Tag: U.S. Indie Film
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea | Review
Teenage Dirtbag, Baby: Shaw’s Odd, Amusing Portrait of Stylized Teen Angst
If some teenage version of Reading Rainbow coughed up a hallucinatory fever dream into...
The Lost City of Z | Review
Zed and Buried: Gray’s Period Adventure a Meticulous Throwback of Epic Filmmaking
American auteur James Gray unveils his most provocative film yet with the painstaking,...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Logan Sandler’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Logan Sandler (Live Cargo)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This month we feature American indie helmer Logan...
Summer Mixtape: 2016 Sundance NEXT Fest Includes Kim’s Lovesong & Hartigan’s Morris From America
So Yong Kim's (Lovesong) and Chad Hartigan's (Morris From America) career best films, Elizabeth Wood's (White Girl) and Andrew Neel's Goat disturbing youth portraits,...
License & Registration Please: Samuel Goldwyn Hunt Down SXSW Winner “Transpecos”
Variety called it a "handsomely crafted debut," THR gives it a stamp of approval by calling it "artfully made but wholly accessible for a...
When Life Gives you Oranges, Make…: Sean Baker Embarks on “The Florida Project”
For what will become his sixth feature film, film format friendly auteur Sean Baker is moving over to the east coast Sunshine State for...
Man Push Fire Cart: HBO Book Ramin Bahrani for “Fahrenheit 451”
Moving from seizing homes (99 Homes) to burning them down, hopefully American indie filmmaker won't have some of the woes that Francois Truffaut did...
Digital Witness: Annie Clark Added as 4th “XX” Helmer
Going the Peaches route, Annie Clark (St. Vincent) is replacing Mary Harron and joining femme fatale filmmaker quartet (Karyn Kusama, Jennifer Lynch and Jovanka Vuckovic)...
Double Team: Jason Sudeikis Gets Coached in Ryan Koo’s “Amateur”
Jason Sudeikis is likely going to use his whistle-blowing skills from the set of Race, as The Tracking Board reports that the actor will board...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Matt Sobel (Take Me to the River)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema and this month’s spotlighted artist saw his debut...
Sarasota Groves: The Orchard Picks Campos’ Christine From Sundance Tree
After making a run with Josh Mond's James White, and less than a day after picking up the docu Life, Animated, Variety reports that...
Melody C. Roscher & Craig Shilowich Take Creative Control on “Our Band Is Forever”
On the eve of the world premiere screening to Antonio Campos' Christine and the soon to be launched theatrically Creative Control, producers Melody C....
Splitsville: Sarah Adina Smith Enlists Rami Malek for “Buster’s Mal Heart”
It's been a long time coming for Short Term 12 supporting player Rami Malek, but the momentum built around television's highly successful "Mr.Robot" has landed him...
Let the Teenage Girl In: Bel Powley Toplines Friedrich Böhm’s “Wildling”
Sundance's 2015 breakout starlet Bel Powley (The Diary Of A Teenage Girl) is bringing her star wattage to Wildling, an indie project described as...
99 Homes | Review
Housing Complex: Bahrani Extends Capitalism Criticism to Housing Market
Though his 2012 farming melodrama At Any Price found director Ramin Bahrani gaining wider visibility with...
Queen of Earth | Review
Earth Below Us: Perry’s Esoteric Puzzle of Women and Madness
What a delight to see director Alex Ross Perry continuing his delightful examinations of unlikeable...
Medicine for Miami: A24 & Plan B Take “Moonlight” Swim with Barry Jenkins
Announced late last night, we've got an encouraging piece of indie feature backing news for Barry Jenkins and his long awaited sophomore project. Deadline...
The Midnight Swim | Review
Out in the Moonlight, Just Like We Used to Do: Smith’s Throbbing, Eerie Debut
The unnerving quality of Sarah Adina Smith’s directorial debut, The Midnight...
Uncertain Terms | Review
Rebounds and Role-play: Silver’s Latest Returns to Uncomfortable Interactions
With his fourth feature film, Uncertain Terms, indie film director Nathan Silver advances the knack he...
Nightingale | Review
On Yon Bloomy Spray: Oyelowo Dominates Lester’s One Set Drama
Director Elliott Lester, best known for his 2011 Jason Statham offering, Blitz, adapts firstime screenwriter...
I Believe In Unicorns | Review
Oh Them Silly Unicorns: Meyerhoff’s Coming of Age Debut Prizes Style Over Substance
Director Leah Meyerhoff most effectively conveys the nature of her debut film,...
Top Three: Future Arrests in Development with Louis C.K.’s “I’m a Cop”
Creator of a show de rigueur, comedian and art-house junkie and lover of films with subtitles Louis C.K. will write, direct and star in...
Welcome to Me | Review
Broadcast Blues: Wiig’s Amusing Portrait of Mental Illness
Mental illness collides with reality TV inspired media for Shira Piven’s generally pleasurable oddity, Welcome to Me,...
IFC Films Not Afraid of Virginia: Perry’s “Queen of Earth” Finds a Lake Home
IFC Films have got themselves a case of cabin fever. The distributor have landed a title that could easily be programmed on their Midnight...
Alter Ego Author: Holofcener & Julianne Moore Forge Partnership over Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Somewhere in 2015-16, Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore could fall on hard times. The actress is attached to take on the role of Lee Israel (this NYTimes...