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What to stream: 'Master' and the best of Regina Hall

On Friday, a new film hits Amazon Prime fresh from the Sundance Film Festival. Mariama Diallo’s debut feature, “Master,” takes on racial politics at a prestigious East Coast university using the horror genre. “Master” weaves together the story of three Black women navigating the microaggressions, and macroaggressions, of life in…

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'Jihad Rehab' started a furor at Sundance. But the problem is bigger than one film

The documentary "Jihad Rehab," despite its questionable title, has the sort of premise that's usually innocuous to indie film buffs. The film follows three men, each of whom were detained for 15 years at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, after their transfer to a "rehabilitation" facility in Saudi…

Los Angeles Times

All 10 of the 2022 best picture Oscar nominees ranked, from worst to best

This year’s best picture race boasts a revisionist Western, a science fiction epic, a song-and-dance musical, a grim neo-noir, a shaggy ’70s comedy, an inspirational sports drama, an apocalyptic satire and three major prize winners from the Sundance, Cannes and Toronto film festivals. Academy voters obviously didn’t plan it that…

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'President': An intimate look at Zimbabwe's struggle for democracy

"President" is a Sundance award-winning film that gives us a gripping and unprecedented front-row seat to recent history. It's about an election that was believed to be stolen and a people who felt robbed of their first free and fair vote following the removal of longtime leader Robert Mugabe in…

France 24

Move over, silver foxes: Hollywood gets to grips with the age gap

The Sundance film festival revealed a growing challenge to the traditional casting of middle-aged men with much younger women

The Guardian - UK

From 'Nanny' to 'The Exiles,' a virtual Sundance puts a human face on past and present horrors

Is it horror or just real life? The question kept coming up at this year's all-virtual Sundance Film Festival — particularly in the American dramatic competition, where the buzzier entries included "Master," Mariama Diallo's bold if muddled chiller about Black women in white-dominated academia, and "Palm Trees and Power Lines,"…

Los Angeles Times

25 must-see movies from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival

With the second consecutive virtual Sundance Film Festival now at a close, the heartening news is that the indie film showcase once again unveiled a lineup of movies worth dissecting and discussing in the year ahead.

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From age-gap romances to a homemade Welsh robot: the best of Sundance 2022

Noomi Rapace as a Macedonian witch vies with Cooper Raiff’s latest gem and dapper Bill Nighy in this second virtual edition of the US indie festival

The Guardian - UK

Immigrant thriller 'Nanny' wins top prize at Sundance

Los Angeles (AFP) - "Nanny," a supernatural thriller about an undocumented immigrant working for a wealthy New York family, won the Sundance film festival's top prize Friday.

AFP

‘Nanny,’ ‘Exiles,’ ‘Navalny’ among top Sundance winners

A drama about an undocumented nanny in New York City, a documentary about three exiled dissidents from Tiananmen Square and another doc about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival

The Independent UK

'Navalny' aims to make noise for imprisoned Russian leader

Hours after Russian authorities officially added Alexei Navalny to the country’s registry of terrorists and extremists, a new documentary about the imprisoned opposition leader premiered at the Sundance Film Festival

The Independent UK

‘Everyone was freaking out’: Navalny novichok film made in secret premieres at Sundance

Director Daniel Roher tells of panic after team recorded Alexei Navalny pranking one of his Russian poisoners into confessing

The Guardian - UK

Sundance: 'Descendant' chronicles a Black history uncovered

Rarely have past and present mingled in a documentary the way they do in “Descendant,” a nonfiction account of the last known ship to bring African captives to the American South for enslavement

The Independent UK

Q&A: Dakota Johnson makes her producing debut at Sundance

Dakota Johnson is having a big year

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AFP

Abortion films offer stark warning at Sundance festival

Los Angeles (AFP) - With abortion rights under historic threat in the United States, directors brought three films to the Sundance festival that spotlight the grave dangers women face by undergoing or organizing illegal backstreet procedures.

The Independent UK

At Sundance, documentaries resurrect lost eras of music

Buzz always emanates at the Sundance Film Festival from its music documentaries

The Guardian - US

Cha Cha Real Smooth review – run-of-the-mill Sundance crowd-pleaser

Shithouse’s Cooper Raiff stumbles with his cloying sophomore feature about a 22-year-old piecing together his life

Los Angeles Times

Sex positivity, abortion rights and volcanic eruptions among 7 early gems at a virtual Sundance

Every public screening at the Sundance Film Festival is preceded by a land acknowledgment, recognizing the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute and Ute tribes that have long stewarded the ground on which this annual event takes place. This tradition continues even now, as the COVID-19 pandemic has temporarily transformed America's most significant…

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Candid Kanye film premieres at Sundance amid editing row

Los Angeles (AFP) - A new Kanye West documentary featuring candid moments from his early life premiered at the Sundance film festival Sunday, just days after the rapper demanded that Netflix allow him to re-edit the final cut.

The Guardian - US

jeen-yuhs: what can we learn from the new Kanye West documentary?

The rapper and businessman is the focus of an intimate three-part documentary, premiering at Sundance, following his highs and lows

Salon

"Are you happy or is this just easy?"

Director Alika Tengan and co-writer/star Naz Kawakami spoke to Salon about their vibey and melancholy Sundance film

AFP

Emma Thompson confronts nudity and ageing in Sundance sex worker comedy

Los Angeles (AFP) - Emma Thompson's naked scene in her new film about an older woman hiring a sex worker was "probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do," she told the Sundance film festival Saturday.

The Independent UK

Dale Dickey takes center stage at Sundance in 'A Love Song'

Dale Dickey tends to get “those crusty roles,” as she heard someone once call them

The New Daily

Adelaide director Sophie Hyde’s new comedy-drama to premiere at virtual Sundance

Australian director Sophie Hyde cements her international reputation with her latest film – a comedy-drama starring British Oscar winner Emma Thompson.

Los Angeles Times

Kanye West demands ‘final edit and approval’ on Netflix doc ‘Jeen-Yuhs’ ahead of Sundance premiere

Ye aka Kanye West, already one of the most influential and polarizing pop figures of his generation, is demanding control over an upcoming Netflix documentary poised to stir even more debate about his legacy.

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