Sundance Film Festival

ME @THE ZOO

By | January 2012

2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL U.S. DOCUMENTARY FEATURES SELECTION! I liked “Me @the Zoo” (incidentally, the film title derives from the title of the first ever YouTube video) best when the filmmakers cast their eye on Internet celebrity culture and how completely insane it can become…

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ME @THE ZOO

A few years back a young video blogger named Chris Crocker took the world by storm with his histrionic, tearful plea to “leave Britney alone!!!”...

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VALLEY OF SAINTS

Gulzar (Gulzar Ahmad Bhat) and his uncle live in a damaged old house near Dal Lake in Kashmir. When Gulzar's uncle leaves town, Gulzar hits the lake with...

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DETROPIA

I’ve become increasingly weary of “Chicken Little Documentaries” in which a threat to humanity, peace or the environment is used to create a film...

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PAYBACK

Documentarian Jennifer Baichwal’s film “Payback” is a meditation of sorts on what it means to owe a debt that there’s really no way they can...

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YOUNG & WILD

Young & Wild impresses from the get-go by establishing itself as an indie film that is going to be as raw and real as that independence would imply....

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Some of the United Kingdom’s most talented men have tackled the role of Heathcliff in adaptations of Emily Brontë’s canonic novel, Wuthering Heights,...

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ABOUT THE PINK SKY

The following phrases are bolded in the press notes handed out minutes before About the Pink Sky screened at Sundance: "black and white," "devoid of any...

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THE D WORD: UNDERSTANDING DYSLEXIA

HBO Documentary's The D Word: Understanding Dyslexia is a fine documentary, especially for cable, which is to say that it's polished and edited to that...

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THE LAW IN THESE PARTS

The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has long been a complicated and divisive issue. I'm not going to pretend that I understand it...

THE SUNDANCE KID IS BACK: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER ARI GOLD

No... this isn’t an article about Robert Redford having a comeback. That guy doesn’t need a comeback. It’s about the films that played at Sundance...

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