Continuing from my previous anticipated films post, this installment covers the smaller indie and foreign films, and a couple of titles from the streamers that may end up falling through the cracks.
There is a lot that I didn't have room for. We have new movies coming from Lee Chang Dong, Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Jane Schoenbrun, and many more. As always, release dates are difficult to pin down this far in advance, and some of these films may not make it to theaters until 2027 or later. "Klara and the Sun" and "The Bride!" were on last year's list.
The History of Concrete - This one just premiered at Sundance. I've missed the documentary series "How to With John Wilson," and I'm looking forward to Wilson's latest feature project, which is definitely going to be about concrete, but is probably also going to include some of those wild tangents that the filmmaker is famous for. Apparently Wilson arrived at this subject after failing to write a Hallmark movie.
I Love Boosters - I love that Boots Riley keeps making these wild, wonderful movies that don't look like what anybody else is doing. In "I Love Boosters," it's a crew of shoplifters against a "fashion maven," with Keke Palmer in the lead role. It's being classified as a "sci fi comedy," so I expect a few twists and turns. "I Love Boosters" is set to premiere at SXSW, so we should see it sometime late in the year.
Wild Horse Nine - Martin McDonagh is reteaming with Sam Rockwell involving CIA agent shenanigans on Easter Island/Rapa Nui in the '70s. John Malkovitch, Parker Posey, Steve Buscemi, and Tom Waits are also reportedly involved. McDonagh is hit or miss for me, but his hits are some of my favorite films of the past decade. And the last time he made a movie set on an island, we got "Banshees of Inisherin."
Tony - Matt Johnson, who made "Blackberry," is helming the Anthony Bourdain biopic with Dominic Sessa as Bourdain and Emilia Jones playing his love interest. I'm not a foodie or an Anthony Bourdain fan, but I'm definitely on board with another biopic from Johnson, who made "Blackberry" into one of the best tech industry tell-alls, and gave his cast a chance to give some very memorable performances.
Hope - Several directors are making their English language debuts this year, including Cristian Mungiu and Na Hong Jin. I'm keeping an eye on Na Hong Jin's latest thriller in particular because it's going to include several international actors in the cast, including Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. This is expected to be another supernatural thriller, hopefully not one as soul-destroying as "The Wailing."
The Uprising - An all star cast will appear in Paul Greengrass's dramatization of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381, including Andrew Garfield, Thomasin McKenzie, Katherine Waterston, Tom Hollander, Stephen Dillane, Jonny Lee Miller, Jamie Bell and Cosmo Jarvis. This one's gone through a lot of cast changes and a lot of title changes over the years, and I'm excited to see it reach screens at last.
Artificial - And speaking of Andrew Garfield, Luca Guadagnino is making a Sam Altman movie, with Garfield playing Altman. It seems a little early for a movie charting the rise of OpenAI, but I want to see what Guadagnino and screenwriter Simon Rich do with this. This is being described as a comedy-drama, and Ike Barinholtz is playing Elon Musk, so there's plenty of potential here for something fun.
Jack of Spades - Josh O'Connor did so well as the lead of a Gothic mystery film last year, I assume he'll do great as the lead of another Gothic mystery film this year, directed by one of the Coen brothers. This is Joel Coen's first film since "The Tragedy of Macbeth," and it will be set in Scotland in the 1800s. Not much else is known, except that Frances McDormand, Lesley Manville and Damian Lewis are in the cast.
Mayday - John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have made several fantastic comedies in a row, most recently the "Dungeons and Dragons" movie. Their new one is a Ryan Reynolds action movie about a downed American pilot in Soviet Russia. This would probably be on the blockbuster list if this weren't made by Skydance and being distributed by Apple TV+. Crossing my fingers that this bucks the trend.
October - And finally, a new Jeremy Saulnier movie by itself would be reason for anticipation, but this one is Halloween themed too? And it's going to be Cory Michael Smith's first stab at being a leading man? Sign me up!
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