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The Sundance Film Festival closed up shop yesterday, ending 11 days of premieres, competition, and deal-making — and leaving festival-goers and critics to contemplate the independent, foreign, and documentary films that will likely dominate those landscapes for the months to come. Your film editor was among them, and I came away with a strange sense […]
PARK CITY, UTAH: If Late Night worked on no other level – and to be clear, that’s not the case, but go with me on this – if would be worth seeing as a foghorn-loud reminder that Emma Thompson is an international treasure, and we’re not using her often enough. Her turn as Katherine Newbury, […]
Amazon might just be the biggest player at the Sundance Film Festival this year. The internet giant has spent $ 13 million to acquire the US rights to Late Night, a movie written, produced and starring Mindy Kaling. As Deadline pointed out, that’s a record for any US-only deal at Sundance — even Amazon’s $ […]
The more time your film editor spends working this particular beat, the clearer it becomes that the movie calendar simply never pauses. Two days ago, with the announcement of the Oscar nominations, we entered the final phase of 2018 at the movies – but today, more than a month before they’ll hand those trophies out, […]
Which is the more effective way to confront an issue: facts or emotion? For filmmaker Garrett Bradley, the question sets up a false contrast — one is, in fact, strengthened by the other. “You can watch a film and feel empathy, connect on some level,” the 31-year-old explains. “And that entry point, hopefully, can expand […]
A lot of filmmakers can try to imitate the lyrical, dreamy style of Terrence Malick, but few can replicate it. And the auteur’s acclaimed Tree of Life certainly comes to mind while watching Jeremiah Zagar‘s hypnotic We the Animals trailer. But there’s an unsettling wildness that sets Zagar’s Sundance darling apart. We the Animals Trailer Stunning and visceral, […]
On the April 17, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about Pet Sematary remake casting, the title for Avengers 4, Harley Quinn movie director, an update on King of Kong champion Billy Mitchell, Neill Blomkamp crowdfunding his next […]
A: The song is by Burt Bacharach and the vocals are performed by the Ron Hicklin Singers. They were an extraordinary group who performed the themes for many films and TV series from the 1960s to the 1980s, including Happy Days, Wonder Woman and Batman. Q: What does the term “halcyon days” refer to and […]
Another Sundance movie has found a home. Netflix has scooped up the rights to writer/director Sara Colangelo‘s The Kindergarten Teacher in the U.S. and Canada, and they’ll make the film available for subscribers to stream sometime this year. Maggie Gyllenhaal produced the movie and stars as a teacher who becomes dangerously obsessed with nurturing the […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] The Sundance hit horror movie is kind of a tradition/subgenre unto itself: a indie scare picture that quietly debuts on the Midnight slate and scares the shit out of the fest’s critics and tastemakers, who stumble into the snow at two in the morning all abuzz with exhaustion and terror, […]
