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PARK CITY, UTAH, April 17, 2024 — Today, the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the opening of a Request for Information (RFI), beginning on April 17 and closing on May 1, followed by a Request for Proposal (RFP)...
PARK CITY, UTAH – JANUARY 18: (L–R) John Early and Theda Hammel attend the 2024 Sundance Film Festival “Stress Positions” premiere at Library Center Theatre on January 18, 2024, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Chad Salvador/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival)
By Annie Lyons
Stress Positions might technically be a...
By Lucy Spicer
One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent filmmaking. While we can learn a lot about the filmmakers from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival through the art that these storytellers share with us, there’s always more we can learn about them as people. This year, we...
THE WORK OF JOHN WILLIAMS. THE CONDUCTOR OF EMOTIONS by Jean-Christophe Manuceau John Williams is one of the most famous and celebrated composers in the history of film music. His music has been heard around the world. A true genius…
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With the likes of Maciek Hamela’s documentary In the Rearview and Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated film Chicken for Linda!
This year’s edition of the Directors’ Fortnight will begin with Barbie and end with…plastic. Julien Rejl‘s selection committee have lassoed a total of twenty-one features for a slate that will bookend with Sophie Fillières‘ final feature (she passed away shortly after filming) in Ma Vie Ma Gueule which is selected as the section’s opener (Agnès Jaoui’s character’s nickname is that of the...
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Following on from the previous edition, the 2024 selection is less an attempt to draw a map of global film production than to create an editorial line composed of genuine bets, favourites, and films that have been intensely debated within the committee. Our main compass has always been the singularity of a film’s mise-en-scene, as well as its poetry, its affective power, its...
As Blur performed Saturday night on the Coachella main stage ahead of No Doubt, they found themselves in front of a relatively unresponsive crowd, especially during their 1994 hit “Girls & Boys.” “You’re never seeing us again, so you might as well fucking sing it,” a clearly frustrated frontman Damon Albarn said after the crowd’s […]
The Festival de Cannes is honoring a cinema legend, awarding its Honorary Palme d'or for the first time to a group: Studio Ghibli.
Alongside the Hollywood greats, the Japanese studio embodied by two superb storytellers, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and a host of cult characters, has unleashed a fresh wind on animated film over the past four decades.
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