A Sundance Festival Sampler

The New York Times / 29 January 2015

PARK CITY, Utah — Every January at the Sundance Film Festival, a movie or two will pop, exciting a cinematic congregation that descends on this resort town praying for the next big thing and at times finding it. Last year the festival got the party started with “Whiplash,” one of its opening selections, and then sent attendees into raptures with “Boyhood.” No single title has dominated this year’s event, yet after a slow start that had some writing off [...]

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'Experimenter': Sundance Review

The Hollywood Reporter / 28 January 2015

A biopic that feels more like a ride-along on an exploration of human nature, Michael Almereyda's Experimenter does offer a kind of portrait of controversial social scientist Stanley Milgram; but it's a portrait less interested in biographical milestones than in the questions Milgram had about why we behave the way we do. When we do see personal drama (a tenure denied, a denouncement on the sidewalk), it's almost exclusively in relation to the way [...]

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Sundance Film Festival Announces 2015 Premieres Lineup

Variety / 9 December 2014

Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez, James Franco, Ewan McGregor, Greta Gerwig, Jesse Eisenberg, Saoirse Ronan, Ryan Reynolds, Peter Sarsgaard and Lily Tomlin — as well as directors Noah Baumbach, Michael Almereyda, Rodrigo Garcia, James Ponsoldt, Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman — are among the big names in the Premieres lineup at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, unveiled today along with Documentary Premieres and a new Special Events section [...]

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