Tag: 2017 Sundance Film Festival
Video: Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"I was lucky to put their own words into the film" - Matt Ruskin
It was an emotional world premiere screening at the Library especially...
Video: Geremy Jasper’s Patti Cake$ – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"Patti is my alter-ego". - Geremy Jasper
A project that was nurtured via the various Sundance labs, Patti Cake$ played like gangbusters during its world premiere...
Video: Michael Almereyda’s Marjorie Prime – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
“We got drunk in a bar last year and talked a lot about holograms.” – Michael Almereyda on his conversation with playwright Jordan Harrison.
Just...
Video: Janicza Bravo’s Lemon – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
“We wrote it together and we ....share a bed.” – Janicza Bravo
Creative partners in crime and the most fashionable "it" couple I ran into...
The Wound | Review
Go Tell It on the Mountain: Trengove Recruits Nakhane Toure for Defiant, Profound Debut
South African director John Trengove tackles the compelling subject of black...
Video: Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
“Closure is this convenient thing we came up with in the Nineties.” – Taylor Sheridan
Seeing that his previous written work was also showed in...
Wind River | Review
A Shiver Runs Through It: Sheridan Helms Satisfying Final Segment of Crime Trilogy
Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Hell or High Water) makes his directorial debut...
2017 Sundance Trading Card Series: #3. Alex Lipschultz (Menashe)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2016 discoveries”...
Alex Lipschultz: THE WITCH, TONI ERDMANN and THE LOBSTER were all quite brilliant.
Lavallee: With Menashe,...
Video: Dustin Guy Defa’s Person to Person: 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
“We shot in 16mm - which is an aesthetic choice, but also, the only choice for this film.” – Dustin Guy Defa
Six years have...
Video: Marti Noxon’s To The Bone: 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"I needed to grow a pair, I needed to hit bottom, I needed to decide to live for myself." - Marti Noxon.
A comedy about...
Video: David Lowery’s A Ghost Story: 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"My tastes and interests run all shapes and sizes." - David Lowery.
Prior to being one of the most lauded films to come out of...
2017 Sundance Trading Card Series: #2. Jade Healy (A Ghost Story)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2016 discoveries”.
Jade Healy: Photographer Robert Adams, the Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso, and the greek liquor “Tsipouro".
Lavallee:...
2017 Sundance Trading Card Series: #1. The Ghost (A Ghost Story)
I can't believe we're making a trading card this year on a fictitious character, but here goes.
Question: What is home for you? Is it...
A Ghost Story | Review
Voyage of Time: Lowery’s Distinctive, Elegiac Treatise on Grief, Time, and Elusive Solace
Although it isn’t an actual adaptation of her short story, David Lowery’s...
Get Out | Review
The Souls of Black Folk: Peele's Debut Subverts the Norm in Edgy, Timely Horror Film
Behold the power of genre film, a tradition of cinema...
2017 Sundance Trading Card Series: #4. Ryland Aldrich (L.A. Times)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2016 discoveries”.
Ryland Aldrich: #1. They Call Me Jeeg. Gabrielle Mainetti’s Italian-language superhero crime actioner hit me...
Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto Leads Nicholas Bell’s 2017 Sundance Film Fest Top Ten
In what ended up being one of the snowiest and coldest editions of Sundance in recent memory, there was no shortage of pleasant cinematic...
Newness | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review
Never Gonna Fall for Modern Love: Doremus Deftly Navigates the Hurtles of Millennial Romance
Acute technological advancement has proffered up new, albeit problematic conceptions as...
Where is Kyra? | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review
Identification of a Woman: Dosunmu’s Exacting Arthouse Drama of Suffocation and Alienation
Nigerian born director Andrew Dosunmu branches out with an unexpectedly somber portrait of...
Call Me By Your Name | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review
His Summer of Love: Guadagnino Returns with Perceptive, Tender Sketch of First Love
Presented with an intoxicating combination of old fashioned reticence with bold and...
Berlin Syndrome | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review
He’s a Collector: Shortland Returns to Germany for Simmering Psychological Thriller
Australian director Cate Shortland, most revered for her 2013 sophomore feature Lore, returns once...
God’s Own Country | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review
Gheorghe at the Farm: Lee’s Rustic Romantic Drama Hits the Requisite Notes
For those who have been yearning for a less angst-ridden and more contemporary...
Family Life | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review
Strangers When We Meet: Scherson and Jimenez Present Sibling Identity Exercise
Two members of Chile’s contemporary cinema scene join forces in co-directing Family Life, an...
Dayveon | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review
Thin Red Line: Abbasi Looks at Frame within the Portrait
While flesh lesions of the bullet wound type leave visible scares behind, within a certain...
2017 Sundance Film Festival: Eric Lavallee’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Here's the deal. Sundance is chock full of offerings and we could easily line-up the ten days of the fest with a solid four-five...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 100. Urszula Antoniak’s Beyond Words
Beyond Words
Director: Urszula Antoniak
Writer: Urszula Antoniak
Polish director Urszula Antoniak won Best First Feature (and several other prizes) at Locarno for her 2009 debut Nothing...
Sundance ’17: Hittman, Robespierre & Larnell Come Knocking Again in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Last year we had Grand Jury and Audience Award section winner and current awards season no-show The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker...