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David Zellner on Blurred Reality, ‘Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter’
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter follows a driven Japanese office assistant (Rinko Kikuchi) who, believing a buried treasure from the Fargo is real, travels to the snow-covered Midwestern American city to claim the bounty for herself. While making her way...
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Heli
From the start, Heli establishes the brutality and transparency of its setting. Opening with two men lying in the back of a truck, one dead and one barely alive, the drivers hang the corpse over a bridge in the...
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Iranian Vampire Film ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ Gets North American Distribution
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the Iranian film that premiered five months ago at Sundance. The film also opened the New Directors/New Films event in New York. Shot in black and white,...
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NXNE 2014 Preview
As the name implies, North by Northeast can be seen as a sort of partner to Austin, TX’s South by Southwest. The festival takes place in Toronto from June 13-22, and will see plenty of bands, comedians, films, artists...
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Giveaway: Visitors Blu-ray Combo Packs
Three decades after their original collaboration for Koyaanisqatsi, filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Phillip Glass create an artistic achievement with Visitors, arriving on Blu-ray combo pack, DVD and Digital HD on June 10. Steven Soderbergh presents this wordless portrait...
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Way Too Indie’s Secret Stash #2
In this installment of Secret Stash, New York filmmaker J.P. Chan shares with us some of his favorite obscure, hard-to-find films that haven’t gotten the love or recognition they deserve. J.P.’s debut feature, A Picture of You, begins a one...
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The Fault in Our Stars
Based on the wildly popular John Greene novel, The Fault in Our Stars, directed by Josh Boone, has a can’t-fail combination of gifted, pretty, rising young stars and an invincibly sympathetic, sob-inducing story of big dreams and heartache that will, without a...
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Nicolas Winding Refn’s Next Film Will Be ‘I Walk With The Dead’
Nicolas Winding Refn, who delighted many film-goers with Drive and alienated them with Only God Forgives (our review), has announced his next project, and it is a doozy. The Danish auteur will next make I Walk with the Dead, his first straight-on...
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Way Too Indie Hangouts #4: Worst Films of 2014 (So Far)
In this installment, CJ, Bernard, and Dustin talk about the films we have seen recently including Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas, Cannes winner Heli, and the new Shailene Woodley film The Fault In Our Stars. We also share the Worst...
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A Picture of You
A Picture of You is a sharp, mischievous family drama from filmmaker J.P. Chan, who wrote, directed, and produced his genre-less feature debut, which opens on June 20th at AMC Loews Village 7 in New York City. While the...
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Michael Tully Talks ‘Ping Pong Summer’
Michael Tully’s Ping Pong Summer is a tidal wave of ’80s nostalgia that follows a shy, hip-hop and table tennis loving kid named Rad Miracle (Marcello Conte) on a family vacation in Ocean City, Maryland. Rad meets a quirky sidekick named Teddy...
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Chris Mason Johnson On ‘Test’, The Camera as a Moving Body
A multi-layered character portrait set in 1985 San Francisco in the early days of the AIDS panic, Test follows Frankie (Scott Marlowe), a young dancer torn between his sexual cravings and fear of contracting a mysterious, deadly disease. Director Chris Mason Johnson’s sensuous,...
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Anthony Chen Talks ‘Ilo Ilo’, Protecting His Humility
Singaporean director Anthony Chen is riding quite the wave of success with his feature debut, Ilo Ilo. The film won the Camera d’Or at Cannes 2013 and garnered many more accolades and awards following its smashing premiere. The film follows a strained...
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Monthly Mainstream: May 2014 Edition
We may seem like reclusive budget-shirking obscure film enthusiasts over here at Way Too Indie, and well, some of us are, but we’re not living in any dark holes and far be it from of us to say that...
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