"Noah Buschel is one of indies' most interesting filmmakers, all the moreso because he doesn't belong to any easily-promotable group or even genre."--Metro. Buschel wrote and directed The Phenom, starring Paul Giamatti and Ethan Hawke, which was certified “fresh” by Rotten Tomatoes. "The Phenom is the baseball movie Robert Altman never made."--Village Voice. Before that Buschel was the writer/director of Glass Chin, starring Billy Crudup and Marin Ireland(Ireland was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her performance.) "Glass Chin confirms Buschel to be among the most interesting voices lurking in the margins of American cinema."--Indiewire. Ireland also starred in Buschel's Sparrows Dance, which won the Austin Film Festival for Best Narrative Feature Film and was released theatrically by Tribeca Films; Indiewire called it “one of the best films of the year.” Buschel also wrote and directed The Missing Person, starring Michael Shannon and Amy Ryan, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and for which he was nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director. "Noah Buschel's neglected third feature is my favorite of the handful of films to directly deal with 9/11."--IFC.com(Top Ten Films Of The Year). “Noah Buschel's films are small, tender, spare and beautifully written.”—Cigarettes & Red Vines(The Definitive Paul Thomas Anderson Resource)