Tag: Utah Film Center
Several major arts organizations in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area have adapted their programming and classes to streaming and interactive platforms. Initial responses and numbers of participants also have been encouraging, indicating that arts and culture...
EDITOR'S NOTE: For a detailed rundown of all of the feature- and short-length films for the 9th Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Kids, see The Utah Review feature here.
The ninth presentation of the Utah...
EDITOR'S NOTE: For the overview of the Tumbleweeds festival, see The Utah Review cover piece here.
Taking advantage of the first Tumbleweeds festival to be held over two weekends, the Utah Film Center has...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The exceptional Come
Away, the first feature-length live action film directed by Brenda Chapman
with first-time screenwriter Marissa Kate Goodhill, has the same extraordinary
depth as a masterpiece from nearly 15 years ago, Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth
(2006).
Editor’s Note: This is Part II of
The Utah Review curtain raiser feature for Sundance 2020. Part I can be found here.
It is a fixture in the annual slate of films for Sundance that the Utah Film Center,...
