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Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #10 to #6
#10. Pablo Aguero’s Witches’ Sabbath
Argentinean director Pablo Aguero broke out with his third feature Eva Doesn’t Sleep in 2015, which featured Gael Garcia Bernal...
2018 Sundance Film Festival: Panos Cosmatos’ “Mandy” Leads Nicholas Bell’s Top 10
While Sundance 2018 has already been deemed a non-event in the realm of acquisitions, it’s a trend perhaps better explained by an industry in...
Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11
As we look forward to a plentiful year of new cinematic offerings in 2018, it’s also time to look even further into the horizon...
2018 Sundance Film Festival: Bing Liu’s “Minding The Gap” Leads Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10
Some have complained that Sundance 2018 was a lackluster festival: largely devoid of masterpieces—with few blockbuster sales. I have a different gripe. As always,...
Our New President | 2018 Sundance Film Festival Review
What Is Reality? Pozdorovkin’s Vertiginous Nightmare Of Subjective Journalism
After a year since the commencement of the Trump presidency, its critics and supporters vary in...
On the Milky Road | Review
Road to Nowhere: Kusturica Returns with Aimless War-Torn Fairy Tale
All’s certainly not fair in love nor war in Serbian director Emir Kusturica’s first film...
Tuesday Blus: Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno & Delmer Daves’ The Hanging Tree
This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles:
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009)
Film Review: ★★★½/☆☆☆☆☆
Disc Review: ★★★★/☆☆☆☆☆
After Dante Alighieri but before Dario Argento and...
Sundance 2018: Madeline’s Madeline Helena Howard Leads our Top 10 New Faces
Last week we looked at the impressive class of new voices who made a noticeable mark at Sundance '18, and now we go in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #1. Rick Alverson’s The Mountain
The Mountain
For his acerbic, contre-courant, alive cinema and his brand of sagacity in the back to back offerings of The Comedy (2012) and Entertainment...
Interview: Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman)
With the release of Disobedience and the Oscar nomination for A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantástica) 2017, and now 2018 is indeed a special juncture in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #2. Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The Time
The Devil All the Time
Cinema is filled to the gills with amicable protagonist types, but for this filmmaker, the curiosity lies with those you...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #3. Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk
Film historians will likely do a poor job in describing the resounding support, everyone onboard and all-aboard of the Moonlight...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #4. Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Tyrel
You can wager on the cinema offerings of the Brooklyn based, Santiago born Sebastián Silva to be bold, the comedy to be subversive, and rather...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #5. Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs
Isle of Dogs
Embarking on his ninth feature film, second stop-animated project, and third straight collab with Production Designer Adam Stockhausen (2012's Moonrise Kingdom, 2014's...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #6. Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum
The Beach Bum
With the possibility of making this a true immersive experience (ordrama?!), much like the cult status of previous numbers, Harmony Korine's reefer...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #7. Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux
Vox Lux
Haneke, Bonello, Von Trier, Campos, Ostlund, Assayas, Hansen-Løve, Baumbach. He cut his teeth working with some of the most gifted filmmakers of our...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #8. Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria
Gloria
His second consecutive English language feature is a retooling, and not necessarily a remake of his 2013 critically well received drama of the same...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #9. Zellner Bros.’ Damsel
Damsel
Leaving Sundance as one of the critical darlings of the fest, for its play with the Western genre doing away with all the nuances...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #10. Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy
Wendy
A long awaited follow up sophomore film, Benh Zeitlin has been keeping busy as of last in composing the music for Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #11. Tim Sutton’s Donnybrook
Donnybrook
With a film budget that likely surpassed the total coin amount of his first three films combined, Tim Sutton (a featured IONCINEPHILE alumn) moves into...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #12. David Lowery’s Old Man and the Gun
Old Man and the Gun
We were correct with our Sundance prediction stating that David Lowery would be at Sundance this year, but it was...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #13. Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life
Private Life
She takes her time between projects and the great news late last year was the rollout of Private Life for Sundance 2018. Tamara Jenkins’ third...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #14. Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark
Hold the Dark
Prior to launching into Season 3 of True Detective, it appeared that we would have had had the chance to see Jeremy...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #15. David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Under the Silver Lake
With filming having taken place in October of 2016, David Robert Mitchell's highly anticipated third film is slowly being positioned for a stealthy...
Sundance 2018: Night Comes On’s Jordana Spiro Leads our Top 10 New Voices
Along with the plethora of interviews and reviews that we'll be posting on the site in February, as per our tradition here on the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #16. Miguel Arteta’s Duck Butter
Duck Butter
The cerebral, analytical, politically charged Beatriz at Dinner might have been a turning point for Miguel Arteta, and we're feeling that a new mantra...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #17. Reed Morano’s I Think We’re Alone Now
I Think We're Alone Now
The swiss army knife of women filmmakers, fittingly, Reed Morano's sophomore project panned out to be the amalgamation of masterful...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #18. Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace
Leave No Trace
Only her third feature fiction film following Down to the Bone (2004) and Winter’s Bone (2010), it always feels like a true cinematic event...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #19. Nicole Holofcener’s The Land of Steady Habits
The Land of Steady Habits
Treading familiar waters but nonetheless, her output always feels fresh, The Land of Steady Habits actually counts as a first for veteran...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #20. Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer
Destroyer
She didn't exactly lose her footing, but Karyn Kusama found herself in the dream scenario moving directly from indiewood Sundance accolades to Hollywood misfires...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #21. Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate
At Eternity’s Gate
For anyone who took notice, there was something slightly off with Willem Dafoe's coiffe during the Golden Globes and this has to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #22. Untitled Noah Baumbach Project
In what will be another one-two creative punch as when he recently unveiled Frances Ha and While We're Young with only season apart, while...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #23. Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s The Lodge
The Lodge
Austrian Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala broke out big with Goodnight Mommy (in his 4-star review our Nicholas Bell claimed this to be...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #24. Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline
Madeline's Madeline
We slotted Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline at the number #24 slot, but post-Sundance, we sort of wished we had ranked this masterwork (no...
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...
