This year, in preparation for the assault of great new American independent cinema that will be premiering in Park City in almost exactly two months, I thought it would be nice to compile a list of films that I am very excited to see and am confident will be making a splash in 2012 (whenever and wherever they officially land). While I’ve seen some of these films in various stages of edit, I’ve seen others in their all-the-way finished form. As for many others, I am completely in the dark (as in, I haven’t read the script or seen one frame of footage). Because of this, I’m not going to play the ranking game or write any editorial content. Instead, an alphabetical list will suffice. If you happen to be a programmer—or film lover in general—please make sure that the following films are on your radar:
Features
James Clauer's WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
Black Rock (Katie Duplass)
Compliance (Craig Zobel)
Congratulations! (Mike Brune)
The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (Duplass Brothers)
For Ellen (So Yong Kim)
Gayby (Jonathan Lisecki)
Hot And Cold Times in the Phenomenal City (Brent Chesanek)
I Used To Be Darker (Matthew Porterfield)
Jack and Diane (Bradley Rust Gray)
Keep The Lights On (Ira Sachs)
Last Kind Words (Kevin Barker)
Nobody Walks (Ry Russo-Young)
Redlegs (Brandon Harris)
Revenge of the Mekons (Joe Angio)
Richard’s Wedding (Onur Tukel)
Scoutmasters [working title] (Todd Rohal)
See Girl Run (Nate Meyer)
Simon Killer (Antonio Campos)
Smashed (James Ponsoldt)
Sparrows Dance (Noah Buschel)
Starlet (Sean Baker)
Sun Don’t Shine (Amy Seimetz)
Tchoupitoulas (Ross Brothers)
Toad Road (Jason Banker)
When The World’s On Fire (James Clauer)
Shorts
Bad Penny (Ricky Camilleri)
Benny to Benny (George Manatos)
Mother’s Day (Jesse Klein)
To The Dirt (Drew Bourdet)
[NOTE: This is obviously a subjective, incomplete list. In the comments section below, we would love it if you were to mention any other films that you are confident will be making a mark on the indiefilmosphere in 2012. However, we ask that you show some tact and refrain from listing your own. Sorry.]
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Dustin
Computer Chess, Andrew Bujalski
Chad Hartigan
Pilgrim Song (Martha Stephens)
Chad Hartigan
Pilgrim Song (Martha Stephens)
Matt Jay
The Wait (M Blash)
Martin Crespo
The International Sign for Choking (Zach Weintraub)http://vimeo.com/24006413
Chibilute
Bridges http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2018046/
jp
I want to see When the World’s on fire, can someone help? I know the main actor on this film. No luck through search ingines : (
tully
All I know is that When The World’s On Fire is a DOPE MOVIE. I don’t have any more practical insight beyond that at the moment. I hope for everybody’s sake that the world will get to see it sooner than later, though!