Tag: Utah Film Center
Several months before The Brink, Alison Klayman’s documentary about Steve Bannon, the former Breitbart News chair who served briefly as President Trump’s chief White House strategist, premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Errol Morris’ American Dharma...
Continuing a month of free, public screenings dealing with big issues, two documentary films along with talkback sessions – one on white nationalism and the other about the traumatic impacts of child abuse – will be presented...
Thirty years ago, in an issue of The Lancet medical research journal, the results of a 10-year study by researchers at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley were published on the effects of group...
When the documentary Anthropocene: The Human Epoch premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival and then was screened last January at the Sundance Film Festival, it attracted much attention for its incredible cinematography capturing the...
Cinema always has been viewed as one of the most potential media to transport audiences to new landscapes, characters, identities and truths. With the addition of virtual reality, the individual audience member is immersed in a different...
The 16th Utah Film Center’s Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival will feature a world premiere of Gracefully, a documentary by Iranian filmmaker Arash Eshaghi, which has been banned in Iran.
The Utah
Review was privileged to screen...
A Zen poem from Chinese literature by Sengcan:
The Great Way is not difficult
for those who
have no preferences.
When love and
hate are both absent
The 16th Utah Film
Center’s Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival offers
23 films and two programs of short films. Utah filmgoers have a rare
opportunity to see some of the best examples of LGBTQ cinema today, as 20 films are receiving their...
Two award-winning films with LGBTQ themes — a 2018 Kenyan narrative feature and a 1984 documentary about five decades of gay activism leading up to the Stonewall riots of 1969 — will be screened in separate free,...
There are many reasons why the sleeper hit comedy Napoleon Dynamite (2004) deserves to be
the pride of the Utah film industry. Directed by Jared Hess and written by Hess
and his wife Jerusha, it has become a timeless...
