Rise up: a special retrospective series at this year‘s festival captured the revolutionary promise of the historic Afro-Asian ...

Video life: highlights of this year’s edition included films by Alex Ross Perry, Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan, ...

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As I was writing this report from Sundance 2025, the festival announced the winner of its Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition: Hailey Gates’s Atropia, a mordant satire set in one of ...

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The groundswell of grief that followed David Lynch’s death on January 15 caught me off guard, as I suspect it did many others, in its sheer reach and intensity. For a few days, it seemed that everyone ...

After the critical and commercial disappointment of Hulk (2003), Ang Lee’s melancholic take on the green Marvel monster, the director sank into a depression and nearly retired from filmmaking. To his ...