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Tag: Sundance Film Festival

Boulder Weekly, Essays, Film Festival

Coming Attraction? Unpacking Boulder’s bid for the Sundance Film Festival

August 22, 2024February 28, 2025 Michael J. Casey

In case you somehow haven’t heard, the Sundance Film Festival might be coming to Boulder in 2027. “The Sundance Film Festival has a deep history in the Mountain West, and we can think of no better home for its next … Continue reading Coming Attraction? Unpacking Boulder’s bid for the Sundance Film Festival

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival

Room for Improvement: Dispatch from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival

February 1, 2024February 15, 2024 Michael J. Casey

Of all the film fests hit hard these past four years, none took it on the chin quite like the Sundance Film Festival. First, there was the planned switch from in-person to virtual in 2021. Then, an eleventh-hour scuttle yielded … Continue reading Room for Improvement: Dispatch from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival

KGNU: Metro Arts1 Comment
January 27, 2024January 27, 2024 Michael J. Casey

On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the newly released CU-Boulder’s International Film Series spring calendar and what to see, thoughts on the 40th Sundance Film Festival, and musings about the nature of documentary movies. Continue reading

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival, Interviews

Kelly Sears on THE LOST SEASON

January 11, 2024January 25, 2024 Michael J. Casey

If you’re an independent filmmaker, getting into the Sundance Film Festival is high on your wishlist. “It’s such a big festival, and it’s such an industry festival,” Kelly Sears says. “I’m ecstatic that my little, scrappy film is invited to … Continue reading Kelly Sears on THE LOST SEASON

KGNU: Metro Arts
February 5, 2022February 5, 2022 Michael J. Casey

On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the movies that played the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 … Continue reading

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival

Things to Come: Dispatches from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival

February 3, 2022July 30, 2023 Michael J. Casey

Movies are most often windows to what is and what was. But sometimes, they’re windows to what could be. And it doesn’t have to be in a grand sense either. Take Cha Cha Real Smooth, writer/director/star Cooper Raiff’s sophomore effort, for starters. About … Continue reading Things to Come: Dispatches from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival

Film Festival, Reviews

HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL.

January 28, 2022August 5, 2023 Michael J. Casey

Trinitie Childs (Regina Hall) has that look in her eyes, a look that’s masking a lot of pain for the greater good. Or, at least, that’s what she tells herself. Her husband, Lee-Curtis Childs (Sterling K. Brown), is the pastor … Continue reading HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL.

Film Festival, Reviews

DUAL

January 26, 2022August 5, 2023 Michael J. Casey

In the future, we will conquer death. Not that we will be able to cure people from dying (what monster would even dream of such a thing?), just that death will no longer stand at the end. That, or something … Continue reading DUAL

Film Festival, Reviews

WATCHER

January 26, 2022August 5, 2023 Michael J. Casey

It really is no surprise that Julia (Maika Monroe) isn’t happy. She’s followed her husband to Bucharest but can’t speak the language. He has a job in marketing, but she has only memories of a career in acting. She gave … Continue reading WATCHER

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