Get your parka ready, the Sundance Film Festival kicks off tonight in snowy Park City. So far in our preview series we've taken a quick tour of the Dramatic Competitions and of the Documentaries. We conclude the series with all the rest! Have fun!
Impetigore
Many ScreenAnarchy readers will be familiar with the films of Indonesian maestro Joko Anwar (Ritual, Satan's Slaves, Gundala). His latest follows a woman as she returns to her home village and finds a not-so friendly welcome.
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Beast Beast
Danny Madden's feature debut stars Shirley Chen, Will Madden, Jose Angeles, Courtney Dietz, and Daniel Rashid as Southern youths navigating the travails of growing up in the 21st Century.
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Wendy
Perhaps the most anticipated follow-up in years, Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin's sophomore pic is this wild reimagining of Peter Pan through the heroine's POV. Fox Searchlight is set to bring it out.
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Spree
Veteran indie director Eugene Kotlyarenko (0s & 1s, Wobble Palace) directs Stranger Things star Joe Keery in this social media crimer.
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The Night House
Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Stacy Martin, Evan Jonigkeit, and Vondie Curtis-Hall star in the latest from midnight king David Bruckner (The Signal, The Ritual).
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The Climb
Michael Covino and best pal Kyle Marvin's movie is one of the rare films to achieve the film festival version of the EGOT, the CaTTS (that’s Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, Sundance). Sony Classics will bring this charming comedy to theaters this Spring.
Spotlight
Downhill
Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus star in The Way Way Back directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash's American adaptation of Force Majeure. YES!
Premieres
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
Borscht goes feature-length! Well sort of... Daniels, Hannah Fidell, Alexa Lim Haas, Lucas Leyva, Olivia Lloyd, Jillian Mayer, The Meza Brothers, Terence Nance, Brett Potter, Dylan Redford, Xander Robin, Julian Yuri Rodriguez, and Celia Rowlson-Hall all teamed up to direct this story of a boat set in (where else?) Miami. That's gonna be one packed world premiere screening.
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Bad Hair
Justin Simien returns to Sundance after Dear White People with this 1989-set horror satire about a possessed weave hairdo. It premieres tonight!
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La Leyenda Negra
Patricia Vidal Delgado takes us inside the life of a "soon-to-be undocumented teen" as she fights to stay in her life in Compton in this feature debut.
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The Nest
Sean Durkin's long awaited follow-up to 2011 film Martha Marcy May Marlene stars Jude Law in a 1980s London-set family drama.
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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
We don't often spend a lot of time looking at what's playing in Sundance's Kids section. But when a series is directed by The Station Agent, Win Win, and Spotlight director Tom McCarthy, hey it's gotta be worth a gander. You can check it out on Disney+ soon.
Kids