Each year, the Sundance Film Festival rolls out an enviable lineup of jury members — billed as “experts in film, art, culture and science” — to dole out awards to the feature-length works shown at the festival. In total, 28 prizes (and sometimes more!) will be announced at a ceremony on January 28 (as ever, Short Film Awards will be announced at a separate ceremony on January 24). The festival has now announced this year’s various jury members, including actors, filmmakers, producers, writers and other luminaries (and, yes, plenty of Sundance alums pop up amongst their ranks).
Additionally, the festival has also announced that actress, comedian, correspondent and podcast host Jessica Williams will host the annual awards. Jones seems poised to have a very busy Sundance indeed, as she also toplines James Strouse’s premiere “The Incredible Jessica James,” which will close out the festival the night before.
The awards, which recognize standout artistic and story elements,...
Additionally, the festival has also announced that actress, comedian, correspondent and podcast host Jessica Williams will host the annual awards. Jones seems poised to have a very busy Sundance indeed, as she also toplines James Strouse’s premiere “The Incredible Jessica James,” which will close out the festival the night before.
The awards, which recognize standout artistic and story elements,...
- 1/11/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress, as presented by the creators themselves. At the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Tracks
Logline: A mother waits for the train with her young son. At one point she loses sight of him. The boy is in the tracks. The train is coming. The mother screams.
Elevator Pitch:
The film is based on a true story about a woman whose child got into the train tracks, the train was coming and she started to scream. Then another woman jumped in saved the child but lost her life. It’s set in two different timelines: on one hand we see the young woman from the beginning of her day...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
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Logline: A mother waits for the train with her young son. At one point she loses sight of him. The boy is in the tracks. The train is coming. The mother screams.
Elevator Pitch:
The film is based on a true story about a woman whose child got into the train tracks, the train was coming and she started to scream. Then another woman jumped in saved the child but lost her life. It’s set in two different timelines: on one hand we see the young woman from the beginning of her day...
- 11/15/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
"Manhood-measuring contests—in every imaginable sense of the phrase—are taken to brazenly literal extremes in Chevalier, the long-awaited third feature from Greek multi-tasker Athina Rachel Tsangari," begins Guy Lodge in Variety. Notebook editor Daniel Kasman reminds us that Tsangari, besides directing Attenberg and The Capsule, has produced Yorgos Lanthimos's Dogtooth and Alps. "What is surprising is that Tsangari and her co-writer (Efthymis Filippou, who also co-wrote [Lanthimos's] The Lobster) keep the absurdity from transgressing into the truly bizarre." Locarno programmer Mark Peranson suggests that Chevalier is "allegory for the economic system that has laid waste to Tsangari’s country." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
"Manhood-measuring contests—in every imaginable sense of the phrase—are taken to brazenly literal extremes in Chevalier, the long-awaited third feature from Greek multi-tasker Athina Rachel Tsangari," begins Guy Lodge in Variety. Notebook editor Daniel Kasman reminds us that Tsangari, besides directing Attenberg and The Capsule, has produced Yorgos Lanthimos's Dogtooth and Alps. "What is surprising is that Tsangari and her co-writer (Efthymis Filippou, who also co-wrote [Lanthimos's] The Lobster) keep the absurdity from transgressing into the truly bizarre." Locarno programmer Mark Peranson suggests that Chevalier is "allegory for the economic system that has laid waste to Tsangari’s country." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2015
- Keyframe
With the shimmering waters of Lake Maggiore beckoning mere blocks from Locarno's cinemas and the heat here wilting and cruel, how teasing for Athina Rachel Tsangari to set her much-anticipated third film, Chevalier, entirely on a luxury yacht bobbing in the Aegean. I believe many of us have high hopes for Tsangari, a Greek filmmaker who rose to prominence producing Yorgos Lanthimos's Dogtooth and Alps and directing Attenburg, which was far superior to Lanthimos's Greek films, and similarly in this nouveau Greek cinema style of blending art cinema with conceptual art. I wondered, as many no doubt did, at Chevalier's absence from Cannes (whose competition included Lanthimos's leap to English production, The Lobster) and Venice, which had previously supported this new, provocative Greek cinema. Was the film too daring for these wary red carpet competitions? The answer is no; in fact, Chevalier is a far more approachable film—slyly so—than Attenberg,...
- 8/13/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Chevalier
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari // Writers: Efthymis Filippou, Athina Rachel Tsangari
Director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s arresting sophomore film Attenberg made a powerful impression when it screen at the Venice Film Festival in 2010, cementing her importance as part of the new Greek Weird Wave movement. She’s dabbled here and there since as an executive producer, popped up in Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight (2013), and directed a haunting short in 2012, “The Capsule.” She’s back with her third feature, Chevalier, and pairs with one of the behind-the-scenes names of the cinematic movement, Efthymis Filippou, who wrote three features for Yorgos Lanthimos (including the up and coming The Lobster). The film is about a group of men is returning from a winter fishing trip on a yacht. When a mechanical problem leaves them trapped on their boat, somewhere in the gulf of Saronikos, they will kill their time playing a game they devise called Chevalier.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari // Writers: Efthymis Filippou, Athina Rachel Tsangari
Director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s arresting sophomore film Attenberg made a powerful impression when it screen at the Venice Film Festival in 2010, cementing her importance as part of the new Greek Weird Wave movement. She’s dabbled here and there since as an executive producer, popped up in Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight (2013), and directed a haunting short in 2012, “The Capsule.” She’s back with her third feature, Chevalier, and pairs with one of the behind-the-scenes names of the cinematic movement, Efthymis Filippou, who wrote three features for Yorgos Lanthimos (including the up and coming The Lobster). The film is about a group of men is returning from a winter fishing trip on a yacht. When a mechanical problem leaves them trapped on their boat, somewhere in the gulf of Saronikos, they will kill their time playing a game they devise called Chevalier.
- 1/7/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance World Dramatic Comp programmers have been strong supporters of new Greek cinema, and especially welcoming towards Athina Rachel Tsangari who has technically been present for four straight years. In 2011, Attenberg landed at the fest’s Spotlight section, in 2012 she was a Creative Advisor for the Directors Lab, in 2013 her short The Capsule was included and finally in 2014 she was part of the cast make-up of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. If it could land a coveted Premieres category launchpad, it could be raining men with Tsangari’s Chevalier bypassing a spot at say heavyweights fests such as Cannes or Venice. It’s a longshot.
Gist: Written by Efthimis Filippou and Tsangari, this is about a group of men is returning from a winter fishing trip on a yacht. When a mechanical problem leaves them trapped on their boat, somewhere in the gulf of Saronikos, they will kill their time playing...
Gist: Written by Efthimis Filippou and Tsangari, this is about a group of men is returning from a winter fishing trip on a yacht. When a mechanical problem leaves them trapped on their boat, somewhere in the gulf of Saronikos, they will kill their time playing...
- 11/11/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Sweden’s Way Out West festival has announced its film programme including Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight and Stephen Soderbergh’s Behind The Candelabra.
The festival also hosts the world premiere of the third film in the trilogy Easy Money: Life Deluxe, starring Joel Kinnaman.
Other titles include:
Zal Batmanglij’s The EastFelix Van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle BreakdownWong Kar-wai’s The Grandmasterdocumentary Reincarnated: Snoop LionNoah Baumbach’s Frances Hastreet dance project Flex Is KingsPeaches Does HerselfShane Meadows’ Stone Roses: Made of StoneSundance hit doc 20 Feet From Stardom.
The short films include Athina Rachel Tsangari’s The Capsule.
The festival will run August 8-10 in Gothenburg, Sweden. It attracts more than 30,000 visitors annually and this year’s musical acts include Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Alicia Keys, Cat Power and Kendrick Lamar.
The film programme is in its third year and it runs at five cinemas and an outdoor cinema at the festival.
“The films we...
The festival also hosts the world premiere of the third film in the trilogy Easy Money: Life Deluxe, starring Joel Kinnaman.
Other titles include:
Zal Batmanglij’s The EastFelix Van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle BreakdownWong Kar-wai’s The Grandmasterdocumentary Reincarnated: Snoop LionNoah Baumbach’s Frances Hastreet dance project Flex Is KingsPeaches Does HerselfShane Meadows’ Stone Roses: Made of StoneSundance hit doc 20 Feet From Stardom.
The short films include Athina Rachel Tsangari’s The Capsule.
The festival will run August 8-10 in Gothenburg, Sweden. It attracts more than 30,000 visitors annually and this year’s musical acts include Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Alicia Keys, Cat Power and Kendrick Lamar.
The film programme is in its third year and it runs at five cinemas and an outdoor cinema at the festival.
“The films we...
- 7/2/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The Czech poster for Robert Bresson’s Une femme douce by Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová is one of my favorite posters of all-time: an extraordinarily arresting, beautifully executed piece of Czech surrealism that yet has a strong thematic and visual connection to the film itself. (The girl wrapped in her own hair could be the isolated and suicidal character played by Dominique Sanda.) So I was taken aback when a friend pointed out this photograph recently.
The photograph is apparently by the great fashion and celebrity photographer Bert Stern, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 83. Stern, who was the subject of the documentary Bert Stern: Original Mad Man that was released earlier this year, is best known for his hundreds of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken weeks before her death. But his most famous connection to movie posters is that he took the photographs of Sue Lyons wearing...
The photograph is apparently by the great fashion and celebrity photographer Bert Stern, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 83. Stern, who was the subject of the documentary Bert Stern: Original Mad Man that was released earlier this year, is best known for his hundreds of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken weeks before her death. But his most famous connection to movie posters is that he took the photographs of Sue Lyons wearing...
- 6/28/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Here is a complete listing of the films that were shown/covered by the Ioncinema.com team comprised of Nicholas Bell (Nb), Jordan M. Smith (Js) and Eric Lavallee (El). We’ll be populating this page up until March.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway: Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Ain’T Them Bodies Saints – David Lowery: El (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review // Interview
Austenland- Jerusha Hess: Nb (★): Review
C.O.G.- Kyle Patrick Alvarez: Js (★★ 1/2), Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Concussion – Stacie Passon: El (★★★), Js (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★): Review // Interview
Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes – Francesca Gregorini: Js (★★★), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review
Fruitvale – Ryan Coogler: El (★★★), Js (★★★★★), Nb (★★★★): Review // Interview // Video
In A World… – Lake Bell: El (★★★): Review
Kill Your Darlings – John Krokidas: El (★★★), Nb (★★★): Review
The Lifeguard – Liz W. Garcia: El (★★ 1/2): Review
May In The Summer...
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway: Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Ain’T Them Bodies Saints – David Lowery: El (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review // Interview
Austenland- Jerusha Hess: Nb (★): Review
C.O.G.- Kyle Patrick Alvarez: Js (★★ 1/2), Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Concussion – Stacie Passon: El (★★★), Js (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★): Review // Interview
Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes – Francesca Gregorini: Js (★★★), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review
Fruitvale – Ryan Coogler: El (★★★), Js (★★★★★), Nb (★★★★): Review // Interview // Video
In A World… – Lake Bell: El (★★★): Review
Kill Your Darlings – John Krokidas: El (★★★), Nb (★★★): Review
The Lifeguard – Liz W. Garcia: El (★★ 1/2): Review
May In The Summer...
- 1/29/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
It was hard to whittle down my favorite movie posters to a straight top ten this year. There was no absolute stand-out like Chris Ware’s Uncle Boonmee last year, and the majority of film posters continue to be depressingly rote and uninspired, even though the explosion of Diy illustration has started to make inroads into the world of commercial film promotion. As a symptom of my indecision I have tended to group posters together more than usual; laid out like this the year doesn’t look half bad.
1. Wreck-it Ralph (with The Lorax and Life Of Pi)
On its own the Wreck-It Ralph teaser would still have been one of the best posters of the year—a wittily simple 8-bit pixellated key-stroke of genius that compresses a blockbuster 3D extravaganza into a flat, three-color arrangement of squares and tells everyone walking by exactly what they need to know (except...
1. Wreck-it Ralph (with The Lorax and Life Of Pi)
On its own the Wreck-It Ralph teaser would still have been one of the best posters of the year—a wittily simple 8-bit pixellated key-stroke of genius that compresses a blockbuster 3D extravaganza into a flat, three-color arrangement of squares and tells everyone walking by exactly what they need to know (except...
- 1/5/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Tons of notable entries from established auteurs, documentarians and the next generation of filmmakers to watch out for are the make-up of Sundance’s 2013 Short Film program. A total of 65 short films were selected from a whopping 8000 plus entries and among the notable names/shorts to look out for we find The Captain – from the Blue Tongue Films gang of Nash Edgerton and Spencer Susser (Hesher) a project penned with Taika Waititi (Eagle vs Shark), Goran Dukic who brought The Wristcutters to the fest several years back, brings us What Do We Have in Our Pockets?, while Damien Chazelle who directed the feature Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, brings us Whiplash and Guillermo Arriaga (The Burning Plain) let’s us feast on Broken Night.
Andrew Renzi makes it back to back years at the fest, he was invited last year for The Fort (here’s our interview with him) returns with Karaoke!
Andrew Renzi makes it back to back years at the fest, he was invited last year for The Fort (here’s our interview with him) returns with Karaoke!
- 12/4/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Above: 1999 Japanese poster for La jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962). Designer: unknown.
This Sunday I will be posting my 366th post on my Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr, meaning that I have managed to keep up this endeavor for an entire year, not yet skipping a day. Back in early July I wrote about the blog and posted the 20 most popular (most liked and reblogged) posters to date. With the year anniversary approaching I thought I would do the same thing, tallying the 20 most popular posters of the past four months. Movie Poster of the Day’s viewership has grown exponentially in the interim and as of writing it has 56,964 followers, which blows my mind. You can scroll through the entire archive here.
The most popular poster of the past four months, and the second most popular of the entire year, was this Japanese B1 for La jetée, which I...
This Sunday I will be posting my 366th post on my Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr, meaning that I have managed to keep up this endeavor for an entire year, not yet skipping a day. Back in early July I wrote about the blog and posted the 20 most popular (most liked and reblogged) posters to date. With the year anniversary approaching I thought I would do the same thing, tallying the 20 most popular posters of the past four months. Movie Poster of the Day’s viewership has grown exponentially in the interim and as of writing it has 56,964 followers, which blows my mind. You can scroll through the entire archive here.
The most popular poster of the past four months, and the second most popular of the entire year, was this Japanese B1 for La jetée, which I...
- 11/16/2012
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Though Athina Rachel Tsangari's short film The Capsule played third after two others, I'm reviewing it first as it was the title with which the other two were programmed (i.e. you show up to see a showing of The Capsule, and the other two are accompanying it--literally--as footnotes in the guide). I haven't seen Tsangari's feature Attenberg, which was extensively covered here on Twitch, nor any of her previous work. The Capsule, however, is evidence enough that she possesses a bold talent for stunning, unexpected and powerful imagery--and an expert knowledge of how to marry that imagery with haunting sound design in a manner which catches viewers off-guard, but keeps the figurative hooks in until the credits roll. This strange short sometimes falls too...
- 10/10/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Above: Viola.
Dear Fern,
With the De Palma and Anderson, and then later the films by Bellocchio and Malick, defining “direction” indeed has become a key discussion point at the festival this year. Bellocchio's Dormant Beauty, as you indicate, is the special case: quite simply he directs the shit out of that movie. The screenplay and “hot button” topic are structural and political fodder for introducing and then orchestrating and nimbly evolving this engrossing melodrama of morality, Catholicism, contemporary Italian politics, media images and multiple characters across churches, hospitals, mansions, clandestine government backrooms, television performances, protests and seedy motel rooms. The film was compulsive; it was impossible not to get caught up in its energetic valences. I'm still haunted by just where Bellocchio chose to end each of the mini-stories caught up in the fervor of (real) events in the film—brooding, dark, complex and unresolved, yet with an image...
Dear Fern,
With the De Palma and Anderson, and then later the films by Bellocchio and Malick, defining “direction” indeed has become a key discussion point at the festival this year. Bellocchio's Dormant Beauty, as you indicate, is the special case: quite simply he directs the shit out of that movie. The screenplay and “hot button” topic are structural and political fodder for introducing and then orchestrating and nimbly evolving this engrossing melodrama of morality, Catholicism, contemporary Italian politics, media images and multiple characters across churches, hospitals, mansions, clandestine government backrooms, television performances, protests and seedy motel rooms. The film was compulsive; it was impossible not to get caught up in its energetic valences. I'm still haunted by just where Bellocchio chose to end each of the mini-stories caught up in the fervor of (real) events in the film—brooding, dark, complex and unresolved, yet with an image...
- 9/14/2012
- MUBI
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