Click on SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s reviews from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, in alphabetical order:
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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Room 237”
>I write this as a fairly obsessive fan of Stanley Kubrick, back since I desperately wanted to see A Clockwork Orange in its original X-rated release but was too young to get in. So the very idea of ROOM 237, a feature-length film by Rodney Ascher constructed of the theories…
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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Compliance”
>Sundance has a thriving Park City At Midnight program that features plenty of high-octane horror movies, but the most unnerving and disturbing film of this year’s festival may have been Craig Zobel’s COMPLIANCE, a low-key drama based (apparently rather closely) on a true story without any hacked-off limbs or hint…
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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Smashed”
James Ponsoldt’s SMASHED (not to be confused with NBC’s Smash), which premiered in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance, is a new spin on a fairly old story. The concept goes back (at least) to 1962’s Days of Wine and Roses: a couple (Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul), very…
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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Red Lights”
>Or if the title were a Jeopardy answer, the question would be: what should writer/director Rodrigo Cortes have paid attention to, before he typed “The End” on his script Red Lights wouldn’t have been a festival movie even if it had been good. It’s no more than high-grade hokum (and…
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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Goats”
Virtually every screening at Sundance is followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, and while these sessions can be informative and charming (although 3 questions that need never be asked again are How long did you shoot? What was the budget? and How much was improvised?), they can also…
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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