Festivals Archive for January, 2013
Sundance Review: Doc Wrap-Up
We understand these events to be troubling, but Rowley spends far too long lingering on the way life has changed for Scahill and the way these wars have had a negative impact on his mood. It is a film that is dirtied by its own lead, despite Scahill being definitively insightful and knowledgeable about the regions. The man is a brilliant journalist—there is no doubt about that—but the documentary sags when it should ignite.
Read the full article »Cinedigm Sets Sundance Doc Narco Cultura US Distribution
Cinedigm Sets US Distribution Of Sundance Doc Narco Cultura
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There is humor here, but of the gentle, nudging, self-aware kind more than broad slapstick, save for one scene toward the end that injects a quick dose of mostly painless comic relief. But mostly there is an excavation of character going on here, as Alvin sorts and sifts through his own understanding of who he is and his place in the world. A letter for Alvin forces him to reassess his own life and understanding of himself and his relationship, causing him to dig, as it were, through his own ashes in search of the answers to where he’s veered off track in his own life.
Read the full article »Kevin Smith Film Club Acquires Sundance Milkshake
Kevin Smith Film Club Has Tooth For Sundance Milkshake
Read the full article »The Sundance Women Directors Roundtable—Fidell, Garcia, Dabis, Foner, Cowperthwaite—Transcribed In Full
The Sundance Women Directors Roundtable—Fidell, Garcia, Dabis, Foner, Cowperthwaite—Transcribed In Full
Read the full article »Participant Takes 99% From Sundance
Participant Takes 99% “Occupy” Doc From Sundance
Read the full article »Selling At Sundance: The Market For Executive-Scaled Multimillion Dollar Ski Compounds
Selling At Sundance: The Market For Executive-Scaled Multimillion Dollar Ski Compounds
Read the full article »Wrapping Up Sundance, Pt 1: The Not-Docs
Sundance is still easily the most important film festival in the world for American independents. It is pretty well run. They have pretty good taste. And even the swag shite that journalists love to mock as they try to figure out how to snag a pair of jeans that will make their ass look like J-Lo’s and their chests look like either Scarlett Johansson or Taylor Whomever is not nearly as rampant as it once was.
Read the full article » 1 Comment »What A Writer Credit Means On A Doc, According To Scribe Of Sundance’s Summit, Who Is Dayani Cristal? And Sound City
What A Writer Credit Means On A Doc, According To Scribe/Doctor Of Sundance’s Summit, Who Is Dayani Cristal? And Sound City
Read the full article »EW’s List Of Lists Of Deals At Sundance
EW’s List Of Lists Of Deals At Sundance
Read the full article »Sundance Reviews: Cutie and the Boxer, Fallen City
There is vividness of color here, and contrast between the pair’s struggles in the real world and the way in which they express themselves artistically. Like all artists, including no doubt many of the filmmakers with films at Sundance, for Ushio and Noriko the financial struggles of an artist being able to survive while still creating are a constant source of tension, but there’s never a time when either of them says, well, we’re not getting rich of this, so we should give it up and get a steady job to pay the bills. They fight and they struggle, but the art and being able to keep creating it remains at the forefront of their relationship through it all.
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award-Winner Lake Bell On Needing To Breathe Through Her Butt More
“F— it. Give me a Stella and a vodka and I will double-fist for the rest of the night.” Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award-Winner Lake Bell On Needing To Breathe Through Her Butt More
Read the full article »Monterey Media Takes Matthew Porterfield’s I Used To Be Darker
Monterey Media Takes Matthew Porterfield’s I Used To Be Darker
Read the full article »Sundance Branding Suites Have Swagster Need To Have Names Published Satisfied
Sundance Branding Suites Have Swagster Need To Have Names Published Satisfied
Read the full article »Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Heists $1 Million From Sundance Selects/IFC
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Heists $1 Million From Sundance Selects/IFC
Read the full article »2013 Sundance Film Festival Awards
For Immediate Release January 26, 2013 2013 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FEATURE FILM AWARD. Blood Brother, Fruitvale, A River Changes Course and Jiseul Earn Grand Jury Prizes Audience Favorites Include Blood Brother, Fruitvale, The Square (Al Midan), Metro Manila and This is Martin Bonner Park City, UT — Sundance Institute this evening announced the Jury,…
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The performance footage is most engaging, when we see the girls of Pussy Riot rehearsing and performing; it’s guerrilla activism, shot guerrilla style, and it’s just great that it was even captured for historical purposes, given that the Pussy Riot collective has become a big enough deal to be of note as one of the more relevant and effective activist groups of our time, along with Occupy. Interviews with the girls’ parents round things out nicely, giving us a broader perspective on who these young women are.
Read the full article »eOne Takes A Sundance Bite Of We Are What We Are
eOne Takes A Sundance Bite Of We Are What We Are
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The patterns of nature and mathematics – and the breaking of those patterns which in turn make new patterns – are heavily threaded throughout the structure of this film, and the complexity of the ideas it explores and the way in which it inevitably requires the audience to actively participate in seeking to understand it is very much like a cinematic Socratic Circle. Socrates taught that all thinking derives from asking questions; the aim therefore is not to arrive at one right answer, but that asking one question should lead to further questions, and from this collective back-and-forth we construct meaning and answers.
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SPC Picks Up Linklater-Delpy-Hawke Before Midnight
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