Tag: Kristen Stewart
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard
Last year, the Un Certain Regard section had several gems. Caméra d'Or jury prized Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel's Armand and the UCR jury of Xavier...
2024 Sundance: Jesse Eisenberg, Sean Wang, Laura Chinn, India Donaldson & Zucheros in U.S. Dramatic Comp
The big surprise for the U.S. Dramatic Competition this year is they shaved off two titles making a dozen into a ten piece. We...
2024 Sundance: Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” & Rose Glass’ “Love Lies Bleeding” Among Midnight Selections
The Midnight section offering eight items and floating to the top on pretty much everyone's list we find some highly anticipated sophomore features in...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Angarano’s Sacramento
Avenues (2017) filmmaker Michael Angarano is obviously best known for an actor career that has spanned two-plus decades (and most recently seen in Oppenheimer)...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding
The world of bodybuilding could be showcased and explored for a second year in a row in Park City --- after Magazine Dreams (which...
Crimes of the Future | Review
Origin of the Neo-Species: Cronenberg Crafts a Discourse on Human Evolution
Whatever the evolution happening in the world of David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #15. David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
Crimes of the Future
Produced by Robert Lantos
Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by David Cronenberg
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, Don...
Spencer | Review
In the Name of the Rose: Larrain Crafts Empathetic Portrait of an Icon in Anguish
The eternal impact of Diana, Princess of Wales, whose...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #5. Pablo Larraín’s Spencer
Spencer
Produced by Juan de Dios, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Paul Webster
Directed by Pablo Larraín
Written by Steven Knight
Starring: Kristen Stewart
Release Date/Prediction: Production begins in early...
Happiest Season [Video Review]
Harper’s Bizarre: DuVall Reinvents the Queerness of Holiday Traditions
Across a wide variety of genres and narratives, going home for the holidays, and the intended...
Underwater | Review
A Time to Drill: Eubank Delves into Derivative with Studio Sci-Fi
As above, so below seems to be the theme of William Eubank’s third feature,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #24. Benedict Andrews’ Against All Enemies
Against All Enemies
Another highly anticipated sophomore feature in our countdown, Benedict Andrews expands the size of canvas moving from the duet in Una to...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #4. Benedict Andrews – Against All Enemies
After making his debut entrance with Una (read our review), Australian theatre and filmmaker Benedict Andrews didn't waste much time moving directly into his sophomore gig with the...
Lizzie | Review
Walk Away Genet: Macneill Revisits the Lurid Case of Lizzie Borden in Fascinating, Empowering Psychological Portrait
For true crime aficionados, there is perhaps no figure...
Video: Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
The '18 edition of Sundance stood as a breakout year in terms of women taking ownership of material. We could cite several projects where...
2018 Cannes Jury Duty: DuVernay, Villeneuve, Zvyagintsev & Kristen Stewart to Hand out Palme d’Or
Jury President Cate Blanchett will be surrounded by fellow thesps Chang Chen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, noteworthy filmmakers Ava DuVernay, Robert Guédiguian, Denis Villeneuve,...
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...
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...
Criterion Collection: Personal Shopper | Blu-ray Review
One of French auteur Olivier Assayas’ most divisive films to date (it drew jeers at its premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, but...
Criterion Collection: Certain Women | Blu-ray Review
Kelly Reichardt scored her most triumphant success to date with sixth feature film, Certain Women, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and...
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk | Blu-ray Review
Whether due to its title, subject matter, pronounced formatting, or lackluster marketing campaign, Ang Lee’s latest, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk failed to inspire...
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk | Review
Walk the Line: Lee’s Technological Prowess Yearns for More Than Earnest Wartime Narrative Can Deliver
For his first venture since 2012 Oscar winner Life of...
Certain Women | Review
All I Desire: Reichardt’s Exceptional Triptych of Tenacious Women
Though she’s already touted as one of the most talented American contemporary directors, Kelly Reichardt accomplishes...
Equals | Blu-ray Review
Conceptualizing the future in tangible terms tends to limit the supposed endless possibility of parameters, and this is most certainly evident in a growing...
Café Society | Review
The Beautiful and the Consigned: Allen’s Latest Instance of Compromised Love
Like all of Woody Allen’s features over the decades, his latest examination of humans...
Equals | Review
Sweet Emotion: Doremus Does Dystopia on Enjoyable, Recognizable Canvas
Emotions cannot be controlled, but they also cannot be allowed to control you. At least, that...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Olivier Assayas Scares & Boos with “Personal Shopper”
From one star rating to Irma Vep and Summer Hours five star perfection and everything in between, Olivier Assayas' latest will not have gone...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #4. Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper
Personal Shopper
Director: Olivier Assayas
Writer: Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas returns with another English language Euro drama starring Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper. Their last collaboration was the...
Anesthesia | Review
Causality and Kindness: Nelson’s Latest Look at All the Lonely People
The multifaceted Tim Blake Nelson unveils his latest directorial effort in nearly seven years...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kelly Reichardt’s Livingston
The reigning queen of American independent cinema has a rich history with Sundance --- she premiered her debut film 1994's River of Grass (which...
American Ultra | Review
The Long Spliff Goodnight: Nourizadeh’s Stoner Action Flick Mixes Kooky with Convention
Comprised of a tangle of similar narrative threads spliced together from a variety...
Fiscal Accuracy: SPWA to Rep Kelly Reichardt’s Untitled 7th Feature Film
Landing world sales right in the month of April not only facilitates future Cannes Film Festival deals, but if you're Tom Bernard and Michael...
Video Interview: Olivier Assayas – Clouds of Sils Maria
Though director Olivier Assayas' latest project, Idol's Eye, looks to have been shelved due to funding issues, his film Clouds of Sils Maria is...
Still Alice | Review
Red Queen’s Lost Her Head: Westmoreland & Glatzer’s Poetic Elegy of Familial Tragedy
It’s been a busy year for Julianne Moore, in between tent pole...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tim Blake Nelson’s Anesthesia
While TIFF has become film premiere terrain for his last director outings (the horribly timed post 9/11 released The Grey Zone and 2009's Leaves...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #6. Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria
Clouds of Sils Maria
Director: Olivier Assayas
Writer: Olivier Assayas
Producers: Karl Baumgartner, Charles Gillibert, Thanassis Karathanos, Jean-Louis Porchet, Gérard Ruey
U.S. Distributor: IFC Films
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Kristen...
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...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 8: Five Quotes from the On the Road Press Conference
1. "I got to live more in those four weeks than typical, for me in my normal life" - Kristen Stewart
The film began shooting...
