“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 …
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.
$13 million. $14 million. $15 million. Numbers most if us didn’t expect to see at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. But there those numbers were, along with a host of others in the millions, proffered by Amazon and Netflix, New Line and Neon and HBO. As one smaller distributor said to me at the Brunch …
This year it is harder than ever to calibrate the state of independent film. But Adam Leipzig does it anyway.
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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In what amounts to a brilliant subversive coup, the 3rd annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival will light up the screen opening night, this Wednesday, May 24, with the cult comedy classic Up In Smoke (1978) — promising none other than Tommy Chong, the King of Dope (Cheech and Chong & Dancing with the Stars renown) …
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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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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 …
Even an epic snowstorm didn’t deter an estimated 8,000 Women’s Marchers from descending on Park City to join a full-throated protest against the newly inaugurated Trump presidency organized by comedian Chelsea Handler in conjunction with Planned Parenthood. Participants from the Sundance Festival, which did not share in sponsoring the event, were outnumbered by locals from …
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 …
Sundance is upon us, and I feel as excited as a child awaiting the arrival of Christmas morning for a chance to peek under the tree. What devilish delights will the festival unveil in 2017? Time to buckle up and head out into the snowy hinterland, to enter the mother-ship of cinematic sustenance. What better …
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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 …
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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Embrace of the Serpent is a film that does not serve up neat answers to an unfolding mystery, but inspires the participation of the viewer in navigating the twists and turns of two river journeys across time and down that great serpent mother, the Amazon River. The film is as arresting in its beauty, as …
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