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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gareth Evans’ The Raid 2
It’s a major vote of confidence when a festival, such as Sundance, happens to be filled almost exclusively by world premieres and then allows for a film to crack the line-up five months after...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jon Stewart’s Rosewater
He took a noticeable leave of absence from the Daily Show back in July to shoot a project close to his heart. With an A-team comprised of Shohreh Aghdashloo, Gael García Bernal and the presence of DS...
View Article2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz...
Match an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker with her cousin, an established cinematographer on You’re Next (’11) and Sundance preemed titles of V/H/S, short film Black Metal (’12) and last year’s A Teacher...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: William H. Macy’s Rudderless
If there is a “predictions thematic” playing out here it’s the number of films with actors who move behind the camera. Chalk up Park City regular William H. Macy (last visited the festival with The...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Debbie Tucker Green’s Second Coming
Known for exploring psychological terrain with a tactful and poetic profundity, she broke out on filmic terms with the ’09 short Heat, British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama winner...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Johnson’s The Skeleton Twins
Live. From New York. It’s…Craig Johnson. Another product from the Duplass factory, after breaking out with the micro-budgeted SXSW preemed True Adolescents, Johnson remains in similar dramedy...
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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 smart rom coms (Happy, Happy) to original monster flicks...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer
We predicted Snowpiercer would break into Cannes of 2013. That didn’t happen. We began to think about Toronto….and nope. Normally we would never associate Park City with a film that had a production...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jerome Sable’s Stage Fright
We first discovered Jerome Sable when he broke ground with the Sundance accepted short, 2010′s The Legend of Beaver Dam. When there was no mention of Stage Fright for September’s Toronto Int. Film...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yance Ford’s Strong Island
As we come close to concluding our list of Sundance predictions for ’14, it’s worth pointing out just how indispensable the backing of organizations such as the Sundance Institute, Cinereach, IDFA...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ewan McNicol & Anna Sandilands’...
Currently in post with their feature debut, Anna Sandilands and Ewan McNicol have actually breathed the crisp, fresh air of Park City before, with their rodeo-themed short, The Roper (which I...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker’s...
If they grace the festival with their presence, it would be like having the Beatles show up (Frederick Wiseman is our Elvis). Legendary docu-team Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker haven’t presented a...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Chris Messina Drama
It’s with his previous acting gig on the microscopic, Sundance preemed 28 Rooms (produced by Lynette Howell – Jamie Patricof’s business partner at their current prod. house) that certainly allowed for...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Noah Baumbach’s Public...
His only ever appearance at the festival was with 2005′s The Squid and the Whale. Be a nice, unexpected “surprise” if Noah Baumbach returns with a project, which has been very tight-lipped to say the...
View Article2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Laura Poitras’ Untitled Surveillance...
Traction and the kernel of the idea on this third, and final installment technically began when the filmmaker herself became a “subject” to domestic airport interrogations following the release of the...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Jackson’s War Story
His brilliant feature debut Without, broke out in Park City….but at the neighboring, competing fest. From Slamdance onwards (BFI London, Deauville, Chicago, Locarno Film Fests) with indie cred...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard
The Living End (1992). Totally F***ed Up (1993). The Doom Generation (1995). Nowhere (1997). Splendor (1999). Mysterious Skin (2005). Smiley Face (2007). Kaboom (2011). VIP jacket wearing Gregg Araki...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adam Rapp’s Why Now?!
Don’t let the lack of theatrical output foul you. Adam Rapp is a man of many hats, alternating between novelist, playwright, television, guitarist, actor (Ryan Piers Williams’ X/Y) and the filmmaker of...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash
If Whiplash breaks into the line-up, I believe we’re in for a treat. It’ll have meant that Damien Chazelle, who broke out with 2009′s Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, won’t have slept much since he...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lawrence Michael Levine’s Wild Canaries
He managed to put together the Indie actress all-star team of Sophia Takal, Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil and Lena Dunham (forgive the pun) all under one “roof” for Gabi on the Roof in July back in 2010,...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zac Braff’s Wish I Was Here
He received unnecessary flack for his Kickstarter campaign, and while Garden State isn’t my cup of kool-aid, the 2004 dramedy which premiered at Sundance and almost instantaneously gained a cult-like...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Piers Williams’ X/Y
He broke into the Sundance Film Fest U.S. Dramatic Comp back in 2010 with The Dry Land, and not surprisingly, shooting on his sophomore safely began in March of this year. For this time out,...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robinson Devor’s You Can’t Win
A return visitor at the festival for all three of his feature films The Woman Chaser (2000), Police Beat (2005) and Zoo (2007), I’m feeling good about the chances of seeing Robinson Devor make it a...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves
And for the final Sundance Film Festival prediction on the 80-list, I’m selecting a film that might have premiered at both Venice and Toronto, but from my notes, has yet to make an appearance on U.S....
View Article2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: 80 Possible Titles
The elusive “Golden Ticket”. Beginning next Wednesday (December 4th) in a wave of four announcements, is when the official word comes out. Plenty of filmmakers are already in the know, but some will...
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