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Reel Dad: Jockey takes us to the races at Sundance
Mark Schumann
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Films that make us feel help us forget the ones that disappoint.
Magically, sometimes surprisingly, good films tell stories that engage our minds, develop characters that touch our hearts, and convey messages that capture our hopes and allay our fears. And when they make us feel we experience marvelous journeys.
Filmmaker Clint Bentley knows his way around a horse track. As the son of a jockey, he holds the hidden layers of such locations in the deep corners of his creative imagination, incorporating moments saved in his memory for crucial moments in his film. And the movie he directs, “Jockey,” grabs us from its first moments with a level of authentic humanity that immediately makes us feel we’re at home. Bentley helps us get to know some people who will stick with us for a long time.
Here are the 72 feature films in the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which will mostly screen online
The festival will be shorter with limited in-person events, to avoid spreading COVID-19.
(Daniel Power | courtesy of Focus Features / Sundance Institute) Robin Wright directs and stars in the drama Land. It s an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. | Updated: Jan. 5, 2021, 12:33 a.m.
With everything that will be different about the 2021 Sundance Film Festival a shorter event, with fewer films, most of it happening online the quality of movies on the slate has stayed constant, said the festival’s new director, Tabitha Jackson.