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This year the 2021 Sundance Film Festival was virtual, and its offerings trimmed down from previous years. It included 73 feature films, 50 short films, four Indie Series, 23 talks and events, and 14 New Frontier multimedia projects. We watched 38 of the 73 films, including most of the award winners. Here are some sneak peaks of our favorites to look for in the year to come.
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Some things are excruciatingly difficult to articulate in words, and can only be expressed in an abstract manner such as dance. Things such as the lonely success of Alvin Ailey, a gay man born in the depression in 1931 who, against all odds, was able to realize his dream. Choreographer, former Ailey company member, and friend George Faison reflects on their groundbreaking w
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
(2010) turns his directing skills towards his debut documentary by exploring every single one of the albums made by the offbeat band Sparks. Why you must know this before heading into this musical epic is that these two tempestuous brothers, Ron and Russell Mael, have made 25 albums over a 50-year period. While Wright sets things up as their ultimate super-fan, he follows through two-fold by placing the countless interviews over numerous live performances. After hearing how much the band is loved by “Weird Al” Yankovic, Beck, Flea, Jason Schwartzman, Giorgio Moroder, Fred Armisen, Neil Gaiman, Jane Wiedlin, Björk, and ultimately Wright himself, one should have become an absolute devotee by the film’s 135-minute end.
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Variety has announced it will be giving its Creative Impact in Acting Award to Glenn Close as part of their virtual 10 Directors to Watch and Creative Impact Awards event with the Palm Springs International Film Society on Feb. 26 at 10 a.m. PT.
As previously announced, Steve McQueen will be receiving the Creative Impact in Directing Award at the event. Close recently co-starred in the Netflix drama “Hillbilly Elegy” and has received nominations for a Golden Globe, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award for her portrayal of MaMaw in the film.
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Users
SYNOPSIS:
Documentary explores how humanity expresses itself with technology and the intended and unintended consequences of our tech-dominated world.
Natalia Almada (
Everything Else) scooped Sundance’s Directing Award for U.S. Documentary for her new film
Users, a gorgeously wrought elucidation of the cost of human progress, if also ultimately a little too slight and scattered for its own good.
Framed as a time capsule of-sorts for her own son, who is featured throughout, Almada considers a future, his future, which will exponentially become more pervasively infused with technology with each passing year.
In an opening shot where her son is rocked to sleep by an electronically-programmed crib, she grapples with her own anxieties about removing humans from one step of the parenting process, and whether this will inform her child’s own attachment to her in years to come. This dovetails into Almada’s wider concern about techno