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Fire of Love : Q&A with Director Sara Dosa on the Oscar Nominated Doc

Synopsis : Fire of Love tells the story of two French lovers, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of our planet, while simultaneously capturing the most explosive volcano imagery ever recorded. Along the way, they changed our understanding of the…

Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘Jamojaya’ is a Contemplative Portrait of Father, Son, and Fame

The first 10pm screening I ever attended at the Sundance Film Festival was Justin Chon’s Ms. Purple, which, while melodically slow, was absolutely captivating and well worth the late hour. Chon starred in his subsequent film, Blue Bayou, a more conventional drama about a family torn apart by unexpected immigration news. His latest, Jamojaya, is…

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…

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…

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…

Sundance Film Festival Review- The blunt end of “Sharp Stick”

Around 5 minutes into Sharp Stick 26 year old Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) goes to put a “pre-eviction” note on the door of a tenant her mother is about to evict from the apartment complex they run. Or, so it seems it is an apartment complex. They refer to him as the tenant in 1-A, but…

Sundance Film Festival Review- Searching Intimacy with, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.”

A favorite talking point of mine is that too many people confuse lust for love. Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (which from this point further will be mentioned simple as Good Luck… for brevities sake) in no way connects to this idea. But, in a similar vein, it looks at intimacy in a way that breaks it…

Sundance Film Festival Review – Does “Dual” Duel Itself?

Ask me what my favorite films are and eventually- when I want to throw in some more modern choices – I’ll bring up Duncan Jones’s 2009 debut, Moon. With more than one layer to it, I always try to boil it down the philosophical journey of Moon into a signal sentence; “would you get along…

Sundance Film Festival Review – “After Yang” brings fresh notes to a familiar theme

All works of art focus on territories that have been tread on by many other artists before them. If you’re attached the methods of a classic piece to convey a specific message, you might be adverse to a newer attempt that aims to shed light on the same subject. While it is easy to still…

In-Person Sundance Film Festival Cancelled

With just over two weeks before the 2022 Sundance Film Festival was scheduled to begin, the decision has been made to cancel all in-person activities in Utah. A press release put out by Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival stressed the level of work put in by staff to try to create a safe…

Sundance 2022 Attendees Will Need to Be Fully Vaccinated

Sundance Film Festival Director Tabitha Jackson communicated important updates on the 2022 edition in a press release disseminated this morning. The letter was titled “The 2022 Sundance Film Festival: A New Convergence, Another Trip Around the Sun” and confirmed January 20th-30th, 2022 as the dates for a hybrid festival that will be “the site of…