Tag: top-stories
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #38. Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia – Initials S.G.
Recently featuring their film at the American Film Festival's US In Progress in Wroclaw, the team of Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia look to...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #37. Petra Costa – Impeachment (Docu)
A slow cook process on a hot button topic, Petra Costa's third feature film was a Sundance Institute invitee for the 2018 Documentary Edit and Story...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #36. Alejandro Fernández Almendras – Hra
Sundance love their Chilean cinema and have had a great rapport with Alejandro Fernández Almendras in the past showcasing his 2014 Grand Jury Prize...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #35. Brett Story – The Hottest August (Docu)
A subject close to Robert Redford's heart, climate change has been haphazardly handled in the likes of An Inconvenient Truth and perhaps The Hottest August...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #34. Stephen Gurewitz – Honky Kong
Apart from a work in progress industry screening in Wroclaw during the American Film Fest in 2017, there is very little info on Stephen...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #33. Alma Har’el – Honey Boy
A fruitful creative collab that began with a music vid for Sigur Rós and added support for her sophomore film LoveTrue, Alma Har’el and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #32. Steven Soderbergh – High Flying Bird
Taking a page not from Sean Baker, but from his own proclivity to shoot on the format which best suits the narrative's needs, Steven...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #31. Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe – He Dreams of Giants (Docu)
Premiering in Cannes with a whimper, Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote might actually benefit from the circulation of a making of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #30. Nabil Elderkin – Gully
An American photographer, turned music video director turned filmmaker who found fortune via a peculiar Kanye West encounter, American-Iranian Nabil Elderkin (who was among...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #29. Christoph Waltz – Georgetown
Surprisingly not unspooling at TIFF last September at the same time as the Green Book brouhaha, actor Christoph Waltz completed shooting on his directorial...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #28. Elizabeth Stopford – Forgiveness (Docu)
Hereditary gave Park City a January jolt....so perhaps, Elizabeth Stopford's Forgiveness can do the same for the docu realm. Developed with Film4 and the Sundance...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #27. Josh Trank – Fonzo
It's time to say goodbye to the De Niro Capone touch from The Untouchables. A meatier, bulkier project that would certainly rev up Sundance audiences,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #26. Don Argott & Sheena M. Joyce – Framing John DeLorean
A potential midnight film for car enthusiasts and 80s aficionados alike, if Sundance doesn't go all gull-wing out on it, then SXSW or Tribeca...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #25. Joe Berlinger – Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
After being a no-show among fests in 2018, it looks like Joe Berlinger's Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile is poised for a Park...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #24. Craig Roberts – Eternal Beauty
Not really the dark horse pick selection that was his feature debut, actor Craig Roberts has been to the fest beforehand (Richard Ayoade’s Submarine...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #23. Wash Westmoreland – The Earthquake Bird
Working once again with what might be a strong female protagonist and adapted source material, Wash Westmoreland boarded The Earthquake Bird in August of 2016 and production...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #22. Andrew Ahn – Driveways
After the critically acclaimed Spa Night, (2016 Sundance Film Fest selection) Andrew Ahn moved into the television sphere with a half dozen episodes of This...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #21. Miles Joris-Peyrafitte – Dreamland
Miles Joris-Peyrafitte could make it 2-for-2 in Park City with his sophomore feature film, Dreamland. Winner of a Special Jury Prize in 2016 when...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #20. Daniel Isn’t Real – Adam Egypt Mortimer
While it could be a long shot for a festival submission seeing that the production took place in July, Adam Egypt Mortimer could sneak...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #19. Patrick Brice – Corporate Animals
Pretty much working non-stop since 2014's Creep, Patrick Brice's only Sundance stop as been the acerbic The Overnight Earlier in the summer in New Mexico,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #18. Tom Quinn – Colewell
A project that he developed through the Biennale College - Cinema, alongside The Fits cinematographer Paul Yee, Tom Quinn probably shot his sophomore film...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #17. Annie Silverstein – Bull
Selected for the 2016 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs (here is a video interview), and recipient of the San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #16. Chiwetel Ejiofor – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
With a recent Netflix pick-up, the distrib will have to figure out if it'll throw Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut The Boy Who Harnessed the...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #15. Nanfu Wang & Lynn Zhang – Born in China (Docu)
Working in an almost doc per year pace since launching big with the award winning Hooligan Sparrow (double winner at the Cinema Eye Honors...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #14. Olivia Wilde – Booksmart
After more than a decade in front of the camera, actress Olivia Wilde turned music video directing gigs of Red Hot Chili Peppers and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #12. Robin Bissell – The Best of Enemies
An executive producer on Free State of Jones and The Hunger Games, Robin Bissell doesn't appear to be the usual Park City suspect, but...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #11. Jeff Brown – The Beach House
In an unexpected trajectory (along the lines of a Lance Hammer or Markus Schleinzer), with close to two decades of production and locations department...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #10. Harmony Korine – The Beach Bum
With Utah having more relaxed laws for marijuana use, perhaps a weed laced smell-o-vision Park City screening isn't such a far-fetched idea after all....
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #9. Justin Simien – Bad Hair
If it weren't for Chapman University and subsequent Dear White People (winner of the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #8. Riley Stearns – The Art of Self Defense
A sophomore film we thought might be ready for the 2018 campaign will walk and chop into 2019 instead with a distributor already in...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #7. Jackie Olive – Always in Season (Docu)
Working on the PBS documentary series Independent Lens for three seasons, Jackie Olive has worked immersive media production prior to moving into her docu...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #6. Theo Anthony – All Light, Everywhere (Docu)
Arriving on the scene with the celebrated Locarno Film Fest title Rat Film (2016), a Cinema Eye Honors Awards and Gotham Awards nominated film,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #5. Bart Freundlich – After the Wedding
Bart Freundlich's seventh feature film in After the Wedding - is a new (feminist?) take on Susanne Bier's Efter brylluppet and it might allow him...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #4. Benedict Andrews – Against All Enemies
After making his debut entrance with Una (read our review), Australian theatre and filmmaker Benedict Andrews didn't waste much time moving directly into his sophomore gig with the...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #3. Rhys Ernst – Adam
A project that once had Desiree Akhavan attached to direct, Adam would land in the lap of "This Is Me" and "Transparent" producer-director Rhys Ernst somewhere in...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #2. Oualid Mouaness – 1982
He might be a first time feature filmmaker, but Oualid Mouaness, a Lebanese short film helmer firmly transplanted in the US has been patiently building...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #1. Matthew Rankin – The 20th Century
The prolific idiosyncratic experimental filmmaker in many things Canadiana. So after a decade in the short form, Matthew Rankin has been in post production with...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: 100 Titles the Programmers Might Be Considering
As per our pre-Thanksgiving tradition, we are attempting to give fans of the Sundance Film Festival a preview of what's to come via our...
European Film Promotion and the Hunt for the Foreign Language Oscar
Every year, the submission for Best Foreign Language entries from around the world seems to grow larger and more difficult to navigate. For the...
At Eternity’s Gate | Review
Pigments of Your Imagination: Inside Van Gogh’s Mind
Julian Schnabel’s aesthetically-spellbinding Vincent Van Gogh biopic, At Eternity’s Gate, places viewers inside the Dutch artist’s eye....
Video: Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Homes – 2017 Cannes Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
Vladimir de Fontenay premiered his debut film Mobile Homes in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Fest. Here is his post...
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Review
Six of the West: Coen Bros. Release Minor, Uneven Collection of Frontier Short Stories
In thinking about the anthology form in cinema, Joel and Ethan...
Distant Constellation | Review
Time Is Not On Our Side: Mizrahi Mesmerizes And Bemuses With Meditative Doc
The nature of time is undoubtedly one of the most abstruse themes...
A Private War | Review
War is War is War: Heineman Tackles the Controversial Marie Colvin in Narrative Debut
Oscar nominated documentarian Matthew Heineman (2015’s Cartel Land), follows up recent...
Her Old Joy: Kelly Reichardt Finds Oregon by Way of China in “First Cow”
When Todd Haynes introduced Kelly Reichardt to the work of Jonathan Raymond, it was the page turning exercise of The Half Life that set...
Criterion Collection: The Naked Prey (1965) | Blu-ray Review
When one thinks of Cornel Wilde, a veritable Hollywood everyman who was peppered across a variety of noir and studio productions throughout the 1940s...
Dovlatov | Review
Author! Author!: German Jr. Tackles a Week in the Life of a Dissident Writer
While it’s Alexey German Jr.’s (son of the equally idiosyncratic Alexey...
2018 American Film Festival Dailies: Visiting the Heart of Wroclaw and the … Heart of Fest | Day 2
Before heading off to do some American indie film festing (essentially playing catch up), AFF organizers offered a location scouting tour of Wroclaw. Meant...
Suspiria | Review
Dance the Dance of Another: Guadagnino Goes Deeper & Weirder in Ambitious Argento Remake.
Luca Guadagnino has always been a supremely divisive filmmaker, capable of...
Burning | Review
A Touch of Class: Chang-dong Returns with Masterful Class Clash
Puns concerns its slow build will be sincerely intended in forthcoming deliberations on South Korean...
