Nursing a toothache, Philippe Petit sat in a dentist's office and while waiting for his appointment, read a magazine. It happened right at that innocent moment that he came across his life's object of desire. In New York, a set of towers were right then being constructed, the tallest buildings...
When God divided the Earth, he kept only the most beautiful and fruitful track of land for himself. But this track, to his chagrin, he would gift to the one tribe of people who'd neglected to ask for anything of him. So begins Veit Helmer's playful, miss-the-mark oddball comedy Absurdistan...
As the two ballplayers sit in the locker room, Miguel 'Sugar' Santos (Algenis Perez Soto) in a broken English asks teammate Brad (Andre Holland) what else it is he does besides playing baseball. He'd studied history in college, says Brad, endearingly called 'Flaco' ('Slim,') by his teammates. In a film so baseb...
Here are our stories of exile, all of America. But for the now small surviving tribes of Native American Indians, the country is one of immigrants, and their stories, so many untold, so often, despite differences of culture, are the same. What then is there in Ellen Kur...
Intimately tying the political and personal, Josh Tickell's deft if sensationalist doc Fields of Fuel rallies with optimism against the nation's failing policies regarding renewable resources, particularly, as the audience is to hear repeatedly for the next 90 minutes, the use ...
Today marks the denouement of the long, slow climb of Aaron Katz's films Quiet City and Dance Party USA from obscurity – Dance Party's second time out of the can was at a 2006 film festival in a barn in northern Minnesota – to national acclaim. The DV...
At Saturday night's closing ceremony presenter William H. Macy honored Sundance 2008 award winners. Follow to read the list and our thoughts on the selections.
At a late night festival party, Greta Gerwig, the actress quickly downing a Vodka Redbull, described the process of working with Jay and Mark Duplass as being "stuck in a love sandwich." Seeing the finished product Gerwig referenced here, the Duplass' brothers sophomore feature Baghead is a the...
"The world is turned upside down," the boy tells documentary filmmaker Nino Kirtadze. Shy at first but progressively candid about his political views, the boy sits atop a garden ledge, his gaze directed only at times to the camera. "...but we did it ourselves," he finishes. Resonant in the most eerie of manners, the statement sums up so much of Kirtadze's dazzling, slyly mocking Durakovo: Village of Fools.
In the first frame of Lance Hammer's Ballast, James (JimMyron Ross) walks in a grey winter field, his black coat too large on his shoulders, his steps steady despite a perspective trembling coarse with bumps. His reality is one inherently unstable. In its gritty, romanticized pastoral view of B...
