Click here to review the Festival Awards! https://youtu.be/mRV9CgEBc4E The festival officially runs from January 28th to February 3rd. Jan. 28th – festival kicks off with the opening night welcome at 5pm MST, followed by the premiers of Coda and In … Continue reading.
Tag: Taylor Baker
Sundance 2021 Review: Night of the Kings
Written by Taylor Baker 76/100 SYNOPSIS: A young man is sent to “La Maca,” a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated … Continue reading.
Sundance 2021 Review: All Light, Everywhere
Written by Taylor Baker 94/100 Broad but narrow, specific but all-encompassing, personal but private. Solar parallax, Taser-Axon Body Cameras, optic nerves, eugenics, the operant observer effect, pigeon cameras, the history of photography, Charles Darwin’s cousin, anthropomorphism, constitutional rights — how … Continue reading.
Sundance 2021 Review: Wild Indian
Written by Taylor Baker 66/100 In an effort to define a train of experience for Native life Wild Indian starts in the 1800's with a man who appears to have the pox wandering west. It quickly changes course to the … Continue reading.
Sundance 2021 Review: President
Written by Taylor Baker 70/100 SYNOPSIS: Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. In the first election since the removal of Robert Mugabe, the new leader of the opposition Nelson Chamisa is challenging the dictator’s corrupt legacy, and his successor Emmerson ‘the … Continue reading.
Sundance 2021 Review: Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Written by Taylor Baker 75/100 Pictured Above: Questlove shooting on location. SYNOPSIS: Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is the untold story of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, featuring never-before-seen performances from Stevie Wonder, Nina … Continue reading.
Episode 97: Rescreening Dog Day Afternoon
“My job is to care about and be responsible for every frame of every movie I make. I know that all over the world there are young people borrowing from relatives and saving their allowances to buy their first cameras … Continue reading.
Episode 96: Doc Talk Part 5 / Man with a Movie Camera / Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound / Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
"I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself."Frederick Wiseman Links: Apple Podcasts | Castbox | Google Podcasts | LibSyn | Spotify | … Continue reading.
Sundance 2021 Preview with members of ForReel Movie News and Reviews
https://youtu.be/rcniSBJqlfg Sundance 2021 Preview The 2021 Sundance Film Festival will be upon us in just over two weeks. Although there will be a lack of snowboarding and pub-crawling around Park City this year, Sundance is committed to making us feel … Continue reading.
Episode 95: RoboCop / Starship Troopers / Miami Vice
"I don’t underestimate audiences’ intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do … Continue reading.
