Tag: Sam Bisbee
Door Dashed: Netflix Puts the Cuffs on Geeta Gandbhir’s ‘The Perfect Neighbor’
It's early. Really early. But Netflix have a future repeat winner in The Perfect Neighbor - the buzz documentary out of this year's Sundance...
2025 Sundance: U.S. & World Documentary Competition
The U.S. Documentary Competition consistently showcases some of the most talked-about documentaries of the year. Year after year, it delivers at least a quartet...
Aisha | Review
No Safe Havens: Letitia Wright’s Breathtaking Refugee Turn
Frank Berry’s Aisha is the superbly moving record of a Nigerian refugee’s quiet fight for dignity in...
2024 Sundance: Michael Dweck, Jeff Zimbalist, Stephen Maing & Brett Story in the U.S. Docu Comp
It'll be highly likely that we'll be talking about these docu films by the end of 2024 - as the cream of the crop...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Frank Berry’s Aisha
Moving from a tragi-docudrama I Used to Live Here (2014) to what appears to be a very raw prison system film in Michael Inside...
The Last Shift | Review
Stuck in Neutral: Cohn Cooks Up Sensitive (and Hilarious) Fast Food Tragedy
Andrew Cohn delivers a heart-wrenching ode to the working class, missed connections and...
Swallow | Review
On Body and Soul: Mirabella-Davis Gets Squeamish with Formidable Debut
As much as it speaks to contemporary understandings of female agency, Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ astute directorial...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...
Swallow | 2019 Tribeca Film Festival Review
Tough to Swallow, in a Good Way: Davis Offers Big Gulp Feminist Thriller
Carlo Mirabella Davis’ debut feature Swallow is a haunting study in gender politics in...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #80. Carlo Mirabella-Davis – Swallow
After a false start of sorts, Carlo Mirabella-Davis will finally be premiering the France-US co-production and his directorial debut Swallow in 2019. His past...
Video: Jim Hosking’s An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
The type of idiosyncratic creative that will likely polarize auds much in the same way Harmony Korine did, Jim Hosking's follow up to The...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jim Hosking’s An Evening with Beverly Luff
Heavy on the gag....reflex, Jim Hosking's feature break out debut (a 2016 Sundance Park City at Midnight selection) was what could categorically be called...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brett Haley’s The Hero
Looks like Woody isn't the only cowboy picking up dust. In terms of Sundance good fortune, Brett Haley's sophomore feature, I’ll See You In My...
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: John Slattery’s God’s Pocket
He traded on-set education on Mad Men and then cornered this project almost a decade earlier when he picked it up as a...
