Tag: 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Interview: Omari Hardwick – Sorry to Bother You
Among the cast of misfit supporting characters in Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You we find Omari Hardwick's take on true corporate ladder machiavellianism...
Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You | 2018 Sundance Film Festival World Premiere
Perhaps the most hyped film to premiere at this year's Sundance film festival, the over-sold world preem screening at the Library had plenty of...
Video: Tim Wardle’s Three Identical Strangers | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
The film's chosen title sums up the "distance" between its triplet protagonists and not necessarily gross ethical misconduct, Three Identical Strangers nonetheless presents the human genome...
This Is Home | Review
Home is Where the Heart is? Shiva Shines a Light on Refugee Life in America
Raging into its sixth year, with roughly half a million...
Video: Zellner Bros.’ Damsel | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Magnolia Pictures release Damsel in theatres tomorrow. Invited to the Berlin Film Festival shortly after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the Zellner Bros. were...
Interview: Christina Choe – Nancy
We often relate the notion of identity with DNA, our given name as spelled out on an envelope, the social media account profile we...
Video: Christina Choe’s Nancy | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
As a film production, Nancy is the sort of micro indie project (we've been tracking for some time now) that serves as an example of...
Come Sunday | Review
Preaching to the Choir: Marston Tackles Modern Heresy in Orthodox Glance at Evangelical Hypocrisy
There are numerous epithets various strands of Christianity tend to utilize...
Beirut | Review
Going Hamm in Beirut: Sharply Written, Compelling, Old school Hostage Drama
Set in guess-where, Beirut is a snappy foreign diplomacy thriller so smart and steeped in detail...
Video: Shorts Program 1 | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Sundance’s Shorts Program 1 is often one of the festival’s very first screenings each year. In some ways, these short filmmakers get a chance...
Video: Jim Hosking’s An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
The type of idiosyncratic creative that will likely polarize auds much in the same way Harmony Korine did, Jim Hosking's follow up to The...
Video: Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
The road trip movie is probably the most tired sub-genre after the coming of age film, and yet with a fresh coat of paint...
Video: Sandi Tan’s Shirkers | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Sandi Tan's first (or second pending how categorize them) feature film is truly a masterclass in reappraising and reappropriating your own creative work arch....
Video: Andrew Heckler’s Burden | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
A long time in the making and perhaps the longest gestating film from the entire line-up all sections combined, starring Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker...
Interview: James Wilks – Louie Psihoyos’ The Game Changers
After the heavily trophied The Cove (2009) and his Mission Impossible styled eco-thriller Racing Extinction (2015), docu-helmer Louie Psihoyos once again takes aim at industry. Preeming...
Eighth Grade | Review
Grade A Time Capsule: Bo Burnham’s Offers Torturous Last Week of Middle School.
Eighth Grade is literally eighth grade in hyphenate-comedian Bo Burnham’s resonant directorial...
The Cleaners | 2018 Sundance Film Festival Review
Behind the Curtain: Block & Riesewieck Reveal the Trade of Internet Moderation
For the past decade, censorship on social media has been an increasingly hot...
Interview: Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Way back in 2006, Robert Pickering “Bo” Burnham won our hearts with viral home videos during YouTube’s first legs. Since then, the 27-year-old hyphenate...
Video: Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade – 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Is Eighth Grade an affectionate critique of adolescence? A study on our relationship with technology? A self-love letter aimed at insecure adults? All of...
Interview: Elsie Fisher – Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Previously unknown aside from her voice acting in the Despicable Me series, Elsie Fisher is a star-in-the-making thanks to her performance in Bo Burnham’s...
Interview: Josh Hamilton – Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
We caught up with film (recent Park City trips include Experimenter, Take Me to the River, Manchester by the Sea) and TV staple Josh...
2018 Sundance Film Festival: Panos Cosmatos’ “Mandy” Leads Nicholas Bell’s Top 10
While Sundance 2018 has already been deemed a non-event in the realm of acquisitions, it’s a trend perhaps better explained by an industry in...
2018 Sundance Film Festival: Bing Liu’s “Minding The Gap” Leads Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10
Some have complained that Sundance 2018 was a lackluster festival: largely devoid of masterpieces—with few blockbuster sales. I have a different gripe. As always,...
Our New President | 2018 Sundance Film Festival Review
What Is Reality? Pozdorovkin’s Vertiginous Nightmare Of Subjective Journalism
After a year since the commencement of the Trump presidency, its critics and supporters vary in...
Sundance 2018: Night Comes On’s Jordana Spiro Leads our Top 10 New Voices
Along with the plethora of interviews and reviews that we'll be posting on the site in February, as per our tradition here on the...
Collect Them All!: Our 2018 Sundance NEXT Section “Trading Cards” Series Checklist
Dating back to our inaugural 2014 set, we've been profiling the Kenneth Griffey Jrs. of American indie film in folks who are part of...
Sundance 2018: The Year of Youth in Revolt
There’s an old adage in filmmaking that goes something like: ‘never work with kids or animals.’ This year’s Sundance Film Festival is a direct...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #19. Aneesh Chaganty (Search)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Aneesh Chaganty: Literature: "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande (2014). Poetry: "Milk and Honey" by Rupi...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #18. Sev Ohanian (Search)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Sev Ohanian: Videogame: Doki Doki Literature Club! Hobby: Escape Rooms
Lavallee: We saw it in one...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #17. Juan Sebastian Baron (Search)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Juan Sebastian Baron: Juan Gabriel Vásquez's "El Ruido de las Cosas al Caer" (Novel), Planescape...
Private Life | 2018 Sundance Film Festival Review
She’s Not Having a Baby: Jenkins Returns with Freewheeling Fertility Melodrama
American indie director Tamara Jenkins returns with her first directorial effort since 2007’s Oscar...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #4. Markus Mentzer (Clara’s Ghost)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Markus Mentzer: William Eggleston
Courtney and Kurt “Lotta Sea Lice"
Melvin and Howard (1980)
Eric Lavallee: Dating back...
2018 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #3. Bridey Elliott (Clara’s Ghost)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”.
Bridey Elliott: Columbo, the tv show.
Orange Juice, the band
Ram Dass, the guru
Lavallee: Being well-versed in...
2018 Sundance Add-Ons: Premieres include Hannah Fidell & Tamara Jenkins + Lynne Ramsay Confirmed for Spotlight
The Sundance Film Fest added the final touches to their 2018 edition, and we've now got a bonafide pair of must see films in...
Sundance ’18: Fred Rogers, Robin Williams, Jane Fonda & Joan Jett Portraits in Docu Premieres Section
A baker's dozen established docu filmmakers will come to Park City with subjects relating to Fred Rogers, Robin Williams, Jane Fonda, Joan Jett, veganism,...
Sundance ’18: Pozdorovkin, Mor Loushy, Sandi Tan & M.I.A. Pack the World Cinema Docu Comp
Last year's dozen selections included Rahul Jain's Machines (World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award), Adam Sobel's The Workers Cup and Feras Fayyad's searing World...
Sundance ’18: Wash Westmoreland, Debra Granik, Gus Van Sant & Zellner Bros. In Premieres Section
Despite not expecting the Premieres sections to be drop today, several of the narrative items below were on our radar and make for what...
Sundance ’18: Decker, Moselle, Spiro, Hosking & Zagar Among NEXT Selections
Last year's batch of ten included some primo items in David Lowery's A Ghost Story, Janicza Bravo's Lemon and Justin Chon's Gook (the Sundance...
Sundance ’18: Morano, Silva, Akhavan & Boots Riley Among U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...
