Indie Film Release Guide: September 14th [An ONTD Original]

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There are thirty-eight (38!) new films being released this week, which has to be a record since I started writing these round-ups in April. In major studio releases, your options are White Boy Rick and The Predator, but the rest are all from smaller studios, and many are available on demand. You can check out the first source for the full list, but since I don’t have all day to write these posts, here are about half of those!

Note that some of the movies listed are in their first week or two of limited release in the USA, so it may take them a few more weeks (or months) to show up in your local arthouse theater or on VOD. Check out the posts from the past few weeks for more movies that may have just opened near you: September 7th, August 31st, August 24th.

Lizzie

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Stars: Kristen Stewart, Chloe Sevigny, Kim Dickens, Fiona Shaw
Writer: Bryce Cass
Director: Craig William Macneill
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Plot: In 1892, Lizzie Borden lives a quiet life in Massachusetts under the strict rules established by her father. Lizzie finds a kindred spirit in the live-in maid, Bridget, and friendship soon blossoms into a secret romance. But tension mounts in the Borden household, leading to a violent breaking point.
What you should know: Filmed at the end of 2016, it premiered at this year’s Sundance.
Opens in: NYC, LA



Slice

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Stars: Zazie Beetz, Hannibal Buress, Joe Keery, Chance the Rapper
Written and directed by: Austin Vesely
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Plot: When a pizza delivery driver is murdered on the job, the city searches for someone to blame: ghosts? drug dealers? a disgraced werewolf?
What you should know: The writer/director has worked with Chance before, and also appears in the film.
Opens in: Select cities and available VOD

I Think We’re Alone Now

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Stars: Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Paul Giamatti
Writer: Mike Makowsky
Director: Reed Morano
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Plot: The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse -- until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship.
What you should know: The director is a woman who is best known for directing and executive producing the first two episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale,
Opens in: LA

Don’t Leave Home

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Stars: Mark Lawrence, Karrie Cox, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Helena Bereen
Written and directed by: Michael Tully
Genre: Thriller
Plot: An American artist's obsession with a disturbing urban legend leads her to an investigation of the story's origins at the crumbling estate of a reclusive painter in Ireland.
What you should know: Filming took place in County Kildare, Ireland.
Opens in: Select cities and available on demand

The Children Act

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Stars: Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead, Ben Chaplin
Writer: Ian McEwan
Director: Richard Eyre
Genre: Drama
Plot: As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.
What you should know: Based on the novel by Ian McEwan, who also wrote the screenplay.
Opens in: Select cities

The Dawn Wall

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Director: Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer
Genre: Documentary, Adventure
Storyline: Legendary free climber Tommy Caldwell tries to get over heartbreak by scaling 3000ft of an impossible rock face: the Dawn Wall of El Capitan.
What you should know: Won the Documentary Spotlight Audience Award at SXSW 2018.
Opens in: NYC, LA and as a Fathom Event in select cities on 9/19

Bel Canto

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Stars: Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Lambert, Sebastian Koch
Writer: Paul Weitz, Anthony Weintraub,
Director: Paul Weitz
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Plot: A world-renown opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.
What you should know: Based on the novel by Ann Patchett.
Opens in: NYC, LA

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

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Director: RaMell Ross
Genre: Documentary
Storyline: Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming.
What you should know:
Opens in: NYC

Rodents of Unusual Size

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Director: Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler
Genre: Documentary
Plot: Delacroix Island is a little-known region south of New Orleans that survived Hurricane Katrina and is now facing its latest threat -- hordes of 20-pound rodents known as nutria. Louisiana's coastal wetlands are one of the largest disappearing landmasses in the world, and the voracious appetite of this invasive species from South America is greatly accelerating coastal erosion.
What you should know: 20. Pound. Rats. :O
Opens in: LA

Mandy

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Stars: Nicholas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy
Writer: Panos Cosmatos, Aaron Stewart-Ahn
Director: Panos Cosmatos,
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Plot: In the primal wilderness of 1983, Red Miller, a broken and haunted man, hunts an unhinged religious sect who slaughtered the love of his life.
What you should know: Premiered in the Director’s Fortnight category at Cannes to positive reviews.
Opens in: Select cities

Also opening: A Simple Favor (Trailer), MDMA (Trailer), Unbroken: Path to Redemption (Trailer), Patient Zero (Trailer), Science Fair (Trailer)

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Any of these look interesting to you? See anything good lately?