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Half the Picture, a documentary from director Amy Adrion about the lack of women directors in television and feature films, centers on the male-dominated entertainment industry from the perspective of some of the women who have struggled to realize the same professional
A new trailer has been released for the upcoming Australian Western Sweet Country, which tells the true story of an Aboriginal man who must go on the run after killing a white man in self defense. The film is directed by Warwick Thornton
It’s that time of year again to start getting excited for the Sundance Film Festival and today the full lineup of feature films has been announced across all programs. The 2018 edition of Sundance will boast 110 features, 100 of which will
The Sundance Film Festival announced their lineup for the Premiere, Spotlight, Midnight, Kids, and Special Events sections, which round out the 2017 festival, once again featuring a massive and exciting lineup.
The festival will run in Park City, Utah from January 19-29
Film Arcade has announced they’ve acquired the U.S. rights to Kris Swanberg‘s Unexpected, which just recently had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Cobie Smulders as a teacher who becomes pregnant and forms an unlikely bond with one of
Crystal Moselle‘s film The Wolfpack just won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and the subjects of the film, The Angulo Brothers, prepared a thank you for the festival by recreating past winners in their own unique
The 2015 Sundance Film Festival is coming to a close and with that comes the announcement of this year’s award winners. The U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Feature and the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic Feature went to Alfonso Gomez-Rejon‘s Me & Earl & the
Just last week we saw the first poster for Crystal Moselle‘s documentary The Wolfpack, and now Magnolia Pictures has announced they have acquired the worldwide rights to the film. This documentary looks at the lives of six brothers who spent their
At least a few times a year a movie will come around that appears to be created just for me, and this year I think one of them is Anouk Whissell, François Simard and Yoann-Karl Whissell‘s Turbo Kid. Back when the first ABCs
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The mockumentary genre has been around for quite some time. Mockumentaries can be comedies or dramas that present fictional events in a documentary format, thus giving the material a sense of cinéma vérité.
Rick Famuyiwa‘s (The Wood, Brown Sugar) Dope has been acquired out of the Sundance Film Festival by Open Road Films for a reported $7 million plus $15 million to be spent on P&A costs, making it the biggest sale of the festival so far.
The upcoming comedy Results, written and directed by Andrew Bujalski (Computer Chess) has been acquired by Magnolia Pictures ahead of its premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan, Giovani Ribisi, Anthony Michael Hall, Brooklyn Decker
The first trailer has been released for Rick Famuyiwa’s (The Wood, Brown Sugar) Dope, which is set to premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT. The film stars Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Zoë Kravitz, Keith Stanfield, Kimberly Elise, A$AP Rocky
A new batch of films has been revealed for this year’s Sundance Film Festival, with the narrative and documentary premieres, as well as the special events lineup. Like the previously announced sections, there’s a multitude of great looking films screening in these
The official competition lineup for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival has been revealed, with a ton of great premieres that will, no doubt, prove to be some of the most interesting movies of the year. Although I haven’t looked into the
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One of the most intriguing aspects to Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip will most assuredly be looked at as the biggest point of contention in the film. Although its central character, Philip (Jason Schwartzman), is featured prominently within the first and last acts, the middle of the movie detaches itself from him, resulting in an interesting narrative structure that will fascinate some and leave others disenchanted.
