Tag: sundance2015
Sundance 2015 Review: CALL ME LUCKY, Bobcat Goldthwait Documents His Mentor
I admit that when I first saw Bobcat Goldthwait on screen sometime in the 1980s, he of the Grover voice making me laugh in the second Police Academy movie, it never occurred to me that he'd be helming one...
Sundance 2015 Review: WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE?
She approaches the piano with a regality that's startling, her eyes piercing the crowd and her shoulders locked in an almost feline repose. She places a hand on the grand piano sat in front of her and looks out,...
Sundance 2015 Review: THE VISIT, A Speculative Documentary
So, the aliens have landed. Well, not really. But let's for a moment say they have. E.T.s are in town, and they're ready to talk. To whom do they converse? Who do we, collectively, send out to initiate the...
Sundance 2015 Review: SLOW WEST, A Deeply-Reflective Action Movie
The fact that the Western is a troubled genre is hardly news. It's gone from the most prevalent narrative film style to a far more niche set of works. Some neo-Westerns, like Star Wars or Serenity, go operatic, taking...
Sundance 2015 Review: THE FORBIDDEN ROOM, Weird And Wonderful
There are few things as futile (or daunting) as trying to make sense on paper of a Guy Maddin film. Save for My Winnipeg, which given its relative specificity and coherent narration serving almost as commentary for the flood...
Sundance 2015 Interview: Lily Tomlin, Badass GRANDMA
Grandma is by far the best film to come from writer/director Paul Weitz, the mind that brought us such films as the 90s sex romp, American Pie, and the feel-great Nick Hornby adaptation About a Boy. The triumph of his...
Sundance 2015: ScreenAnarchy Wraps It Up With Our Reviews And Top Picks
This year's Sundance Film Festival was eclectic as ever, with a slew of standout films, including big winners Me, Earl And The Dying Girl and The Witch. It was also a year where sales were more robust, no thanks to...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks Sundance 2015, PADDINGTON, Oscar Buzz And More
With all the fest fun there's been a bit of a delay getting some of these ScreenAnarchyvision vids up for y'all, so here you get a bit of a megamix of vids from the last few weeks.The main entry of...
Sundance 2015 Interview: Jemaine Clement And James Strouse Talk PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS
James Strouse's third feature People, Places, Things finds cartoonist and teacher Will Henry (Jemaine Clement) thrust into single-fatherhood after his wife decides on her twin-daughter's birthday to engage in some extra-marital shennanigans in the bathroom.A huge part of the...
Sundance 2015 Review: PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS, Perfectly Pleasant
People, Places, Things - a dry, almost forgettable title that refers to a film much better than those adjectives strung together by commas. It's a quotidian moniker for a film that's kind of exceptional, celebrated not only because of...
Sundance 2015 Interview: DIGGING FOR FIRE With Joe Swanberg
Joe Swanberg has never looked to filmmaking as a means of escapism. With an eye attuned to realism, Swanberg has a great talent for exploring and working through themes of relationships and ageing and the correlation between the two....
Sundance 2015 Review: The Holy Fools Are DRUNK, STONED, BRILLIANT, DEAD
To those not fortunate enough to have come of age in the 60s heyday of revolutionary freethinking, it may come as a surprise to learn that the story of National Lampoon, in many ways, is the story of the birth...
Sundance 2015 Review: HOMESICK Charts A Tender Symmetry Of Yearning
Norwegian filmmaker Anne Sewitsky made waves at Sundance in 2011 when her feature debut Happy Happy won the Grand Jury World Dramatic Prize. Sewitsky returned to the festival this year with her third feature, Homesick, a deconstructionist family drama which...
Sundance 2015 Award Winners
The 2015 Sundance Film Festival came to the penultimate moment tonight with this year's awards ceremony, which saw big wins for festival faves Me, Earl And The Dying Girl and The Witch. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's tale of teenage cinephiles won both...
Sundance 2015 Review: Invaluable Happenings From STATION TO STATION
It consists of countless bands, playing on and off a polychromatic train as it passes through innumerable cities. But Station To Station is no rockumentary. That it often features brilliant bands playing live on a train will perhaps evoke, for some, the choo...
Sundance 2015 Review: THINGS OF THE AIMLESS WANDERER, A World-Class Stunner
To be absolutely mesmerized by a film, I mean totally transfixed, is a rare happening in cinema, but should be the norm, right? Rwandan director Kivu Ruhorahoza's Things Of The Aimless Wanderer is just such a film. Spectacular and ambitious...
Sundance 2015 Review: CARTEL LAND Documents A Moral Quagmire
An astonishing journalistic achievement, Cartel Land captures in unprecedented ways the moral quagmire that inexorably links the consumers of drugs in the U.S. with the suppliers south of the border. What sets this film apart is the unique way...
Sundance 2015 Review: ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL, More Clever Than You Think
The title for Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is kind of appalling, a sing-song rhyming cadence that reminds of Lobo's buttery 1971 pop hit "Me And You and a Dog Named Boo". Its premise -- a young...
Sundance 2015 Review: ENTERTAINMENT, Seeking The Legendary Laugh To Masterful Effect
Many would say there are two distinct poles to cinema-going. There are those times when you want something warm and familiar. It's comfort food you can share with your family. Not too sweet or sour, not too heavy. And then...
Sundance 2015 Review: THE BRONZE Is Comedy Gold
This summer is sure to produce an onslaught of mindless trash disguised as comedy. Adam Sandler will make more cool millions, Paul Blart will potentially earn more undeserved revenue, and comedic celebrities who have shone in better films will be...
