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Channeling “the rebellious spirit of the Molly Maguires,” the Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival challenges the boldest, most defiant filmmakers to present their work, shatter convention, and incite spirited debate. The festival credo is “eyes and minds wide open,” and they mean it.
After canceling last year due to COVID-19, the JTIFF returns to the Mauch Chunk Opera House (14 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe) for its fourth edition with live, in-person screenings on Thursday, April 22 through Sunday, April 25. That’s right – no glitchy streaming on phones, tablets, or laptops, but real movies projected on a giant screen in the dark with booming sound, the way films were meant to be experienced.
imagines a world where the time people spend fast asleep isn’t truly their own. Instead, it’s the latest frontier where both businesses and the government see money-making opportunities that people usually only have to deal with in the waking world.
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While there are a fair number of people who are able to recall their dreams in vivid detail, and others who forget their dreams as soon as they wake up, there are startlingly few people capable of telling others about their dreams in a way that effectively conveys both the significance and weird wonder of it all.
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Strawberry Mansion
Starring Penny Fuller, Kentucker Audley, Grace Glowicki, Reed Birney, Linas Phillips, and Constance Shulman.
SYNOPSIS:
In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an aging eccentric.
Forward-thinking authors over the decades have theorised that our dreams and memories might one day be commodified, an idea which gets an especially peculiar treatment in Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s (
Sylvio) black comedy adventure
Strawberry Mansion.
In a dystopian future, the government has extended taxation to citizens’ dreams, resulting in “dream auditors” being sent around the U.S. to total up the “expenditure” – that is, seemingly any meaningful content, be it hot air balloons, buffalos, or dandelions – by placing a worth on them and charging accordingly.
Sundance 2021: Genre films that stood out, from A Glitch in the Matrix to Prisoners of the Ghostland Starry studio projects and A-list auteurs aren t the lifeblood of a breakout festival like Sundance. Recent years have proven one of the best ways to break out at the festival is through genre filmmaking. Prahlad Srihari February 04, 2021 08:12:45 IST
As it s the first major film festival in the calendar, Sundance functions as a barometer of emerging trends and outliers. 2020 was a genre-busting production. It was a sci-fi movie that got all too real. It was a horror movie about isolation. Mostly, it was a disaster movie that even Roland Emmerich could not have imagined. The way the pandemic irrevocably reshaped our lives was reflected in many of the films in this year s line-up.