Month: January 2015
Sundance Film Review: Station to Station
Station to Station is, essentially, a quilt of footage orchestrated by Director Doug Aitken on a train from the Atlantic to the Pacific over the course of 4,000 miles. Aitken introduced the film before the SLC Library Theatre screening as a synthesis of different artistic mediums that connect in a filmic juncture, which they initially ventured to shape into a traditional documentary but later decided to condense different portions into 61 one-minute segments to convey certain points of the train’s journey. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: They Look Like People
It boggles my mind that the slight movement of someone’s jaw, a bottle of sulfuric acid and a nail gun combine for the most terrifying film I’ve seen this decade. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Being Evel
With archival footage and hilarious dialogue taking up the majority of the flick, Director Daniel Jungle unveils both the stunts and the darker side of America’s favorite stuntman Robert Craig Knievel aka Evel Knievel. … read more
Sundance Film Review: The Royal Road
As Director Jenni Olson travels on an Amtrak train from San Francisco to Los Angeles, she verbally paints a stunning portrait of the unassuming structures and singles out minute details that transport viewers directly into her shoes. … read more
A Shadow in the Relationship
Though I have to ask myself what on earth, heaven or hell can raise me from my crypt this early on a January morning, I am keenly reminded by the adventure I am about to embark on that blends Almost Famous and A Hard Day’s Night into a 12-hour-plus extravaganza. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Clinger
In this extraordinary tribute to ’80s horror, director Michael Steves will make you laugh till you die.Gather up a few buckets of blood and go see this film. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Concrete Love: The Böhm Family
It’s a documentary that drafts an adroit portrait of the renowned Pritzker Prize laureate Gottfried Böhm, his architect wife Elisabeth and their three sons, Peter, Paul and Stephen, each of whom is also an architect. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: High Performance
Rudi’s a corporate professional, all business, while Daniel’s a bike-riding (aspiring) avant-garde theater actor, who isn’t that guy in the soda pop commercial, he insists. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Ratter
A ratter is a type of hacker who breaks through the security of your computer, mobile device or webcam to take control of that device—more specifically, the device’s camera. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Wild Tales
Wild Tales comprises short, potentially stand-alone films that explore morbid and/or grave, realistic situational irony and revenge … and it’s fucking hilarious. … read more