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Golden Youth | 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Youth Without Youth: Ionesco Waxes and Wavers on Partying at Le Palace
Writer-director Eva Ionesco returns to semi-autobiographical inspiration for her sophomore film Golden Youth...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #12. Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour
Filmmaker Alistair Banks Griffin from The Wolf Hour is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #13. Kaet McAnneny – The Wolf Hour
Production Designer Kaet McAnneny from Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #4. Rashaad Ernesto Green – Premature
Filmmaker Rashaad Ernesto Green from Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #5. Zora Howard – Premature
Co-writer and actress Zora Howard from Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #6. Joshua Boone – Premature
Actor Joshua Boone from Rashaad Ernesto Green's Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #1. Alice Waddington – Paradise Hills
Added to the Sundance film festival at the beginning of the decade, over time, the NEXT section (formerly referred to as "<=>") has unearthed...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #2. Danielle Macdonald – Paradise Hills
Actress Danielle Macdonald from Paradise Hills is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #3. Núria Valls – Paradise Hills
Producer Núria Valls from Paradise Hills is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #9. Anna Margaret Hollyman – Sister Aimee
Actress Anna Margaret Hollyman from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #8. Marie Schlingmann – Sister Aimee
Filmmaker Marie Schlingmann from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
The Magic Life of V | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
V for Vanquish: Hristov Showcases Role-Playing as Trauma Therapy in Intimate Doc
For his seventh documentary feature, Finland’s Tonislav Hristov returns to his home country...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #7. Samantha Buck – Sister Aimee
Filmmaker Samantha Buck from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our...
Exclusive 1st Look: Poster One Sheet for Mark Jackson’s This Teacher
We have the exclusive first look at the poster one sheet for Mark Jackson's award-winning This Teacher --- a Grand Jury prize winner at...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #31. Trey Edward Shults’ Waves
Waves
Rapidly transitioning from sophomore film club and into production with his third oeuvre, Trey Edward Shults was the talk of the town with his award...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #32. Joe Berlinger’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
With Lily Collins, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scodelario, John Malkovich, Jim Parsons, Jeffrey Donovan, Angela Sarafyan, Brian Geraghty, Dylan...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #33. Braden King’s The Evening Hour
The Evening Hour
Eight years between narrative features and using a film vocabulary on his debut film (HERE) that might have been a cousin to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #34. Justin Chon’s Ms. Purple
Ms. Purple
A surprise entry for the Sundance Film Festival because his shooting dates appear to have been late 2018, we get the feeling that...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #10. Rhys Ernst – Adam
Director Rhys Ernst from Adam is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #35. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Limelight
Limelight
Currently working on television projects as the film is being set up, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has been attached to direct Limelight since April of last...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #11. Leo Sheng – Adam
Actor Leo Sheng from Adam is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our...
2019 Sundance Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Like many of the fourth quarter 2018 film festival circuit venues (Toronto, Venice, AFI), Sundance 2019 benefits from an overstuffed foreign film market, taking...
2019 Sundance Film Festival: Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Whether you’re going to the festival or just keeping tabs, here are my six picks—five features plus a short film bonus—from the many films...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #17. George Rush – Give Me Liberty
Producer George Rush from Give Me Liberty is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #36. Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat
The Laundromat
His cut your teeth on something and techno-friendly attitude as a film buff, culture consumer and filmmaker now celebrating his third decade in...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #37. Daniel Scheinert’s The Death of Dick Long
The Death of Dick Long
Proving that they are indeed not attached at the hip, while we await their next team effort, one half of DANIELS...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #38. Justin Simien’s Bad Hair
Bad Hair
After the balayage that was Dear White People (the award-winning Sundance film that spawned a Netflix series), Justin Simien buzzed cut his way...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #39. Julie Taymor’s The Glorias: A Life on the Road
The Glorias: A Life On The Road
Not unlike Ruth Ginsburg receiving the extra spotlight for her trailblazing ways, timing feels about right now to...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #40. Rania Attieh/Daniel Garcia’s Initials S.G.
Initials S.G.
Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia sanguinely moved into production in January of 2018 with their fourth feature film, Initials S.G. A wink to Serge Gainsbourg, the...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #41. Wash Westmoreland’s The Earthquake Bird
The Earthquake Bird
A book to film project that was assembled late in 2016 and that takes place in on the cusp of the 1990's...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #42. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense
The Art of Self Defense
Taking his sweet time in the post production process (filming took place in September of 2017 with Jesse Eisenberg in...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #43. Jay Roach’s Fair and Balanced
Fair and Balanced
In a project that will carry a heavier price tag than Trumbo (read review), while we normally don't associate him with American indie,...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #44. Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw
Velvet Buzzsaw
We weren't fans of his overwrought clunker sophomore film Roman J. Israel, Esq., so we're hopeful that a reunion with Jake Gyllenhaal might...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #45. Jacob Estes’ Relive
Relive
In his previous pair, Jacob Estes worked narratives that overlapped in genres and that featured dissension within group, so while he has patched together a rather...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #46. Patrick Brice’s Corporate Animals
Corporate Animals
A last minute addition for what might be a vintage Midnight section at the Sundance Film Festival, Patrick Brice went into production this past...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #47. Malik Vitthal’s Body Cam
Body Cam
2018 saw Malik Vitthal win the the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for a Protector & Gamble campaign and saddle into his sophomore feature -- a Paramount...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #48. Casey Affleck’s Light of My Life
Light of My Life
Conceptually it could have added so much to the performance art and art imitating life discourse, unfortunately, Casey Affleck's directorial debut...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #49. Glenn Ficarra & John Requa’s King of the Jungle
King of the Jungle
Being packaged since 2017 (initially, Johnny Depp was top billing), filmmaker tandem Glenn Ficarra & John Requa currently have a lot of...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2019: #50. Martha Stephens’ To the Stars
To the Stars
Moving from the lopapeysa fitted, John Cassavetes Award winning Land Ho! to an Oklahoma Land Rush, Martha Stephens (profiled in our Sundance...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2019: A Prelude
At the beginning of the year, we gave our readers an overview of the most anticipated foreign films for the new year (Top 150...
The Heiresses (Las herederas) | Review
Inherit the Wind: Martinessi Explores Class and Desire in Impressive Character Study
While they seem to have outlived their best of times, the two privileged...
Interview: Marcelo Martinessi – The Heiresses (Las Herederas) | 2018 Berlin Intl. Film Festival
Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi's feature debut is one of the more unique queer cinema film examples of recent memory in terms of offering a...
Close | Review
But No Cigar: Jewson’s Bodyguard Thriller Nary Skirts the Surface of Female Agency
Director Vicky Jewson continues to mine the role of women working in...
Glass | Review
Walking on Broken Glass: Shyamalan Completes Superhero Trilogy with Chatty, Diagnostic Denouement
For a film nineteen years in the making, M. Night Shyamalan’s highly anticipated...
Pity | Review
Help Me, I’m Poor: Makridis Adds a Footnote to the Greek Cinema
Look no further than Babis Makridis’ sophomore feature, the bluntly named Pity, for...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2019
And between the remakes, prequels, sequels, reboots and rehashes pouring out of the Hollywood studio system, we sift through the detritus of continual superhero...
Through the Looking Glass: Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 – Picks #5 to #1
New projects directed by auteurs from France, Italy, China and the UK take slots 5 to 1 in our most anticipated foreign films of...
Touch Me Not | Review
Touch All This Skin: Pintilie’s Hybrid Sexcapade Explores the Fleeting, Obscure Nature of Intimacy
With her narrative debut Touch Me Not, Romanian director Adina Pintilie...
Audio Interview: Adina Pintilie – Touch Me Not
Adhering to a framework that borrows from her documentary and experimental background, Romanian filmmaker Adina Pintilie's first foray into fiction explores our own insecurities...
Through the Looking Glass: Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 – Picks #10 to #6
New projects directed by auteurs from Mexico, Brazil, Ukraine, Thailand and Hungary make up slots 6 to 10 in our most anticipated foreign films...
