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?...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Middle of Nowhere”
MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, which won the Sundance US Dramatic Directing award for Ava DuVernay last night, is in no rush. The films moves with deliberation as it establishes its leading character and her difficult situation: ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “For a Good Time, Call…”
> There’s a principled discussion to be had about whether the Sundance Film Festival should be featuring movies that are essentially low-budget Hollywood entertainments made outside the studio system. But that discussion ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The First Time”
THE FIRST TIME may be too lovable for its own good. Jonathan Kasdan’s teen romance, which premiered in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance, couldn’t be more straightforward: in its opening minutes, it in...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Bachelorette”
> Although Sundance still has several days to go, and surprises could spring up at any time (yesterday The Surrogate, a drama with John Hawkes as a man in an iron lung who decides to lose his virginity to a sex therapist played...
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...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Celeste & Jesse Forever”
> The festival has its first crowd-pleaser in CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER, a light but heartfelt romantic comedy-drama in the Woody Allen vein. Written by Rashida Jones (who also stars as Celeste) and Will Mc McCormack (on hand a...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Eight For Silver” & “The Sparks Brothers”
EIGHT FOR SILVER: Sean Ellis’s 19th century werewolf movie takes itself very seriously. Ellis has extensively revised the usual mythology of the genre: the full moon doesn’t figure into things, the were...
THE BIJOU @ SUNDANCE: Behold the Edgy
> Sundance announced the second group of its 2012 titles today (Competition entries were announced yesterday; Premieres will be unveiled on Monday), mostly in what are traditionally the most untraditional categories of the Fest...
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 ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Passing,” “Street Gang” & “Mass”
PASSING: The actress Rebecca Hall has taken a big swing in her writing/directing debut. Her film Passing, based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, embraces ambitious, difficult themes with sensitivity and expertise.�...