Tag: 2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: 80 Possible Titles
The elusive "Golden Ticket". Beginning next Wednesday (December 4th) in a wave of four announcements, is when the official word comes out. Plenty of...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves
And for the final Sundance Film Festival prediction on the 80-list, I'm selecting a film that might have premiered at both Venice and Toronto,...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robinson Devor’s You Can’t Win
A return visitor at the festival for all three of his feature films The Woman Chaser (2000), Police Beat (2005) and Zoo (2007), I'm...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Piers Williams’ X/Y
He broke into the Sundance Film Fest U.S. Dramatic Comp back in 2010 with The Dry Land, and not surprisingly, shooting on his sophomore...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zac Braff’s Wish I Was Here
He received unnecessary flack for his Kickstarter campaign, and while Garden State isn't my cup of kool-aid, the 2004 dramedy which premiered at Sundance...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lawrence Michael Levine’s Wild Canaries
He managed to put together the Indie actress all-star team of Sophia Takal, Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil and Lena Dunham (forgive the pun)...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash
If Whiplash breaks into the line-up, I believe we're in for a treat. It'll have meant that Damien Chazelle, who broke out with 2009's Guy...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Rapp’s Why Now?!
Don't let the lack of theatrical output foul you. Adam Rapp is a man of many hats, alternating between novelist, playwright, television, guitarist, actor...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard
The Living End (1992). Totally F***ed Up (1993). The Doom Generation (1995). Nowhere (1997). Splendor (1999). Mysterious Skin (2005). Smiley Face (2007). Kaboom (2011)....
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Jackson’s War Story
His brilliant feature debut Without, broke out in Park City....but at the neighboring, competing fest. From Slamdance onwards (BFI London, Deauville, Chicago, Locarno Film...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Laura Poitras’ Untitled Surveillance Documentary
Traction and the kernel of the idea on this third, and final installment technically began when the filmmaker herself became a "subject" to domestic...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Noah Baumbach’s Public School Project
His only ever appearance at the festival was with 2005's The Squid and the Whale. Be a nice, unexpected "surprise" if Noah Baumbach returns...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Chris Messina Drama
It's with his previous acting gig on the microscopic, Sundance preemed 28 Rooms (produced by Lynette Howell - Jamie Patricof's business partner at their...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker’s Unlocking the Cage
If they grace the festival with their presence, it would be like having the Beatles show up (Frederick Wiseman is our Elvis). Legendary docu-team...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ewan McNicol & Anna Sandilands’ Uncertain
Currently in post with their feature debut, Anna Sandilands and Ewan McNicol have actually breathed the crisp, fresh air of Park City before, with...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yance Ford’s Strong Island
As we come close to concluding our list of Sundance predictions for '14, it's worth pointing out just how indispensable the backing of organizations...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jerome Sable’s Stage Fright
We first discovered Jerome Sable when he broke ground with the Sundance accepted short, 2010's The Legend of Beaver Dam. When there was no...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer
We predicted Snowpiercer would break into Cannes of 2013. That didn't happen. We began to think about Toronto....and nope. Normally we would never associate...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mona Fastvold’s The Sleepwalker
Just like the Chileans did last year's fest, the Norwegians have been slowly invading the Sundance Film Festival with an output of films from...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Johnson’s The Skeleton Twins
Live. From New York. It's...Craig Johnson. Another product from the Duplass factory, after breaking out with the micro-budgeted SXSW preemed True Adolescents, Johnson remains...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Debbie Tucker Green’s Second Coming
Known for exploring psychological terrain with a tactful and poetic profundity, she broke out on filmic terms with the '09 short Heat, British Academy...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: William H. Macy’s Rudderless
If there is a "predictions thematic" playing out here it's the number of films with actors who move behind the camera. Chalk up Park...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos’ Rich Hill
Match an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker with her cousin, an established cinematographer on You're Next ('11) and Sundance preemed titles of V/H/S, short film Black...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jon Stewart’s Rosewater
He took a noticeable leave of absence from the Daily Show back in July to shoot a project close to his heart. With an...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gareth Evans’ The Raid 2
It's a major vote of confidence when a festival, such as Sundance, happens to be filled almost exclusively by world premieres and then allows...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Tully’s Ping Pong Summer (Exclusive First Look!)
Clearly if Michael Tully receives an invite to Sundance this year, it won't be for a return visit in the Park City at Midnight...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brian Horiuchi’s Parts Per Billion
Best known for kick-starting careers of up-and-coming filmmakers, Park City still makes room for first time directors pushing north of a ripe old age...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrea Di Stefano’s Paradise Lost: The Untold Story of Pablo Escobar’s Treasure
There will digital blood in the streets of '14. The first to get their portrait of Pablo Escobar out first, might "win" the battle...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Charlie McDowell’s The One I Love
With a famous pair of acting parents, we imagine that his on-set apprenticeship qualifies as film school. The multi-talented (jury will be out on...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Burns’ North of Hell
We were big fans of Anthony Burns' debut film, the visually strong coming-of-ager sans pretension and a nod to the Dazed and Confused sorts with...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Avi Lewis’ The Message
Sundance tends to include at least one eco-friendly docu in their line-up, and this one promises to shake up the establishment. He broke out...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Max Landis’ Me Him Her
The family name got him onto film sets (on our end we call that the best film school), but it's 2012 Chronicle that set...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Grieco’s Marmato
Having just participated at the 2013 Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound, Mark Grieco's heavily supported docu (Cinereach, MacArthur and BRITDOC Foundations)...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Preiss’ Low Down
While 2013 gave us Inside Llewyn Davis, 2014 will give us Low Down. I'm thinking that photographer/ethnographic documentarian/commercials and video director Jeff Preiss' debut...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ira Sachs’ Love is Strange
A destination lieu for Ira Sachs dating back to 1994 when he showed his experimental short Lady, I'd be baffled if Love is Strange...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sara Colangelo’s Little Accidents (First Look!)
My crystal ball says this might be 2014's answer to Winter's Bone, where tragedy, economics and backdrop are just as strong a character set...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip
Production began in September, and post in October, so for Alex Ross Perry's third feature film to be ready, he'll have to had superpowers....
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Susanna Fogel’s Life Partners (Exclusive First Look!)
It's got the Sundance folk/system stacked in its corner. The Institute selected Life Partners for the January Screenwriters Lab ('12), gave it's producer a nudge...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Life After Beth
A huge ensemble cast of indie vets (Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Matthew Gray Gubler, Dane DeHaan, Alia Shawkat, John C. Reilly, Cheryl Hines, Paul...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chloe Zhao’s Lee
Chances are slim that Chloe Zhao manages to break into the 2014 edition of the Sundance Film Festival and it isn't because there is...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lynn Shelton’s Laggies
An integral part of the Sundance festivities ever since she premiered Humpday there in 2009 (she followed that up with a showing of Your...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lou Howe’s Gabriel (Exclusive First Look!)
Looks like it isn't only in professional hockey where the "Howe" family name will make huge strides. Featuring Rory Culkin and an indie ensemble...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carter Smith’s Jamie Marks Is Dead
While The Ruins, his feature debut, didn't open up the opportunities for this all-in-one talent pool, the best item to come out of Sundance...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Maya Forbes’ Infinitely Polar Bear
The scribe behind Monsters vs. Aliens and The Rocker would normally be the last person I'd associate with Sundance, much less the director's chair...but...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mike Cahill’s I: Origins
Fans of Mike Cahill's feature, Special Jury Prize winning debut Another Earth (Sundance '11) were elated when it was announced that Cahill and Brit...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicholas McCarthy’s Home
Sundance starting breeding this horror-meister way back in 2005 when they invited Nicholas McCarthy to feature his short film Cry for Help. They invited...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kat Candler’s Hellion
I don't think Drake Doremus will be at Sundance this year. Here's hoping that Kat Candler makes a "repeat" into a three-peat. Director of...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Louie Psihoyos’ The Heist
We're not sure if Redford's character in All is Lost spent much time visiting the ocean floors, but he might have noticed that some...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amir Bar-Lev’s Happy Valley
Not to be confused with the Pacino feature project of the same name and subject, Amir Bar-Lev who made a name for himself with Sundance...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas
While Baumbach and Payne got conformable shooting in B&W (see Frances Ha, Nebraska), Joe Swanberg convinced swag-collecting thesps Anna Kendrick to reteam with him...
