Sundance Film Festival

NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME 1

By | January 2014

2014 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SECRET SCREENING SELECTION! This is a very challenging, original, and often hilarious piece of work that fans of LvT’s really must see but I’m also not sure yet what to make of it as an entire work of art…

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NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME 1

Few filmmakers are more button-pushing, divisive, and controversial than Lars von Trier, the enfant terrible behind Breaking the Waves, Dogville, and...

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APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR

Every Sundance produces a name or two that descend from the Park City mountain air and become embedded in the indie movie scene. One of those “one to...

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THE DOUBLE

Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) is a database programmer whose job has something to do with regression analysis. His socially awkward personality is further...

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DEAD SNOW: RED VS. DEAD

Dead Snow features a scene in which a man rappels down the side of a cliff using a zombie’s intestines as a climbing rope. If you like that scene,...

FILMS GONE WILD: 2014 SUNDANCE #2 (WHY WOULD A S&M CLUB HAVE A CEO?)

So after I get home from the “Artist at the Table” event Wednesday night, I need to get a head start on the movie watching with a video link for...

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THE SKELETON TWINS

Siblings have a connection that can be difficult to define if you don’t have one. Shared histories and known secrets can lead to dynamics that flit...

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THE FOXY MERKINS

Margaret (Lisa Haas) recently moved to New York City in an erstwhile attempt to become a lesbian hooker. Lacking in experience but motivated by the desire...

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WAR STORY

Lee (Catherine Keener) is a war photojournalist who has just returned to Sicily following a traumatic event in Libya. Her external bruises and fractures do...

FILMS GONE WILD: 2014 SUNDANCE (GETTING WHIPLASH WITH MITT ROMNEY)

I have the stereotypical near-catastrophe getting out of New York to Sundance as my flight gets cancelled, but since my eyes are glued to the laptop with...

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PRIVATE VIOLENCE

Cynthia Hill’s Private Violence is an important film. It is a disturbing, emotional, painful, infuriating, and hard-to-watch film but it is an important...

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