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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...
Exclusive: MS Slavic 7 Trailer
Canadian filmmakers Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell continue their creative collaboration with Berlin Intl. Film Festival selected MS Slavic 7. Following the character of Audrey Benac...
Exclusive: The Stone Speakers Trailer
The 69th Berlin Intl. Film Festival kicks off today and we have your exclusive first look at the trailer to The Stone Speakers (Kameni...
Criterion Collection: Mikey and Nicky (1976) | Blu-ray Review
Of the four noted directorial efforts from writer-director Elaine May, whose career behind the camera ended after the critical debacle of 1987’s infamous...
Interview: Romina Paula – De Nuevo Otra Vez | 2019 Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam
A debut as rich and accomplished as Romina Paula’s Again Once Again is only surprising without prior knowledge of the Argentinian actress’ prolific output as...
Daughter of Mine | Review
Miss Mom: Bispuri Challenges Family Symmetry in Captivating Sophomore Pic
With her sensory filled coming-of-age sophomore feature, Laura Bispuri navigates the sweet and sour voyage...
Audio Interview: Laura Bispuri – Daughter of Mine (Figlia mia)
Day 4 at the Berlinale provided a gem of a film in provenance of the Mediterranean Sea's second largest island. The focal point of...
Interview: Joe Penna – Arctic
Arctic may be Joe Penna’s debut feature, but the Brazilian filmmaker has always been busy. A prolific Youtuber, editor, musician who built a channel...
The Seven Last Words | 2019 Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Orchestrating the Suffering: Wordless Omnibus Serves up the Right Image-track for Haydn’s Sonatas
Kaveh Nabatian pours all of his experience as director of shorts, docs...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #15. Paul Harrill – Light From Light
Filmmaker Paul Harrill from Light From Light is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
Exclusive: Character Cards for Selah and The Spades
Not unlike that sequence in The Godfather II where all cards are put on the table when Michael visits Hyman Roth in Florida, there...
Dolce Fine Giornata | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
Under the Tuscan Sun: Borcuch Presents Compelling Intersection on Art and Political Responsibility
Polish director Jacek Borcuch travels abroad once again for his fifth feature,...
I Am Mother | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
They Call Me Mother: Sputore Examines What It Means to Be Human in Sci-Fi Debut
Australia’s Grant Sputore makes an impressive directorial debut with the...
The Lodge | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
You Gotta Have Faith: Severin & Fiala Mine Familial Madness in Warped Psychodrama
Reexamining similar themes of the inherent madness of isolation and the potential...
Hala | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
A Way with Words: Baig Tests the Limits in Sophomore Feature
Minhal Baig’s sophomore feature is an important film: a winsome coming-of-age story that will...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #14. Tayarisha Poe – Selah and the Spades
Filmmaker Tayarisha Poe from Selah and the Spades is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films...
Monos | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
Monkey See Monkey Do: Landes’ Latest a Moody, Hermetic Portrait of Guerilla Warfare
Brazil’s Alejandro Landes concocts a moody, textured exercise on child soldiers and...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #16. Ashley Connor – The Death of Dick Long
Cinematographer Ashley Connor from The Death of Dick Long is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films...
