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The Little Things and Christopher Nolan’s Insomnia Are Mirror Images of One Another
February 9, 2021Spoiler warning: Don’t read this if you don’t want major spoilers about The Little Things and 2002’s Insomnia....
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How the Artisans of Cherry Told a Sweeping Story From One Man’s POV (Video)
February 5, 2021Everything in Cherry is from the point of view of Tom Holland’s titular character, a heartbroken...
Interviews
John and the Hole Director Pascual Sisto on his ‘Contemporary Fable’ and the Function of Bunkers
February 3, 2021John and the Hole plays out like a fairy tale in many moments, which is exactly...
Movie News
2021 Sundance Awards – Complete List of Winners
February 2, 2021Since this year’s Sundance awards winners were announced via a virtual ceremony, with pre-recorded clips, there...
Movie News
How So Many Lil Peep Songs Made Their Way Into Cusp
February 2, 2021Cusp is a documentary that follows a group of three rural Texas teen girls who pass a...
Movie News
Strawberry Mansion Used a 16mm Film-Out, Meaning It Shot Digitally and Transferred to Film Stock in Post
February 2, 2021Strawberry Mansion takes inspiration from ’80s children’s movies of the co-directors’ youths, and in order to...
Movie News
Mass Tackles Incredibly Difficult Subject Matter, But The Actors Kept Things Light On Set
February 2, 2021At the end of the Sundance Q&A for Mass, a festgoer asked the four lead actors...
Movie News
How Eight for Silver Uses Werewolves as an Addiction Metaphor
February 1, 2021Visually, the monsters at the center of Eight for Silver are not your typical werewolf creatures....
Movie News
Jockey Director Clint Bentley: ‘No Jockey Wants Their Kid to Be a Jockey’
February 1, 2021Jockey director Clint Bentley became interested in horse racing jockeys because his dad was a jockey —...
Movie News
Cryptozoo by Dash Shaw Is the Rare Hand-Drawn Animated Feature for Adults
January 31, 2021In his introduction before the world premiere of Cryptozoo, Sundance programmer Charlie Sextro laid out exactly...
Movie News
“The Touch of the Master’s Hand” Moviemakers On Editing Their Mormon Masturbation Comedy Short (Video)
January 31, 2021Sundance short “The Touch of the Master’s Hand” takes a humorous yet sensitive look at a...
Movie News
On the Count of Three Director Jerrod Carmichael On Walking A Tonal Tightrope With His Suicide-Pact Film
January 31, 2021The subject matter of On the Count Three, which follows two longtime friends who make a...
Movie News
Censor Looks at Video Nasty Era of ’80s Britain, With Sound Design Influenced by Watership Down
January 29, 2021Censor — from British writer-director Prano Bailey-Bond — looks at ’80s Britain when the Video Nasty...
Movie News
Sundance Film Festival Director Tabitha Jackson on Opening Day: ‘Energy — That’s What a Festival Is’
January 28, 2021Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson says that even if the festival can’t be in-person this...
Movie News
Priyanka Chopra Jonas Was Cast in The White Tiger After Ignoring Director Ramin Bahrani’s Notes
January 28, 2021Priyanka Chopra Jonas secured the role of Pinky Madam in The White Tiger by ignoring what...
Movie News
To Cast Balram in The White Tiger, Ramin Bahrani Made the Most of an Exploratory Trip to India and Went Off-Script During Casting
January 21, 2021Ramin Bahrani and Aravind Adiga attended Columbia University together in the late ’90s, and a few...
Movie News
MLK/FBI Director Sam Pollard and Editor Laura Tomaselli on Building a Fruitful Working Relationship
January 14, 2021MLK/FBI traces how the FBI surveilled and harassed Martin Luther King Jr. under J. Edgar Hoover....
Movie News
Fatale: Deon Taylor and Roxanne Avent on Erotic Thrillers and How the Genre ‘Checks All the Boxes’
January 7, 2021Fatale director Deon Taylor and producer Roxanne Avent say their Hilary Swank and Michael Ealy erotic thriller...
Movie News
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Recalls an Era When Singers Led the Band
December 23, 2020Played with characteristic gusto by the late Chadwick Boseman, the character of Levee in Ma Rainey’s...
Movie News
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Filmed in Pittsburgh, Where August Wilson Grew Up, But That’s Not Why
December 17, 2020Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom shot in Pittsburgh, which in a way brings the work of playwright...
Movie News
Sundance Film Festival Announces Its 2021 Lineup
December 15, 2020Sundance Film Festival 2021 will look a lot different when it hits computer screens and arrives...
Directing
Ammonite Writer-Director Francis Lee Requires Every Object to Have a Rich History and Defined Purpose
December 4, 2020Ammonite director Francis Lee is in search of truth, and this extends even to the objects...
Podcasts
Let Him Go Writer-Director Thomas Bezucha Built a House to Burn it Down
November 5, 2020Thomas Bezucha insisted on authenticity for every aspect of Let Him Go — and nothing epitomized that...
Movie News
Can Fulldome Be the Next IMAX? We Go Inside the Large-Scale Format
October 29, 2020Many of us are a long way from feeling comfortable in a movie theater. But when...
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