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Sundance Film Festival
sundance 2024
Sept. 27, 2024
Two Friends Talk, Gently and Openly, in
Will & Harper
The most powerful parts of Will Ferrell and Harper Steele’s road trip documentary are also its most basic.
By
Bilge Ebiri
in competition
Sept. 12, 2024
So You Think You Can Sundance?
The search for the next great host is down to a final three … including Park City.
By
Jason P. Frank
sundance film festival
July 23, 2024
Where Should the Sundance Film Festival Go Next?
Should Sundance flee Park City for bluer pastures, or stay closer to home?
By
Nate Jones
sundance 2024
Jan. 31, 2024
Every Film Sold at Post-Strike Sundance (and for How Much)
Focus Features snatched up festival favorite
Dìdi (弟弟)
.
By
Zoe Guy
sundance 2024
Jan. 28, 2024
The 15 Best Movies We Saw This Year at Sundance
This year’s slate actually
felt
like Sundance, like the festival it used to be before it became just another stop on Hollywood’s eternal red carpet.
By
Bilge Ebiri,
Rebecca Alter,
and
Alison Willmore
gallery
Jan. 23, 2024
As Seen at Sundance
The talk of the ski town at this year’s film festival.
By
Vulture Editors
Photographs by
Lucas Michael
sundance 2024
Jan. 20, 2024
Presence
Is the Best Thing Steven Soderbergh’s Done in Ages
It’s an art film that also works as a spellbinding horror film.
By
Bilge Ebiri
sundance 2024
Jan. 20, 2024
Robert Downey Jr. Told Sundance About Christopher Nolan’s Bathroom Habits
“11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
sharp.
Diuretics are his kryptonite.”
By
Rebecca Alter
sundance 2024
Jan. 20, 2024
Love Me
Asks Too Many Questions
Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star in an emo version of
Wall-E
that is furiously literal-minded.
By
Bilge Ebiri
festival preview
Dec. 6, 2023
The Sundance Movies We’ll All Be Talking About Next Year
A preview of what’s coming to Park City in January, from Kristen Stewart falling in love with a bodybuilder to Jesse Eisenberg starring as Bigfoot.
By
Chris Lee
sundance 2024
Dec. 6, 2023
Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun Have a Romance at Sundance
All the films heading to Park City, Utah, in January.
By
Zoe Guy
a long talk
July 17, 2023
From Blowing Up Toasters to a Seven-Figure A24 Deal
Meet Danny and Michael Philippou, a.k.a. RackaRacka, the excitable 30-year-old twin directors behind this summer’s biggest horror movie.
By
Chris Lee
sundance 2023
June 9, 2023
A Complete List of Films Sold at Sundance 2023 (and Their Price Tags)
MUBI takes on the sexy, gay “meta-comedy”
Rotting in the Sun
from Sebastián Silva.
By
Zoe Guy
sundance 2023
Jan. 31, 2023
Sundance’s Year of Existential Crisis Yielded Back-to-Back Megadeals
Insiders call this year’s Sundance a return to form, with several all-night bidding wars and multiple eight-figure deals.
By
Chris Lee
the vulture spot
Jan. 30, 2023
Jonathan Majors Says Prepping for
SNL
Was Almost As Difficult As Bodybuilding
“Both were extremely physical, long hours, and I had to eat a lot.”
By
Jason P. Frank
the vulture spot
Jan. 30, 2023
Rotting in the Sun
Features 30 to 600 Penises
Sebastián Silva and Jordan Firstman report back from a gay nude beach.
By
Jason P. Frank
the vulture spot
Jan. 27, 2023
Fremont
Is a Response to a ‘Fallacy’ About Women in Afghanistan
According to director Babak Jalali.
By
Jennifer Zhan
the vulture spot
Jan. 27, 2023
Ira Sachs Wanted to Make
Passages
for … Love
“What they do in front of the camera is quite aesthetically and erotically and emotionally engaging,” the director said.
By
Jennifer Zhan
the vulture spot
Jan. 23, 2023
Emma Tremblay Probably Saw a UFO On the Set of
Aliens Abducted My Parents
Extraterrestrial life imitates art.
By
Zoe Guy
the vulture spot
Jan. 23, 2023
To Live and Die and Live
Star Skye P. Marshall Had to Scale Rocks in Heels
And slept in a truck that night.
By
Zoe Guy
sundance 2023
Jan. 23, 2023
Sundance, Day Four: Joey Soloway’s House Party and a Missing Dakota Johnson
Saying good-bye to Sundance with rubber ducks, queer horror filmmakers, and a bottle of tequila.
By
Rebecca Alter
the vulture spot
Jan. 23, 2023
Greta Lee Couldn’t Touch Teo Yoo While Filming
Past Lives
Celine Song knows how to build the antici … pation.
By
Jason P. Frank
celebrity cookbook
Jan. 23, 2023
Jack McBrayer Tried to Eat Alexander Skarsgård’s Kidney While on Vacation
And, no, it’s not the plot of
White Lotus
season three.
By
Wolfgang Ruth
the vulture spot
Jan. 23, 2023
Gael García Bernal Learned the Pain of Pro Wrestling While Filming
Cassan
dro
The ropes were a particular bee in his luchador mask.
By
Jason P. Frank
the vulture spot
Jan. 23, 2023
The Persian Version
’s Layla Mohammadi Has Her Elevator Pitch Down
“Everything they thought they knew about each other is upended,” says director Maryam Keshavarz.
By
Bethy Squires
the vulture spot
Jan. 23, 2023
The Cast and Crew of
Bad Behaviour
Get Interviewed by AI
Like
Frost/Nixon,
but way dumber.
By
Bethy Squires
the vulture spot
Jan. 22, 2023
Young. Wild. Free
. Couldn’t Be Young, Wild, or Free Until After COVID Delays
The film began production in March 2020.
By
Alejandra Gularte
the vulture spot
Jan. 22, 2023
Randall Park Wants You to Be Self-reflective With
Shortcomings
“It is a movie about personal growth and change,” says the first-time director of his Sundance feature.
By
Alejandra Gularte
park city confidential
Jan. 22, 2023
Sundance, Day 3: Zooming With Judy Blume and Mothering With Mia Goth
Infinity Pool
is creepy, the Judy Blume documentary is fun, and the Meredith Marks party has gossip.
By
Rebecca Alter
park city confidential
Jan. 21, 2023
Sundance, Day Two: FBI Cover-Ups and White Claw Police Raids
From a Real Housewife’s boutique to Rupi Kaur’s pita-chips poetry. Also: a documentary.
By
Rebecca Alter
the vulture spot
Jan. 21, 2023
Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Noora Niasari, Mojean Aria, Osamah Sami Had Fun Making
Shayda
The best-dressed team chats about working on the dramatic film.
By
Alejandra Gularte
sundance 2023
Jan. 20, 2023
Netflix Draws First Blood at Sundance With a Deal for
Run Rabbit Run
For some Hollywood watchers, whom
Run Rabbit Run
sold to and when carries unmistakable symbolic import.
By
Chris Lee
park city confidential
Jan. 20, 2023
Sundance Returns with Cannibalism Comedy and the Indigo Girls
[
Indigo Girls Voice
] We went back to the mountains and found some pretty good Armie Hammer jokes.
By
Rebecca Alter
sundance 2023
Jan. 20, 2023
Sundance’s Identity Crisis Might Be a Good Thing for Hollywood
Insiders call it a crucial year for the festival. But with streamers’ tightening budgets and a looming writers strike, no one’s sure how it’ll go.
By
Chris Lee
sundance 2023
Jan. 17, 2023
22 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at Sundance 2023
From
Cat Person
(starring Cousin Greg) to the new Nicole Holofcener to an Ottessa Moshfegh–Anne Hathaway collaboration and more.
sundance 2023
Jan. 4, 2023
Cat Person
Has a Date at Sundance Film Festival 2023
As does rapper Doechii and
Euphoria
’s Dominic Fike as part of the lineup for the in-person and online programs.
By
Zoe Guy
sundance 2022
Feb. 1, 2022
Sundance’s Cautious Reclaiming of Sexual Pleasure Alongside Stories of Trauma
The 2022 festival felt caught somewhere between keeping its focus on sexual exploitation and finding a way to advance the #MeToo conversation.
By
Alison Willmore
sundance 2022
Jan. 28, 2022
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Slides Its Way to a Sundance Win
The film, which stars Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson, received the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic category.
By
Jennifer Zhan
sundance 2022
Jan. 20, 2022
18 Sundance Movies We Can’t Wait to Watch (from Home)
From horror stories to news-breaking documentaries, here’s what’s we’re watching this year.
film festivals
Jan. 12, 2022
Evan Rachel Wood Documentary Joins Sundance Film Festival 2022 Lineup
A special screening of
Phoenix Rising
, the Evan Rachel Wood documentary about abuse and domestic violence, has just been added to the lineup.
By
Natalie Lin
movies
May 13, 2021
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival Will Be In-Person and Online
Taking place from January 20 to 30.
By
Jennifer Zhan
movie review
Feb. 5, 2021
A Glitch in the Matrix
Is a Riveting Look at Whether Our World Is a Simulation
But it’s really about just how utterly weird life is.
By
Bilge Ebiri
sundance 2021
Feb. 4, 2021
Virtual Buzz Led to the Biggest Movie Sale in Sundance History
Avatar-filled parties, Tweets and Slacks made up for the whispers usually heard in-person at the coveted Utah film festival.
By
Chris Lee
sundance 2021
Feb. 3, 2021
The Indie-Film Pandemic Is Upon Us
The at-home Sundance Film Festival offers up visions of our isolated present, if you can stomach them.
By
Rachel Handler
sundance 2021
Feb. 3, 2021
Here Are Your 2021 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners
CODA
became the first film in Sundance history to sweep the top three prizes in the U.S. Dramatic category.
By
Charu Sinha
movie review
Dec. 21, 2020
Promising Young Woman
Is an Incendiary Revenge Movie With a Sugar-Sweet Shell
Carey Mulligan is outrageously great as a Me Too vigilante in an unsettling first film from Emerald Fennell.
By
Alison Willmore
remember film festivals?
Dec. 15, 2020
The Sundance Film Festival Unveils Its 2021 Virtual Lineup
Tessa Thompson returns to the festival in
Passing
, co-starring Ruth Negga.
By
Zoe Haylock
movie review
Sept. 25, 2020
Miranda July Returns with What Might Be Her Best Film Yet
Before
Kajillionaire
, it was tempting to think July’s style of filmmaking had gone out of … well, style.
By
Bilge Ebiri
big time adolescence
Mar. 13, 2020
Could Pete Davidson Maybe, Just Maybe, Be a Movie Star?
Big Time Adolescence,
now streaming on Hulu, lets the comedian give an actual acting performance, for what seems like the first time.
By
Nate Jones
movie review
Mar. 10, 2020
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
, an Everyday Thriller About Obtaining an Abortion
In Eliza Hittman’s new movie, state restrictions turn a teenager’s attempt to end an unwanted pregnancy into a perilous journey.
By
Alison Willmore
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