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The Sundance Film Festival has gone with the flow of the creative industry by introducing a program called Indie Episodic last year, which highlights great upcoming television. We haven’t spent a lot of time on that...

Joe Talbot’s “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” is the tale of two friends, Jimmie (Jimmie Fails) and Montgomery (Jonathan Majors), and a Victorian home in the middle of a highly gentrified neighborhood. Jimmie claims...

As a Roger Ebert Fellow and first-timer at Sundance Film Festival, I have already felt a wide range of emotions, and it is only the beginning of the festival. I find myself going from awestruck at...

The final days of Sundance are often given over to what could be called less edgy product, more crowd-pleasing fare than the Competition and Next titles that premiere on the opening weekend of the 11-day affair....

I woke up Wednesday morning with a knot in my stomach. My flight was scheduled to leave Chicago at 9:55am and it finally felt official—I was a Roger Ebert Fellow and I was headed to Sundance....

In a city of nine million people, Mexico City has only 45 official ambulances. The need for immediate medical attention is largely fulfilled by non-government workers, as civilians zip around the city in their own ambulances,...

Dick Miller is dead. If I were to announce this news to a group of people whose lives did not necessarily revolve around the world of film, there is an excellent chance that such news would...

A young woman washes up on a deserted island in the opening scene of J.D. Dillard’s great “Sweetheart,” a creature feature with practical effects and fascinating thematic undercurrents that could be pitched as “’Cast Away’ meets...

For many film buffs, filmmaker Penelope Spheeris will always either be The Punk Lady or the “Wayne’s World” Woman. Honestly: she’s both, and so much more. Spheeris—who wore several hats while working on short films written...

Throughout its majestic 188-minute running time, there is a profound sum of self-negotiation in Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “The Wild Pear Tree”; a slow-burning and unexpectedly humorous character study as reflective and impenetrable as anything...