There was no shortage of love for AWW at the Sundance premiere of this film; everyone in line with me had a particular story about how they met him, his work, his activism. His presence […]
Tag: Sundance Film Festival 2012
Sundance Film Festival 12: Detropia
Detropia is the best film I saw at Sundance. Formally, it is clear, beautifully-composed and edited; inventive in its use of color (I think painterly is the word I want to use); and, ingeniously scored […]
SFF 12: The Spectrum of Love in ‘The Orator’ and ‘Mosquita y Mari’
Aurora Guerrero’s Mosquita y Mari and Tusi Tamasese’s The Orator are both community-specific in mise-en-scene and in the languages of love they portray. The first, in the largely Hispanic Los Angeles city of Huntington Park, […]
Sundance Film Festival 12: Payback
This film by the eminent Canadian documentarian Jennifer Baichwal illustrates what a successful transfer from book to screen can be like, particularly in documentary form. The producer, Ravida Din, like many of the audience present, […]
Sundance Film Festival 12: Corpo Celeste by Alice Rohrwacher
Rohrwacher’s sympathetic but clear-eyed treatment of Southern Italian Catholicism is one of the most wonderful and truthful films I have seen in a long time. It has the feel of a narrative film and the […]
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