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21 Films to See at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival
The first-ever virtual fest kicks off this week with movies featuring stars like Rita Moreno, Vanessa Kirby, and Daniel Kaluuya. Glen Wilson, Courtesy of Sundance Institute
A look at the buzziest prospects at this year s festival which will be accessible online to movie lovers from around the world for the first-time ever from documentaries to dramas and next year s awards contenders.
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Netflix Confirms That Watch this space. Jan 21, 2021
Bridgerton, the Netflix period piece based on Julia Quinn’s enormously popular novels, premiered on December 25. The eight-episode first season follows the London-based Bridgerton family during a swirling social season as eldest daughter Daphne (played by Phoebe Dynevor) makes her society debut, falls into a peculiar relationship with a duke and later a prince deals with the emergence of a seemingly omnipotent gossip columnists, and maneuvers the slings and arrows of Regency-era high society.
David Lee
The director of
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, an adaptation of August Wilson’s 1982 play that’s streaming now on Netflix, is discussing Hollywood’s seemingly reinvigorated appetite for adapting theater evident in recent productions like
The Boys in the Band, The Prom, Cats, and even his own latest but doesn’t believe it’s anything new.
“I think what is true is that Hollywood is filled with closeted theater folk,” he says. “And then periodically some of those people who are obsessed end up in positions of authority and they say, ‘Yes, we re doing it.’ That s what it s all about, and when you come through a period where a number of those people are making decisions, it feels like you re inside of a trend. But I think it s something much simpler than that: there s just a bunch of theater queens in L.A.”