#sundace film festival

[haute-lifestyle-com]

Sundance Film Festival Announces 2024 Dates #janetwalker #hautelifestylecom #theentertainmentzonecom #sundance #parkcity #film #filmfestival

https://www.haute-lifestyle.com/haute-lifestyle-entertainment/e-news/6326-sundance-film-festival-announces-2024-dates.html

#Janet Walker #Haute-Lifestyle.com #The-Entertainment-Zone.com #sundace #film festival #park city utah #films

[atlasshrugd]

MILEAPO MOVIE CAN YOU HEAR ME SCREAM AND DIE!! AND IT LOOKS SO GOOD LIKE NOT JUST CHEAP MOVIE BUT LIKE FREAKING SUNDACE, CANNES, TIFF, VENICE, BERLIN, THIS BITCH LOOKS LIKE IS READY AND PACKED FOR A FILM FESTIVAL

I KNOW. I AM LITERALLY GOING INSANE. NO ONE CAN DO SHIT TO ME. EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER WANTED IS COMING TRUE. WE MANIFESTED THIS.

NOW LETS GO ✈️ BOC FIRE THE AUTHORS AND KP SEASON 2!!!! LEZZZ GOOOOOO

#IM FERAL IM INSANE IM INCONSOLABLE #kinnporsche #mileapo #asks #mine

[lovejam]

“Winner” at Sundace

First Look: Emilia Jones in Susanna Fogel's 'WINNER,' making its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. A Reality Winner satire. Connie Britton, Zach Galifianakis, Kathryn Newton, Danny Ramirez co-star #SundanceFilmFestival https://t.co/FR8IdO4HcW pic.twitter.com/0LVXkZq9WG— The Playlist (@ThePlaylistNews) December 6, 2023 Screen shot Waiting for the trailer, but here’s the IMDb…

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#Film Festival #Sundance film festival #winner

[notasdevivi]

Estreno. CASSANDRO

Después de su paso por el festival de Sundace y de Telleride se estrena el 22 de sepriembre en @primevideo el filme Cassandro.

Saúl Armendáriz, un luchador amateur gay de El Paso, alcanza el estrellato internacional después de que crea el personaje “Cassandro,” el “Liberace de la Lucha Libre”. En el proceso, no solo cambia drásticamente el mundo machista de la lucha libre, pero también su propia vida. Basada en una historia real.

#cassandro #gael garcia bernal #film

[ilcontroverso]

Conversazione su Passages di Ira Sachs

Martina Mazzarella, nel suo articolo, ci porta in anteprima un film presentato al Sundace Film Festival che uscirà in Italia in agosto dove si parla dell'intimità de delle dinamiche dei rapporti umani. #IlControVerso #notizie #pensieri #politica #libertà

Domenica scorsa stavo correndo con mia sorella e un amico alla sala Astra del cinema Anteo di Milano, cercando di recuperare un paio di minuti al lieve ritardo che minacciava la perdita dell’inizio del film. Finiamo quasi per scontrarci con un gruppetto di persone in uscita dalla sala (“Vi siete perse solo un saluto, il regista tornerà dopo i titoli di coda.” “Ah, grazie, allora a dopo.” “Ma era…

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#Adèle Exarchopoulos #Ben Whishaw #cinema #Franz Rogowski #Ira Sachs #lgbtqia+ #Passages #settima arte

[scenephile]

Pull me out.

#possessor #2020 #andrea riseborough #brandon cronenberg #christopher abbott #science fiction #psychological thriller #sundace film festival #canada #tasya vos #colin tate #get me out get me out #get me out #scenephile #film quotes #movie quotes #movie scenes #film scene #Horror Movies #pull me out

[bisikletlikirlangic]

İyi ki izlemişiz dedirttirdi bize bu 23 dakikalık bir seyyar satıcının belgeseli. Daha çok, hafif hareketli fotoğrafların birleşimi gibiydi. Bu kareler bizi oldukça heyecanlandırdı. 23 dakikada bir coğrafyanın birçok özelliğini görmek, bir çocuğa sorulan büyünce ne olacağının sorusunun cevabının olmayışı, bir tuvalet kağıdının lüks olması, kimsesiz bir ihtiyar teyzenin bir rendeye sahip olamamasının hüznünü gördük. Patetesin Euro, Dolar, Gürcistan Larisi'den daha geçerli para birimi olduğunu gördük. Benim de ilk çalıştığım köyde takas usulü ile alışveriş yapıldığına şahit olmuştum. Bağbozumu zamanı üzüm karşılığında diğer köylere satışa gidildiğinde yumurta, süt, tavuk alındığı görmüştüm. Hangi ülke olursa olsun garibanlık her yerde aynı. Satıcının, kapitalizmin -her yerdeki gibi- duygusuz,acımasız sembolü olması bu kısacık belgeselin vurucu yanıydı. Sundance'de kısa film kategorisinde jüri ödülü almış. Fotoğraf çekmekten hoşlanan bilhassa insan üstüne portre çekimleri yapanların seveceğini düşündüğüm bir yapıt.

#the trader #sovdagari #sundance #sundace film festival

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Richard and Riley Keough pose for a portrait in the Pizza Hut Lounge at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.  (January 25, 2019)

#richard armitage #richard #riley keough #grace #the lodge #horror #movie #sundace film festival #sff #pizza hut lounge #park city utah #january 24 2019 #new photos #photos #protrait #aaron richter #getty images #news

[angelistic11]

Zac Efron ( + Lily Collins) promoting Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile at the Sundance FF 2019

#zac efron #lily collins #extremely wicked shockingly evil and vile #sundance #imdb #sundace film festival #sff #ewseav #ted bundy #lcollinsedit #lcollinsource #lcollinsdaily #lily collins edit #zefron #zefronedit #zachary efron #efron #zac efron edit #hsm #baywatch #the greatest showman #neighbors #hot as fuuuuck #hot as f*ck #hot as hell #la times

[thefilmjournal]

Eighth Grade (2018)

Before I get into how I felt about Eighth Grade, I wanted to leave a message for you from the writer and director Bo Burnham. I can’t find the link to it anymore, though luckily, I saved it in my photos because I enjoyed it so much. 

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I spoke, in an earlier post, about my feelings that we were going through some sort of film renaissance. I’ve been feeling like we are being exposed to more stories we have not seen yet, especially from minority groups and newcomers in film. Eighth Grade has certainly kept that trend alive for me, being that, as Bo Burnham said in his letter, we don’t have movies that explore middle school like this does, let alone from a girl’s point of view. I would agree that middle school is when we actually become self-aware, and no one really talks about that. Eighth Grade has a special place in the coming of age genre. This movie wasn’t afraid to step up and have those conversations about the awkward parts of growing up during early adolescence--for the child and the parent. It was relatable and at the same time, surprising. It was genuine. 

This movie is rated R for language and some sexual material. There will be spoilers beyond this point. Thank you for reading!

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The Adolescent Experience

There were so many things in the movie that I related to at Kayla’s age, like using YouTube tutorials to get ready, making my own YouTube videos (vlogging just started becoming a big thing around my time in middle school and high school), bargaining with God for things I wanted or wanted to have happen, and finding confidence. Eighth Grade brings up those aspects of growing up that we don’t necessarily want to talk about and some that we need to talk about. 

We especially do not want to talk about how we prepare ourselves for our first romantic and sexual experiences, but Eighth Grade makes us face it anyway! I was in shock, first, when Kayla put her hand to her mouth to practice kissing, and second, when she grabbed that banana from her kitchen. I thought, ‘Are we really going there?’ I experienced such secondhand embarrassment during those moments. I had to figure Kayla’s dad would walk in on her, but thankfully, I guess, they were just close calls! 

Kayla practicing conversations is something you could group in with practices we don’t commonly bring up. It was a lot easier to watch compared to those other two moments, of course, though I imagine it would have been just as embarrassing for her to have been caught talking to herself. We see a lot of that in film, actually--characters preparing themselves for interactions--though I appreciated seeing it here more than anywhere else. Because of this journey we had been on with Kayla up until that point, and surely because of her age, it was an especially endearing part of the movie to see her working on getting out of her shell--to not be the ‘quietest’ anymore. 

In bringing up first romantic and sexual experiences, Eighth Grade also brought up the topic of unwanted sexual advances.

I have seen this movie twice and one thing I found the most interesting as far as audience reaction, was the response to the scene where Kayla is alone with Riley in his car. For me, it was the most suspenseful scene in the movie, and you don’t normally expect to feel that in coming of age movies, not to that level on par with a horror film. 

After going to the mall with Olivia, the high school-er Kayla shadowed, and Olivia’s friends, it was decided Olivia would be dropped off first, leaving Kayla alone with Riley, a high school boy she had just met. I immediately felt an uneasiness. A girl sitting behind me in the theater felt the same. I heard her sigh, “Oh God, no.” In contrast, during my second viewing, everyone was completely silent during that scene with the exception of two men in the theater. One sat further up and the other further down, and they both laughed a few times throughout the scene in the car. I can’t say exactly why they laughed. I wasn’t sure how anyone could find that scene anything but distressing. 

Consent and pointing out predatory behavior are topics we are becoming more concerned with and I’m thankful to Bo Burnham for including that in his film. Riley took advantage of Kayla’s young age and lack of sexual experience, and when she stood up for herself, he turned everything around on her. He shamed her and yelled at her like she was the one who was wrong, and that’s how it goes. What was more emotional and heartbreaking was seeing how that experience affected her. She stopped making her videos and if you notice, she stopped wearing makeup to school, and she was feeling generally down. Those experiences can take everything from you. I hope that sharing Kayla’s experience--which is, unfortunately, a very common one and can happen early on in life as it did for her--encourages parents to have that conversation about consent with their kids. 

During that video where Kayla decides to quit YouTube, she opens up about her nervousness. I found her roller coaster analogy to be one of the more beautifully written and truest parts of the movie, especially when she says that she tries really hard not to feel that way. As an audience, we know about it the whole time. We saw how she freaked out in Kennedy’s restroom earlier in the movie during the pool party. It’s Kayla opening up about it to us that let’s us know that the moment in the bathroom wasn’t a unique occurrence. In addition to consent, our society is also becoming more aware of how common anxiety and depression is and we are becoming more okay with having that conversation. One thing that gets pointed out a lot is how parents don’t seem to take warning signs in their children seriously enough. With that, I appreciated seeing how patient Kayla’s father was with her and how he genuinely cared to understand her and help her. 

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Score

My favorite movies are the ones that ‘make me feel something,’ and one thing that most, if not all of those movies have in common, to me, is that they have great music. The music should really anchor me down to a moment and inform me, but not force me, and I should be able to revisit that feeling when I listen to the song again. Anna Meredith’s score for Eighth Grade has easily become one of my all-time favorites. Her songs really awaken an introspectiveness, especially in “Being Yourself,” the “How To Be Confident” songs, “Honeyed Words,” “MGMS Class of 2017,” and “REDBLUEGREEN.” Truly, all of them are so wonderful on their own.

Additionally, I must say that next to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Eighth Grade includes my favorite use of “Orinoco Flow” by Enya in a movie. It plays while we see Kayla dive deep into her social media routine, and it makes the scene in itself feel like a time capsule that screams, “This is growing up today!” It’s like watching it is watching a grand encapsulation of growing up in this moment in history, like it’s somehow educational, and in the moment, I’m entranced by it enough to believe that it could one day be included in a video about human evolution.

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Different Directions

Eighth Grade surprised me in a really positive way. 

 In Ladybird, another A24 movie, Saoirse Ronan’s character, who has the titular role (if you understand the reference), wanted a change. She made friends with the ‘cool kids’ and ditches her best friend in that pursuit only to come back to her when it doesn’t work out. There were ingredients included in Eighth Grade that could have resulted in a similar situation. Kayla could have made friends with Gabe earlier on (who I love), then she could have been welcomed into Kennedy’s friend circle, or something could have transpired between her and Aiden, and she could have ditched Gabe as a friend. I started to expect the storyline to unfold that way early on, because I am so used to that sort of thing, and I’m glad it didn’t. 

Granted, Kayla was still ugly to her father, but my inclination is to chalk that up to Kayla feeling misunderstood and unsatisfied with herself and her social life, which can be particularly difficult at that stage in life. Admittedly, it was very hard for me to watch the first conversation shown between Kayla and her dad because I felt she was being so rude, but I also think it was important to include. It made me reflect on my siblings’ and my own preference for technology over person-to-person interaction, especially with our parents. It reminded me a lot of my own days as a teenager wanting to be left alone with my phone. There is no doubt that scene looked familiar to many. 

Another way I was surprised was I feared Olivia, the high school student Kayla befriends, would not actually end up being the kind person she was presented as. Again, at least that is what I have been conditioned to believe in film--that things or people may not be as they seem. First, I was afraid that Olivia would ignore Kayla’s phone call and that Kayla would be upset over that. I was happy to see Olivia picked up and not only that, invited Kayla to hang out. When that happened, I was met with a new fear, that their hangout would consist of drugs or something she shouldn’t take part in. We know how that turned out in the end with Riley, though that was certainly not Olivia’s intention. Nonetheless, I was satisfied with the fact that Olivia’s character was written as being so welcoming toward Kayla without any surprises and that Kayla was also consistently herself throughout, only trying to better her confidence. 

I’ve always loved going to the movies. I’m told that when I was little, I’d sigh, “This is the life,” in my seat. Every now and then, a movie grabs hold of my heart so strongly, it feels like it’s swelling and then I’m left with tears in my eyes and a feeling like I’ll explode with love. Ang Lee calls this “juice.” That feeling reminds me why I love film. Eighth Grade has juice. 

#eighth grade #bo burnham #a24 #movie #film #film blog #spoilers #elsie fisher #sundace film festival #josh hamilton #emily robinson #jake ryan #twitter #facebook #social media #anxiety #stress #high school #john hughes #anna meredith #score #soundtrack #comedy #iphone #god #religion #coming of age #ladybird #saoirse ronan #enya

[ecsundance]

Sundance Film Review: Playing with Sharks

Playing with Sharks is an amazing story based on the life of Valerie Taylor. Before watching this film I had never heard of Valerie Taylor but I was intrigued to see who she was. Valerie dedicated her life to understanding and depicting sharks in their natural habitat. There was a common misconception about sharks, that they are vicious bloodthirsty predators. After the release of the movie Jaws, there were fleets of boats heading into the ocean to kill all species of sharks. The killing was getting so bad that nurse sharks were almost completely wiped out even though they were almost no danger to humans. Valerie is a conservationist whose main goal is to protect sharks from being killed ruthlessly and to inform the public of sharks' true behavior

The public's fear and lack of understanding of sharks gave them a bad name but Valerie wanted to set the record straight. Her and her husband Don were a perfect team and through the documentary not only do you follow their amazing wildlife stories but the audience also get a look at the amazing relationship they had. Their marriage was special and their efforts were made stronger because of their companionship. Valerie was one of the only women to be so successful in this field because it was mostly dominated by men. Out of all the men Valerie proved again and again that she had more bravery and courage than all of them. She Was willing to do things no other person would ever think of. She was able to debunk the myth that sharks have crushing bite force when in reality they rip and thrash their sharp teeth to get pieces of food. She tested this myth by going into the open water near a whale carcass and allowing a shark to bite her while wearing chain mesh. Her test was successful and it was something that has never been done before.  

I was completely astonished by some of the film they were able to get and I thought it was so interesting what little they knew about sharks compared to what we do now. Similar to many living things sharks are curious and they are quite intelligent. It was scary to see how quick the public was willing to turn to the mass killings of sharks solely based on a movie and it’s sad to think it could have all been stopped if people just listened. Valerie Taylor was able to get the first ever protection law for sharks and ever since then there has been more and more rules and restrictions that protect all species of shark. Even though Valerie started out as professional spear fishermen she decided that she solely wanted to protect not kill. Her love for the ocean was inspired at a very young age and led her on a breathtaking life. 

This was one of my favorite films at Sundance Film Festival and I would recommend this documentary to almost anyone. Even if you are not very educated on the topic it is incredibly interesting and beautiful to see our earth from such a different perspective. Valerie described the ocean as being an “Alien Planet” and I think that's a creative and fun way to look at it because we know so little about our oceans. That is also why we need to take good care and maintain their ecosystems properly. I am very glad I got the opportunity to see this amazing documentary and hope there will be more like it in the future.

- Rocco Capaldo

#sundace #festival #film #review

[melodyofheart]

Maria Bello at Sundace Film Festival 2018

interview for "The Sun Ladies"

#maria bello #jack sloane #mariabello #maria bello : photoshoot #maria bello : interview #the sun ladies

[tayisthebest]

Taylor at the Sundace film festival!!💞💞💞💞💞😍😍😍

She looks soooo PRETAYY!!!!😭😭😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😻😻😻😻

@taylorswift @taylornation

#taylornation #taylornoticeme #taylor swift #taylurking #i love you taylor #miss americana #tayisthebest #tayisbae

[marope76]

Matt Bomer en los Estudios IMDB

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#matt bomer #sundace #sundance film festival #josh wiggins #bill pullman

[nicolebehariewce]

The ridiculously talented & gorgeous cast of 'Monsters And Men’ photographed by Robby Klein at Sundace Film Festival 2018 | Nicole Beharie, Anthony Ramos, Rob Morgan, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jasmin Cephas Jones, Chante Adams, John David Washington with Dir. Reinaldo Marcus Green

#Nicole Beharie #Nikki Beharie #Anthony Ramos #Rob Morgan #Kelvin Harrison Jr #jasmine cephas jones #chante adams #John David washington #Reinaldo Marcus green #Monsters and men #monsters and men cast

[awardseasonblog]

Presentato con successo al Sundace Film Festival, The Report è un film destinato a far discutere perchè pone l’accento della sua indagine sullo spietato programma di detenzione che ha adottato la CIA dopo l’11 settembre. La scoperta di un sistema di tecniche di interrogatori dal carattere brutale e immorale porterà ad un duro scontro tra il Senato Intelligence Committee e la Casa Bianca, che aiutata dalla CIA tenterà di tutto pur di impedire che la verità venga accertata. Nel cast spiccano Adam Driver (candidato lo scorso anno agli Oscar come supporter per BlacKkKlansman) e Annette Bening che finalmente potrebbe avvicinarsi all’ambita statuetta dopo ben 4 nomination #awardseason #thereport https://www.instagram.com/p/B0nkoH6oitx/?igshid=sykaosu4mu3c

#awardseason #thereport