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After two years of the pandemic creating a more accessible festival, in-person SXSWFilm is back with a tantalizingly long list of films that I am eager to devour. While I won’t be in Austin this year to experience the crazed ups, downs and sideways of traversing the crowds, freebies and long lines I will get to chow down on the smorgasbord of offerings that SXSW Film has to offer.
One Fine Morning witnesses a key disappearance play out in the the grinding rhythms of real life.
Capsule reviews, quick thoughts, and instant reactions on this year’s festival films.
Ira Sachs goes to Paris
Some sicko gave Brandon Cronenberg the keys to the White Lotus and this is what happened.
Dispatches from Sundance: a twisty literary adaptation.
Dispatches from Sundance: a short story makes it to the big screen
Dispatches from Sundance: a revisitation of recent political events
Dispatches from Sundance: a herculean performance from one of our great actors.
Despite the best laid plans to leverage last year’s fully virtual experience and start 2022 with a hybrid in-person and online festival, this winter’s steep Omicron surge found the Sundance Film Festival again pivoting to a mostly virtual format. Once again, film lovers, journalists, and critics will be experience the annual kick-off of independent film festival season mostly from their couches.
