Review: ‘Ballet 422’
This cinéma vérité style documentary takes us backstage with The New York City Ballet Company as they prepare to perform an original piece by 25-year-old wunderkind, Justin Peck.
Review,Film Festival,Sundance Film Festival
Review: ‘Racing Extinction’, ‘Brooklyn’, ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’, ‘Slow West’, ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’
The final days of Sundance bring the best of the best: an endangered species documentary, a sweeping romance drama, and three unique Dramatic Prize winners that took the festival by storm.
Review: ‘Enter the Dangerous Mind’
Dubstep womps and circuit sounds soundtrack this brainless psychological-thriller.
Review: ‘The Voices’
Ryan Reynolds stars as a packing worker who listens to his pets' voices to kill, kill, kill, in this dark comedy.
Review,Film Festival,Sundance Film Festival
Review: ‘How To Dance in Ohio’, ‘The Chinese Mayor’
Day 9 at Sundance brings two documentaries; a look at teenagers with autism preparing for their first prom and a Chinese government's dealings with politics and the displacement of its people.
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Review: ‘People Places Things’, ‘Don Verdean’, ‘Songs My Brother Taught Me’, ‘Z for Zachariah’
Days 7 & 8 at Sundance focused on the US Dramatic film category, featuring 'People Places Things', 'Don Verdean', 'Songs My Brother Taught Me', and 'Z for Zachariah'.
Review: ‘Timbuktu’
An Academy-Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Mauritania's official entry is powerful in its artistry and message.
Review: ‘The Search For Michael Rockefeller’
Raw footage from 1969 retraces the last steps of missing socialite Michael Rockefeller, although this documentary leaves more questions than answers as to his disappearance.
Review,Film Festival,Sundance Film Festival
Review: ‘The Stanford Prison Experiment’, ‘Ivy’, ‘Welcome to Leith’, ‘Most Likely to Succeed’, ‘Zipper’
Nelson's back with five film recaps from Sundance- 2 documentaries, 2 narrative dramas, and 1 experimental film- and you'll never guess which one he's calling his festival favorite.
Review: ‘Sweet Micky for President’
Grammy award-winning rapper and former Fugees band member Pras Michel campaigns to help former Haitian superstar Micky Martelly run for President in this documentary.
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Review: ‘Hot Girls Wanted’, ‘It Follows’, ‘White God’
Besides helping Kristen Wiig with directions, Nelson spends day 3 & 4 watching the porn industry exposé Hot Girls Wanted, midnight horror film It Follows and the highly anticipated dog epic White God.
Review,Film Festival,Sundance Film Festival
Review: ‘The Hunting Ground’, ‘Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution’, ‘Ten Thousand Saints’
Nelson takes us through Day 2 of the festival, catching two documentaries (one about college campus rape, another on the Black Panthers) and the world premiere of the drama Ten Thousand Saints.
Review: ‘The Humbling’
Al Pacino battles his on and off stage demons as a tormented, aged actor in this fall-from-grace dark comedy.
Review,Film Festival,Sundance Film Festival
Review: ‘The Witch’
Nelson reports from Park City, UT on Day 1 of the Sundance Film Fest, where he catches a screening of "The Witch" and takes his first shift as a volunteer, which can be described in one word: Cold.
Review,Film Festival,Sundance Film Festival
Review: ‘Digging for Fire’, ’71’
Writer Nelson Tracey attends this year's Sundance Film Festival (albeit as a dedicated volunteer), who will report on the films' seen and events' witnessed each day. First log, a 700-mile road trip to Park City and a double feature.
