Sundance Film Festival 2019 Archives

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

February 9, 2019 7:43 am

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...

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‘Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary’ Is A Riveting, Twisted Examination Of Non-Fiction Filmmaking [Sundance Review]

Jordan Ruimy

February 8, 2019 5:02 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

The unbelievable strangeness inherent in truth has made for some incredibly destabilizing documentaries about the blurred lines of fact and fiction. Films like “Dear Zachary,” “Catfish,” “Exit Through The Gift ...

‘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....

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Knock Down The House

‘Knock Down the House’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Fire Up Your Political Spirit [Sundance Review]

Jordan Ruimy

February 7, 2019 5:32 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Young, female, brown, carrying oh-so-terrifying socialist ideals of equality for the underrepresented, and not afraid to speak her mind loudly, U.S. House of Representatives politician and activist Alexandria O...

‘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...

Visual Chaos Reigns In The Dazzling ‘We Are Little Zombies’ [Sundance Review]

Joe Blessing

February 7, 2019 2:09 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

From Japan, perennially a world leader in the art of sensory overload, comes "We Are Little Zombies," a visually anarchic exploration of the difficulty of expressing emotion within a hyperreal media landscape. ...

‘To The Stars’ Is A Beautiful, But Familiar, Coming Of Age Tale [Sundance Review]

Jordan Ruimy

February 6, 2019 3:38 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

The bible belt of early 1960s rural Oklahoma wasn't a great time and place in America for outsiders. And this god-fearing country is certainly no place for two girls that may be slowly falling in love and calli...

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Best & Worst Of The 2019 Sundance Film Festival

Gregory Ellwood and Jordan Ruimy

February 5, 2019 6:33 pm

Features, News

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival saw a festival in flux. Amazon Studios dominated the acquisitions front picking up five different films at almost unheard of prices while A24 arrived with five films and left wi...

‘Judy & Punch’: Mia Wasikowska Plays A Revenge-Seeking Puppeteer In Tonally Awkward Period Tale [Sundance Review]

Carlos Aguilar

February 5, 2019 2:06 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Aiming to dissect crude entertainment that relies on violence to induce laughter, as well as its repercussions in interpersonal relationships and society at large; Australian actress-turned-director Mirrah Foul...

‘Luce’: Julius Onah’s Powerfully Constructed Psychodrama Of Race & Social Politics Is Brilliantly Tense [Sundance Review]

Jordan Ruimy

February 3, 2019 5:31 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

In two short years, Trump’s toxic America, has turned race, privilege, and class into incendiary topics while amplifying intolerance, and Julius Onah's powerfully constructed "Luce," mixes all these socio-polit...

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