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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #25. Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing
Piercing
Borrowing from Takashi Miike’s Audition (seminal J Horror film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore film and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #26. Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour
The Wolf Hour
The interminable wait for Alistair Banks Griffin's second feature film is officially over. The Borderline Films' backed Two Gates of Sleep debuted...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #27. Michael Tully’s Don’t Leave Home
Don't Leave Home
After vintage 80's Ping Pong Summer, Michael Tully moves towards the occult and continues his one film per every three years output with his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #28. Ira Sachs’ The Second Wife
If we go by his two year gap between productions, we should expect a new film from NYC based Ira Sachs to drop in 2018,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #29. Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck’s When She Runs
When She Runs
When they aren't working on docus, they're immersed in fiction and when they're not working on features, they're occupied by the short...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #30. Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
About to enter his third decade in filmmaking and currently on a 3-for-3 streak with Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) and Last...
Collect Them All!: Our 2018 Sundance NEXT Section “Trading Cards” Series Checklist
Dating back to our inaugural 2014 set, we've been profiling the Kenneth Griffey Jrs. of American indie film in folks who are part of...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #19. Aneesh Chaganty (Search)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Aneesh Chaganty: Literature: "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande (2014). Poetry: "Milk and Honey" by Rupi...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #18. Sev Ohanian (Search)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Sev Ohanian: Videogame: Doki Doki Literature Club! Hobby: Escape Rooms
Lavallee: We saw it in one...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #17. Juan Sebastian Baron (Search)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Juan Sebastian Baron: Juan Gabriel Vásquez's "El Ruido de las Cosas al Caer" (Novel), Planescape...
Private Life | 2018 Sundance Film Festival Review
She’s Not Having a Baby: Jenkins Returns with Freewheeling Fertility Melodrama
American indie director Tamara Jenkins returns with her first directorial effort since 2007’s Oscar...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #4. Markus Mentzer (Clara’s Ghost)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Markus Mentzer: William Eggleston
Courtney and Kurt “Lotta Sea Lice"
Melvin and Howard (1980)
Eric Lavallee: Dating back...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #3. Bridey Elliott (Clara’s Ghost)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Bridey Elliott: Columbo, the tv show.
Orange Juice, the band
Ram Dass, the guru
Lavallee: Being well-versed in...
2018 Sundance Film Festival: Eric Lavallee’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Composer Keegan DeWitt has been dethroned. The reigning, heavy weight champion of Park City (who usually arrives with a half dozen offerings) loses out...
2018 Sundance Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Over the past few years, Sundance has arguably shunted most of its noteworthy titles off into its sidebars, whether they be prestigious premieres from...
2018 Sundance Film Festival: Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Before we plunge into my top five, here are some items that are also high up on my most see list. From this year’s...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #31. Matthew Heineman’s A Private War
A Private War
Having built a solid resume so far as a filmmaker on the front lines, it's perhaps not unfathomable that he was taped...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #32. Todd Solondz’s Love Child
Love Child
A curious thing happened, and...didn't happen. The paired duet in Todd Solondz's Love Child did get together -- but it was for The...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #33. J.D. Dillard’s Sweetheart
Sweetheart
Making a tsunami out of a ripple when he landed Sundance's 2016 NEXT section with the his calling card Sleight, J.D. Dillard might not...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #34. Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Desiree Akhavan could distinctly hold two parallel careers --- one in front of the camera, but we selfishly want her...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #35. Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher
The Kindergarten Teacher
Conceptually speaking, Sara Colangelo's Little Accidents was raw, tonally sound but perhaps lacked a little finesse. I often think about that film...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #36. Sean Durkin’s Janis
Janis
We could trace an entire timeline on the number of competing projects (e.g. Amy Adams and Get it While You Can) or the failed attempts...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #37. Adam McKay’s Backseat
Backseat
I'm getting ready to hate this film .... but for all the right reasons. One of the more costly film productions on our list,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #38. A.J. Edwards’ Friday’s Child
Friday’s Child
“Sponging both formal technique and spiritual inflection to create a film that looks, sounds and feels like the work of Malick, yet stands...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #39. Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
You can't always be batting 1000, and Gus Van Sant's Sea of Trees was a clunker (read...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #40. Madeleine Olnek’s Wild Nights with Emily
Wild Nights with Emily
There has been a lot of tinkering around on Madeleine Olnek's third outing as a filmmaker. We've been thinking this might...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #41. Joshua Marston’s Come Sunday
Come Sunday
Joshua Marston's fourth feature film once again sees him work within a dramatic genre framework, but becomes a first bio-treatment for the helmer...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #42. Dash Shaw’s Cryptozoo
Cryptozoo
Sadly, only one of the two films working with animation on our top 100, it was nice to begin the year with a profile...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #43. Joe Berlinger’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
When Zac Efron presented at the Golden Globes, I'm sure several very little folks in that room (or the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #44. Jim Hosking’s An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
Jim Hosking's debut film The Greasy Strangler was sort of like the squid option at a restaurant -- an...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #45. Crystal Moselle’s Skate Kitchen
Skate Kitchen
Crystal Moselle made the shift to the world of fiction with a project that is once again curious about subculture. Following Sundance's U.S. Documentary...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #46. Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
We couldn't have asked for more from her debut film. An assured, check off all the boxes, winner of Indie...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #47. Marianna Palka’s Egg
Egg
While you were sleeping, Marianna Palka was busy creating. We'll never be able to forget the transparency of the shared experience that is Lucy...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #48. Jordana Spiro’s Night Comes On
Night Comes On
The highest ranked directorial debut on our top 100 belongs to Night Comes On. We're big on the short films that come...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #49. Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
Sorry to Bother You
The moment hip hop artist Boots Riley took Sorry to Bother You to the Sundance labs (2015 June Screenwriters Lab and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #50. Jim Cummings’ Thunder Road
Thunder Road
Before unleashing one of the all-time best shorts to bust a move out of Sundance with the Short Film Grand Jury Prize winner,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #51. Untitled Pippa Bianco Project
A Cinéfondation winner for her short, Pippa Bianco’s SXSW and Cannes winning Share served as the template for the feature length version which shot...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #52. Christina Choe’s NANCY
With a half dozen shorts under her belt and a recent trip to North Korea in this more personable travelogue docu diary series, Christina...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #53. Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane
Unsane
Perhaps the American cousin to the quirky Danish folks in the Dogme movement and their desire to switch gears, Steven Soderbergh has been experimenting...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #54. Austin Vesely’s Slice
Slice
A shot in Chicago micro-indie project back in September of 2016 featuring Chance The Rapper working once again with creative collaborator Austin Vesely, the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #55. Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s Mustang
Mustang
Not to be confused with Deniz Gamze Ergüven's 2015 coming-of-age film, French actress Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre goes full Americana for her directorial debut. Based...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #56. Spike Lee’s Black Klansman
Black Klansman
In a career that spanning three decades, even as of late, we've seen Spike Lee work in just about every genre from Red...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #57. Sarah Daggar-Nickson’s A Vigilante
A Vigilante
With a previous output of shorts in Dead Hands (2010) and The Light in the Night (2011), New York City based Sarah Daggar-Nickson's...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #58. Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind
The Other Side of the Wind
Populated with four Oscar winners (John Huston, Mercedes McCambridge, Edmond O'Brien and Cameron Crowe) and four Oscar nominees (Dennis...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #59. Untitled Dan Gilroy Project
Over-reaching, sloppy and dull, Roman J. Israel, Esq. came as a surprise to us --- frankly it was one of the worst films to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #60. Eva Vives’ All About Nina
All About Nina
A directorial debut we've been keeping tabs on since it participated in the 2016 Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters and Directors Labs, before All...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #61. Bart Layton’s American Animals
American Animals
Coming from a docu debut, in 2012, Bart Layton's The Imposter was selected for Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition and from there landed...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #62. Joe Wright’s Stoner
Stoner
After more weighty studio projects in Pan (2015) and The Darkest Hour (2017), Joe Wright moves more into prestige medium sized independent pic with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #63. Jacob Estes’ Only You
Only You
We suppose that Jacob Estes took one off the chin when the Weinsteins muddled the release of his sophomore picture, the Sundance preemed...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #64. Justin Kelly’s JT Leroy
JT Leroy
In what should be a banner year for filmmaker, Justin Kelly will sprinkle 2018 with a pair of films. Along with Welcome the Stranger (which...
