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...
Gang Bangin’: XLrator Media Give “Five Star” Salute to Keith Miller’s Sophomore Pic
Lightning has struck twice for helmer Keith Miller. After seeing his debut film Welcome to Pine Hill find theatrical release partners in the Oscilloscope folks,...
Soul to Squeeze: Cinelicious Pics Fight for John Magary’s “The Mend”
The micro label behind pick ups such as Anurag Kashyap's opus Gangs of Wasseypur and Josephine Decker's first pair of films have wrestled down John Magary's feature...
The Harvest | Review
Harvest Home: McNaughton’s Return Yields Blighted Crop
Fans of director John McNaughton, known for his gruesome cult classic Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990),...
Stranger Than Science-Fiction: Steven Shainberg Senses the “Rupture”
Before 50 Shades of Grey was made fashionable by mainstream auds, Secretary was a sizzler cubicle space title that made Steven Shainberg a sought after indie...
Michael Chernus to Have Good Table Manners in Joshua Marston Project
We're not allergic to television, but for us Orange is the New Black's Michael Chernus truly broke out at this year's Sundance Film Festival, with...
Bre-X Marks the Spot: Weinsteins Mining for Stephen Gaghan’s “Gold”
The movie business has a lot in common with the speculative stock market. Those that get a piece of the action early can hope for...
Beefing Up: FilmBuff Freestyling with “The Strongest Man”
Following in the footsteps of Tangerine and Nasty Baby, there is plenty of valuable loot left untouched from Sundance's NEXT section. The FilmBuff folks...
Ira Sachs to Give Us “The Silent Treatment”
New York based filmmaker Ira Sachs is giving his fans The Silent Treatment. No the filmmaker isn't pulling a Malick-like disappearing act, but instead,...
Tastes Good: Suki Waterhouse, Diego Luna, Reeves & Carrey Part of “The Bad Batch”
Suki Waterhouse will be surrounded by Diego Luna, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey and the already announced Jason Momoa in Ana Lily Amirpour's much anticipated...
Last Exit to Brooklyn: Fort Tilden Hitches a Ride with Orion Releasing
Emblematic of the protracted journey that its clueless protagonists embark on, almost 365 days since it premiered, Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers' SXSW Grand...
Greed is Good: Broad Street Pictures Makes “Equity” Stake in Meera Menon
Under their newly minted Broad Street Pictures label, Sarah Megan Thomas and Alysia Reiner will both star in and produce Equity, the sophomore feature from up-and-comer...
Sophie Goodhart is Leading the…: Adam Scott, Slate & Kroll Join “My Blind Brother”
For those in the know, being in the running for a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival is statistically...near impossible, especially for the dozen or...
X/Y | Review
Axes of Fulfillment: Williams Explores the Lives of Malcontented Young Adults
There’s a certain way to make multiple, intersecting storylines breathe life into a narrative...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lance Edmands’ Top Eight Films….
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: Lance Edmands (Bluebird)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. Prior to the film's TriBeCa Film Festival world...
Justice For All: Samuel Goldwyn Films Take “Lila & Eve” into their Own Hands
Samuel Goldwyn Films weren't especially active during Sundance this year, but are smoking barrels today with the pick-up of Charles Stone III's Lila &...
Love Thy Neighbor: The Orchard to Support “Nasty Baby” During Postpartum Phase
Deemed "unfit" for TIFF, Sebastian Silva’s Nasty Baby is the latest addition to The Orchard's ever expanding Sundance family grove. IndieWIRE reports that The...
No Cutoff: Reichardt & Michelle Williams Continue Creative Collab in 2015
While a whole bunch of folk were being distracted by the buzz at Sundance, a tent was pitched somewhere on the West Coast by...
Life Partners | Review
She’s the One: Fogel’s Debut a Top Tier Examination of Co-Dependent Friendship
Borrowing shades of autobiographical instances from their own lives, director Susanna Fogel and...
The Foxy Merkins | Review
American Gigola: Olnek’s Hilarious Sophomore Film Reinvents the Masculine Realm of Hustler Bonding
Few filmmakers are able to successfully create a distinctly unique universe of...
The Spirits Have Been Exorcised; Carson Mell’s “Another Evil” Now in Post-Prod
Principle photography on Another Evil, Carson Mell's supernatural comedy debut is now complete. Starring Steve Zissis, Mark Proksch, Jennifer Irwin, Dax Flame, Dan Bakkedahl and Steve...
Before I Disappear | Review
The Sting Called Love: Christensen’s Debut Rife with Melodramatic Cliché
Shawn Christensen, who won an Academy Award for his 2013 short film, Curfew, expands his...
Interview: Gregg Araki – White Bird in a Blizzard
We sat down with director Gregg Araki at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival after the premiere of his new film, White Bird in a...
2014 Sundance Film Festival: Cutter Hodierne’s Fishing Without Nets
You'd be hard-pressed to find anything of a swashbuckling nature in what is essentially a pirate movie without the eye patches. While comparisons with other...
