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Sundance (10 posts found)
Sundance 2017 Wrap-Up
Marshall Shaffer wraps up his coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival with this look back at the week that was.
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Sundance 2017 Dispatch: Three Distinct Love Stories
Marshall Shaffer submits this dispatch from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on three different love stories, crossing time and the cosmic plane.
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Sundance 2017 Dispatch: Connecting with the World
In his first dispatch from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Marshall Shaffer talks about films like "Landline," "Person to Person," and a documentary on the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Sundance 2016 Dispatch: The Future of the “Sundance Film”
At Sundance 2016, Marshall Shaffer explores the future impact of the once-iconic festival.
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“Tangerine”
Note. This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Much of the buzz around Tangerine at Sundance has concerned how the movie was shot: entirely on an iPhone 5s. Which is a deft distraction from the fact that it also f...
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Sundance Review: “Knock Knock”
Bitches be crazy, am I right? Always knocking on your door with some sad-sack story about getting left out in the rain, needing to use a phone, and then forcing themselves on you before going batshit insane. Jeez!
That’s the tone and premise of Eli Roth’s l...
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Sundance Review: “Sleeping With Other People”
When director Leslye Headland presented her second film, Sleeping with Other People, at its world premiere in Park City, she pitched it to the audience as “When Harry Met Sally for assholes.” Given this statement, along with the fact that Headland’s previous e...
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Sundance Review: “White God”
Dogs are better than humans. Deep down, we all know this, though we may not acknowledge it. It is for this reason that, though it is rife with flaws, White God is a magnificent achievement. Any film that exploits the inherent greatness of canines with a story ...
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Sundance Review: “Mistress America”
After the black and white meanderings of a directionless Brooklyn waif in Frances Ha, director Noah Baumbach and actress Greta Gerwig have teamed up once again, for something equally as quirky and wonderful (in color this time). In Mistress America we meet Tra...
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Sundance Review: “The Hunting Ground”
As the graduation processional plays bombastically in the background, dozens of young college hopefuls and families open that fateful letter. Tears of joys and squeals of delight are a brief moment of carefree excitement; elated reactions quickly tempered by w...
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