Actress Travina Springer Talks Sundance Premiere of To Live and Die and Live
Those who have been to Sundance Film Festival can attest to how excitingly chaotic the event can be, especially for those who are there to work. Between the weather-related challenges of it being held atop the mountainous Park City, Utah…
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Anne Hathaway & More on a Story That’s “Not Everyone’s Cup of Tea”
The film adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s award-winning debut novel is here and it features a stacked team of creators both in front of and behind the lens. Thomasin McKenzie leads Eileen as the title character, a young woman living in…
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“I Like To Edit Ideas, Not Sequences”: Editor Geraldine Mangenot on Other People’s Children
Virginie Efira and Callie Ferreira Goncalves in Other People's Children In Other People’s Children, the latest from director Rebecca Zlowtowski, a woman in her 40s named Rachel (Virginie Efira) grapples with the idea of being a mother—as well as the…
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Jason Woliner Bids Farewell to Paul T. Goldman
This article contains spoilers for the Peacock series Paul T. Goldman.We love fiction, and yet it so often erases what's seemingly real; it's a double-edged sword that way, fighting against the doldrums we despise, but cutting into our capacity to…
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Shortcomings’ Randall Park & Justin Min on Telling a New Asian American Story
Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name, Shortcomings marks Ant-Man and Always Be My Maybe actor Randall Park’s feature directorial debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Directed off a script penned by the original story’s author, Adrian…
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The Team Behind Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out Discuss Their Sundance Premiere
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival was just days away when director Jake Van Wagoner, actors Emma Tremblay and Jacob Buster, and I sat down over Zoom to discuss their film Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left…
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“Remember To Let Go of the Plan Now and Again”: Editor Andrew Bowser on Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Andrew Bowser is the writer, director, star and editor of Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, a film based on a comedy character of his own…
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Polite Society’s Cast & Director on Scaling Buildings & Learning Kung Fu
At this year’s Sundance, one of the standout films was writer-director Nida Manzoor’s feature directorial debut, Polite Society. Blending up genres, Polite Society is an action-packed comedy about two British Pakistani sisters, Ria and Lena Khan, and Ria’s indignant will…
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Andrew Bowser and Olivia Taylor Dudley Talk Sundance Premiere of Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls
It was about a week before their film, Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, made its Midnight premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival when I met Andrew Bowser and Olivia Taylor Dudley over Zoom. Other than the…
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“The Role of an Editor Is Similar in Many Ways to a Good Translator”: Editor Simon Price on Bad Behavior
Bad Behavior, courtesy of Sundance Institute. In Bad Behavior, the feature debut from writer-director Alice Englert, Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) travels to a high-profile silent retreat with her guru (Ben Wishaw). During her search for spiritual enlightenment, however, Lucy can’t seem…
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Kompromat Director and Co-Star on Telling an Incredible and True Political Story
Russia has very much been in the news over the past year, due to the country's invasion of Ukraine. And while the new film Kompromat focuses on an entirely different real-world situation, Russian intelligence plays a central role in its…
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Anton Corbijn on Squaring the Circle, Hipgnosis, Album Covers & Kurt Cobain
From Dutch director and photographer, Anton Corbijn, Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) tells the history behind Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the creative minds behind one of the most iconic design studios in musical history, Hipgnosis. No…
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