Tag: U.S. Indie Film News
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #65. Felix van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy
Beautiful Boy
His film career was launched with the Directors’ Fortnight preemed The Misfortunates (2009), and international audiences discovered him via the Oscar nominated for...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #66. Gareth Evans’ Apostle
Apostle
Making a name for himself with high-octane contributions in the shape of The Raid: Redemption, V/H/S/2 and The Raid 2 (with The Raid 3...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #67. Michael Mayer’s The Seagull
The Seagull
He appeared on the film scene with A Home at the End of the World (2004) and Flicka (2006) and then....disappeared. A full...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #68. Maryam Keshavarz’s Vulture Club
Vulture Club
You couldn't have asked for a better calling card in her 2011 narrative feature. Circumstance debuted at Sundance and was a critical darling,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #69. Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased
Boy Erased
While we give the advantage Nash (Gringo is sitting in our #84 spot) in terms of who between the two has a better...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #70. Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road
The Long Dumb Road
One of the last items to enter the Sundance film festival, Hannah Fidell visited Park City with A Teacher (review) in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #71. Ondi Timoner’s Mapplethorpe
Mapplethorpe
Now in her second decade in filmmaking you'd think Ondi Timoner doesn't have much more to prove, but Mapplethorpe is her debut in the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #72. Casey Affleck’s Light of My Life
Light of My Life
Likely to be mentioned in the same conversations as Debra Granik's Leave No Trace, it'll be hard for Casey Affleck's to make...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #73. Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie
Lizzie
Craig William Macneill's got his debut with 2015’s The Boy (read review) and it wasn't that much more time after that he landed into...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #74. Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself
Life Itself
With all the intersecting ensemble threads promised for his sophomore film, hopefully Dan Fogelman will better manage the puzzles pieces as we weren't...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #75. Jesper Ganslandt’s Beast of Burden
Beast of Burden
The only filmmaker to be featured on both of our 2018 Most Anticipated lists, perhaps it's a good thing that the release...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #76. Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation
Sam Levinson offered us one of the best films of 2011 with his directorial debut --- we called it “a bitter, nasty, angry film about...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #77. Jason Reitman’s Tully
Tully
A tad bit higher up on our charts than The Front Runner (#91 on our list), this Diablo Cody scripted dramedy went in production...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #78. Andrew Bujalski’s Support The Girls
Support The Girls
In a filmography that includes 2002’s Funny Ha Ha, 2005’s Mutual Appreciation, 2009’s Beeswax, 2013’s Computer Chess (read review) and 2015’s Results,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #79. Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
The Tale
After decades of documenting powerful women and their stories, docu filmmaker made the jump into narrative for her first time in May of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #80. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense
The Art of Self Defense
Riley Stearns' 2013 Sundance preemed short, The Cub along with the 2015's SXSW preemed feature debut Faults which we called "deviously...
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...
