Sundance Film Festival

WAR STORY

By | January 2014

2014 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL NEXT (<=>) SELECTION! Jackson’s penchant for weaving listlessly minimalistic narratives leaves plenty of blanks for the audience to fill in, adopting a vague plot trajectory that is reminiscent of Michelangelo Antonioni’s visually profound psychological studies of the early 1960s

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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...

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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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R100

Sometimes you see a movie that’s genuinely, well, fucked up. There’s a true darkness onscreen which is tucked in around grotesque humor as disgusting...

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COLD IN JULY

What is going on here? That’s what most people will be saying to themselves through the majority of Jim Mickle’s truly undefinable Cold in July, based...

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BLIND

“Blind” is a Norweigan film that tells the story of recently a recently blinded woman named Ingrid (Petersen) who, as one might guess, is having a...

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MARMATO

For over 500 years, residents of the town of Marmato in the Columbian mountains have been mining the extensive gold reserves in and around their community....

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LOCKE

Taking place almost in real-time and set in no location other than the vehicle of its title character, Steven Knight’s Locke is an actor’s showcase for...

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