Tag: Christopher Abbott
Bring Them Down | Review
Everybody Hurts: All Pain and No Gain in Christopher Andrews’ Debut Bring Them Down
If misery loves company, then Bring Them Down is a party....
Kraven the Hunter | Review
Snack Attack: Kraven The Hunter Is More Empty Calorie Superhero Slop
The existential fear among creatives is that one day, artificial intelligence will become so...
Swimming Home | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Marriage Story: Justin Anderson Serves Up An Enigmatic Challenge Is His Feature Debut
A marriage in crisis cooks under the summer sun in filmmaker Justin...
Poor Things | Review
The Story of O: Lanthimos Mesmerizes with Fiercely Compelling Frankenstein Tale
“Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Our most anticipated feature debut films for this year is indeed ready but it'll be dropping in 2024 instead. Perhaps a fest that is...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down
When a pair of exceptionally talented actors initially commit to a project and then part ways, not due to a lack of interest in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #52. Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Swimming Home
In a surprising field of many first-time works on our list, this year's most anticipated directorial debut goes to commercials director Justin Anderson...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #8. Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things
Poor Things
Produced by Yorgos Lanthimos, Element Pictures' Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe.
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by Tony McNamara
Starring: Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley, Willem Dafoe, Mark...
The World to Come | Review
Pitch Rider to Perdition: Fastvold Fans Flames of Forbidden Desire in Masterful Period Drama
Few and far between are cinematic narratives which attempt to, much...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #46. John Michael McDonagh’s The Forgiven
The Forgiven
Produced by Elizabeth Eves, Nick Gordon, Trevor Matthews, John Michael McDonagh
Directed by John Michael McDonagh
Written by John Michael McDonagh
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Ralph Fiennes,...
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...
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...
Possessor Uncut | Review
The Mind Benders: Cronenberg Returns with Eerie Exercise of Mind/Body Horror
Eight years after his 2012 debut Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg returns with Possessor Uncut, an...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #47. Possessor – Brandon Cronenberg
Possessor
Eight years after his 2012 debut Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg returns with Possessor, a sci-fi thriller with a stellar cast, featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh (who...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Omniboat, Lawrence Michael Levine, Heidi Ewing & Danny Madden in the NEXT Section
The Death of Dick Long, Give Me Liberty, Selah and the Spades and Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour (which is receiving its theatrical...
Video: Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Nicolas Pesce's highly anticipated sophomore film is what several will call a film lover's delight. While his debut film (The Eyes of My Mother)...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #54. Possessor – Brandon Cronenberg
Possessor
Seven years after his 2012 debut Antiviral, Canadian director Brandon Cronenberg returns again to the body horror theme established early on by his father...
Interview: Sebastián Silva – TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Over the past nine years, writer/director Sebastián Silva has completed his checklist, by premiering a film in all five categories of the Sundance narrative feature...
Interview: Christopher Abbott | Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Christopher Abbott is an actor known for his roles as Charlie Cattalo in Girls and as the titular character in the critically-acclaimed James White...
Interview: Jason Mitchell – Sebastián Silva’s TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Jason Mitchell first caught the mainstream eye in 2015 for his critically-acclaimed performance as an ill-fated rapper Eazy-E in the NWA biopic Straight Outta...
Interviews: Phillip Ettinger & Max Born + World Preem of Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Along with actors Christopher Abbott (watch the interview) and Jason Mitchell (watch that interview), just prior to the world premiere at the Library Center...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #4. Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Tyrel
You can wager on the cinema offerings of the Brooklyn based, Santiago born Sebastián Silva to be bold, the comedy to be subversive, and rather...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #25. Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing
Piercing
Borrowing from Takashi Miike’s Audition (seminal J Horror film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore film and...
Sundance ’18: Levinson, Cosmatos, Pesce & RKSS Bring Screams & Blood Curdling to the Midnight
Remarkably, this year's Midnight section has this in common: Sam Levinson, Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Pesce (see pic above) and the team of Francois Simard,...
Sundance ’18: Morano, Silva, Akhavan & Boots Riley Among U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel
What does one do when a project falls apart days before shooting? If you're Terry Gilliam you throw your hands up in the air,...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing
We're honestly a little surprised that Nicolas Pesce's highly anticipated sophomore film didn't drop in 2017 as filming took place earlier in the year. As...
It Comes at Night | Review
Night of Your Life: Shults Plumbs Fear and Fear Itself in Arch Sophomore Effort
As a pure exercise in the powers of suggestion, It Comes...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes at Night
While luck and talent go hand in hand, you might want to ask Trey Edward Shults to pick out lottery numbers for all the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carlos Puga’s Full-Dress
Having creatively immersed himself as a docu producer and direct on a handful of MTV's True Life Series,
Carlos Puga first broke into Sundance with his...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | Review
Where They From: Ficarra & Requa and the Privileged Perspective
Cinematic depictions of the ongoing conflict(s) in the Middle East continue to be a touchy...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Wayne Roberts’ Katie Says Goodbye
Take two thesps from the previous Sundance film festival who both broke out big and then pair them up for your directorial debut. This...
Criminal Activities | Review
Subliminal Criminal: Haley’s Debut Feloniously Familiar
There’s a certain amount of smarmy appeal to justify Jackie Earle Haley’s attraction to taking on Criminal Activities, the...
Video Interview: Christopher Abbott, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi & Makenzie Leigh (James White)
If you visit Borderline Films' mini catalog of short and feature films you'll notice that they have a genuine knack for discovering and unearthing...
“Diary of a Teenage Girl” & “Carol” Lead 2015 Gotham Award Noms
Nabbing Best Actress, Screenplay, Breakthrough Director and Feature noms, Marielle Heller's Diary of a Teenage Girl leads all Gotham Award nominations with four, while...
Rage Against the Machine: The Film Arcade Hold “James White” Tight
Making their third Sundance deal (following Kris Swanberg's Unexpected and Jim Strouse's People, Places, Things) the Film Arcade folks have landed one of the top directorial...
Olivia Cooke is Turning Tricks in Wayne Roberts’ “Katie Says Goodbye”
She's among the fresh faced talents that will have spilled over into the mainstream/indiestream after an attention grabbing perf at Sundance '15 with Me and...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #34. Christopher Abbott (James White)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Christopher Abbott: 1). Richard Hawley's records Cole's Corner and Truelove's Gutter. 2). Marc Maron's WTF...
A Most Violent Year | Review
Year of Living Stressfully: Chandor Returns with Slow-Boil Scald
Baby, it may be cold outside, but the climate’s sure changing in J.C. Chandor’s flashback to...
Interview: Christopher Abbott & Gitte Witt (The Sleepwalker)
In The Sleepwalker (Sundance Selects / limited release 11.21), filmmaker Mona Fastvold sequesters her quartet of players in mostly volatile sibling, lover and fighter pairings. Architecturally speaking,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #99. Josh Mond’s James White
James White
Director: Josh Mond
Writer: Josh Mond
Producers: Borderline Films' Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin and Josh Mond
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Christopher Abbott, David Call, Cynthia Nixon,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #112. J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year
A Most Violent Year
Director: J.C. Chandor
Writer: J.C. Chandor
Producers: Before The Doors’ Neal Dodson, Washington Square Films’ Anna Gerb, J.C. Chandor
U.S. Distributor: A24
Cast: Jessica Chastain,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #128. Mona Fastvold’s The Sleepwalker
The Sleepwalker
Director: Mona Fastvold
Writers: Mona Fastvold, Brady Corbet
Producers: 4 1⁄2′s Karin Julsrud and Turid Øversveen, Tandem Pictures’ Julie Christeas and Schuyler Weiss
U.S. Distributor: Rights...
Best of Fest: Sundance 2014′s Top 10 New Faces
They range in age, amount of screen time, supporting or principle characters, and have previous (television work, stage and or bit parts in Hollywood/Indiewood...
Borderline Adds “White” to the Album; Josh Mond Reteams with Christopher Abbott for Feature Debut
After steering Borderline Films partners Sean Durkin and Antonio Campos' short and feature film projects to critical success, it's now Josh Mond's turn to...
Sundance 2014: Cutter Hodierne, Damien Chazelle, Kat Candler & Mona Fastvold Among Lucky 16 U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
As I had predicted here, names such as Cutter Hodierne, Kat Candler, Maya Forbes, Mona Fastvold and Damien Chazelle would be among the invited...
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...
