Generally speaking, this year’s Sundance Film Festival was a very healthy marketplace that guaranteed many of its highlights will make it to audiences beyond the festival circuit soon. From heavy hitters like “The Big Sick” and “Mudbound” to discoveries like “Thoroughbred,” there was plenty of buyer interest spread throughout the lineup. As usual, though, plenty of worthy titles ended the festival with uncertain futures.
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
Here are a few memorable ones that deserve distribution.
“Bitch”
There are plenty of stories about domestic housewives who grow tired of their oppressive routines, but none quite like Marianna Palka’s vicious feminist satire “Bitch,” in which the writer-director-star plays a woman who assumes the identity of a wild dog. It’s a blunt metaphor, but Palka transforms the absurd premise into a chilling look at the destruction...
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
Here are a few memorable ones that deserve distribution.
“Bitch”
There are plenty of stories about domestic housewives who grow tired of their oppressive routines, but none quite like Marianna Palka’s vicious feminist satire “Bitch,” in which the writer-director-star plays a woman who assumes the identity of a wild dog. It’s a blunt metaphor, but Palka transforms the absurd premise into a chilling look at the destruction...
- 1/31/2017
- by David Ehrlich, Eric Kohn and Jude Dry
- Indiewire
From a practical standpoint, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival was a pileup of headaches: The box office got hacked, a power outage forced the cancellation of several screenings, and a massive blizzard wouldn’t stop dumping snow on Main Street. It all took place under the menacing shadow of the presidential inauguration, which no amount of valiant marching could undo.
However, an assessment of the U.S. Sundance narratives throughout this year’s program reveal one of its best in years. Many of the highlights from the 2017 lineup set the stage for a set of new American movies focused on the challenges of unification — and, more specifically, how they stem from family bonds tested by clashing values. Some of the more prominent titles provide a barometer for American society’s greatest anxieties, as well as what it might take chart a path forward.
Sundance’s biggest sale struck a particularly topical note.
However, an assessment of the U.S. Sundance narratives throughout this year’s program reveal one of its best in years. Many of the highlights from the 2017 lineup set the stage for a set of new American movies focused on the challenges of unification — and, more specifically, how they stem from family bonds tested by clashing values. Some of the more prominent titles provide a barometer for American society’s greatest anxieties, as well as what it might take chart a path forward.
Sundance’s biggest sale struck a particularly topical note.
- 1/25/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Obnoxious women dominate this year’s Sundance festival, and not always for the good. Landline, Gillian Robespierre and Jenny Slate’s follow-up to the abortion comedy Obvious Child, totally misjudges Slate’s charm. Here she plays newly engaged Manhattanite Dana, who gets second thoughts about her sexually repressed fiancé, Ben (Jay Duplass). She burps and yells and snort-giggles... Landline, Bitch, And The Goddess Salma Hayek">Read more »...
- 1/25/2017
- by Amy Nicholson
- MTV Movie News
Obnoxious women dominate this year’s Sundance festival, and not always for the good. Landline, Gillian Robespierre and Jenny Slate’s follow-up to the abortion comedy Obvious Child, totally misjudges Slate’s charm. Here she plays newly engaged Manhattanite Dana, who gets second thoughts about her sexually repressed fiancé, Ben (Jay Duplass). She burps and yells and snort-giggles... Landline, Bitch, And The Goddess Salma Hayek">Read more »...
- 1/25/2017
- by Amy Nicholson
- MTV Music News
Obnoxious women dominate this year’s Sundance festival, and not always for the good. Landline, Gillian Robespierre and Jenny Slate’s follow-up to the abortion comedy Obvious Child, totally misjudges Slate’s charm. Here she plays newly engaged Manhattanite Dana, who gets second thoughts about her sexually repressed fiancé, Ben (Jay Duplass). She burps and yells and snort-giggles... Landline, Bitch, And The Goddess Salma Hayek">Read more »...
- 1/25/2017
- by Amy Nicholson
- MTV Newsroom
Later this week, Lrm will be attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival. While the festival tends to be a mixed bag of indie films, some will be picked up for distribution by studios and turned into mainstream hits, others will flounder and be lucky to get a VOD release. Even so, there’s no denying that Sundance is the real beginning of the year for most movie lovers as we’ll be talking about the movies below for the next 12 months.
Last year alone, Sundance held the premieres for The Birth of a Nation, Manchester by the Sea, Captain Fantastic, Love and Friendship, The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Sing Street and many more films, some that appeared on The Weekend Warrior’s year-end Top 25. One or two of those might even receive Oscar nominations when they’re announced next week on January 24.
Most of the films I’ve selected...
Last year alone, Sundance held the premieres for The Birth of a Nation, Manchester by the Sea, Captain Fantastic, Love and Friendship, The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Sing Street and many more films, some that appeared on The Weekend Warrior’s year-end Top 25. One or two of those might even receive Oscar nominations when they’re announced next week on January 24.
Most of the films I’ve selected...
- 1/17/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, Jan. 19, and with it come some of the most exciting, unexpected and experimental independent films from Hollywood and around the world.
From surreal comedies to near-future sci-fi dramedies to female-driven horror, this year's festival has some great films to choose from. Here are 11 that sound simply too good to miss.
More: 9 Sundance 2016 Films We Can't Wait to Watch
1. Brigsby Bear
Sundance Film Festival
This offbeat dramedy tells the story of a sheltered man-child who is forced to strike out on his own after his favorite children's TV show comes to an abrupt end and he decides to create a proper conclusion to the story. Starring Saturday Night Live's Kyle Mooney and his compatriots in the sketch group Good Neighbor, Brigsby Bear sounds like the perfect blend of surreal comedy and heartfelt soul searching.
2. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Sundance Film Festival
When a depressed...
From surreal comedies to near-future sci-fi dramedies to female-driven horror, this year's festival has some great films to choose from. Here are 11 that sound simply too good to miss.
More: 9 Sundance 2016 Films We Can't Wait to Watch
1. Brigsby Bear
Sundance Film Festival
This offbeat dramedy tells the story of a sheltered man-child who is forced to strike out on his own after his favorite children's TV show comes to an abrupt end and he decides to create a proper conclusion to the story. Starring Saturday Night Live's Kyle Mooney and his compatriots in the sketch group Good Neighbor, Brigsby Bear sounds like the perfect blend of surreal comedy and heartfelt soul searching.
2. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Sundance Film Festival
When a depressed...
- 1/17/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
A re-energised Pula Film Festival, the biggest film festival in Croatia, will welcome top guests including Roger Michell, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Gyorgi Palfi, Tudor Giurgiu and Mike Cahill.
Fridriksson [pictured] will serve on a jury and be the subject of a retrospective including his films Rock in Reykjavik, Children of Nature, Devil’s Island, Angels Of The Universe, and Falcons.
The Pula Pro Industry section will include masterclasses from PR expert Charles MacDonald, marketing veteran John Durie, sound expert Ray Gillon of G-Minor and Nik Powell of the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts).
The festival boasts a new artistic team of Mike Downey, Hrvoje Puksec and Tanja Milicic, who took over in April.
The Pula Cinematheque section, under special advistor Rajko Grlic, will focus on the year 1965.
One new strand at the festival will be Dizalica, aimed at cinephiles aged 16-21; selections include We Are The Best! and Bitch Hug. This is added...
Fridriksson [pictured] will serve on a jury and be the subject of a retrospective including his films Rock in Reykjavik, Children of Nature, Devil’s Island, Angels Of The Universe, and Falcons.
The Pula Pro Industry section will include masterclasses from PR expert Charles MacDonald, marketing veteran John Durie, sound expert Ray Gillon of G-Minor and Nik Powell of the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts).
The festival boasts a new artistic team of Mike Downey, Hrvoje Puksec and Tanja Milicic, who took over in April.
The Pula Cinematheque section, under special advistor Rajko Grlic, will focus on the year 1965.
One new strand at the festival will be Dizalica, aimed at cinephiles aged 16-21; selections include We Are The Best! and Bitch Hug. This is added...
- 7/2/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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