Riley Stearns’ Deadpan Style Highlights “Dual”
By Vanessa Zimmer Writer-director Riley Stearns is known for creating a world where everyone speaks in a deadpan cadence. And nowhere is that played to
By Vanessa Zimmer Writer-director Riley Stearns is known for creating a world where everyone speaks in a deadpan cadence. And nowhere is that played to
By Vanessa Zimmer Judging from viewer response, Jim Archer’s Brian and Charles Sunday premiere at the Sundance Film Festival left everyone hungry for more moments
By Katie Small From 1985’s Before Stonewall to 2017’s Call Me By Your Name, provocative queer film has been a staple of the Sundance Film
By Vanessa Zimmer Philippines-based writer-director Martika Ramirez Escobar sees life as one big, long movie that we’re revising, revising, and revising again, until it is
Naz Kawakami appears in Every Day in Kaimukī by Alika Tengan. By Vanessa Zimmer Basil Tsiokos and his fellow programmers had the pleasure, and the challenge, of
by Bailey Pennick As we start another year and, in turn, another incarnation of the Sundance Film Festival, we transition from a moment of reflection
by Bailey Pennick Rigid. Rigid is a word that continues to swirl around the live Q&A after the premiere of Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut, When
by Bailey Pennick “We hope that we’ve put together a cinematic experience that will challenge you, disturb you, delight you, and entertain you,” says Carey
By Katie Small Ever since The Worst Person in the World premiered in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, international audiences have been charmed
by Katie Small While driving her car in April of 2018, Abi Damaris Corbin suddenly pulled over to read a news article that had popped
By Vanessa Zimmer Sinéad O’Connor may have been young, angry, outspoken, and impulsive. But there was one thing she was not: insincere. That’s the takeaway
By Katie Small From the Festival that brought you some of the most iconic and deeply disturbing horror flicks of the last several decades —