Month: January 2015
Slamdance Film Review: 20 Years of Madness
The doc’s director, Jeremy Royce, deftly illuminates the tensions that arise between the veteran cast members, using footage from the original show to unearth the anxieties that dissolved the group in the first place. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Pervert Park
Florida Justice Transition is an adults-only trailer-home community—that’s because it’s a space designed for previously convicted sex offenders reintegrating into society, post-incarceration. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Trees That Walk (Alberi che Camminano)
Trees That Walk follows the path of wood as it’s cut down, cut up, shaped and turned into lumber for homes, works of art, musical instruments and more. … read more
Sundance Film Review: 6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia
On paper, this film comes across as pretty damn intellectually daunting—the type of film that goes over your head. But something about the director’s rhythmic narration set to images of dew-flecked spider webs succeed in transporting the audience into this strange world that appears to have remained unchanged since the 1920s. … read more
Sundance Film Review: It Follows
David Robert Mitchell’s dissection of the paranoia and emotional detachment that plagues our suburbs is the genesis of this fresh interpretation of the horror genre. It Follows feels like a natural progression of the teenage horror film—one that uses the complexity of today’s young people as a canvas for some expertly-crafted, psychosexual drama. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the...
Batkid Begins shows us what is possible when people work together, care about each other and create true community with one another. … read more
Sundance Film Review: The Summer of Sangaile
Set in Lithuania and spoken in Lithuanian, Sangailé (Julija Steponaityté) is a timid, adolescent young woman who marvels at such stunt planes, but she fears heights on account of her vertigo. Austé (Aisté Diržiūté) coaxes her to hang out with her and her friends group; eventually, the two girls become lovers as Austé, an aspiring fashion designer/photographer, threads her way into Sangailé’s heart by making clothes for and taking photos of her. … read more
Sundance Film Review: The Amina Profile
The Amina Profile documentary follows Montrealer Sandra Bagaria’s online relationship with Amina Arraf, a lesbian woman from Damascus, Syria, near the onset of the Arab Revolution. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Sweet Micky For President
In this musically-satiated documentary, Michel ‘Sweet Micky’ Martelly begins his political journey to become Haiti’s President. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Chorus
Chorus is shot in a dreary black and white that underlines the turmoil with which Irène (Fanny Mallette) and Christophe (Sébastien Ricard) have suffered for 10 years, since the disappearance and presumed death of their son in Quebec. … read more