Tag: Sundance film festival
Sundance 2022 Double Bill Review: Call Jane (Phylis Nagy) & The Janes (Tia Lessin/Emma Pildes)
Women’s rights and the power to exercise choice was a recurring topic at this year’s Sundance Film Festival seen in more than just a couple…
Sundance 2022 Review: Am I Ok? (Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne)
Directed by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, Am I Ok? stars Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno as best friends: Lucy and Jane. The film is…
Sundance 2022 Review: The Princess (Ed Perkins)
The Princess of Wales. Lady Di. The People’s Princess. Regardless of her title, Diana Spencer was a phenomenon during her life and still continues to…
Sundance 2022 Review: The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
Having been regarded by many since its Cannes premiere as ‘one of the best films of the year’, Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the…
Allison’s Full Sundance 2021 Coverage
The editor-in-chief at Filmotomy would like to personally thank Allison for not only the extensive coverage of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but also for…
Sundance 2021 Review: The World To Come
An adaptation of a short story by Jim Shepard, The World to Come meanders through Upstate New York in the mid-19th century. Mona Fastvold’s film…
Sundance 2021 Review: Summer of Soul
Acclaimed musician turned director, Ahmir-Khalib Thompson presents us with “A Qwestlove Jawn”. After a slew of assassinations including John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther…
Sundance 2021 Review: Cryptozoo
Dash Shaw has spent his career experimenting with various visual mediums and unique forms of storytelling with his newest feature Cryptozoo being no different. Premiering…
Sundance 2021 Review: In the Same Breath
With films like One Child Nation, I Am Another You, and Hooligan Sparrow, Nanfu Wang was already on her way to becoming legendary. In the Same Breath opens with a…
Sundance 2021 Review: The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
It is the 50-year anniversary of Lucino Visconti’s film Death in Venice. A film that circled festivals and garnered plenty of praise from critics and…
Sundance 2021 Review: Writing with Fire
As a female journalist, is it easy just to read the statistics and see the small implications of being female in this industry from the…
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Two Shorts: A Way to Express and Experiment
Like many of his fellow generation X directors, Paul Thomas Anderson kick-started his career making short films. Despite attending film school at New York University,…
