Twenty — It’s the first Friday of the Sundance Film Festival and I’m sitting in the lobby of the Park City Marriott. I’m making small talk with some friends about the festival and the election and the films we’re excited to see. There’s a … [Read more...] about 20 Honest Observations from the Sundance Film Festival
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From Ida Lupino to Reese Witherspoon: Female Representation Onscreen at the Viennale and BFI Film Festival
“Hard, Fast, and Beautiful” is the title of a dedicated Ida Lupino program at the recent 53rd Vienna International Film Festival. The program is named in honor of Lupino’s film, which New York Times critic Bosley Crowther reviewed in 1951. “It simply … [Read more...] about From Ida Lupino to Reese Witherspoon: Female Representation Onscreen at the Viennale and BFI Film Festival
Primary Colors: On the Sun Valley and Miami Film Festivals in the Hour of Republican Reckoning!
Despite the complete lack of interest from much of the population — and assuredly the tax incentive and rebate-averse Idaho State Legislature, the same one chronicled by Frederick Wisemen a decade ago in one of his lengthy, late-career epics — film culture is thriving … [Read more...] about Primary Colors: On the Sun Valley and Miami Film Festivals in the Hour of Republican Reckoning!
The Rumpus Launches Lo-Fi Los Angeles Film Festival
What to do when your film doesn’t get accepted to any film festivals? Why, start your own film festival! Of course, it’s helpful if you’re the founding editor of a successful web site such as The Rumpus. That’s the case with Stephen Elliott, who was … [Read more...] about The Rumpus Launches Lo-Fi Los Angeles Film Festival
21 Films I’m Anticipating at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival
These lists get harder and harder. You know more filmmakers, you hear more buzz and honing in on pre-festival favorites with any kind of concision becomes more an act of exclusion than a celebration of possibility. (In other words, this list’s length is more determined by … [Read more...] about 21 Films I’m Anticipating at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival