Questlove’s ‘Black Woodstock’ Doc to Premiere at Sundance Film Festival
Posted in: Music News
Films on Rita Moreno, Sparks also set to debut at next year’s virtual event
‘Collective’: A Tragedy, a Cover-Up, an Expose — and the Best Documentary of the Year
Posted in: Movie ReviewsA fire at a Bucharest nightclub kicks off an investigation into deep systematic rot in this nonfiction procedural-cum-masterpiece
‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’: An Auteurist-Comedy Star Is Born
Posted in: Movie ReviewsWriter, director and star Radha Blank tells a semi-autobiographical tale of a playwright stuck in an artistic rut — and boldly stakes her claim in a normally white, malecentric comic space
Death Becomes Them: Kirsten Johnson on Her Bold New Doc ‘Dick Johnson is Dead’
Posted in: Movie FeaturesThe filmmaker behind one of the best, most surreal documentaries of the year opens up about why she kept killing her aged father onscreen — and why the film is testament to their bond
‘Cuties’ Review: A Coming-of-Age Movie Caught in the Culture Wars
Posted in: Movie ReviewsThanks to a major marketing mistake, this award-winning French movie has been accused of sexualizing girls. It’s actually a sensitive portrait of growing pains that deserves to be seen
Pepe the Frog Creator Tries to Reclaim Meme in ‘Feels Good Man’ Doc Trailer
Posted in: Culture NewsCartoonist Matt Furie watches helplessly as his “happy little frog” turns into white-supremacy mascot in Sundance award-winning documentary
‘The Painter and the Thief’ Review: The Art of Healing (and Vice Versa)
Posted in: Movie ReviewsDocumentary on an artist who turns the man who’s stolen her work into a muse is a tribute to an unlikely, undeniably powerful frendship
10 Best Movies at Sundance 2020
Posted in: Movie FeaturesFrom docs on death, politics and truffle hunters to a gleefully existential romcom — the cream of this year’s Sundance Film Festival crop
Sundance 2020: ‘The Go-Go’s’ Gives ’80s New Wave Band a Proper Music Doc (Finally)
Posted in: Movie ReviewsPremiere of the seminal all-female group’s long-deserved portrait gets the band back together, charting their rise-and-fall-and-return while making the case for their revolutionary status
Sundance 2020: ‘On the Record’ Gives Russell Simmons’ Accusers the Spotlight
Posted in: Movie FeaturesDocumentary on the allegations of sexual assault leveled at the hip-hop mogul premieres to standing ovations—and significantly changes the conversation around these accusations
