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Ten Sundance Film Festival titles worth streaming [The Dallas Morning News ]
With films screening virtually and in-person at satellite locations across the country, Sundance is a hybrid independent film festival this year. In Dallas, the Texas Theatre is showing 13 movies, and three of them have Texas ties. But the majority of the weeklong program’s 70-plus feature films will only be available to North Texans through virtual screenings. Here are some of the hottest Sundance titles to catch in your home theater from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3.
As always, documentaries have a strong presence at America’s first major film festival of the year. Director Rodney Ascher has captured the strange world of obsessive fans searching for hidden meaning in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining with Room 237 and focused on sleep paralysis perceived as demonic visitation in The Nightmare. His new documentary, A Glitch in the Matrix, explores the idea that we are living in a computer simulation with testimony
10 Sundance Film Festival titles worth streaming
The indie fest is largely a digital platform this year.
Director Marilyn Agrelo’s Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street is a documentary about the origins of the beloved children’s TV show.(Luke Geissbühler / Sundance Institute)
With films screening virtually and in-person at satellite locations across the country, Sundance is a hybrid independent film festival this year. In Dallas, the Texas Theatre is showing 13 movies, and three of them have Texas ties. But the majority of the weeklong program’s 70-plus feature films will only be available to North Texans through virtual screenings. Here are some of the hottest Sundance titles to catch in your home theater from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3.
Sundance 2021 Market: 15 Movies That Could Sell Big in a Year of Virtual Discovery IndieWire 1/25/2021
In 2020, the Sundance Film Festival kicked off with a splashy premiere for Netflix’s new Taylor Swift documentary. When the 2021 edition gets underway on Thursday, there will be none of that. As a virtual affair, this year’s Sundance is a back-to-basics event, one where a plethora of smaller-scale films without distribution will vie both for awards and acquisition.
But don’t let the relative lack of A-list names suggest that sales activity will be sluggish. Amid a dearth of production, streaming arms race, and the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel coming into view, buyers are hungry for new product.
Erik Carter
The Talented Tessa Thompson
She’s been an action hero and a fashion rebel, but Tessa Thompson’s most important role is as Hollywood’s rising agent of change. Jan 15, 2021
I’m not speaking to Tessa Thompson in person, and that’s honestly kind of a relief. It’s just before Thanksgiving, and Thompson is at home in Los Angeles, beautiful as ever, sitting in a chair with a knee pulled to her chest. We’re talking over Zoom and having a great conversation, but, given that this is how interviews take place these days, there’s no opportunity to witness a quirky encounter with a fan or to remark on her wardrobe or to see what and how she eats. Without superficial distractions, we’re able to get real and go deep.