Tag: 2015 Sundance Film Festival
Chuck Norris vs Communism | 2015 Sundance Film Festival Review
VHS Revolution: Calugareanu Shoots For Docu-Thrills
Much of the time, American imperialism is a culture destroying force that denigrates through sheer, unwieldy bloat, but in the case...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #31. Sophia Lin (Z for Zachariah)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Sophia Lin: Top of the list of my 2014 discoveries was New Zealand. We...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #30. Nick Case (Take Me to the River)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Nick Case: 1.) Favorite Musician: Keegan DeWitt. Keegan is the lead singer for the...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #29. Marcus Cox (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Marcus Cox: Discovered; Autobiography of a Yogi, by Yogananda and I love it. Discovered a...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #28. Karrie Cox (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Karrie Cox: 1. Red House Painters, “Cruiser”. 2. Andrew Wyeth, “Christina’s World” @ MOMA...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #27. Peter Gilbert (Unexpected/Digging for Fire)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Peter Gilbert: Musician: Ben and Leo Sidran. Movie: Ida. Book: Short Nights of The Shadow...
Pervert Park | 2015 Sundance Film Festival Review
Sex Offender Stigma: Barkfors Take Taboo Tour
It’s not an easy subject to broach let alone discuss. The scarlet letter burns bright as sex offenders...
City of Gold | 2015 Sundance Film Festival Review
Eating One's Way To Enlightenment: Gabbert Follows Gold Down A Rabbit-Hole Of Crucial Cultural Cuisine
Everyone in Los Angeles knows that Jonathan Gold is the...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #26. Andrea Roa (Unexpected)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Andrea Roa: Tranparent, The Babadook, Fun Home.
Lavallee: With regards to the casting choice of...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #25. Naomi Scott (The Overnight)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Naomi Scott: Force Majeure. Artist Aaron Morse. Natasha Lyonne's Instagram account: @nlyonne
Lavallee: How did Patrick Brice’s The Overnight land on...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #23. Sean Durkin (James White)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Sean Durkin: Jesse Marchant's self titled album was my favorite of the year. I read...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #22. Antonio Campos (James White)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Antonio Campos: Black Mirror (TV series). People Who Eat Darkness (Book). Nilsson Schmilsson by...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #21. Ryan Zacarias (Entertainment)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Ryan Zacarias: 1. Thomas Dinger's Fur Mich (album), Manabu Yamanaka (photographer), Ricardo Silva's Navajazo (film).
Lavallee:...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #19. Megan Mercier (Unexpected)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Megan Mercier: Kishi Bashi (music), Mike White (writer/actor/director), Black Mirror (TV show).
Lavallee: Not unlike the...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #18. Chris Bergoch (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Chris Bergoch: I really enjoyed the pre-Broadway run of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #17. Gregg Turkington (Entertainment)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Gregg Turkington: 1. The Skies Belong To Us, Brendan Koerner's book on the "golden age"...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #16. Craig Zobel (Z for Zachariah)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Craig Zobel: "The Wall," 2012, Julian Pölsler (on Netflix!), Music - the back catalog of The...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #15. Kris Swanberg (Unexpected)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Kris Swanberg: I got really in to goats milk yogurt, Taylor Swift, classic sports films,...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #14. Patrick Brice (The Overnight)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Patrick Brice: It Follows by David Robert Mitchell was one of the best cinematic experiences...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #13. Adam Salky (I Smile Back)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Salky: Book: Devil in The White City. Gripping. App: Cpro Craigslist Client. It’s the reason...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #10. Sean Baker (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Sean Baker: 1) Ruben Östlund - After being blown away by Force Majeure, I made...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #9. Matt Sobel (Take Me to the River)
Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Matt Sobel: The Windup Bird Chronicle, Borges, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Robyn
Lavallee: They say “write...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #8. Kenny Riches (The Strongest Man)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Kenny Riches: The album Grand America by Magic Mint. The album Apple Juice and Whiskey...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #3. Michael J. Larnell (Cronies)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Michael Larnell: Paris, France, Sundance Film Festival, Ferguson Protesters (The Activists)
Lavallee: What was the genesis for...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #2. Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Charles Poekel: Moodymann - Moodymann. Kentucker Jones. First World War Poems from the Front. Festival...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #1. Diego Ongaro (Bob and the Trees)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”... Diego Ongaro: French singer Bertrand Belin, the town of Terlingua, Texas on the edge of...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #20. Rob Cristiano (Bob and the Trees)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Rob Cristiano: 1. I'm new to the work of Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, so when I...
Exclusive Sundance Clip: No Left-Over Trees in Charles Poekel’s Christmas, Again
Yesterday we featured an exclusive clip for the <=> section confrère Kenny Riches' The Strongest Man, today we have another look at one of the...
Exclusive Sundance Clip: No Beating Around the Bush in Kenny Riches’ The Strongest Man
The likes of Alex Ross Perry, Ana Lily Amirpour, Gillian Robespierre and Michael Tully populated the eleven-set selection last year, and it's become such...
’15 Sundance Film Fest: Rupert Goold’s True Story & Ken Kwapis’ A Walk in the Woods
It's a film starring Sundance Film Fest creator Robert Redford and another film starring Sundance mainstay James Franco that are the latest and last...
’15 Sundance Film Fest: Jake Mahaffy, Zachary Heinzerling, Shaka King, Matt Wolf & Actor Riz Ahmed Supply Short Imports & Exports
Not unlike the previous year, a whopping eight thousand plus short films were submitted to Sundance this year. Among some of the filmmaker names...
’15 Sundance: Tons of “All Good Things” in Special Events: Andrew Jarecki & Kevin Pollak Among Special Events
With a line-up that already packs a punch, Sundance will also include a new section simply called "Special Events" which is described as "one-of-a-kind...
Sundance ’15: Amy Berg, Kirby Dick, Alex Gibney Fire Up Documentary Premieres Section
A section that throws the competitive spirit out the window, but actively becomes part of the year-end docu-talk, last year's dozen minus one offerings...
Sundance ’15: Baumbach, Fleck/Boden, Pulcini/Berman, Ponsoldt & Another Swanberg Among Premieres
Last year's slate of seventeen Narrative Premieres (excluding secret screenings of Boyhood and Nymphomaniac: Vol. I) refreshingly included works from first time filmmakers. I...
Sundance ’15: Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room Leads New Frontier Offerings
It's the fest's most overlooked section with its five offerings, and thankfully we didn't blink or else we would have missed out on A.J....
Sundance ’15: Bahrani, Slaboshpytskiy, Szifrón & Hansen-Løve Fill Spotlight
We've been appreciating the clearly defined, distributor friendly, solid eight Spotlight section since it's inception a couple of years back. In 2014 we had...
Sundance ’15: Eli Roth, Rodney Ascher, Bruce McDonald & David Robert Mitchell Land at Park City at Midnight
Last year's batch of eight films included the almost critic-proof trio of Adam Wingard's The Guest, Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement's What We Do...
Sundance ’15: Chuck Norris, Kim Longinotto & Louise Osmond Among 12 in World Documentary Competition
Supplying a wealth of treasures in just a dozen offerings, last year's World Documentary Competition saw Talal Derki's The Return to Homs claim the...
Sundance ’15: Maclean’s Slow West, Sewitsky’s Homesick, Kleiman’s Partisan & Farrant’s Strangerland Stack World Cinema Dramatic Comp
Titles such as Eskil Vogt's Blind and David Wnendt's Wetlands landed the most acclaim and Alejandro Fernandez Almendras' To Kill a Man won the...
Sundance ’15: Psihoyos, Ross Bros., Heineman & Marc Silver Among U.S. Documentary Competition Offerings
Last year, Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos' Rich Hill walked away with U.S. Grand Jury Prize while Jesse Moss' The Overnighters was...
Sundance ’15: Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Sean Baker & Matt Sobel Populate NEXT Section
Last year's NEXT section introduced us to new breed of filmmakers in Desiree Akhavan, Sydney Freeland, Madeleine Olnek, Ana Lily Amirpour, Malik Vitthal and...
Sundance ’15: Zobel, Bujalski, Brice & Kris Swanberg Among U.S. Dramatic Competition
Last year, it was Damien Chazelle's richly texturized, foot-tapping, finger-snapping sophomore pic Whiplash that instantly became the "it" film to beat in the sixteen competition...
