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Sundance Film Festival

Film Reviews: Two Views from Ukraine at Sundance – Kids and Chaos

With the eyes of the world on Ukraine right now, two films at Sundance came from that country, or what used to be that country.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A House Made of Splinters, Klondike, Simon Lereng Wilmont, Sundance Film Festival

Film Review: “2nd Chance” – A Memorable American Con Artist

With Richard Davis, director Ramin Bahrani found an old-fashioned fraud, a paunchy American grifter worthy of a story by Mark Twain.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: 2nd Chance, Ramin Bahrani, Richard Davis, Sundance Film Festival

Film Reviews: Sundance 2022, Dispatch #5 — Nature, and Healing

These three Sundance films supplied very intense viewing experiences.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: All That Breathes, God’s Country, Goran Stolekvski, Julian Higgins, Peg Aloi, Shaunak Sen, Sundance Film Festival, Thandiwe Newton, You Won't Be Alone

Film Reviews: Sundance 2022, Dispatch #4 — Trauma and Terror

When given a choice, tend to choose films that are fairly harrowing to watch. The next three Sundance Fest films on my slate were often disturbing, but also powerful and inspiring on many levels.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alice, Andrew Semans, Kathryn Ferguson, Krystin Ver Linden, Peg Aloi, Rebecca Hall, Resurrection, Sinead O’Connor, Sundance Film Festival

Film Review: “Tantura” — Detailing the Dark Side of Israel’s Creation Myth 

With Tantura, brimming with evidence that will now be hard to suppress, director Alon Schwarz may have won an important battle in the war of conflicting narratives about Israel’s war of independence.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Alexandroni Brigade, Alon Schwarz, Israel, Palestinian, Sundance Film Festival, Tantura

Film Reviews: Sundance 2022, Dispatch #2 — In the Flesh

My second Sundance dispatch deals with abortion, torture and cannibalism: what a scintillating combination for a bitterly cold weekend!

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Call Jane, Christian Tafdrup, Fresh, Mimi Cave, Peg Aloi, Speak No Evil, Sundance Film Festival

Film Reviews: Sundance 2022 — Dispatch #1, People Are Horrible and Amazing

The first three films I saw at the Sundance Film Festival were very high-profile premieres.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ed Perkins, Jesse Eisenberg, Living, Oliver Hermanus, Peg Aloi, Sundance Film Festival, The Princess, When You Finish Saving the World

Film Review: Virtual Sundance 2021 — Let Corporations Chase the Crowd Pleasers — Here’s the Real Stuff

Sundance’s strengths for me this year (as in the past) were the festival’s documentaries.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ailey, Bring Your Own Brigade, Cryptozoo, David D'Arcy, Faya Dayi, Flee, Hive, Misha and the Wolves, Rebel Hearts, Summer of Soul (or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Sundance Film Festival, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

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