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EVERY LITTLE THING
by admin|4 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of Every Little Thing. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A quiet film that at first glance appears only to be about hummingbirds but...
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Sundance 2024 Review: IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE, Leave Your (College) Friends Behind
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The friends we make in high school and college often aren’t the friends we keep. Good reasons abound as to why friendships don’t carry over 10, 20, or 30 years, but the key one, the “why” or “whys” friendships form...
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How To Have Sex Director Molly Manning Walker on Emotional Realism, Gender Dynamics, and Silences
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
After winning the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes last year, Molly Manning Walker’s singular debut How to Have Sex has been racking up BAFTA nominations and widespread acclaim to nobody’s surprise. The film is much more than a fresh...
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Sundance Review: Sujo is a Visceral Tale About Growing Up in Your Father’s Shadow
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
A film about growing up in your father’s shadow that mostly (and unexpectedly) examines the role of women as community pillars and violence interrupters, Sujo is the compelling new Sundance award-winning feature from Identifying Features team Astrid Rondero and Fernanda...
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Sundance Review: Luther: Never Too Much is a Captivating Yet Minor Portrait of a Major Talent
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
Filled with wonderful musical performances exploring the 30-year career of Luther Vandross, Dawn Porter’s sweeping biographical documentary Luther: Never Too Much interweaves archival materials and new interviews in a manner that is effective at telling the story but somehow feels...
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Sundance 2024 Review: BETWEEN THE TEMPLES, A Cantor Finds His Voice In Life and Love
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Trauma in all its facets -- experience, understanding, reconciliation -- and indie dramas are practically synonymous at this point. That, however, doesn’t make trauma or its natural consequence, mourning, or how it’s explored through film, any less relevant or meaningful....
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Sound And Vision: David Slade
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several videos by director David Slade. David Slade is something of a conundrum for me. I find it...
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Abbott Elementary Is Back in Session With A Sweet, Subdued Season 3
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
It’s been a heck of a summer break for the faculty of “Abbott Elementary.” Originally slated to return in late 2023, ABC’s sunny, warmhearted sitcom about the hardworking teachers of a struggling Philadelphia public school suffered a months-long pushback due...
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Sundance 2024 Review: GHOSTLIGHT, William Shakespeare, Family Therapist
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Coming-of-age stories are practically a sub-genre of their own. Coming-of-middle-age stories, however, tend to be, if not few and far between, then far more rare. That’s likely due to studio perceptions of what does and doesn’t sell: young adult-oriented films,...
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Sundance 2024 Review: I SAW THE TV GLOW, Enthralling Exploration of Cult Fandoms, Nostalgia, and Trans Identity
by admin|5 months ago|Screen Anarchy
In writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s (We're All Going to the World's Fair) second feature-length film, I Saw the TV Glow, cult fandoms, the positives and perils inherent in nostalgia (tonic or toxin), and the boundless search for personal identity, specifically trans...
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