Tag: 2022 Sundance Film Festival
Interview: Francisca Alegria, Mia Maestro & Leonor Varela – The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
Francisca Alegria’s The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future is unlike any other experience offered by Sundance ’22: a deeply moving onscreen...
When You Finish Saving the World | Review
A Tube with a View: Eisenberg Debuts Gentle Narrative on Misplaced Intentions
‘Familiarity breeds contempt,’ could have been the tagline for Jesse Eisenberg’s lovely, low-key...
Interview: Bafic – Sub Eleven Seconds
Short film filmmakers and athletes trying to beat the clock belong to a species of human beings who might have an invested interest in...
Interview: Adrian Moyse Dullin – The Right Words (Haut les coeurs)
Taking place within the confines of a chaotic city bus, The Right Words (Haut les Coeurs) is about seizing the moment, taking chances and...
Call Jane | Review
It Could Happen To You: Nagy Recuperates the Resiliency of Women in Sophisticated Melodrama
Camille Paglia, with her signature dramatic panache, might be among those...
Speak No Evil | Review
Dial M for Manners: Tafdrup Uses Cruel Intentions to Play Funny Games
Oftentimes the simplest, most realistic scenarios breaking through the veneer of contentment and...
Interview: RJ Cyler – Emergency
Carey Williams’ Emergency—with a script by KD Davila, adapted from Williams’ 2018 Sundance short—won the coveted Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance ’22 …...
Alice | Review
What the Dormouse Said: Linden Squanders a Significant Subject in Earnest, Flat Rendering
“If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won’t save...
Fresh | Review
Meats for the Meat: Cave Goes for Broke in Gross Out Horror Debut
You are what you eat is an adage taken to literal extremes...
After Yang | Review
Before and After Yang: More Human than Humans
Kogonada’s After Yang opens with the most exhilarating dance sequence since Gaspar Noé’s Climax—but don’t be misled....
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Short Films Comps include Carina Gabriela Dașoveanu, Nash Edgerton & Hannah Peterson
With lottery ticket winning odds of having your short film selected, the Sundance Film Festival have unveiled the lucky 59 films selected for their...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Jim Archer, Francisca Alegría & Goran Stolevski Travel to World Cinema Dramatic Comp
Sprinkled a bit everywhere in several section, there were 2110 international films that were submitted and only 10 of those are part of the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Monia Chokri, Mimi Cave, Hanna Bergholm & Christian Tafdrup Scare Up Midnight Section
It'll be a truly international Midnight section for 2022 with the half dozen offerings. We got representation from Spain and Carlota Pereda's PIGGY, Denmark...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Ricky D’Ambrose, Sierra Pettengill & Justin Benson/Aaron Moorhead Load Up NEXT Section
We've been fans of this section since its launch back in 2010 when it used to identified with the ticker symbol of <=>, and...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Phyllis Nagy, Lena Dunham, Jesse Eisenberg, John Patton Ford & Hazanavicius Fill Premieres Section
In the Premieres section you'll usually find a mix of studio unveilings and high profile acquisitions titles and in the almost equal split between...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Riley Stearns, Nikyatu Jusu, Mariama Diallo, Cooper Raiff & Bradley Rust Gray in the U.S. Dramatic Comp Section
In 2022, ten lucky titles/filmmakers will be vying for the big daddy prize of them all in the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Goran Stolevski’s You Won’t Be Alone
Cranking out a ton of short films for over a decade, Australian/Macedonian filmmaker Goran Stolevski saw his 2018 short Would You Look at Her...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jim Archer’s Brian & Charles
After back to back short film projects in about a half a dozen years, Jim Archer hit creative pay dirt with the 2017 short...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Summer Shelton’s You & I
With a decade's worth of producing under her belt (she got her start working on Ramin Bahrani projects beginning with Goodbye Solo) she was...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ti West’s X
A filmmaker more synonymous with the horror genre (he did however try out Western), and a regular on the film festival circuit mostly South...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jesse Eisenberg’s When You Finish Saving the World
Everyone knows the actor, but we might have to think of him differently in the year ahead. Jesse Eisenberg's When You Finish Saving the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: B.J. Novak’s Vengeance
The Blumhouse folks have a good reputation in Park City (Secret Screening world premiere to Get Out comes to mind), perhaps actor B.J. Novak's...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Shih-Ching Tsou Project
Part of Sean Baker's close-knit regular creative collaborators that also include Chris Bergoch and Radium Cheung, Shih-Ching Tsou was a co-director alongside Sean Baker...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Andrew Callaghan Movie
With a dinosaur era camper, garb, video equipment and plenty of charm, the brilliance behind All Gas No Brakes' Andrew Callaghan's gonzo styled of...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Daina O. Pusic’s Tuesday
It says a lot about a project when the extremely fastidious cinematographer (Silent Light, The Florida Project) Alexis Zabé decides to embark on a...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Morris’ To Leslie
A British born television Director who had a stint at the Old Vic theatre in London (1999 to 2002); with a full decade of...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kogonada’s After Yang
Having had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Kogonada's After Yang (starring Haley Lu Richardson,...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jakob Rørvik’s Superposition
We thought this might be ready for last year, but the project was still in post production and aiming for a 2022 drop. From...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
A surprise world premiere selection at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival, we originally predicted that Dean Fleischer-Camp's Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josephine Decker’s The Sky Is Everywhere
Confirming her status as a pillar of the new American indie film scene when 2020's Shirley slayed at it's Park City world preem, Josephine...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Graham Moore’s The Outfit
Overachiever Graham Moore moved from New York Times bestseller novelist to an Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay (The Imitation Game) and this past...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kjersti Helen Rasmussen’s The Nightmare
If Radha Blank can get her game face on breaking out her feature film debut when belonging to the 40-something club, then that late...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Machoian’s The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
Since short film Charlie and the Rabbit (2010), Robert Machoian (and frequent creative partner Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck) has been a mainstay with the annual pilgrimage...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter
An under-the-radar project that saw Joanna Hogg re-team with muse Tilda Swinton, the filmmaker also brought back cinematographer Ed Rutherford (they worked on Archipelago...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Francisca Alegria’s The Cow That Sang A Song About The Future
It's been a long development process for Francisca Alegria's directorial debut. The Chilean filmmaker (Sundance has supported several over the past decade) saw her...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Geoff Marslett’s The Boardinghouse Reach
It always feels like a W in the win column when Geoff Marslett puts a film out there in the world -- life as...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Celyn Jones & Tom Stern’s The Almond And The Sea Horse
We're never too old to learn a new trick. Long-time collaborator to Clint Eastwood, cinematographer Tom Stern made his directorial debut in March of...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Eve Duchemin’s Temps mort
This prediction may appear to come out of left field, but the film's producer Annabella Nezri had a solid premiere with Jumbo a couple...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carter Smith’s Swallowed
It's hard to believe that filmmaker Carter Smith is only three feature films into his filmography and hasn't made a feature film in almost...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Mandler’s Surrounded
With an already amazing track record as a music video helmer / television commercial director Anthony Mandler saw his debut feature film Monster break...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Ponsoldt’s Summering
With the exception of 2017's The Circle (which received a Tribeca Film Festival premiere), James Ponsoldt had his four previous films Off the Black...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Spin Me Round
It was pasta, wine, and a the Leaning Tower of Pisa type backdrop for the cast of goofballs assembled for Jeff Baena's five feature...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Beth de Araújo’s Soft & Quiet
Only a couple of months shy from going into production with Josephine, a project that is financed, backed by a notable producer (RT Features),...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s Silent Twins
Just two feature films in (2015's The Lure and 2018's Fugue), Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczyńska has built a rabid fan base - us included....
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lena Dunham’s Sharp Stick
Lena Dunham is sure making up for her lack of feature film output with not one, but two films in post production. She has...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tom George’s See How They Run
Depending how Searchlight plays its hand for the 2022 slate, we could easily see See How They Run set up for Sundance or play...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michał Chmielewski’s Roving Woman
An unknown, filmmaker with much experience breaks into out predictions list because of the curious bio subject, the players and a producer in Marta...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Thompson’s Rounding
After receiving tons of accolades for his feature debut film Saint Frances, filmmaker Alex Thompson began the year shooting an under-the-radar sophomore feature in...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ant Hines & Casper Christensen’s Robots
A project that might be too close to the wire to be a part of the Sundance line-up, but with two heads are better...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lila Neugebauer’s Red, White and Water
Among the top dozen titles we're surprised that didn't drop in 2021 is Lila Neugebauer's Red, White and Water. Sure it's a debut feature...
