Tag: sundance2017
Sundance 2017 Wrap: Tracking Down the Buzz from the Festival that Was
The extra snowy 2017 edition of the Sundance Film Festival has long since been buttoned up and our late-landing reviews and coverage have just about all been filed as well (jump to the bottom for the full list). As a...
Sundance 2017: New Frontier VR Round-Up
VR has changed enormously since we explored the offerings at Sundance 2016. The HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Sony Playstation VR are all out and Google has jumped in big time with its Cardboard-replacing Daydream. One can only guess at...
Sundance 2017 Review: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Feels Both Fresh and Vintage
The word “sumptuous” doesn’t get bandied about very much during Sundance when describing films. In the land of ice and snow, things are either “quirky”, “dramadies” or “depressing as shit”, but they’re seldom languid, or bucolic. Perhaps that’s what elevated...
AnarchyVision at Sundance 2017: Macon Blair, TROPHY, QUEST and More
The closeout of Sundance 2017 saw Macon Blair's film I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore take top prize - quite the coup for a guy we're all big fans of 'round here. 2017 was a tremendous year...
Sundance 2017 Review: Damn Those Unbearably Funny L.A. TIMES
L.A. Times plays like the flipside of the coin that is Whit Stillman’s aristocratic male-centric New York, where snoots court debutantes and intellectualize feeling superior. In writer/director/star, Michelle Morgan’s West Coast, a group of friends attempt to find love, happiness,...
Sundance 2017: BLACK HOLES Is A Gloriously Stylish Animated Oddity
Short film programs at major film festivals are a tricky animal, always struggling to draw attention away from the longer form material on display. And yet for those who dip in there are some absolute gems to find. And Laurent...
Sundance 2017 Interview: Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman on Waking Up LEMON
Isaac wakes up feeling old… and unaccomplished. He’s a brilliant dramaturge in his own eyes and in the eyes of whichever of his acting students he can convince. He has a serious girlfriend, he thinks. She’s blind and they don’t...
From Sundance to ChefDance: A Tradition of Culinary & Cultural Sustenance on Main Street
During an event like Sundance, one certainly hopes for good film. But what about good food?
Sundance 2017 Review: BUSHWICK, A Provocative and Chilling Picture of America in Crisis
Ever since I saw Cooties in 2014 and fought with our founding editor in order to review the film (I lost out, of course) I’ve been anxious to see how Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott would follow up on their...
AnarchyVision: Sundance 2017, Talking RUMBLE, WIND RIVER, Al Gore, More
This week's edition is live from Park City, Utah, where The Founder is chatted about, along with selections from the Sundance slate, including Wind River, Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World and Al Gore's Inconvenient Sequel....
Sundance 2017 Review: I DON'T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE, One Hell of a Ride
Most of us met Macon Blair onscreen as a the bearded, disheveled lead of Blue Ruin. Homeless and hapless, the character soon evolved into one of the more startling and indelible in indie cinema, a bravado performance that justifiably gained...
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RAW Clip Welcomes Aspiring Vets With Bloody Hazing Ritual
By now you might have heard a thing or two about Raw, a film that lapped up awards left and right on the international film festival circuit and even left some early audiences in a queasy state of shock. Julia...
Sundance 2017 Preview: Midnighters, Spotlight, and More
The Sundance Film Festival kicks off today and we wrap our preview series with a look at the Midnight, Spotlight, and other remaining sections. For a refresher, go back and take a peek at our previews of the Narrative competitions,...
Sundance 2017 Preview: The Premieres
So far our Sundance Film Fest preview series has taken you on a tour of the US Dramatic, US World, and Next sections, as well as a brief stop in docu land for the US Docu, World Docu, and Docu...
Sundance 2017 Preview: Documentaries
Our Sundance Film Festival preview series continues. Yesterday we talked about the US Dramatic, World Dramatic, and Next section. Today we'll go on a quick tour of the documentaries playing in the US Docu and World Docu competitions, as well...
Sundance 2017 Preview: The 3 Narrative Competitions
It's Sundance time! Yes the indie world's biggest fest kicks off Thursday in snowy Park City, Utah and the SA crew will be on hand to sort through the buzz and bring you the what's what. But before that starts,...
Sundance 2017 Unveils Competition and NEXT Titles
The Sundance Film Festival has announced their first batch of flicks for the 2017 edition, happening in Park City, Utah, January 19- 29.
