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Independent Films 2020: The Widening Gyre

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer,” wrote Yeats. As we begin a new decade, independent films simultaneously fly aloft, one wing high above the tectonic shifts of the Media Industrial Complex, another wing tethered to the Practical Order of streamers and theatres, pre-buys and vanishing back-ends. Sundance and …

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Sundance Infographic 2020: By the Numbers

Welcome to our annual Sundance Film Festival infographic, a visualization of data that provides insight into today’s independent filmmaking landscape. Be sure to read Adam Leipzig’s related article, Independent Films 2020: The Widening Gyre   Share this Image On Your Site — Copy and Paste the Code Below Please include attribution to https://www.culturalweekly.com/ with this graphic.

Siberia

Sundance Infographic 2018: As Climate Changes, Indies Retrench

The climate is changing. It’s getting colder, and not just in Park City, which will have snow this year as it did last, after a spate of summer-like Januaries. The independent filmmaking climate as a whole is changing, and our data shows that filmmaking is changing with it. When we first started doing our Sundance …

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An Inconvenient Sequel

An Inconvenient Response to An Inconvenient Sequel

Like most people, I like reinforcement for my own beliefs. I desperately wanted to buy AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL, former Vice President Al Gore’s and Participant Media’s long-awaited follow-up to their climate change jeremiad AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, but couldn’t, quite, despite the considerable appeal of what might be described as liberal comfort-food in a comfortless environment. …

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The Discovery

Park City Climate: Sundance Infographic 2017, Million $ Piracy Losses, Distribution Changes, and Slamdance Stats

Park City has a change in the weather this year. For the first time in along time there will be snow, and, as if to counter deniers, Sundance has programmed a special section on climate change films. The festival will also be marked by social actions directed toward President Trump’s inauguration. As always, though, the …

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Icarus

Icarus

ICARUS, directed and written by Bryan Fogel with help from Mark Monroe, is one of the most insanely exhilarating pieces of performance art ever. But, like the testosterone high Fogel sets out to replicate, once the rush subsides it leaves, if not a hangover, an unpleasant ethical aftertaste behind. Fogel, a comedian whose main credit …

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The Lobster In Love

The Lobster, the feature film masterpiece from director Yorgos Lanthimos, leads you through a profound and visceral exploration of love — light and dark, providing a perfect counter-point to the idealization of romantic partnership in marriage, as embodied by the Bachelor Nation hysteria and the internet dating craze. The story takes place in a rule-bound …

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Mammoth Lakes Film Festival — Great Films, Just A Drive Away

From the line-up, you would never guess that the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival is only in its second year. It has the appearance of a well-oiled, expertly curated, more established film festival. Mammoth Lakes Film Festival kicks off this evening, Wednesday, May 25, at 7:00 pm, at Minaret Cinemas, Mammoth Lakes, with a screening of …

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