It may be incongruous to characterize a film about war and destruction as “gentle,” or a film of loss and ethnic cleaning as “tender,” but Emily Mkrtichian’s debut feature There Was, There Was Not is a film that continuously breaks […]

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After a week of buzzy premieres and cinematic revelations, the Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the Jury and Audience award winners for its 2025 edition. Over the past week, the festival screened 94 feature-length and episodic works, and 57 short […]

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One little film that made big waves at Sundance this year was Babak Jalali’s black-and-white dramedy, Fremont. The Jarmuschian tale stars Afghan refugee Anaita Wali Zada, in her first role, as a former U.S. Army translator making her way in […]

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The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the Jury and Audience award winners for 2023. First-time filmmaker A.V. Rockwell’s drama A Thousand and One was announced as the U.S. Dramatic Competition Grandy Jury Prize Winner. The U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize […]

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The Sundance Institute has just announced the lineup for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, which is making its in-person return to Park City, Utah. The section for this year includes Competition titles (Narrative & Documentary), the Premiere section, and Midnight […]

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(Long overdue, The Whole Shootin’ Match is finally being released by Watchmaker Films in a special DVD package that would have made Eagle Pennell proud. Buy it at Amazon.) Eagle Pennell’s The Whole Shootin’ Match is one of those films […]

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