Sundance 2022: Mars One, Gentle, Klondike
Sundance serves as a launching pad not just for American indie darlings, but also for emerging talent from across the globe. Among the first films screened in this year’s World…
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Sundance 2022: When You Finish Saving the World, Living, Call Jane
Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut “When You Finish Saving the World” opened the Sundance film festival this year with a dramedy style that’s familiar to the Park City event. We may…
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Sundance 2022: Nothing Compares, All That Breathes, Tantura
On their face, stories concerning a controversial 1990s pop star, three Indian men dedicating their lives to saving birds, and a decades-old massacre shouldn’t connect, but such is the unpredictability…
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Sundance 2022: Master, Emergency, 892
Three very different stories of the modern Black experience launched the U.S. Dramatic Competition program at Sundance this year, with mixed results. They all have performances that distinguish them from…
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We Need to Talk About Cosby
Where do you start to talk about Bill Cosby? He was one of the most popular entertainment figures of the twentieth century, a man who reshaped the television landscape in…
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Sundance 2022: Calendar Girls, We Met in Virtual Reality, The Territory
In this second dispatch for the World Cinema Documentary Competition, immersive filmmaking takes hold, embedding viewers in dream sequences, virtual realities, and remote jungles. The three selections in this dispatch…
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Sundance 2022: Leonor Will Never Die, Utama, You Won’t Be Alone
The World Dramatic slate at this year’s Sundance Film Festival continued with three debut feature films that play with conventions of genre cinema. Martika Ramirez Escobar’s meta fantasy “Leonor Will…
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Sundance 2022: Fire of Love, Riotsville, USA, La Guerra Civil
A volcano’s eruption, spewing lava in its giddiness, is a many splendored thing. So too is a relationship that seems to have been as certain as the earth’s movement, as if it…
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Louie Anderson: 1953-2022
Louis Anderson, the stand-up comedian whose success led a film and television career that would earn him three Emmy Awards, died today in Las Vegas at the age of 68.…
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