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Festivals (10 posts found)
Sundance Review: “Whiplash”
"Good Job." According to Terrance Fletcher, conductor of the prestigious Schaffer University studio band, these are the two most harmful words to an artist. To become a great artist you must surpass the limits you thought you had. Fletcher's manic temperament ...
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‘Wish I Was Here’ Kickstarters Left Waiting for Tickets
Zach Braff's Wish I Was Here made a big splash this past May when the actor behind Garden State launched a Kickstarter campaign to seek funding for his latest drama. That decision made a lot of headlines in Hollywood trade outlets, but some were skeptical how ...
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Elijah Wood Set to Produce Trilogy Based on Serial Killer
Elijah Wood's production company SpectreVision has announced its latest project at Sundance today and it is probably not what you would expect from the star of The Lord of the Rings series. His latest is a horror film simply titled, The Boy.
The Boy would b...
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“Whiplash” Kicks off the 2014 Sundance Film Festival
The 30th Sundance Film Festival is off to a strong start, as its opening film Whiplash has already been purchased by Sony Pictures Worldwide.
The film stars Miles Teller, who is no stranger to Sundance as he last starred in The Spectacular Now, which also h...
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A Cautionary Note On Festival Coverage: Sundance and the Hyperbole Problem
is the beginning of the Sundance Film Festival! A joyous occasion for most of the cinephile kingdom, but one for which warnings need to be issued before film reviews start trickling in. The position of this festival on the calendar, its reputation as a launchi...
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Sundance Institute Selects Its 2014 Jurors
The Sundance Institute released the name of the six juries awarding prizes at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Among the members of 2014's U.S. Dramatic Jury, most will be familiar faces with respectable pedigrees. The committee of five will include critics...
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Complete List of Sundance Film Festival 2014 World Premiers
The Sundance Film Festival has announced their hotly anticipated premiers for the 2014 festival. There's plenty to be excited about as variety is one of the Sundance's well-known specialties. There are new films' from Mike Cahill (Another Earth) and Lynn Shelt...
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AFI Fest Review: ‘We Are the Best!’
It's 1982, and punk is dead. But a trio of preteen girls decides that they'll keep its spirit alive.
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AFI Fest Review: ‘Moebius’
Moebius seems like the purest distillation of everything that Ki-duk Kim is as a filmmaker. It's completely without dialogue, tears through taboos like the Kool-Aid Man through tissue paper, and sticks itself in your mind like a difficult thorn. It's the kind ...
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AFI Fest Review: ‘Our Sunhi’
There are blind spots in every cinema lover's list of films that they have seen, and then there's whatever I have with Hong Sang-soo. Until this year, I had never even heard of the man. And once I had, I discovered that a good deal of critics and movie lovers ...
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