AwardsWatch - sundance film festival

Sundance Review: ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ is a haunting work that cuts right to the bone

Donny Sheldon January 25, 2020

It’s been three years since writer/director Eliza Hittman won the Sundance Film Festival’s Directing Drama Award for her excellent feature Beach Rats, and this year,... Read More

Sundance Review: Justin Simien’s ‘Bad Hair’ day

Valerie Complex January 24, 2020

At nine years old my hair was course, and considered too hard to manage. The solution was to put a Revlon super perm in my... Read More

Sundance Review: ‘Taylor Swift: Miss Americana’

Donny Sheldon January 24, 2020

When the title card for the new Netflix documentary, Miss Americana, appeared on screen at last night’s premiere, a fan broke the silence and shrieked... Read More

Trailer for Sundance thriller ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ from Academy Award nominee Dee Rees

Erik Anderson January 23, 2020

Adapted from the Joan Didion novel of the same title, The Last Thing He Wanted is set against the nebulous milieu of the Iran-Contra scandal.... Read More

Trailer: True story crime drama ‘Lost Girls’ from Liz Garbus with Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie

Erik Anderson January 16, 2020

When 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert mysteriously disappears one night, her mother Mari (Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan) embarks on a dark journey that finds her face... Read More

2020 Sundance Juries: Dee Rees, Isabella Rossellini, Ethan Hawke, Gregg Araki and more

Erik Anderson January 14, 2020

Sundance Institute will gather 25 celebrated and revered expert voices across film, art, culture and science to award feature-length and short films shown at the... Read More

2020 Sundance Film Festival: New films by Justin Simien, Benh Zeitlin, Eliza Hittman among 118 features

Erik Anderson December 4, 2019

Drawn From a Record High of 15,100 Submissions Across The Program, Including 3,853 Features, Selected Films Represent 27 Countries The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today... Read More

Watch: Awkwafina in the first trailer for ‘The Farewell’

Erik Anderson May 7, 2019

Call your Nai Nai and say hello. The first trailer for Lulu Wang’s Sundance hit The Farewell, starring Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians, Ocean’s 8) is... Read More

Amazon’s ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ with Jillian Bell gets summer release

Erik Anderson April 24, 2019

Amazon Studios will release Brittany Runs a Marathon, the directorial debut from acclaimed playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo, in theaters on August 23, 2019, and expand... Read More

Review: ‘Assassination Nation’

Valerie Complex March 28, 2019

In Sam Levinson’s new film Assassination Nation, Lilly, Em, Sarah, and Bex are four teenaged high school girls so in love with themselves and obsessed... Read More

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