Tag: 2021 Sundance Film Festival

Human Factors | Review

The Discomfort of Strangers: Trocker Collapses Paranoia and Perspectives in Brooding Familial Drama Communication, when you really think about it, is all but impossible. Words...

Interview: Lenny & Harpo Guit – Mother Shmuckers

Lenny Guit and Harpo Guit are the masterminds behind Mother Shmuckers (Fils de Plouc), one of the most unhinged comedies to grace Sundance’s Midnight...

Mother Schmuckers | Review

O Brother, Why Art Thou?: The Guit Bros. Get Down & Out in Bizarre Debut Something is rotten in the state of Belgium, or so...

Strawberry Mansion | Review

In Dreams: Audley & Birney Conjure a Candy Colored Clown They Call the Tax Man A shimmering, nostalgic daydream which plays with parameters of the...

The Pink Cloud | Review

Endemic Pandemic: Gerbase Unveils Prophetic Debut of Life During Lockdown The uncanny prescience of Iuli Gerbase’s directorial debut The Pink Cloud is as stunning as...

Flee | Review

Flee a Mile in your Neighbor’s Shoes: Ramussen’s Refugee Doc Is A Journey Worth Taking Evocative animation, first-person pain and a strong dose of hope...

Video Interview: Debbie Lum – Try Harder!

Debbie Lum’s Try Harder! is a supremely moving documentary about high schoolers in the throes of their college application process. Lum’s focus is on...

Try Harder! | Review

A Dream Deferred: Debbie Lum’s Masterclass in Self-Esteem Try Harder! is a supremely moving documentary about high schoolers in the throes of their college application...

Passing | Review

The Skin I Live In: Hall Formulates an Elegant, Devastating Adaptation of Nella Larsen For those who have had the pleasure of reading either of...

Interview: Carlson Young – The Blazing World

Visually stunning and psychically rending, The Blazing World is Carlson Young’s feature film debut; she writes, directs and stars without missing a step. Inspired...

Son of Monarchs | Review

Butterflies Are Free: Gambis Mines Identity Through Metaphor/mosis in Sophomore Film Director Alexis Gambis returns to his favored motif of genetics in his latest film...

Ma Belle, My Beauty | Review

Lover Come Back: Hill’s Debut a Refreshing Portrait of Intimacy and Attraction Three may not actually be a crowd, but it certainly heightens complications in...

John and the Hole | Review

The Little Boy Who Lives Down the Lane: Sisto Finds a Psychopath in Disturbing Debut There’s no arguing the discomforting vibe of John and the...

In the Earth | Review

Middling Earth: Wheatley Explores Favored Motifs in Pensive Pandemic Exercise If we’ve gleaned anything about circumventing Mother Nature, perhaps those 1970s Chiffon margarine commercials featuring...

2021 Sundance Film Festival: Dylan Dempsey’s Overview & Top 5 Films

Before we head into next week's SXSW online edition, I thought I'd circle back to the virtual Sundance 2021. This year, the festival reached...

Judas and the Black Messiah | Review

Only God Forgives: King Resurrects Fred Hampton in Significant, Unequivocal Portrait of Betrayal and Assassination On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, chairman of the...

Land | Review

Sentimental Divide: Wright Weds Wilderness in Compassionate Debut on Grief “Things do not change; we change,” is one of many eloquent statements from Thoreau’s eternal...

R#J | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review

A Plague on Both Your Collab Houses: Carey Williams’ No Fear Shakespeare Carey Williams’ R#J is a sleek, inspired, refreshingly cheesy Gen-Z spin on Romeo...

Prisoners of the Ghostland | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review

Alas, Poor Yorick: Sono’s English Language Debut a Fallow, Gonzo Spectacle What happens when a cult actor meets a cult filmmaker? Well, sometimes they just...

The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review

If We Shadows Have Offended: Katz Gives the Dogs Their Day in Curious Metaphorical Journey Perhaps it will be difficult for some to makes heads...

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review

Bjorn Again: Lindstrom & Petri Examine the Plight of the Beautiful and the Damned For those unfamiliar with the name Bjorn Andresen, the documentary The...

Knocking | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review

Only This and Nothing More: Kempff Explores Cultural Gaslighting in Parochial Thriller As in the timeless singsong of Poe’s classic poem “The Raven,” ‘suddenly there...

2021 Sundance: Dylan Dempsey’s Top 5 Most Anticipated

Before COVID, we had pre-existing conditions: closing theaters, last-resort blockbusters and evolving formats. Now, in the midst of this long winter that some call...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ridley Scott & Kevin Macdonald’s Life In A Day 2020

And for our final item on our predictions list we have a documentary that is technically made a whole bunch of people. It's a...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bryan Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me

Persistence pays off. Bryan Wizemann has been painstakingly hacking away at indie film since 1998's Sense following that with 2005's Losing Ground, 2011's About...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come

She premiered her feature debut The Sleepwalker at Sundance back in 2014, and has been busy as a co-scribe working on all three of...