Tag: Sundance Film Festival
Divine Love | Review
Mighty Aphrodite: Mascaro’s Second Coming Cloaked in Complex Allegory
The Immaculate Conception remains one of the notorious suspensions of disbelief in Christian folklore, and Brazilian...
Dirty God | Review
A Woman’s Face: Polak’s Tender Melodrama Explores Struggle for Self-Love
With her third narrative feature, Dirty God, which also stands as her English language debut,...
Koko-di Koko-da | Review
It’s All About Love: Nyholm Returns with Absurdist Allegory on Relationships
If Groundhog Day (1993), the well-liked Bill Murray title about a weatherman who is...
The Last Tree | Review
A Tree Grows in London: Amoo Charts Familiar Coming of Age Drama Through Urban Pitfalls
Cycles of violence and heartache in disenfranchised urban communities are...
Interview: Lucía Garibaldi & Romina Bentancur – The Sharks (Los tiburones)
The apex of the ocean's pyramid of predators, the mystic and misunderstood animal is most renowned for its powerful bite. Sundance preemed The Sharks (Los...
Video Interview: Jessie Kahnweiler – He’s the One (Short Film) 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Arriving at the Sundance Film Festival with yet another thought-provoking and edgy-laced noir humor oeuvre that asks tough questions He's the One addresses victim...
Interview: Jason Orley, Griffin Gluck + Cast & Crew – Big Time Adolescence
Did you ever befriend your older sister’s boyfriend—then stay friends with him long after they’d broken up? OK, Big Time Adolescence is a very...
Interview: Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour
For his sophomore feature, Alistair Banks Griffin proposes a phobia friendly transgressive and forbidding drama that makes strange bedfellows out of the process of...
Honey Boy | Review
Tears of a Clown: Har’el and LaBoeuf Exorcise Demons
Honey Boy is a shockingly personal movie where Shia LaBoeuf plays his own dad. If that...
Interview: Producer Natalie Metzger – Greener Grass
The old adage “behind every great man there’s a great woman” feels outdated in 2019. Nowadays, men are lucky to stand side-by-side with a...
Babak Anvari’s Wounds | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Celebrated debut film Under the Shadow set in the war-torn Tehran of the 1980s has a lot of things going for it beyond the...
After the Wedding | Review
Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Freundlich Updates Danish Drama with Gender Bending Twist
Just as Danish director Susanne Bier masters the art of cult filmmaker with...
Interview: Lulu Wang, Awkwafina & Diana Lin – The Farewell
“Based on an actual lie,” Lulu Wang’s The Farewell lifts events from her own complicated family history into the filmic sphere. In this captivating...
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | Review
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kill Me: Berlinger Tackles Ted Bundy in Narrative Form
Revered documentarian Joe Berlinger, best known for his Paradise Lost trilogy, makes...
Rachel Lears’ Knock Down the House | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Knock Down the House is a rousing documentary about the future of our country, guided by the emboldened voices of four progressive female congressional...
Video: Penny Lane’s Hail Satan? | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
A fourth feature docu film in a half dozen years (Our Nixon, NUTS!, The Pain of Others), Penny Lane's delves into The Satanic Temple...
Native Son | Review
(Not So) Good Times: Johnson Stumbles with Modern Homage to Richard Wright
Marrying historical contexts to modern aesthetics is often an arresting avenue for consideration,...
Interview: Caleb Slain – Marshall from Detroit (VR Documentary)
Despite its crumbling infrastructure and economic woes, there is vast nook and cranny beauty and nocturnal serenity to be found in Detroit via Caleb...
Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Once again placing his player(s) through the ringer, Alistair Banks Griffin moves from outdoorsy existentialism and moral quicksand in (2011's Two Gates of Sleep)...
Lucía Garibaldi’s The Sharks | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
We caught wind of Lucía Garibaldi when she wowed San Sebastián industry people winning top prize coin in the Films in Progress 32 Industry...
Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
When life gives you lemons, make a feature film out of it. A union that came about by a mutual appreciation artistic sensibilities, Alma...
2019 Sundance Film Fest Recap: Monos, We Are Little Zombies & Cold Case Hammarskjöld Lead Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10
Almost in direct response to critics’ grumblings—who claimed a lack of any true “hits” at Sundance ‘18—Sundance ’19 delivered a near-perfect batting average. The...
Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Brittany Runs a Marathon | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Rocket boosted out of obscurity with his audience-pleaser (U.S. Dramatic Audience Award Winner) debut, when we shed all the pounds, playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo's...
Patrick Brice’s Corporate Animals | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Working at almost a film per year pace since 2014's Creep, versatile in humor and horror, Corporate Animals is perhaps the best of both...
Kirill Mikhanovsky’s Give Me Liberty | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Juggling not one, but two current projects (the other being the Sundance Lab supported Coming to You), Kirill Mikhanovsky is at a special crux...
J.D. Dillard’s Sweetheart | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Seeing that he signed up for Sweetheart not that long after Sleight had premiered at Sundance in 2016, we now understand why the Blumhouse...
Mads Brügger’s Cold Case Hammarskjöld | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Remarkably still comfortable working with the confines of the gonzo investigative docu style of filmmaking, Mads Brügger comically addresses how storytelling can curtail and...
Minhal Baig’s Hala | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Based on a short proof of concept project of the same name, Minhal Baig will be among the fresh voices leading the way in progressive...
Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s The Lodge | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Returning with their heavily anticipated sophomore feature, and English language debut, filmed outside of Montreal almost one year back, Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala's...
Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Stylish, slick and super sophisticated for a micro-indie of this scale, what works marvels is Tayarisha Poe's the film's narrative blue print and universe. Selah and...
Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
A punishing yet patiently drawn out drama on how a young woman is weighed down and then circumvents the fragile male ego, Joanna Hogg's...
Interview: Daniel Scheinert & Cast – The Death of Dick Long | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
What do the DANIELS do in between, well, being the DANIELS? Daniel Scheinert, the self-proclaimed redneck half of the duo, answers this question with...
Alex Rivera & Cristina Ibarra’s The Infiltrators | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
More than a decade after breaking out with Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera (co-directs with Cristina Ibarra) returns with a docu feature nimbly includes dramatized...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #15. Paul Harrill – Light From Light
Filmmaker Paul Harrill from Light From Light is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
Dolce Fine Giornata | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
Under the Tuscan Sun: Borcuch Presents Compelling Intersection on Art and Political Responsibility
Polish director Jacek Borcuch travels abroad once again for his fifth feature,...
I Am Mother | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
They Call Me Mother: Sputore Examines What It Means to Be Human in Sci-Fi Debut
Australia’s Grant Sputore makes an impressive directorial debut with the...
The Lodge | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
You Gotta Have Faith: Severin & Fiala Mine Familial Madness in Warped Psychodrama
Reexamining similar themes of the inherent madness of isolation and the potential...
Hala | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
A Way with Words: Baig Tests the Limits in Sophomore Feature
Minhal Baig’s sophomore feature is an important film: a winsome coming-of-age story that will...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #14. Tayarisha Poe – Selah and the Spades
Filmmaker Tayarisha Poe from Selah and the Spades is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films...
Monos | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
Monkey See Monkey Do: Landes’ Latest a Moody, Hermetic Portrait of Guerilla Warfare
Brazil’s Alejandro Landes concocts a moody, textured exercise on child soldiers and...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #16. Ashley Connor – The Death of Dick Long
Cinematographer Ashley Connor from The Death of Dick Long is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #12. Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour
Filmmaker Alistair Banks Griffin from The Wolf Hour is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #13. Kaet McAnneny – The Wolf Hour
Production Designer Kaet McAnneny from Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #4. Rashaad Ernesto Green – Premature
Filmmaker Rashaad Ernesto Green from Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #5. Zora Howard – Premature
Co-writer and actress Zora Howard from Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #6. Joshua Boone – Premature
Actor Joshua Boone from Rashaad Ernesto Green's Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #1. Alice Waddington – Paradise Hills
Added to the Sundance film festival at the beginning of the decade, over time, the NEXT section (formerly referred to as "<=>") has unearthed...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #2. Danielle Macdonald – Paradise Hills
Actress Danielle Macdonald from Paradise Hills is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #3. Núria Valls – Paradise Hills
Producer Núria Valls from Paradise Hills is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #9. Anna Margaret Hollyman – Sister Aimee
Actress Anna Margaret Hollyman from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
