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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amir Bar-Lev’s Happy Valley
Not to be confused with the Pacino feature project of the same name and subject, Amir Bar-Lev who made a name for himself with Sundance...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas
While Baumbach and Payne got conformable shooting in B&W (see Frances Ha, Nebraska), Joe Swanberg convinced swag-collecting thesps Anna Kendrick to reteam with him...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Wingard’s The Guest
Sundance's Trevor Groth has a special place in his cinephile heart for Adam Wingard's filmic output - allowing the filmmaker to present the V/H/S...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Margaret Brown’s The Great Invisible
We jumped the gun with our predictions list in 2012 including The Great Invisible among our hopefuls - but forgive the pun, we hope...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kyle Wilamowski’s Grass Stains
He has a etched his name on a couple of Sundance entries as a musical adviser on Snow Angels and as a key production...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Angus MacLachlan’s Goodbye to All That
Technically part of the extended Sundance family when Junebug landed there in 2005, scribe Angus MacLachlan moved from screenwriting to full fledged filmmaker in...
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...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cutter Hodierne’s Fishing Without Nets
Our snobbish attitudes towards a certain Paul Greengress film principally has to do with us holding out for Cutter Hodierne's Fishing Without Nets. The...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Gibney’s Finding Fela!
Pop quiz. When was the last time that Alex Gibney did not bring a film to the annual snowflake friendly fest? Even in years...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Eduardo Sanchez’s Exists
It claimed its cult-like status before it was released in theaters, and was the talk of the fest much like Reservoir Dogs and Clerks...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amy Berg’s Every Secret Thing
Once programming announcements were complete for TIFF, my thinking was that all arrows pointed to Sundance programmers gobbling up Amy Berg's new direction in...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Webber’s The Ever After
Not that it is shrouded in mystery, but Mark Webber has a distinct way of working that might be regarded Cassavetes-like for his realism...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tristan Patterson’s Electric Slide
With heavy critical praise (we were huge fans of the film here on the site) his award-winning debut Dragonslayer (Grand Jury Prize Winner for...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Katy Chevigny & Ross Kauffman’s E-Team
Two documentary heads are better than one. Katy Chevigny & Ross Kauffman already have a track record with the fest, Chevigny co-directed Deadline (Sundance...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sydney Freeland’s Drunktown’s Finest (First Look!)
There's been a whole bunch of recent buzz happening on Sydney Freeland's directorial debut, a dramatic number that wraps the coming-of-age, teenage rebellion, queer...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Pamela Yates’ Disruption
Just about everything that she has produced from her magic documentary wand has found a home at the prestigious festival. Dating back to 1983's...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Travis Gutiérrez Senger’s Desert Cathedral (First Look!)
Compared with other first time filmmaker peers, Travis Gutiérrez Senger's feature debut appears to have benefited from an abundance of post prod time, when admittedly,...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott’s Cooties
Things are certainly on an upward upswing for the horror comedy with the nifty title - it just landed a multiple-territory distribution deal for...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jaffe Zinne’s Children
He first broke out on the indie film scene with 2011's Magic Valley -- the Tribeca, Rome, Stockholm, Poland's American Film Festival and Dubai...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Diego Luna’s Cesar Chavez: An American Hero
I originally included this in last year's predictions' list, but the team took their time in the post-production phase which might, in the end,...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Atom Egoyan’s The Captive
Perhaps not as sturdy or as developed as it is with Cannes or TIFF, Atom Egoyan's relationship with Sundance remains a good one when...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kimberly Levin’s Cantuckee
Before it was known as Cantuckee, Kimberly Levin's Land of Tomorrow successfully found some coin via Kickstarter and then had stints at the IFP...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dito Montiel’s Boulevard (First Look!)
We tend to look for patterns, trends and whatnot with our annual predictions. In Dito Montiel's case, it would appear that he shows up...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s Black Dog, Red Dog
Not unlike Joseph Gordon-Levitt's rapport with the festival, Sundance has become a place where James Franco/RabbitBandini Productions gets to both test-drive and showcase his...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s Bukowski
Right after he wrapped up his '13 Sundance experience, Franco, the movie industry's poetry geek, hit the brinks and commenced lensing in Los Angeles...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: A.J. Edwards’ The Better Angels
Here's what we know on A.J. Edwards. He's worked in the editor capacity on The New World and To the Wonder and was an...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Scott Sanders’ Aztec Warrior
He had the first auds roaring in the aisles with his seam-splitting debut. The Park City at Midnight launch of Black Dynamite catapulted Scott...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael R. Roskam’s Animal Rescue
Fox Searchlight have used the annual Utah set fest as both an acquisitions point and launching pad. Just last year they had the pair...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Phil Alden Robinson’s The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
It wouldn't be the first time a veteran helmer with a Hollywoodized filmography cracked the line-up and seeing that he directed mainstream titles such...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s An African Spring
Last year we had a docu about the aftermath/current state of the Arab Spring (Jehane Noujaim's The Square), so keeping with the same subject...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Claudia Llhosa’s Aloft
Madeinusa, her debut film, was a 2006 Sundance selected pic, while her sophomore drama The Milk of Sorrow was a winner in Berlin, we...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kirsten Johnson’s A Blind Eye
As a cinematographer, Kirsten Johnson has been a staple of the festival with the likes of Darfur Now, The Oath and more recently, The...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions List: An Intro
Kids. Such as Sex, Lies, and Videotape or Reservoir Dogs before it, and such as Winter's Bone, Blue Valentine and Fruitvale Station after it, Larry...
Charlie Countryman | Review
Country Bumpkin: Bond’s Debut a Grating Escapade of Disingenuous Cliché
Swedish born Fredrik Bond, who’d made a notable name for himself as a successful director...
The Last Days on Mars | Review
Mars Attacks: Robinson’s Promising Debut an Arid Mirage
Early on in Ruairi Robinson’s directorial debut, The Last Days on Mars, a generic yet eerily promising...
The Great Beauty | Review
La Dolce Vita: Sorrentino Visits Rome & Fellini in Opus-like Stroke
In Paolo Sorrentino's lavishly received Italian crime potboiler Il Divo, the stage is set...
Sunlight Jr. | Review
Bleak House: Collyer Returns to the Slipping Down Life
After her fantastic 2006 directorial debut, Sherrybaby, director Laurie Collyer returns with a sophomore feature, Sunlight...
Paris Countdown | Review
City of Neon Lights: Marie’s Debut a Soundtrack Assisted Cliché
How the title Paris Countdown was decided upon to stand as the English language translation...
Barbara | Blu-ray Review
German director Christian Petzold's long running collaborative relationship with his starring actress Nina Hoss has been fruitful to say the least. A '12 Berlin...
How I Live Now | Review
There's No Place Like Home; Macdonald Pulled By Too Many Strings
This polished as his docu-work, Kevin Macdonald's fourth fiction feature is a little bit...
Best Man Down | Review
The Man Who Wasn’t There: Koland’s Debut Lost In Its Own Drift
Poor Minnesota, it sure gets a bum rap when it comes to the...
2013 Independent Film Forum: Keynote Speaker Ava DuVernay
For its 9th annual schedule of events, the 2013 Film Independent Forum, a nonprofit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards as...
Tabu | DVD Review
Toying with narrative form seems to be director Miguel Gomes's forte. Our Beloved Month Of August turned the documentation of a musically inclined rural...
Devil’s Knot | Review
Where the Truth Weakly Lies; West Memphis Less Effective in Non-Docu Treatment
Atom Egoyan has carved a career out of films focused on misunderstood and...
In the Pipeline: Lance Edmands
If you live there, you know Maine is much more than just lobsters and lighthouses. Filmmaker, Lance Edmands, is going to introduce the rest of us to the local side of his home state in his feature film debut, Bluebird. Set in a small Maine town, it’s about a school bus driver who accidentally locks a young boy in a school bus on a cold winter night. The boy is taken to the hospital the next day. The story follows the aftermath of this tragedy and how it affects and changes the families involved.
