Salt Lake Film Society

Porcelain War, Sundance 2024 documentary prize winner, Academy Award shortlisted film, set to begin screening run at Salt Lake Film Society’s Broadway Centre cinemas on Jan. 3

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This review and interview feature of Porcelain War, the winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, was first published last year at The Utah Review. An outstanding and innovative take on war documentary filmmaking, Porcelain War, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film … Read more

Made in Utah, Amy Redford’s latest film What Comes Around emerges as intelligent, emotionally simmering moral tale of perturbing circumstances of online communications, romantic relationships, grooming

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In the opening moments of What Comes Around, a 2022 film directed by Amy Redford, Beth (Summer Phoenix) and her daughter Anna (Grace Van Dien) appear to have the same sort of relationship that the characters Lorelai and Rory, respectively, enjoyed in the popular television series Gilmore Girls. Beth and Anna appear to be ideal … Read more

Sundance 2021: Utah film industry weathers pandemic with resilience, resourceful risk taking

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EDITOR’S NOTE:  Part I is an overview of the Utah film industry in the current moment. Part II (tomorrow) will offer a summary preview of the Sundance 2021 feature-length and short films, which The Utah Review will cover. In several hopeful signs, given its size, Utah’s film industry has weathered the pandemic with enough resilience … Read more