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Sundance Film Festival Review: Scoot McNairy and Emilia Jones Capture the Complexities of Father-daughter Relationships in Fairyland
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Sundance Film Festival Review: Scoot McNairy and Emilia Jones Capture the Complexities of Father-daughter Relationships in Fairyland

Sometimes the most emotionally fulfilling relationships, which shape a person’s entire life perspective and development, prove to be the ones that society deems to be unconventional. While society is often unwilling to accept the seemingly unconventional connections people can develop, some of the most emotionally captivating films are character-driven stories that chronicle and celebrate those…

Karen Benardello
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Sundance Film Festival : “Little Richard: I Am Everything” Review / Director Lisa Cortés Made an Uneven Tribute to a Flamboyant Artist
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Sundance Film Festival : “Little Richard: I Am Everything” Review / Director Lisa Cortés Made an Uneven Tribute to a Flamboyant Artist

“Little Richard: I Am Everything” is a documentary about the life and career of the late legendary Rhythm & Blues singer. Born Richard Wayne Penniman, he was a queer black man from Macon, Georgia, whose flamboyant lifestyle and energetic showmanship burst onto the rock and roll scene. Even though he had difficulty with his father,…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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Fair Play
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Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘Fair Play’ is a Stressful Cautionary Tale Against Workplace Romances

People often meet the loves of their lives while working together. An office environment can be exactly the right place for a romance to begin and mature, but it can also be a toxic setting where ambition and ego run counter to the personal feelings people have for each other outside of work. There may…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘STILL: A Michael J. Fox’ is a Stirring and Creative Portrait of the Actor

Michael J. Fox was an incredibly popular actor in the 1980s, winning Emmy Awards for the sitcom Family Ties and starring in the science fiction film Back to the Future. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease the next decade at a very young age, something he kept hidden from the world for several years. Since then, he has…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Sundance Film Festival : Review / “Kim’s Video,” A Renowned New York Video Store for Cinephiles Finally Gets its Own Documentary
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Sundance Film Festival : Review / “Kim’s Video,” A Renowned New York Video Store for Cinephiles Finally Gets its Own Documentary

The Sundance Film Festival brings audiences back to the theaters in Park City after two years of employing the virtual model. With that in mind it seems appropriate to dive right into “Kim’s Video” a documentary about the video store which satisfied the New York City cinephiles for almost more than two decades. Located on…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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Sometimes I Think About Dying
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Sundance Film Festival Review – Daisy Ridley Anchors the Entertaining Human Comedy ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’

It’s often hard to explain natural impulses and the things that fill our dreams, or even our waking moments. Thinking frequently of one’s own death might seem morbid or terrifying, but it can also provoke a more neutral curiosity. That’s the case for the protagonist of Sometimes I Think About Dying, an antisocial office worker who…

Abe Friedtanzer
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20 Days in Mariupol
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Sundance Film Festival Review – ’20 Days in Mariupol’ is a Vital Journalism Documentary from Ukraine

One of the primary functions of documentary filmmaking is to educate audiences, and to expose something previously unknown to a wider breadth of people. The hope is that the world learning about an injustice will help to prevent it from happening again. Yet, unfortunately, that’s not always the case, and history all too often repeats…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Sundance Film Festival Announces 2023 Features Lineup!
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Sundance Film Festival Announces 2023 Features Lineup!

2023 Sundance Film Festival Announces Lineup of 99 Feature Films. Find Out Why All Eyes Are On Independents. In-Person Ticket Packages Now On Sale; Online Ticket Package Sales Begin December 13.  Top L–R: Bravo, Burkina!, Girl, Polite Society, Mami Wata. Center L–R: Going Varsity in Mariachi, The Accidental Getaway Driver, Deep Rising, Cassandro. Bottom L–R:…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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Sundance Film Festival Review: Festival Favorite ‘Navalny’ is a Gripping Documentary Thriller
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Sundance Film Festival Review: Festival Favorite ‘Navalny’ is a Gripping Documentary Thriller

Mounting a campaign against a powerful regime in any environment can be a challenge. But when the reason for action is because of widespread corruption, it’s a battle that may be impossible to win since the other side will be willing to take any and all necessary action, regardless of its legality. The current state…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Sundance Film Festival Review : Free Chol Soo Lee, How the Wrongful Conviction of an Asian Man Led to a Significant Movement
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Sundance Film Festival Review : Free Chol Soo Lee, How the Wrongful Conviction of an Asian Man Led to a Significant Movement

Longtime journalists-turned-directors Julie Ha and Eugene Yi capture a sensitive and unique moment in Asian American history. At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, they debuted “Free Chol Soo Lee” — their recent documentary feature — which shed a new light on the story of Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee, whose life was brutalized by America’s…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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