The opening weekend of the reimagined Sundance Film Festival is underway, and I’m convinced that a digital Sundance will be more than a one-time affair.
Sundance Film Festival 2021 Diary
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Maltese drama ‘Luzzu’ transforms a struggling fisherman into an everyday hero to remember.
Filmmaker Alex Camilleri stays true to the neo-realistic moviemaking style by casting Luzzu with non-actors.
The Reimagined Sundance Film Festival 2021 Diary
It’s Sundance week, but few if any filmmakers or media pros are trekking to Park City, Utah. This Year’s Sundance Film Festival is all virtual due to the spread of COVID-19.
Thai drama ‘One for the Road’ Reignites the Buddy Road Trip Movie
Thai Filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya shakes a delicious buddy road trip drama with ‘One for the Road’
‘In the Same Breath’ Director Captures the Emotional Toll of Covid-19
Stand-out documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang (One Child Nation), born in China, captures the emotional toll of Covid-19 by replacing news headlines with intimate stories of personal losses and recoveries.
XR technology is changing the Sundance Film Festival for good.
This Year’s Sundance Film Festival is all virtual due to the spread of COVID-19. Our smartphones are festival movie screens.
This Week in Cinemas & Streams: Travel Back To 1630s New England and meet ‘The Witch’
The Witch, from A24, delivers horrific beauty, breakout performances and more intelligent storytelling than a handful of found footage thrillers.
Our Sundance Brand Is Controversy
Philip Seymour Hoffman: After a weekend at Sundance spent celebrating two new movies, an untimely and tragic farewell
Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, who passed Sunday February 2nd from a drug overdose, was a true hybrid artist; seamlessly shifting from stage work at New York’s LAByrinth theater to larger Broadway productions as well as blockbuster spectacles like the recent The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Remembering Cinema Advocate and Veteran Critic Roger Ebert
I’m a proud member of the Roger Ebert army of fans; one of many who was lucky to add a firm handshake to what had been a long-distance relationship.