Tag: Alex Bach

Interview: Anu Valia – We Strangers (Work in Progress)

Sundance Film Festival short film award-winning filmmaker Anu Valia (2017's Lucia, Before and After) has been hitting the pavement on a slew of television...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anu Valia’s We Strangers

She pretty much began her film career with a bang winning Sundance's Jury Prize for US Fiction for her short, and then followed that...

Scare Me | Review

Venus Envy: Ruben Mines Microaggressions in Uncomfortable Debut The claustrophobic possibilities of ‘the cabin in the woods,’ not unlike ‘the old dark house,’ presents a...

2020 Sundance Film Festival: Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, David Bruckner’s The Night House & Bill Benz’s The Nowhere Inn in Midnight Section

Last year's Midnight section gave us Greener Grass, The Lodge and Sweetheart. In 2020, it appears that the section is more "worldly" with four...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jim McKay’s On the Seventh Day

Perhaps the indie film career path anomaly on our complete predictions list, Jim McKay found relative success at Sundance using the festival as a platform...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.