Sundance 2019 Archives - The Playlist

Director Minhal Baig On Jada Pinkett Smith Giving ‘Hala’ Life [Podcast]

December 13, 2019 7:32 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, Interviews, News, Podcasts

You probably have not heard of Minhal Baig...yet. If you check out her IMDB you'd see she's written on the celebrated Hulu TV series "Ramy" and "BoJack Horseman." But, Baig's calling card will be "Hala," a ve...

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‘Official Secrets’ Trailer: Keira Knightley Blows The Whistle On The False Justifications For The Iraq War

Margaret Kennedy

June 12, 2019 8:33 am

Festivals, News, Trailers

Hitting the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year in January, Keira Knightley starred in the political thriller “Official Secrets.” The film is based on the book "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War," which was ...

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Joe Talbot Beats The Odds With ‘The Last Black Man In San Francisco’ [Interview]

Gregory Ellwood

June 6, 2019 10:27 am

Awards Campaign, Features, Interviews, News

Imagine dropping out of high school, never attending college, but still dreaming of making a feature-length film. Imagine the thousands, maybe tens of thousands of other filmmakers looking for their chance at g...

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‘The Last Black Man In San Francisco’ Trailer: This Dramatic Sundance Winner Looks Stunning

Julia Teti

March 21, 2019 9:01 am

News, Trailers

It feels like the Sundance Film Festival was ages, not months, ago. But the one selection we still cannot shake is "The Last Black Man In San Francisco." The film was lauded by critics just a few months ago whe...

‘Photograph’ Trailer: A Love Story Is Captured In Mumbai In This Sundance Standout

Julia Teti

March 19, 2019 11:33 am

News, Trailers

With Sundance Film Festival officially in the rearview, the awards handed out and the studios finishing up their buys, now the films, the filmmakers and the studios that bought up movies are looking to plan the...

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Matthias Schoenaerts Is Ready To Work After ‘The Mustang’ [Interview]

Gregory Ellwood

February 28, 2019 4:35 pm

Awards Campaign, Interviews, News

PARK CITY - Matthias Schoenaerts is back. Well, you probably didn't know he was gone, but the 41-year-old actor had taken most of 2018 off after shooting four movies in a row. He returns with Laure de Clermon...

‘Honeyland’ Is A Haunting Portrait Of A Dying Way Of Life [Sundance Review]

Gary Garrison

February 9, 2019 7:43 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

There is an unassuming languidness to Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska’s anthropologic documentary about a rural Macedonian beekeeper, "Honeyland." It’s a quiet and passive film that’s content to luxuriate...

‘David Crosby: Remember My Name’ Is A Soulful & Intimate Portrait Of Regret [Sundance Review]

Jordan Ruimy

February 8, 2019 3:29 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Rock documentaries generally skew towards humanizing musical icons and paint portraits of overcoming personal adversity. That’s just the kind of way they lean, complete with a rise and fall and redemption arcs....

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Oscar Comes To Sundance & Six Other Takeaways From A Workmanlike Fest

Gregory Ellwood

February 8, 2019 9:57 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, Festivals, News

It's been less than a week since the 2019 Sundance Film Festival projected its final film, but it already feels like a million years ago. That might have been because overall it was strangely quiet in Park City...

‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ Is An Astonishing Murder Mystery Investigation Doc [Sundance Review]

Jordan Ruimy

February 7, 2019 4:30 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

It's a cliché, but "more than you bargained for" documentaries are typically the best ones. Those films that feature a filmmaker on an odyssey quest for one piece of truth, but discovers something richer and mo...

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