In a last-minute addition to its line-up, the Cannes Film Festival has given a world premiere to Kiwi Chow’s “Revolution of Our Times,” a defiant chronicle of Hong Kong’s 2019 pro-democracy protests, taking a diplomatic gamble on sensitive topic that could provoke China’s ire.
Sundance Film Fest 2022: Buzziest Titles
January 29, 2022 by
Cha Cha Smooth: a comedy about a bar mitzvah party host and the bond he forms with a single mother and her autistic daughter is one of the festival’s “feel good” movies, a warm-hearted film with breakout potential.
Sundance Film Fest 2022: World’s Most Selective Fest
January 29, 2022 by
The awards announcement marks a key point of the 2022 Festival, where 84 feature-length and 59 short films — selected from 14,849 submissions — were showcased online via the Festival’s online platform; a selection of the program will play at 7 Satellite Screen locations across the US, starting tonight.
My Old School: Jono McLeod’s Debut Feature, Starring Alan Cumming (Sundance 2022)
January 28, 2022 by
Alan Cumming plays a key role in this documentary about a Scotsman who pretended to be someone he wasn’t back in the 1990s, a first feature for Jono McLeod.
Passing: Rebecca Hall’s Racial (and Interracial) Drama, Starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga (Sundance 2021)
January 17, 2022 by
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga play Black women in 1920s New York, navigating the “color line” from opposite sides in Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of the Harlem Renaissance novel.
