Tag: American Indie Film
Nomadland | Review
Ballad of a Rolling Stone: Zhao Basks in the Beatitude of America’s Heartland
Director Chloé Zhao follows up her critically acclaimed 2018 sophomore feature The...
Land | Review
Sentimental Divide: Wright Weds Wilderness in Compassionate Debut on Grief
“Things do not change; we change,” is one of many eloquent statements from Thoreau’s eternal...
French Exit | Review
You’ll Like My Mother: Jacobs Finds Pfeiffer in Eccentric Dangerous Liaison
Director Azazel Jacobs presents his most lavish offering to date with fourth feature French...
R#J | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
A Plague on Both Your Collab Houses: Carey Williams’ No Fear Shakespeare
Carey Williams’ R#J is a sleek, inspired, refreshingly cheesy Gen-Z spin on Romeo...
Bliss [Video Review]
Come On, Get Happy: Cahill Finds Love in a Phoney Place with Simulation Sci-Fi
Director Mike Cahill has depended upon a higher degree of suspension...
Malcolm & Marie | Review
Charge of the Gaslight Brigade: Levinson Gilds the Surface of Solipsism in Schizophrenic Drama
There’s really nothing black and white about the revolving histrionics between...
Prisoners of the Ghostland | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
Alas, Poor Yorick: Sono’s English Language Debut a Fallow, Gonzo Spectacle
What happens when a cult actor meets a cult filmmaker? Well, sometimes they just...
Pieces of a Woman | Review
Brink of Life: Mundruczó Hunts for the Grace in Grief with English Language Debut
One of Hungary’s most prolific arthouse auteurs of the last decade...
Sylvie’s Love [Video Review]
Sylvie & Gold: Ashe Formats an Affair to Remember in Warm Retro Melodrama
Utilizing the once familiar template of the studio staples referred to as...
One Night in Miami | Review
One Night Only: King Bespeaks Intention in Compelling, Recuperative Debut
A night-time commiseration between Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown is the...
Promising Young Woman [Video Review]
If There Be Scorn: Fennell’s Debut a Stellar Portrait of Rape Trauma’s Rippling Effects
Heretofore, the rape revenge thriller has been something of a problematic...
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom [Video Review]
It’s Rainey’s Men: Wolfe Wows with Ardent Adaptation of Eloquent Wilson Play
August Wilson, arguably the most notable and influential Black playwright lionized for his...
Wander Darkly [Video Review]
Collision Visions: Miele Taps Miller for Fractured Memory Exercise
For her fourth feature, director Tara Miele draws upon a traumatic event from her own past...
Black Bear [Video Review]
Husband and Wives and Bears, Oh My!: Levine’s Dark Dream an Ambiguous, Playful Psychodrama
The crux of our innate creative necessities might require something beyond...
Let Them All Talk [Video Review]
I Heard the Owl Call My Name: Soderbergh Navigates a Tricky Reunion in Bittersweet Drama
Truman Capote once said, among many things, “All literature is...
I’m Your Woman | Review
Valley of the Molls: Hart and Her Lonely Hunters Find Solace in Unorthodox Crime Drama
Director Julia Hart presents her second feature of 2020 with...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bryan Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me
Persistence pays off. Bryan Wizemann has been painstakingly hacking away at indie film since 1998's Sense following that with 2005's Losing Ground, 2011's About...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come
She premiered her feature debut The Sleepwalker at Sundance back in 2014, and has been busy as a co-scribe working on all three of...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s Wild Indian
His short film Shinaab was featured at the 2017 edition of Sundance (he also received some TLC from TIFF not once, but twice) and...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josh Ruben’s Werewolfs Within
Could filmmaker slash actor Josh Ruben become part of a rare and select club of filmmakers who make it in back to back years...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastian Pardo & Riel Roch-Decter’s Untitled A.I & Art Project
After a decade of backing projects such as Ma, Rat Film, Fraud, Automatic at Sea and more recently Crestone, producers Sebastian Pardo and Riel...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Owen Kline’s Two Against Nature
We'll call Two Against Nature the Bermuda Triangle of all our Sundance guesses. An indie comedy that was backed by a talented bunch and...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jared Frieder’s Three Months
A micro indie project flying low on the radar actually had a tremendous upswing from the get-go when Jared Frieder saw his screenplay land...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman’s Things Heard and Seen
Another Netflix project on our list sorta filmed under the radar back in November of 2019. Back in their heyday, Robert Pulcini & Shari...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Brice’s There’s Someone Inside Your House
We're beginning to think that filmmaker Patrick Brice is such a fixture in Park City that he deserves a back alley named in his...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Erin Vassilopoulos’ Superior
Recently featured as a work in progress at the US in Progress during the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, NYC based Erin Vassilopoulos'...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Theodore Melfi’s The Starling
Production on Theodore Melfi's fourth feature film begin in August of 2019 and he appears to be moving towards more dramatic terrain this time...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carson Mell’s Some Of Our Stallions
Carson Mell was a legit Sundance discovery and perhaps we can call him an actual triple threat as he premiered his first three shorts...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Simon Barrett’s Seance
A writer on horror items such as Horrible Way to Die (201), You're Next (2011), three segments in the V/H/S projects and another Adam...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Charlie Stratton’s Seacole
With some television work and one feature under his belt In Secret (TIFF '13), Charlie Stratton began lensing Seacole back in March of 2019...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lila Neugebauer’s Red, White, And Water
The levee might break in 2021 with A24's glut of film product waiting for a world premiere release and this directorial debut might lead...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Sarnoski’s Pig
In early 2020, Neon purchased the rights to Gunda (the docu film) and Pig which had completed production in late December of 2019. Shot...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jerrod Carmichael’s On the Count of Three
After directing some television items in 2018-19, comedian, actor and obvious star of the The Carmichael Show, Jerrod Carmichael officially decided to move into...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chase Palmer’s Naked Singularity
We were anticipating a showing of Naked Singularity at last year's edition of Sundance and of course it didn't land anywhere else this year...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sia’s Music
A project that took its sweet time to arrive will finally be unveiled next February and could technically nab a Sundance slot as a...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amy Poehler’s Moxie
Moving into the direction of filmmaking with a trio of directed episodes for Parks and Recreation, 2016's TV Movie Dumb Prince, and her first...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon
A Sundance Film Festival darling back in 2014 for the Iranian vampire spaghetti western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (read review), she would...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Karen Cinorre’s Mayday
Getting to go creatively madcap with art/set decor on the Isabella Rossellini starring Green Porno series, New Yorker Karen Cinorre made the jump to...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell
A stop-motion animated short film that took on a life of its own and snowballed into all sorts of creative items after Marcel the...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ian Samuels’ The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
Rising starlet Kathryn Newton (who we just saw in Freaky - read review) toplines this sophomore feature -- an Amazon Studios backed fantasy project...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Levinson’s Malcolm & Marie
With the switch in Academy Award dates for 2021, many were suggesting that February was the "new" December and that a fest like Sundance...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Will Sharpe’s Louis Wain
A relatively new talent both in front and behind the camera, Will Sharpe starred in Netflix drama Giri/Haji, directed quirky British comedy Flowers, is...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Clara Roquet’s Libertad
We advanced the idea same time last year mentioning that this directorial debut checks off a lot of boxes in terms of the type...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Edoardo Vitaletti’s The Last Thing Mary Saw
A directorial debut from a talent who is a complete unknown to us, New York based Italian filmmaker Edoardo Vitaletti enlisted the likes of...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Augustine Frizzell’s The Last Letter From Your Lover
Filmmaker/actress Augustine Frizzell's sophomore feature could have perhaps preemed in 2020, but it looks like 2021 was perhaps a better bet. A Netflix project...
Echo Boomers | Review
Millennium Albatross: Savoy Skirts Surfaces in Glossy Essay on Ills of Capitalism
If you’re looking for an honest portrayal of the widely accepted generational rift...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robin Wright’s Land
After getting the directing bug on the House of Cards for just under a dozen episodes, Robin Wright moved into the director's chair for...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marco Perego Saldana’s Keyhole Garden
If we had to look at all the line-ups of the fest for the past two decades we'd find at least one "border" drama...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was a Simple Man
His debut feature August at Akiko’s premiered at the 2018 Intl. Rotterdam Film Festival and he quickly followed this up by with his sophomore...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Leon’s Italian Studies
When 2021 kicks off, Vanessa Kirby will be in Poland working on Brady Corbet's The Brutalist while in the streaming world (and whatever arthouses...
