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A series of pieces from and about the Sundance Film Festival.

Featured Postcards From Sundance

Day 8: Mad visions

by Mike D'Angelo

On our final day at Sundance, a documentary by Room 237 director Rodney Ascher and a delirious feature by Guy Maddin express oneiric madness in different forms. 

  • Does the most buzzed about title at Sundance live up to the hype?

    Day 7: Resistance

    by Noel Murray
  • Three films at Sundance expose the false value of requiring characters to be "likeable." 

    Day 6: The limits of likability

    by Mike D'Angelo
  • On a day marked by films about extreme psychological trials, the big winner is an old-fashioned movie romance.

    Day 5: Hitting home

    by Noel Murray
  • A day of comedies at Sundance, including new films by Noah Baumbach and Jack Black, took one dark and often delicious turn after another. 

    Day 4: Discomfort comedy

    by Mike D'Angelo
  • A graphic novel adaptation and a memory of David Foster Wallace remind Sundance-goers that not all immersive cinematic experiences require special technology.

    Day 3: Virtual reality

    by Noel Murray
  • The best movie on Day Two took two tries and a few hours in line to see, but it was worth it. 

    Day 2: Witching And Bitching

    by Mike D'Angelo
  • Our first day of 2015 Sundance coverage is highlighted by two solid documentaries and another astounding animated short by Don Hertzfeldt.

    Day 1: Yesterday and tomorrow

    by Noel Murray
  • Our coverage of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival comes to an end with a disappointing directorial debut from David Cross and an oddball effort from Persepolis’ Marjane Satrapi.

    Day 8: Killers and cats

    by Nathan Rabin
  • First-rate genre films dominated Sundance on Day 7, including the relentless boogeyman horror of The Babadook, Adam Wingard’s comic follow-up to You’re Next, and a sequel to the non-stop action favorite The Raid. Also: Secret screening!

    Day 7: The movies you can’t get rid of

    by Noel Murray
  • The only thing harder than comedy is hitting a baseball. Day 6 offered a lot of both, with a Christopher Guest-style vampire comedy, a follow-up to the BBC hit The Trip, and two docs about baseball rebels—the Portland Mavericks and Doc Ellis.

    Day 6: Swinging away

    by Nathan Rabin
  • 12 years in the making, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood finally debuts, and it was well worth the wait, following a boy’s growth and the culture that changes around him. Other Sundance offerings seemed small by comparison.

    Day 5: Life, serial

    by Noel Murray
  • The Roger Ebert bio-doc Life Itself does right by its subject, joining documentaries about Mitt Romney and less revered figures as Sundance continues.

    Day 4: The good, the bad, and the coming-of-age

    by Nathan Rabin
  • A music-heavy Day Three at Sundance features the ragged directorial debut of Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch, an art-rock band that has Michael Fassbender wearing a giant papier-mâché head, an alt-R&B singer wandering around Memphis. 

     

    Day 3: Share your music (or then again, no)

    by Noel Murray
  • Driven obsessives dominate some of 2014’s earliest cinematic offerings, including Whiplash, Finding Fela!, and Richard Ayoade’s Submarine follow-up, The Double.

    Day 2: The young and the restless

    by Nathan Rabin
  • Our first day of Sundance Film Festival coverage kicks off with a trio of documentaries: one about a Lutheran pastor giving refuge to the jobless in North Dakota, another about the informant son of a Hamas leader, and a third about the dispute over the T-Rex “Sue.”

    Day 1: Digging deep in Park City

    by Noel Murray
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