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Filmmaker Michał Marczak carves out a unique space for his documentary “Closure” within the non-fiction world. The film is set up as a…
When they aren’t serving as a majestic backdrop to searing accounts of personal recovery (like “The Outrun”) or horror-thrillers like a…
In “Fing!,” Jeffrey Walker’s whimsical thing of wonder, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher and Maureen Meek (Blake Harrison and Mia Wasikowska)…
MetFilm Sales has acquired international sales rights to Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić’s feature documentary “To Hold a Mountain,”…
Filmmaker Brydie O’Connor gives herself a rather difficult task with “Barbara Forever.” She sets out to document the life and career of…
In 2017, “The Big Sick” was the big sale of the Sundance Film Festival (beaten one week later by “Mudbound”). Those were the days when…
As the “Rocky” score soars from the car stereo, Eli (Son Sukku) and Audrey (Moon Choi) are having two completely different experiences…
Filmmakers Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić pull off a miraculous trick with “To Hold a Mountain.” What begins as a slow-burn…
The use of close-circuit video footage in a film has a way of suggesting a crime. The images from a ceiling surveillance camera of the…
“There’s no room in our society for discrimination. None. I think it’s un-American.” In 2013, Robert Redford stood before a group of his…
On the face of it, for a comfortable middle-class couple in Lithuania, getting divorced has absolutely nothing to do with the war in…
The Sundance Film Festival’s last edition in Park City offered a bittersweet chance to take stock of how much the independent film world…
Even the most inspirational films about growing up in the inner-city have a tendency to look down on their subjects, portraying them as…
I encountered a version of this phenomenon on the first morning of my first Sundance. Trying to find my way around festival headquarters,…
The family drama “Take Me Home” is a not an easy watch and (arguably harder than it needs to be). Yet, how could a film that takes such an…
Fast weight-loss methods have never been easier or more readily available, but they come at a cost — and for the young, dangerously…
After an old-fashion, multi-day bidding war, Olivia Wilde‘s Sundance darling “The Invite” has sold to A24. A24 and Focus Features were…
A melancholic affection for New York City permeates writer-director Noah Segan’s nostalgia-powered “The Only Living Pickpocket in New…
Neon, the indie label behind “Parasite” and “Anora,” is inking one of the first deals of this year’s Sundance Film Festival and buying…
There are several key reasons why a movie about a school shooting feels right at home at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s not a subject a…
When Vietnam veteran Ed Emanuel wrote the memoir “Soul Patrol” (2003), the gesture could have been likened to that of a marooned man…
Tennis icon and legend Billie Jean King has had documentaries, articles and even a movie, “Battle of the Sexes,” tell her story. “Give Me…
PARK CITY, Utah — It’s a time capsule from the hard-rocking halcyon days before iPhones, “American Idol” and the MP3 audio format changed…
Life behind bars means death behind bars, and all the pain and frailty that often precedes it — a fate that awaits a good number of…
