Tag: sundance 2020
One of the major stories from Sundance this year has been the
spotlight on youth activism, creative expression and passion for enlightenment.
Giving Voice, a documentary directed by James D. Stern and Fernando
Villena, is a marvelous new entry in...
Director Julie Taymor had hoped to close The Glorias, an admirable creative nonfiction treatment of Gloria Steinem’s historic life that premiered at Sundance, on a different note. Anticipating that Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 presidential election,...
There is a scene in the sumptuous
documentary The Truffle Hunters, directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw,
that epitomizes the true terroir of Italy’s greatest culinary experiences.
Paolo, a septuagenarian who is a respected authenticating authority for judging
the quality...
After a Salt Lake City screening of Edson Oda’s Nine Days, a friend mentioned that this was the film he had been waiting for years to see that represents what he perceives as having a true Sundance...
At one point, Biosphere 2, built in the middle of the Arizona desert between 1987 and 1991, was destined to be the most significant scientific venture by the U.S. since the 1960s as NASA prepared to have...
Not long after she arrives at the
tiny Arkansas farm to stay with her family, Soonja the grandmother finds the
perfect spot along a creek to plant the minari seeds she brought from South
Korea. A popular bitter herb –...
When filmmaker Ryan White went to Kuala Lumpur to follow the
trial of the two women charged with the 2017 assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the
half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, he believed that he would
never be able...
When Agnes ‘Aggie’ Gund sold the beloved Masterpiece
pop-art painting (1962) created by Roy Lichtenstein that had been displayed for
more than 40 years in her living room, she was sad for a moment. Sold for an
astounding $165 million...
It is notable that a director who won the Oscar for Spotlight’s (2015) original screenplay and a veteran cartoonist with a widely syndicated comic strip have made a seamless transition to making a film that should resonate...
After the 2018 midterm elections and on the first anniversary of the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts...
