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J.D. Dillard’s Sweetheart | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Seeing that he signed up for Sweetheart not that long after Sleight had premiered at Sundance in 2016, we now understand why the Blumhouse...
Mads Brügger’s Cold Case Hammarskjöld | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Remarkably still comfortable working with the confines of the gonzo investigative docu style of filmmaking, Mads Brügger comically addresses how storytelling can curtail and...
The Conversation: The Din in Berlin – Top 10 Best of the 69th Berlinale
The 69th Berlinale will be remembered as a rather curious transitional year for the festival, the final year of its 4th director, Dieter Kosslick,...
Video: Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra’s Birds of Passage | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
They tend to always begin with a strong section opening film, and Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra's Birds of Passage (review) did not disappoint as...
Interview: Liza Mandelup’s Jawline | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Who influences the influencers? Who’s really on the other side of the screen? Is there any hope for the wistful ideals of live-streaming culture?...
Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Stylish, slick and super sophisticated for a micro-indie of this scale, what works marvels is Tayarisha Poe's the film's narrative blue print and universe. Selah and...
Hotel by the River | Review
Heartbreak Hotel: Estrangement and Reunion Synchronize in Latest Sangsoo Slice of Life
It’s a short-lived distinction to be called the latest anything from South Korean...
Interview: Sacha Jenkins, RZA & Crew – Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (Documentary TV) | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
The Wu-Tang urban legend has been told again and again—but never before in such full scope as in Sacha Jenkins’s four-part doc, Wu-Tang Clan:...
McDormand on the Move: Fox Searchlight Packs Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’
Much like the invisible folks presented in this future film, Chloé Zhao was pretty much working off our radar with her third feature. A...
Interview: Daniel Scheinert & Cast – The Death of Dick Long | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
What do the DANIELS do in between, well, being the DANIELS? Daniel Scheinert, the self-proclaimed redneck half of the duo, answers this question with...
Interview: Marnie Ellen Hertzler – Crestone | 2018 US in Progress – American Film Festival in Wrocław
Currently making the rounds with her Locarno/Rotterdam selected short Hi I Need To Be Loved, Baltimorean video artist/filmmaker Marnie Ellen Hertzler will likely be...
Monsters. | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Time to Leave: Olteanu’s Debut Examines the Strain of Sacrifice in Studied Marital Drama
The relationship at the center of Romanian director Marius Olteanu’s carefully...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Emma Forrest’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Emma Forrest – Untogether
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. This month, we feature journalist, novelist, screenwriter turned...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #1. Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow
First Cow
And the most anticipated American independent film project of 2019 belongs to Kelly Reichardt and what will be her eighth feature film. After...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #2. Josephine Decker’s Shirley
Shirley
Say we omit Josephine Decker's feature docu items Bi the Way and Flames, it's remarkably only with her third "narrative" feature film that becomes a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #3. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch
More croissant than cronut, Wes Anderson returns to the red, white and blue but of the Hotel Chevalier and Jacques Cousteau sort...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #4. Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die
Shifting sideways from the extensionalism lethargy found vampires in goth tweaked Only Lovers Left Alive to possibly reanimated corpses that haven't said their last word...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #5. Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The Time
The Devil All The Time
Among the top film news items spilling out of the frenzied Toronto Intl. Film Festival was the significant packaging to...
Interview: Isabella Eklöf – Holiday
I was lassoed by the pre-fest launching of the accompanying marketing materials for this Danish-Dutch-Swedish co-production Sundance's World Cinema Dramatic Comp selected debut, and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #6. Ari Aster’s Midsommer
Midsommer
The current title might not stick, but media outlets are probably circling Ari Aster's Midsommer as the most anticipated sophomore film project for the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #7. Untitled Miranda July Project
Director, screenwriter, singer, actress, author, complete artist, app creator and probably a cat-sitter Miranda July hadn't made a feature since 2011's The Future, but I'd...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #8. I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Charlie Kaufman
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
With Frank or Francis and Slaughterhouse-Five being tossed around as possible projects, it is officially I'm Thinking of Ending Things...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #9. Sean Durkin’s The Nest
The Nest
It appeared that after winning the first one out of the gate contest, Sean Durkin would finally be moving into a Janice Joplin...
Öndög | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Steppe in the Name of Love: Quan’an Returns with Distinctive, Mysterious Flair
For his seventh feature, Chinese filmmaker Wang Quan’an turns to the Mongolian steppe...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #10. Janicza Bravo’s Zola
Zola
A Sundance NEXT section revelation with her directorial debut in 2016's Lemon (we were fans earlier on with her short work), we're expecting Janicza...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #11. Eliza Hittman’s Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
Known for her sharp assessment of the youth culture class in It Felt Like Love and Beach Rats, Eliza Hittman has...
Everybody Knows (Todos Lo Saben) | Review
Iran So Far Away: Farhadi Stumbles with Spanish Soap Opera
Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi (A Separation; The Salesman) makes his Spanish-language debut with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #12. Todd Haynes’ Dry Run
Dry Run
Todd Haynes as certainly been enamoured by the iconoclast set of glam rockers to folk artists, but he might be actually aiming for...
Video: Isabella Eklöf’s Holiday | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
With American indie being the focal point of our Sundance coverage, it takes a little coaxing for us to check out the offerings found...
Acid | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Melt With You: Gorchilin Tracks the Apathy of Russia’s Youth in Agitated Debut
No one gives a damn about their generation until they begin to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #13. Omniboat: A Fastboat Fantasia
Omniboat: A Fastboat Fantasia
Lopsided, tonally off, and rarely complimentary, portmanteau films are more often that not miss than hit, but what happens when we...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #14. Untitled Noah Baumbach project
A film that Netflix could have easily placed in the 2018 calendar, Noah Baumbach's still untitled project might just follow in the footsteps of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #15. Robert Eggers’ The Light House
The Light House
Robert Eggers blasted onto the scene with what we can describe his own brand of unconventional horror. Production on his sophomore film,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #16. Dee Rees’ The Last Thing He Wanted
The Last Thing He Wanted
With Mudbound certifying her prowess (and the promise of her 2011 micro indie portrait in Pariah) Dee Rees moved onto...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #17. Cory Finley’s Bad Education
Bad Education
Moving from a brilliant dark comedy (Thoroughbreds) off campus mind-games to shark infested waters of the high school experience, for Cory Finley's sophomore...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #18. Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit
Jojo Rabbit
Based on a 2012 Black List screenplay, Taika Waititi's sixth feature film went into production in May/June of 2018 in the Czech Republic...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #19. Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum
The Beach Bum
His sixth feature film comes a full seven years since 2012's Spring Breakers revitalized his career path, The Beach Bum went into...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #20. Josh & Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems
Uncut Gems
For their fourth feature film, Josh & Benny Safdie parlayed the success of Good Time into a feature with Adam Sandler in the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #21. Ira Sachs’ Frankie
Frankie
Ira Sachs' first production outside North America managed to lasso the likes of Isabelle Huppert, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear, Jérémie Renier and Brendan Gleeson...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #22. Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy
Wendy
Those in the indie film circles are confirming that 2019 is the release year for the long awaited super secretive Wendy. Benh Zeitlin snaps a seven year...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #23. Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour
The Wolf Hour
The highest ranked Sundance Film Festival selected item on our list belongs to Alistair Banks Griffin and his long awaited second feature...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #24. Benedict Andrews’ Against All Enemies
Against All Enemies
Another highly anticipated sophomore feature in our countdown, Benedict Andrews expands the size of canvas moving from the duet in Una to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #25. Babak Anvari’s Wounds
Wounds
Babak Anvari's Sundance break out debut in 2016's Under the Shadow solidified his standing within the genre, and so it was no surprise that...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #26. Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy
Honey Boy
Not unlike Kitty Green, Alma Har’el moves from a pair of free flowing in form docu features in Bombay Beach and LoveTrue into a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #27. Kitty Green’s Untitled DAY in the LIFE of a Harvey Weinstein Assistant Project
Currently in green light mode on her third feature, formal storytelling will once again receive the boundary pushing nip and tuck inventiveness of Kitty Green who...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #28. Jim Cummings’ Untitled Werewolf Film
Snowballing from a celebrated '16 award-winning short film (Thunder Road) into a SXSW-winning, John Cassavetes Award nominated and critically acclaim feature debut (here is...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #29. J.D. Dillard’s Sweetheart
Sweetheart
2019 should be a considerable leap year for J.D. Dillard, as both his sophomore film Sweetheart and the project he co-wrote in Joe Sill's Stray...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #30. David Lowery’s Green Knight
Green Knight
David Lowery has been working in an almost film per year orbit since the release of Ain't Them Bodies Saints, but Green Knight...
Interview: Emma Forrest – Untogether
Emma Forrest has been a writer all of her life. Now, she’s a director too. The British-American journalist, novelist and screenwriter, debuted her first...
