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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #81. Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy
Mandy
Canadian helmer Panos Cosmatos found a lot of fanfare stateside for his debut film in 2010’s Beyond the Black Rainbow, so naturally the XYZ...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #82. Matthew Ross’ Siberia
Siberia
Matthew Ross didn't waste much time putting his sophomore film in place, after debuting 2016's Frank & Lola at Sundance (read review) he tapped...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #83. Yen Tan’s 1985
1985
Known for 2013’s Pit Stop (Sundance selection), last April, Yen Tan returned behind the camera for a his fifth feature modeled on the award...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #84. Nash Edgerton’s Gringo
Gringo
He might have a background in back breaking stunt man work (more than two decades worth), but in our books, this Aussie's true vocation...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #85. Paul Dano’s Wildlife
Wildlife
We've been charting his perfs well before the likes of Reichardt and PTA brought him in as a supporting character, Paul Dano who has...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #86. Emma Forrest’s Untogether
Untogether
She started off as a journalist in her teens. She became a best-selling author in her young adulthood, moved into screenwriting and landed on...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #87. Anthony Mandler’s Monster
Monster
He might have been itching to direct a project as early as 2013 with the book to screen project of Tokyo Vice with Daniel Radcliffe, but...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #88. Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods
Little Woods
With POTUS45 somewhat peeved with it's neighbor to the north, Canada nonetheless remains a sanctuary and is more friend than foe especially when...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #89. Olivia Newman’s First Match
First Match
Based on the 2000 award-winning short (it played at the New York Film Fest), shot in Brooklyn, the feature film version was workshopped...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #90. Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep
State Like Sleep
Previously she got her docu game on with 2010’s The Ride (SXSW), but it's in the narrative shape that we've circled Meredith Danluck's...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #91. Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner
The Front Runner
With Tully dropping on April 20th, we look towards Jason Reitman's eight feature film as salient, dramatical potent possible second 2018 offering...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #92. Jeremiah Zagar’s We the Animals
We the Animals
Cutting his teeth in the docu and short form, Jeremiah Zagar (Emmy-nominated for 2014's Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart) shot We...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #93. Melanie Laurent’s Galveston
Galveston
There was once a time when True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto's novel to screen adaptation had Matthias Schoenaerts attached in the lead and Danish helmer...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #94. Elizabeth Chomko’s What They Had
What They Had
A seasoned actress who wound up striking gold in more ways than one during the development of the project (Elizabeth Chomko had...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #95. Ethan Hawke’s Blaze
Blaze
You might want to keep an eye out for Ethan Hawke's fourth feature film, especially if you didn't buy the bottle, down on his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #96. Max Minghella’s Teen Spirit
Teen Spirit
If the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, perhaps, and that is the hope, Max will follow in footsteps of his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #97. Justin Kelly’s Welcome the Stranger
Welcome the Stranger
Currently sitting on a pair of feature film items waiting for a film festival release, filmmaker Justin Kelly had his feature debut...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #98. Paul Schrader’s Dark
What the Film Gods giveth and Film Gods taketh away simply doesn't apply here. In the new year, we might have not one, but...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #99. Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Eighth Grade
Fore more than a decade, this spanking brand new entity on the American independent film sphere has been cutting his teeth as a comedian...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #100. Nijla Mu’min’s Jinn
Jinn
We begin our countdown with this micro-budget sized feature film debut revolving around identity issues in a acutely complex America. Nijla Mu’min pulls from her...
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Herrings on a Train: Neeson Fights the Good Fight in Half-Baked Transportation Thriller
You can see him in Berlin (Unknown, 2011), or see his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: Picks 200 to 101
Last week, Nicholas Bell helped us ring in the new year with our Top 200 most anticipated world cinema items. We also highlighted our...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #1. Claire Denis’ High Life
High Life
French auteur Claire Denis has become one of the most prolific and revered international auteurs over the past thirty years, beginning with her...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #2. Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built
The House That Jack Built
Despite recently weathering accusations of sexual assault against Bjork during the filming of his Palme d’Or winning Dancer in the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #3. Paul Verhoeven’s Blessed Virgin
Blessed Virgin
Paul Verhoeven famously returned from a decade long absence with a bang in 2016, unveiling the controversial Elle (read ★★★★ review) at the Cannes...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #4. Leos Carax’s Annette
Annette
It will have been six years since Leos Carax’s 2012 masterpiece Holy Motors (read review) was unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival—itself a break from...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: # 5. Mia Hansen-Løve’s Maya
Maya
After winning Best Director at the 2016 Berlinale thanks to her exquisite Isabelle Huppert starrer Things to Come (read review), French director Mia Hansen-Løve finally...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #6. Andrey Konchalovsky’s Il Peccato
Il Peccato
A titan of Russian cinema, Andrey Konchalovsky famously cut his teeth as a writer for Tarkovsky (Ivan’s Childhood; Andrei Rublev) before breaking out...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #7. Carlos Reygadas’ Where Life is Born
Where Life is Born
Carlos Reygadas remains at the forefront of a new wave of Mexican auteurs who examine contemporary social ills while blending elements...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #8. Christian Petzold’s Transit
Transit
The most internationally recognized member of the Berlin School of filmmakers, Christian Petzold and his frequent collaborator, Nina Hoss, have presented some of contemporary...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #9. Jia Zhangke’s Ash is Purest White
Ash is Purest White
Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke has been internationally renowned since 2000’s Platform, which also was the auteur’s first collaboration with his wife,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #10. Peter Strickland’s In Fabric
In Fabric
British director Peter Strickland is responsible for three formidably distinct genre tinged recuperations of the past decade---and remains frustratingly underrated. Arriving with 2009’s...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #11. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Wild Pear Tree
Wild Pear Tree
Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns with his first project since winning the Palme d’Or for 2014’s Winter Sleep. His eighth film,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #12. Lee Chang-dong’s Burning
Burning
About a year prior, South Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong was about to begin production on his sixth feature, Burning before abruptly announcing the project...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #13. Benoît Jacquot’s Eva
Eva
Several months after premiering his Don DeLillo adaptation Never Ever out of competition in Venice 2016, the prolific Benoît Jacquot returned to work with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #14. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Pray for Jack
Pray for Jack
Controversy and contention have followed French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche ever since winning the Palme d’Or in 2013 for Blue is the Warmest...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: # 15. Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Dau
Dau
A contemporary cinematic legend, Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Dau has been a highly anticipated film project for the past decade. Now over twelve years...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #16. Olivier Assayas’ E-Book
E-Book
Juliette Binoche has a stellar slate lined up for 2018. She’s been so booked, she dropped out of Mia Hansen-Love’s Maya, who is married...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #17. Mike Leigh’s Peterloo
Peterloo
British auteur Mike Leigh should be all set with his long-gestating Peterloo in 2018. His latest serves as a striking departure from his recent...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #18. Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows
Asghar Farhadi has quickly become the most prominent Iranian filmmaker over the past decade. After winning the Golden Bear at the 2011 Berlinale...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #19. Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s Luxembourg
Luxembourg
We’ve been tracking Luxembourg going on three years now and news has been scarce on its status for the past year. Ukrainian director Miroslav...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #20. Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria
Suspiria
Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo Suspiria is one of the most beloved horror films of all time, an eerie splash of old European glamour, decadent...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #21. Bruno Dumont’s Coincoin and the Extra Humans
Coincoin and the Extra Humans
While enjoying the critical success of his innovative and unique 2017 film Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc (read review),...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #22. Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro
Loro
Paolo Sorrentino has quickly become one of the most notable Italian auteurs over the past decade. Competing six times at Cannes (he won the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #23. Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War
Cold War
Polish auteur Pawel Pawlikowski began making films in the late 1990s with The Stringer (1998) before moving into several UK productions, including 2000’s...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #24. Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters Brothers
One of 2018’s most highly anticipated items is Jacques Audiard’s English language debut The Sisters Brothers, his first project since winning the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #25. Fabrice du Welz’s Adoration
Adoration
Belgian genre auteur Fabrice du Welz has been fast-tracking the third installment of his Ardennes Trilogy, which began with his delightfully macabre 2004 debut...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #26. Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
The Nightingale
Responsible for one of the most successful debuts over the past decade with 2014’s The Babadook (read ★★★★ review), Australia’s Jennifer Kent is ready...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: # 27. Laszlo Nemes’ Sunset
Sunset
Anticipation is high for the sophomore film from Hungary’s Laszlo Nemes following his grueling Holocaust drama Son of Saul (interview), which took home the Grand...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #28. Naomi Kawase’s Vision
Vision
Japanese auteur Naomi Kawase is a veritable fixture at the Cannes Film Festival since 1997’s Suzaku (which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight), but whose films...
