What do Timothée Chalamet, Casey Affleck, Mary J. Blige, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, and Saoirse Ronan have in common? They are all recent Oscar nominees for performances that launched in Park City at the Sundance Film Festival. This...
"Wonderstruck" director Todd Haynes might be the benevolent, mirror-universe image of Quentin Tarantino. They're both well-versed in certain parts of film history, and eager not just to demonstrate their knowledge, but tie it to a story that...
Tonight marked the awards ceremony for the Sundance Film Festival, with Jason Mantzoukas hosting a ceremony that featured 28 awards given out by various juries. "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" (pictured above), directed by Desiree...
Editor's note: Jomo Fray is one of three recipients of the Sundance Institute's Roger Ebert Fellowship for Film Criticism for 2018. Boots Riley is many things: musician, artist, filmmaker. His feature filmmaking debut, “Sorry...
Jim Hosking’s “An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn” is terrible, but I bet the outtakes are incredible. His second film after 2015 Midnight pick “The Greasy Strangler” has a whole list of indie darlings playing cartoonish...
As the Sundance Film Festival also functions as a type of cultural barometer for the important issues of today, its programming this year features the reoccurring theme of racial tension in America ("Blindspotting," "Sorry to Bother...
Two titles in this year’s US Dramatic Competition category focused in particular on the coming-of-age process, albeit through two very different social environments. Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade” tells of the travails of that...
The following Table of Contents includes our updating coverage of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, as written by Brian Tallerico, Nick Allen and Tomris Laffly. "306 Hollywood" "American Animals" "America to Me""Arizona""Assassination...
The Midnight program of Sundance has borne witness to the premieres of “Saw,” “The Babadook,” “We Are What We Are,” and several other horror flicks that went on to find loyal audiences. The last couple years has...
In the 2015 film “Mediterranea,” writer/director Jonas Carpignano followed two men on a journey from Saharan Africa to Southern Italy. That film used non-actors to play characters who were fictionalized to some degree. This is a strategy...