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SUNDANCE 2022 | “Resurrection” and “You Won’t Be Alone”
The first three days of 2022 Sundance have yielded a good crop of films in the competition slate.
Over the weekend two genre films were shown, each one making their mark with inventive individuality.
Writer/director Andrew Semans’ “Resurrection” is an unnerving thriller starring Rebecca Hall as Margaret, a single mother and more >
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SUNDANCE 2022 | “Speak No Evil”
Directed by Christian Tafdrup and co-written with his brother Mads, “Speak No Evil” is a film where the kindness of strangers is something that should be sidestepped, as two ... more >
SUNDANCE 2022 | “AFTER YANG”
“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.” Filmmaker Kogonada’s “After Yang” was selected as part of the Sundance Film Festival’s “Best of ... more >
SUNDANCE 2022 | KATE BOSWORTH in “Bring On The Dancing Horses”
Writer/Director Michael Polish has created an intriguing ten-episode series that’s modern Western with a philosophical edge that made its world premiere at the Sundance Film ... more >
THE WEEK IN REVIEW
SUNDANCE 2022 | “Resurrection” and “You Won’t Be Alone”
Writer/director Andrew Semans’ “Resurrection” is an unnerving thriller starring Rebecca Hall as Margaret, a single mother and businesswoman whose daughter Abbie (Grace Kaufman) will soon ... more >
“LAST WORDS,” a journey, an encounter, building a new tomorrow with others survivors | REVIEW
“We live and die by the stories we tell each other,” is the line that begins writer/director Jonathan Nossiter’s latest piece, the exquisite “Last Words.” Adapted from a novel by Santiago ... more >
“The Beauty President,” “Attica,” Alex Gibney’s “The Forever Prisoner” | DOC-WISE WHAT TO WATCH IN 2022
In the wake of the recent DOC NYC 2002 is heating up with some amazing documentaries. Whether available on demand on one of the major players or otherwise, these docs do what the best of the ... more >
“There is no evil” (directed by Mohammad Rasoulof) | REVIEW
The Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s film “There Is No Evil” (Golden Bear Award, Berlin Festival, 2021) is extraordinary on a number of levels—political daring in a country where dissent ... more >
The Lin-Manuel Miranda-directed tick, tick…BOOM! is one of the YEAR’S BEST!
“tick tick… BOOM!” is the name of the musical Jonathan Larson wrote and performed about the failure of “Superbia,” his rock-opera adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 that was to be his ticket ... more >
Project Recover, an NGO that searches and repatriates the remains of the lost pilots and sailors from the South Pacific, at the heart of “To What Remains,” currently showing in theaters | DOCUMENTARY
This past week marked eighty years since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, which lured the United States into WWII. Sixteen million Americans answered the call to ... more >
Céline Sciamma’s PETITE MAMAN, a deeply-affecting story about the reassuring ties of friendship in childhood
Throughout the centuries philosophers have responded to the idea of death in many ways. Kierkegaard saw grief as a door to faith while Heidegger found it a way to give deeper meaning to ... more >
Mescaline! Murder! Sensationalistic journalism! “THE ACID KING”
“Satanic Panic” is a very real fear that gripped the United States in the eighties and nineties. Over those decades, there existed over 10,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual ... more >
