under-the-radar sophomore feature in...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ant Hines & Casper Christensen’s Robots
A project that might be too close to the wire to be a part of the Sundance line-up, but with two heads are better...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lila Neugebauer’s Red, White and Water
Among the top dozen titles we're surprised that didn't drop in 2021 is Lila Neugebauer's Red, White and Water. Sure it's a debut feature...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chadd Harbold’s Private Property
A filmmaker who goes we back with Sundance when his short film (Asshole) premiered there at 2009, filmmaker Chadd Harbold flirted with the fest...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please
Currently on an amazing almost film per year streak, Amanda Kramer first landed onto the film festival scene with 2018's Ladyworld (TIFF selection) and...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Quinn Shephard’s Not Okay
With already two decades worth of acting and a feature film under her belt, Quinn Shephard is taking the bull by the horns and...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lorcan Finnegan’s Nocebo
Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan broke out big at the Critic's Week in Cannes with Vivarium and built the kind of post-screening hype that made...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins
2021 came and went and yet New Zealand’s Taika Waititi didn't see his latest hit the fest circuit - perhaps it has to do...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nikyata Jusu’s Nanny
If you bump into Leonean-American filmmaker Nikyata Jusu make sure to ask for lottery numbers. The filmmaker has been riding on a wave of...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ray Romano’s Mr. Russo
After the long career in front of the camera, and recent work with Martin Scorsese, Reed Morano, and a recent raft of indie filmmakers,...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Lehman’s Meet Cute
Incrementally knocking on Indiewood's door with 2016's Blue Jay (TIFF world premiere) and 2019's Paddleton (Sundance Film Festival world premiere), Alex Lehman got behind...
