Sundance
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, the crack-pot team behind "Frances Ha," have proven their delightful screwball talents once more with "Mistress America," which premiered Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is a dreamy and idiosyncratic comedy about...
It's not too late to save the planet, but documentarian Louis Psihoyos says the time is now.
The filmmaker behind 2009's Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" returns to the natural environment for his latest film, "Racing Extinction," which premiered...
Does the best comedy come from pain? And does that mean comedians are the most miserable people of all?
That's what comic Kevin Pollack wanted to discover in his documentary, "Misery Loves Comedy," which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival...
An Academy Award nomination is an incomparable stamp of approval for any film — and for an indie feature coming out of the Sundance Film Festival, in some cases, it's a downright miracle.
The festival, which kicked off this week in Park City, Utah,...
Through archival footage and interviews with her family, closest confidants and collaborators, Nina Simone comes to life again — still enigmatic but more easily understood — in the new documentary "What Happened, Miss Simone?" which premiered Thursday night at the...
Robert Redford kicked off the Sundance Film Festival he founded 31 years ago on Thursday afternoon at the event's original home, the 280-seat Egyptian Theatre.
A lot has changed since those humble beginnings — the event now takes over Park City and...
When commercial production house Park Pictures diversified with the launch of Park Pictures Features in 2011, the new venture made an auspicious debut with Robot & Frank, a Jake Schreier-directed movie which won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize...
Director Cynthia Wade is no stranger to Sundance but her latest film was showcased in a distinctly different manner than her prior work at the festival. This time around Wade's short documentary titled Selfie was not an official part of the Sundance...
At the beginning of Maya Forbes' directorial debut, "Infinitely Polar Bear" (from Park Pictures Features) we meet two young sisters who are locked inside a car with their mother as protection from their father during one of his manic episodes.
Based...
Attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies once argued the Bush v. Gore case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, but they say fighting California's law prohibiting same-sex marriage is the most significant thing they've done.
The two courtroom veterans...