What’s the Secret Sauce for a Great Sundance Party? Brilliant Consulting’s Danielle Pelland Looks Back on 21 Years of Curating Main Street’s Hottest Hangs

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It’s not always easy to get high-profile industry professionals on the record, especially when it comes to stories about parties of all things. However, it required minimal effort to secure interviews with four film insiders because the subject was Brilliant Consulting and the firm’s founder Danielle Pelland. As the head of the full-service event production…

‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ Review: Oscar-Winning ‘Navalny’ Director Confronts His Hopes and Fears About Artificial Intelligence in Lively Doc

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Artificial intelligence may be the ultimate moving target. By the time this film arrives it will probably already be out of date, one of the many experts in The AI Doc tells Daniel Roher. The technology is morphing that fast. Fortunately, the film’s directors, Roher and Charlie Tyrell, are less interested in the details of…

The Biggest Moments From Courtney Love’s New Sundance Film Festival Documentary ‘Antiheroine’

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There’s a scene at the end of Antiheroine — a new Courtney Love documentary from Edward Lovelace and James Hall that just had its world premiere at Sundance — that shows its reclusive star as she does something she’s not done in years: Perform live. “My name is Courtney Love,” she declares while taking a…

‘Take Me Home’ Review: A Story of Caregiving Challenges Balances Dark Truths With Charm and Humor

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For Anna, the 30-something woman at the center of Take Me Home, the smallest change in her routine can set her off. As the movie opens upon her circumscribed suburban life, Anna, who has a cognitive disability and lives with her aging parents, is about to hit an inflection point of monumental proportions. The feature…

‘Cookie Queens’ Review: Girl Scouts Hit the Streets to Sell the American Dream Via Baked Goods in Irresistible Doc

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At one point in Cookie Queens, a highly engaging documentary about four Girl Scouts selling cookies, the film’s smallest moppet, five-year-old Ara E., meets a prospective client who — given his diabetes — wonders if he should be buying cookies at all. Ara, who has type-1 diabetes herself, empathizes enthusiastically and later bakes some sugar-free…

‘Zi’ Review: Writer-Director Kogonada Shakes Off a Misfire With a Loose-Limbed Mood Piece That’s Too Weightless to Resonate

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The South Korean-born video essayist turned filmmaker who goes by the mononym Kogonada emerged in 2017 as an assured new voice with the exquisite contemplation of physical and emotional architecture, Columbus. He confirmed that promise four years later with After Yang, a soulful reflection on identity and connectedness, not to mention a refreshingly open-minded view…

Will Poulter and Adam Meeks Discovered Something About Addiction By Using Non-Actors in Sundance Drama ‘Union County’: “It Blew Me Away”

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Adam Meeks is living a dream Sundance experience — long before he arrived in Utah. The Brooklyn-based writer-director and graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts made his feature directorial debut on the indie drama Union County and promptly received what could be the best news of his career thus far: He got into…

‘Leviticus’ Review: A Sad, Frightening Conversion-Therapy Horror From Australia

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While the happy and only barely tortured gay romance of Heated Rivalry sweeps the nation, nay the world, it might be instructive, if depressing, to remind ourselves that there are many young queer people who have a much harder time realizing their desires. The new film Leviticus, from director Adrian Chiarella, is a solemn and…

‘The Incomer’ Review: Domhnall Gleeson Gets Hurled Onto a Rocky Shore and Pelted With a Deluge of Aggressively Quaint Quirk

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The British Isles can be treacherously vulnerable to twee overload in movies, though last year’s The Ballad of Wallis Island showed that it can be avoided, remaining a minor-key charmer even while it embraced every oddball eccentricity that writer-stars Tom Basden and Tim Key could concoct. Louis Paxton’s The Incomer is not so resilient. Set…

Sundance: ‘TheyDream’ Uses Animation and Motion Capture for a Family Reunion of a Special Kind (Exclusive Clip)

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No, director William David Caballero can’t literally bring people back to life, but he surely has found a way to bring loved ones back to audio and visual life – and capture their spirit. He does so via a mix of audio recordings, animation, stop motion and motion capture technology for his film TheyDream, which…